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ErIog posted:Implementing that kind of price discrimination would be fairly trivial with the existing cookie data infrastructure. the theory as i've heard it would be to create a sense of urgency, because everyone's well aware jre posted:while you procrastinate someone else books the cheaper seat / room and the price rises when you go back. that said i haven't seen any proof of this in actual use either. closest i could find is amazon testing randomized prices to users, which caused some backlash, and some firms looking at what browser you're using: http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052702304458604577488822667325882 https://consumerist.com/2010/11/01/capital-one-made-me-different-loan-offers-depending-on-which-browser-i-used/
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the senior sec ops guy for the corp we're contracted to just blew his poo poo because some domain controllers deployed to the field had no patches or hardening. i'm currently torn as he's loving right, they shoulda been patched and hardened. ofc the dinguses who built them are my colleagues and technical superiors to me but i call them out because idgaf. actually i have no question here because those fuckers are going to burn. my philosophy is that if you're not prepared to do something properly then don't do it at all. lol i'm going to burn it all.
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cheese-cube posted:the senior sec ops guy for the corp we're contracted to just blew his poo poo because some domain controllers deployed to the field had no patches or hardening. 
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suffix posted:the theory as i've heard it would be to create a sense of urgency, because everyone's well aware It's not about "letting" people see a price change, it has actually changed and is no longer available from the airline / hotel at the lower price. It has nothing to do with individual customers or urgency but more that using bucketing gets the best combination of occupancy / return Booking.com do have a rediculous popup with x people are currently looking at this room! To drive urgency but I just find it annoying
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Kayak has a little line graph that may or may not be actually representative of the price history so you can see how much it's gone up over the past X days and whether or not you should panic and BUY NOW.
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https://www.samba.org/samba/security/CVE-2016-2123.htmlquote:The Samba routine ndr_pull_dnsp_name contains an integer wrap problem,
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I've seen the price go up and then back down to normal in an incognito window. iirc it was airasia
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Maximum Leader posted:I've seen the price go up and then back down to normal in an incognito window. iirc it was airasia Prices also bounce about because all of the tech involved is buggy trash and there's load of dubious caching to keep GDS costs down. Some of it is 70's mainframe trash, some 90s php trash, some bleeding edge node.js trash. Articles telling people to use incognito to get better prices are 1 weird trick the travel industry doesn't want you to know shite.
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it works dude. consider that there is a world outside America and that some of these companies are quite young hth
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Maximum Leader posted:consider that there is a world outside America yospos has some issues with this
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Maximum Leader posted:it works dude. consider that there is a world outside America and that some of these companies are quite young hth Yeah, I'm not American, nor work in America but I'm sure your anecdote proves you've found the 1 weird trick to cheap flights and not that you saw a random price fluctuation
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jre posted:Yeah, I'm not American, nor work in America but I'm sure your anecdote proves you've found the 1 weird trick to cheap flights and not that you saw a random price fluctuation I'll keep getting cheap flights and you will get to feel some kind of undeserved skeptical superiority. sounds like a win-win to me.
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I'm pretty sure that most of the magic that people at the counter can do from a ticketing standpoint are all 3270 green screens. put out a google flights tracker alert and realize that there are seasonal rises and dips in prices. the flight I saw for $1100 earlier this year jumped up to $1850 3 days later. it was back down to $1050 in 3 weeks. e: you're a dumb rear end
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jre posted:Prices also bounce about because all of the tech involved is buggy trash and there's load of dubious caching to keep GDS costs down. Some of it is 70's mainframe trash, some 90s php trash, some bleeding edge node.js trash. Articles telling people to use incognito to get better prices are 1 weird trick the travel industry doesn't want you to know shite. don't attribute to malice what can be explained by computers being bad
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Jimmy Carter posted:an actual slide from Mashable's 6 Best Tricks For Holiday Travel on Snapchat because I'm a monster loling hard at the idea of incognito mode protecting you from tracking
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pr0zac posted:loling hard at the idea of incognito mode protecting you from tracking I only buy airline tickets using tor and pay using untraceable visa debit cards that I bought at Walmart
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Maximum Leader posted:undeserved skeptical superiority. It's almost like I've written code for a lot of the systems you'll have used, and know that there's no clever price hiking technology, just my bad code  Would you like to buy a tiger attack prevention rock? They're going cheap at $100
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move your stupidity to another thread
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pr0zac posted:loling hard at the idea of incognito mode protecting you from tracking No, it totally works. Some guy here said it does.
