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Archive for September 1st, 2020

Some banking apps are not so privacy friendly

Posted by jpluimers on 2020/09/01

Some baking apps want a lot of permissions, including privacy sensitive ones.

Maybe they should split themselves in a small, non-intrusive app that allows payment confirmation, and fatter (hopefully less intrusive than now) app for account management.

For now, I try to avoid these apps as they are single points of failures.

ING had a great TAN code system on paper. It hardly had any side-channel attack vectors, and by putting some copies in geographically distinct locations, you had good and safe back-ups too.

It looks like the successor is a single point of failure: only one scanner device per account holder is possible.

Let’s see what the future will bring.

Related:

 

–jeroen

Posted in LifeHacker, Power User, Security | Leave a Comment »

hash – Why is Git not considered a “block chain”? – Stack Overflow

Posted by jpluimers on 2020/09/01

Still an interesting question: [WayBackhash – Why is Git not considered a “block chain”? – Stack Overflow.

With my limited knowledge of both, I think git is a Merkle tree without both a proof of work and consensus system. That would make it the chain part of block chain, and the without bits the block.

How wrong am I?

 

It seems I still have a lot to learn about Merkle tree related stuff, so on my research list:

–jeroen

Posted in Development, DVCS - Distributed Version Control, git, LifeHacker, Power User, Software Development, Source Code Management | Leave a Comment »

The iron triangle of planning | Atlassian

Posted by jpluimers on 2020/09/01

The traditional iron triangle of planning is turned up-side down when being agile: [WayBack] The iron triangle of planning | Atlassian.

On the left, the traditional triangle, on the right the agile one.

Via: [WayBack] The iron triangle of planning The Agile Coach – Marjan Venema – Google+

–jeroen

Posted in Agile, Development, Software Development | Leave a Comment »