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The authors appear to be associated the university which hosts the site. I doubt they are responsible for the engineering decisions behind the site, or that the
by krapp 3y ago
The authors appear to be associated the university which hosts the site. I doubt they are responsible for the engineering decisions behind the site, or that they "picked the outlet" per se. Authors tend not to have carte blanche control over the platforms on which they publish.
I don't know why you would judge the content of the article based on that, rather than its own merits, particularly given that the subject of the article isn't the security of web pages or cookies. If anything, what the article does discuss has far more egregious security implications than website cookies.
- rcarmo 3y agoThe article also has a number of incorrect assumptions regarding how Siri works and what kind of data Apple collects. They do not mention Apple's differential privacy approach, for instance, nor do they seem aware of many iOS improvements in that regard over the past few years. So I don't really consider it a thoroughly researched piece...
- krapp 3y agoThis is the criticism you should have posted originally, instead of considering the article ridiculous because it was hosted on a site that used cookies.