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Hi HN,

I built a simple Roman Numeral Converter that goes both ways — Roman to decimal and decimal to Roman. It’s fast, minimal, mobile-friendly, and free of distractions or ads.

I wanted a tool that just does the job without extra fluff, so here it is. Would love your feedback or suggestions for improvement.

Thanks!

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We want to warn everyone about our horrible experience with Hostinger, a so-called "managed hosting" service that completely failed to protect our server, falsely accused us of phishing, suspended our account without proof, and refused to provide any data backup, leading to a massive financial loss of over $200,000.

Here’s What Happened: We were using Hostinger under the assumption that, as a managed hosting provider, they were responsible for securing the server and ensuring its integrity. However, without any prior warning or investigation, our account was abruptly suspended for alleged phishing activity.

We had no idea about any phishing attack. We never engaged in such activities, and if our server was compromised, it was their responsibility to prevent it.

Instead of helping us secure the server, they accused us and immediately took down everything.

They refused to provide proof of the alleged phishing attack, despite multiple requests.

They denied us access to our own data, even for non-suspended domains, which is completely unacceptable.

This sudden suspension caused irreversible damage to our business, resulting in financial losses exceeding $200,000.

Why This is a Serious Issue: Managed hosting means the provider is responsible for security – If a phishing attack happened, it should have been detected and mitigated by them, not used as an excuse to take down an entire account.

No proof was provided – We repeatedly asked them to show us evidence that we were responsible for phishing, but they ignored our requests.

Data loss is catastrophic – Losing all our data without warning, with no access to backups, has crippled our operations. A responsible hosting provider would at least allow users to retrieve their own data.

This could happen to anyone – If they can do this to us, they can do it to any customer, shutting down accounts arbitrarily and refusing to return essential data.

Final Warning to Other Businesses: If you are using Hostinger or considering them, BEWARE. This company will suspend your account without proof, block your access to critical business data, and refuse to provide backups, leading to devastating losses. DO NOT TRUST THEM WITH YOUR BUSINESS.

We are taking legal action against them for this negligence and urge others who have faced similar issues to speak up. If you’re running a serious business, choose a reliable hosting provider that actually protects your data instead of destroying it.

Has anyone else faced something similar? Let’s expose these irresponsible practices before more businesses suffer.

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Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.20481

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Article URL: https://petrasecurity.substack.com/p/unmasking-a-slow-and-steady-password

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Article URL: https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20200731-the-saboteurs-you-can-hire-to-end-your-relationship

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https://x.com/prathamvar/status/1905234677935514050

Reminds me of Munger circa 2017:

‘Now you turn to India. And I would say, I’d rather work with a bunch of Chinese than I would the Indian civilization mired down, caste system, over-population, assimilated the worst stupidities of the democratic system, which by the way Lee Kuan Yew avoided, it’s hard to get anything done in India. And the bribes are just awful. So, all I can say is, it’s not going to be easy for India to follow the example of Lee Kuan Yew. I think that India will move ahead. But it is so defective as a get-ahead…the Indians I know are fabulous people. They’re just as talented as the Chinese, I’m speaking about the Indian populace. But the system and the poverty and the corruption and the crazy democratic thing where you let anybody who screams stop all progress? It mires India with problems that Lee Kuan Yew didn’t have. And I don’t think those Indian problems are always easy to fix. Let me give you an example.

The Korean steel company, POSCO, invented a new way of creating steel out of lousy iron ore and lousy coal. And there’s some province in India that has lots of lousy iron ore and lot of lousy coal. Which is there’s not much use for. And this one process would take their lousy iron ore and the coal and make a lot of steel. And they got a lot of cheap labor. So POSCO and India were made for each other. And they made a deal with the province to get together and use the POSCO know how and the India lousy iron ore and lousy coal. And 8 or 9 or 10 years later with everybody screaming and objecting and farmers lying down in the road, or whatever’s going on, they canceled the whole thing. In China they would have just done it.

Lee Kuan Yew would have done it in (Singapore). India is grossly defective because they’ve taken the worst aspects of our culture, allowing a whole bunch of idiots to scream and stop everything. And they copied it! And so they have taken the worst aspects of democracy and they forged their own chains and put them on themselves. And so no I do not like the prospects of India compared to the prospects of…and I don’t think India’s going to do as well as Lee Kuan Yew.'

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I picked up the domain CyberIdentitySecurity.com a while ago, thinking I’d start a newsletter for IAM and cybersecurity content. But the idea feels kind of cliché and overcrowded now.

I’m still convinced there’s potential here — especially with growing interest in identity security, Zero Trust, passkeys, and adjacent topics.

Curious: If you owned this domain, what would you build or do with it?

IAM Fun fact - In the 1960s, MIT's Fernando Corbató introduced the first computer password to secure user files in the Compatible Time-Sharing System (CTSS). Ironically, one of the earliest documented password breaches occurred shortly after, when a researcher printed out the system's password file to gain extra computer time.

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I was looking through the logs today, and saw this user asked our Agent to update their credit card phone number. Thing is, they'd already tried before, but the ID check failed, so customer service told them they had to handle it in person.

Anyway, our Agent asked the user for more ID info, and should have called customer service again to give it another shot. But nope! It kinda just... hallucinated? Basically, the Agent lied to the user.

The logs clearly show it never even tried to make the call. It just told the user something like, "Hey, I called again for you, but they still can't do it. You should probably try another way."

And because it didn't actually make a call, our review system didn't catch anything wrong – no call record, right? So, the human review step got skipped, and that bogus reply went straight to the customer.

Man, it seems like these Agents can get "lazy" or avoid tricky tasks, just like people, huh? I'm scratching my head trying to figure out how to stop this from happening again. Got any ideas?

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