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1y ago
...and the IPs you connect from, which tend to correlate with where you live, work, and so on.
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"As a new default, your phone number will no longer be visible to everyone in Signal." https://support.signal.org/hc/en-us/articles/6712070553754-P... "Signal does not send your phone number to
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1y ago
Are you using a Bluetooth mouse? I've noticed some Apple devices (AirPods) can cause interference with mouses (some Logitech models).
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Why would a significant part of the population have dead bacteria circulating throughout their bloodstream? Bacteria live and die in the gut regularly, so it seems exceptional that parts of it would enter circulation and somehow avoid metab
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1y ago
AdGuard has been the best overall in my experience. uBlock Origin has recently released for Safari, but it seems like a work in progress.
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The US has 17 other intelligence agencies. I also don't think you have a clear picture of what any of them may or may not be doing.
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1y ago
What do you do with user data?
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1y ago
looks fine to me
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1y ago
1. Keychain is local if you don't enable iCloud 2. If someone has compromised your iCloud account and/or device, you have bigger things to worry about 3. No
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1. The drive is encrypted and practically impossible to access on modern Macs regardless of FileVault status 2. The notion of someone having access to / compromising your device in order to capture SSH creds doesn't strike me as r
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Beyond the price of their services, they're probably thinking of all the data they can collect and sell in that time.
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If you have Advanced Tracking and Fingerprinting Protection enabled for Safari, it will ignore your system resolver. iCloud Private Relay also ignores it unless DNS is set using configuration profiles.
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Using one surveillance platform to organize against another...
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1y ago
I don't like this either, but I'm not sure government-provided cellular internet is making anyone anonymous.
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1y ago
comparing a third-party breach of cloudflare to the zoo that was okta at the time is laughable
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sleep studies don't really have significant rates of false positives. it's not unreasonable to want to treat OSA due to it causing executive dysfunction as a side effect. yeah, the DME market is weird which is why I just bought my
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Product/warranty registration is often a way to collect more data about you as a first party.
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as someone who has been down this road, this doesn't sound scientific... but I'd love to be proved wrong. sleep studies (PSGs) are rather detailed, and that price doesn't align with medical-grade oral appliances
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1y ago
"Salt Typhoon" specifically refers to Microsoft's observations of malicious activity, which they believe to be associated with the Ministry of State Security. They are obviously different from other official Chinese component
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Unlike what the article suggests, "The Com" is not really a formal group. They tend to be younger individuals with technical skills. As you can imagine, this demographic likes to embellish for perceived credibility. Realistically,
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Why would macOS assume anything nonstandard about third-party applications? Either they function correctly or they don't.
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Sometimes you can get around this by porting a real number into Google Voice. Other companies will use APIs that will correctly identify it as a VoIP number however.
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they query netflow from Team Cymru
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1y ago
boot into Recovery, run "csrutil disable" and do whatever you want (not a recommendation)
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In some cases, they may know what you're doing and are trying to pressure you for a true email address for analytics and marketing. I use an email forwarding service with unique aliases everywhere. They often pretend they never got the
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Can you give some examples of these ISPs?
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I can't emphasize this enough: it is extraordinarily rare for malware to persist after a reboot on iOS. These examples are of devices that faked the shutdown sequence (in other words, the exploit did not achieve persistence). iPhones h
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> Is there any company that actually protects the data that they mandate we give them? not really, no. it was "within their risk appetite"
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yeah, a phone that has been unlocked after boot is easier to get into one that hasn't...
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brew install --cask sdformatter
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