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https://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/1611/1611.07350.pdf speaker as a microphone, didn't know that HD audio ports could be retasked. think these are the same guys that do the hard drive and fan speed exfil research
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Volmarias posted:I'm sincerely waiting for that to happen, and the overly defensive pundits trying to explain why Donald Trump tweeting a TS document is actually OK because Well the President is an Original Classifier, so by tweeting it, it literally isn't TS anymore because the President said it wasn't.
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Maximum Leader posted:I'll keep getting cheap flights and you will get to feel some kind of undeserved skeptical superiority. sounds like a win-win to me. You've got one example and little evidence that it's what you describe. Surely there would be more evidence if it was actually widespread? I don't think you're the only one who wants cheap tickets.
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jre posted:It's almost like I've written code for a lot of the systems you'll have used, and know that there's no clever price hiking technology, just my bad code if you paid for your incognito mode, ASK FOR YOUR MONEY BACK
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ate poo poo on live tv posted:Well the President is an Original Classifier, so by tweeting it, it literally isn't TS anymore because the President said it wasn't. the president is still subject to need-to-know though
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jre posted:It's almost like I've written code for a lot of the systems you'll have used, and know that there's no clever price hiking technology, just my bad code ah, the old "I know the conspiracy theory is false based on direct private experience, but they don't believe me" trap. it's a heartbreaker, no?
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sure seems like forcing complete reloads via any number of methods would be a good way to get different prices out of fragile algorithms and weird caching
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*spins-up $4000 worth of VM instances spread across data centers and providers, a percentage using tor, with randomized useragent and browser headers, all hitting the airline continuously in an attempt to save $100 on a flight* *DDOSes the site, goes to prison for 5 years under the CFAA*
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https://twitter.com/mjos_crypto/status/810791511952674817 *hacker voice* I'm in....
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Kuvo posted:https://twitter.com/mjos_crypto/status/810791511952674817 pretty cool if already existing https://github.com/bartobri/no-more-secrets
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a new wordlist for breaking passphrases: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2016/07/new-wordlists-random-passphrases
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fins posted:https://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/1611/1611.07350.pdf This is a really cool paper.
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jre posted:This is a really cool paper.
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vOv posted:dangling pointers leading to arbitrary legal code execution. just mark some document as classified 'AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAmurder is legal now' This is literally what sovereign citizens believe btw.
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Volmarias posted:This is literally what sovereign citizens believe btw. yeah it's amazing
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also what libertarians want to be true
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pr0zac posted:loling hard at the idea of incognito mode protecting you from tracking I think firefox's incog mode turns on their third party tracker blocking
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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13221923Someone on HN posted:Forget about creating your own crypto. I have had endless troubles just using crypto. Obscure options that aren't explained. Examples that don't actually work. i'm the not reading documentation
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A Yolo Wizard posted:I think firefox's incog mode turns on their third party tracker blocking it does and it makes a bigger show of it now
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OSI bean dip posted:https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13221923 tbf i agree that there is a real issue with a lot of security and crypto software making things difficult for perceived security reasons, which instead lead to them not being properly used and creating far vaster security issues e.g. there being twelve hoops to jump through to seed a random number generator with scary warnings about what bits you should get and which you should not (do you *really* trust intel?), when there are sources that really should be fine for most uses available on most systems, or just imposing ideas on precisely how the key should be managed on the library user, etc.
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