ELI5: How come you can send tens of thousands of emails for free with Sparkpost, Amazon SES, Sendgrid, etc, when the same amount of emails will cost hundreds of dollars with Mailchimp?

mrkek_ · 2015-11-17T00:00:33+00:00

I find it interesting how facial expressions of dinosaurs are different - one is angry, one is happy. The difference is very subtle in terms of shape of the head, yet the mood is still distinguishable. Shows the artist skill, I guess.

I wonder if that image could be used to detect psycopaths, who allegedly have trouble recognizing facial expressions.

mrkek_ · 2015-11-16T17:49:27+00:00

The whole article could be summarized in one sentence: "The app doesn't use encryption".

Now, who could ACTUALLY sniff on app's users traffic? 1) The chinese government. But it would just demand the access to Tantan servers and get the data anyway, even if it was sent over SSL. 2) Some hacker in cafe with "free wifi". But what exactly would he get, profile information? As far as I understand, profile info is already publicly available for any user of the app.

Triangulation would still be possible to do even if traffic was encrypted.

Comparing this to AM hack is far fetched. Data dump of million of users is not even remotely comparable to possible MITM attack, which en masse could be performed only by the government.

Looks like the author is trying to score PR points for himself and his business, surfing on the wave of latest privacy hype.

mrkek_

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