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by 3xblah 7y ago
Is it fair to say the reasoning Apple would present in favour of having an "App Store" is that Apple can act as an exclusive gatekeeper for quality control and "security". Are there other reasons? Through the App Store
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by 3xblah 7y ago
To put this in plain English, could we say Facebook asked for phone numbers in the name of "security" but there was no restriction on how Facebook could use those phone numbers. Usage was not restricted to the purpose for which F
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by 3xblah 7y ago
These fear mongering comments always ignore the notice provision in the CFAA. Web scraping publicly accessible information is not "illegal" under the CFAA. That law, at most, only makes someone who continues scraping after bein
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by 3xblah 7y ago
If you are not doing anything subversive then can you share with us some examples of the sites that are selectively blocking you? And give us an example of the public information that is sought. Perhaps disclosing any of the sites puts yo
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by 3xblah 7y ago
"Since Googlebot executes Javascript, this allows an attacker to craft XSS URLs that can manipulate the content of victim sites." In some imaginary future with ubiquitous headless browser-based bots, having Javascript disabled mig
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by 3xblah 7y ago
Here is an example of how one can use DOH "like ping or nslookup". This example uses HTTP POST and cloudflare-dns. Maybe check out "stubby" for "OS-level" DOH. Currently I think it only does DOT but future p
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by 3xblah 7y ago
Unbound is of course just one of the many programs using ldns. nsd, drill are also useful. More recently, stubby.1 1 https://getdnsapi.net/blog/dns-privacy-daemon-stubby/ Here is how to use drill to do DOH via P
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by 3xblah 7y ago
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_day_(computing)
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by 3xblah 7y ago
If the parent comment is suggesting it is no easier with SNI, then I disagree. Not all domains are "public" and not all users send their DNS queries to ISPs or third party DNS providers. There are alternative sources for IP to d
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by 3xblah 7y ago
"If you connect to a website not behind a CDN, you probably don't have to use SNI, but, the website is revealed by doing a simple reverse DNS query." As an example, I tried a reverse DNS query for the IP address of matrixssl.
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by 3xblah 7y ago
When I saw the title of the paper I expected it would be about what the parent comment describes. Instead, they deliberately omit the case of SNI and state that this issue "deserves its own paper". I think any serious considerati
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by 3xblah 7y ago
The complaint, including copy of the prenuptual agreement: https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/6180235/Rie-Andy-...
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by 3xblah 7y ago
"This feels like promoted content for the paper, which is hidden behind a lead generation form." Here is the link to the PDF: http://perspectives.dtcc.com/downloads/get?id=ce92d881-24b1-...
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by 3xblah 7y ago
heretrix3 does not process Javascript. archive.is is not the same as Internet Archive. http://web.archive.org/web/20190614190638/http://ftalphavill... For text-only users, here is a version of the artic
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by 3xblah 7y ago
I actually did a "side project" to fix this about 10 years ago. Never "released" it; I just wanted to see if it would work. I still think it could. Imagine being being able to get a copy of a zone file and that file r
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by 3xblah 7y ago
This could be the explanation. I never log in. :) Irrespective of privacy, I am just not interested in the personalisation or, e.g., reading email on a phone.
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by 3xblah 7y ago
For commercial web use, I use a DNS cache just like the website creator would expect; I use a popular browser in these instances, too. Nothing out of the ordinary. For exactly the reason you mention. If something goes wrong I want to be
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by 3xblah 7y ago
"Google Maps doesn't require Google Play Store, but it does require Google Play Services..." On the phones I have tested Google Maps works with Google Play Services turned off.
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by 3xblah 7y ago
Interesting how he chose the word "strike", commonly used to refer to workers, as if to imply users are working for Facebook or Twitter. Every time a user submits something to them, it is arguable she is doing work for those compa
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by 3xblah 7y ago
Another approach is whitelisting. Like a default firewall rule of "block all" and a set of specific exceptions, I find this approach can be easier to manage. Probably not going to work for everyone but works for me. Figure out w
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by 3xblah 7y ago
With the phones I have tested, Google Maps does not require a working Google Play Store. It makes sense that replacing Play Store would have no effect.
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by 3xblah 7y ago
If you look up the word "browse" in a dictionary, you will see that it now has an entry relating to computer networks. When we browse items in a library, we can see context, we can see neighbouring items. Even some of the library
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by 3xblah 7y ago
s/Just more dark patterns. //
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by 3xblah 7y ago
I thought for a moment they were going to turn off recommendations. For users not signed in, they are on by default. Instead this is like asking users to click thumbs up or down in response to an ad, "Don't show me this ad again&
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by 3xblah 7y ago
Only if gateway is up. I can't really control a mobile phone loaded with a corpotate OS (I guess this is the point the replies are trying to make), but I can significantly control a router loaded with an OS I edited, compiled and inst
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by 3xblah 7y ago
Mobile data turned off. In some phones there is not even a SIM card.
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by 3xblah 7y ago
Have mobile data turned off. Only use in emergencies where no wifi available. Don't use many third party apps and, on Android phones, the only ones are sideloaded. Disabled Google's app store. Still get cellular calls and texts
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by 3xblah 7y ago
Is there a reason to keep wifi enabled on a mobile phone while one is sleeping? There are certainly reasons against it. For one, it drains battery when one is not using the device. Unless I am downloading something while I sleep, I disab
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by 3xblah 7y ago
"The report coincides with discussions among lawmakers about regulating technology companies, including through a bill proposed in April by Senators Deb Fischer, Republican of Nebraska, and Mark Warner, Democrat of Virginia, that is me
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by 3xblah 7y ago
"... you stop feeling like you have to "help the company" all the time." Yet the commenter was bothered by seeing others' opinions on AMP. I understand your point. I agree. However, in terms of their "core b

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