This is so sadly true. I nostalgically remember early social media with the linear feed of things directly from friends as being a fun and positive place.
I think the point they are trying to make is that in the terms of service Google says they get to define what is malware (halfway through article) so the author is trying to point out that exact danger: what happens when Google gets to randomly call things malware.
I also just did this! My solution was to automate creation of a set of static html pages that I view in the “experimental” kindle browser. It’s set to scrape a paper and build the site at 6am every morning. That was I don’t have to mess with the file transfers, and it’s there waiting for me when I wake up. Also I can mess with the layout a bit easier. Only downside is that I have to have next/back buttons rather than tapping on the screen.
Love the idea and hope you are successful. I really think there is a lot of value to be unlocked in sharing/renting tools. In my area we have a tool library which is handy.
Some ideas:
- I would focus a lot of effort on making it incredibly easy and intuitive to list things. This is one of the primary barriers to me when using these types of apps.
- maybe future idea would be to list things from Home Depot or other stores to expand the number of rentals that are available.
My wire cutter disagreement is their flashlight recommendation. They recommend a AA battery flashlight from Amazon that in my opinion is terrible (https://www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/reviews/best-flashlight/). This article indicates that maybe the referral money is a factor. I wonder how much influence that has.
I guess I wonder about the opposite side of this. While I hate the beg bounty people as well, I don't think security researchers should work for free. I have found several security vulnerabilities that I have never reported to the company because their security policy was basically "send us everything you found for free and we won't give you any credit".
That makes sense. I feel like a federal government policy making it illegal to pay a ransom would go a long way towards making this type of thing less profitable.
What does provably correct mean here? I think you mean that the code doesn’t have any memory corruption vulnerabilities. However, that is only one class of vulnerability, so more techniques then just relying on a memory safe language are required for secure software.
The only publicly posted price list that I know of is zerodium’s (evil people). http://zerodium.com/program.html They currently offer 2.5 million for an android zero click with persistence. This doesn’t give you the persistence piece without another bug so maybe 2m. Of course, they are only willing to offer that price if they could sell it for much more.
I always use wsl 1 instead of 2. One of the primary reasons is that you can directly control your network card from 1. So with the mirrored networking mode 2 is starting to look a little bit better.