I edited the story. We had to write it this way bc Otto reports a fiscal year that ends in February. Amazon's fiscal year is the calendar year. So it wasn't exact comparison and we had to fudge.
totally agree with you. One major point of that article was that, had Facebook IPO'd sooner, it would have been better off with the discipline that comes with being a public company. Baloney. I can think of a ton of companies that have manipulated their way under the watchful gaze of Wall Street. this follow up post makes some great counter points:
There has been a lot of commentary on Reddit about this author's presumptuousness in posting the video showing how to crack this lock behind a password-protected site. I'd be curious to know what the HN community thinks about that.
Sounds to me like if you have access to a lock like this, and a strong magnet you could probably figure out what to do with it. I think it won't stop the truly malicious (almost nothing will), but it might stop many tinkerers that may have strong magnets sitting around but don't have the follow through to find a lock like this and experiment for a while... until the exact method is posted somewhere.
Also, I thought most locks had brass or other non-magnetic components just for this reason.
