#false-positives on Hacker News

2 stories tagged false-positives, newest first.

Screenshot of techdirt.com: Driver Ticketed for No Insurance Just Because Flock (YC 2017) Said She Didn't

Driver Ticketed for No Insurance Just Because Flock (YC 2017) Said She Didn't (techdirt.com)

48 points by HotGarbage 28 days ago | 9 comments

Techdirt article about a driver ticketed for having no insurance, though she was insured, because a Flock license plate reader flagged her incorrectly.

flock-safety alpr license-plate-readers policing

Screenshot of scalewithlee.substack.com: Writing "/etc/hosts" breaks the Substack editor

Writing "/etc/hosts" breaks the Substack editor (scalewithlee.substack.com)

604 points by scalewithlee 1 year ago | 327 comments

Blog post describing how typing the path /etc/hosts in the Substack editor triggers a network error, likely due to a web application firewall filtering rule.

substack web-application-firewall content-filtering etc-hosts

#false-positives on Hacker News

Driver Ticketed for No Insurance Just Because Flock (YC 2017) Said She Didn't(techdirt.com)

Writing "/etc/hosts" breaks the Substack editor(scalewithlee.substack.com)

Driver Ticketed for No Insurance Just Because Flock (YC 2017) Said She Didn't (techdirt.com)

Writing "/etc/hosts" breaks the Substack editor (scalewithlee.substack.com)