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by Forbo 8y ago
Even more so than the sex offender registry, I think US news reporting is more problematic. I wish the US were more like Germany (I think?) in the regard that they don't identify people by name until conviction. By that time, there&#x2
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by Forbo 8y ago
> For starters, they should consider getting two degrees in a 4 year period. Many students take more than 4 years to get a single degree which significantly increases loans while having less job prospects. I think quadrupling the work lo
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by Forbo 8y ago
There's also a 113,000 acre fire burning currently.
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by Forbo 8y ago
That's exactly how fingerprint locks work on the Pixel. First unlock after boot requires a password, after that fingerprint can be used. It requires password entry about once a day or so as well for additional security.
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by Forbo 8y ago
What other measures are in the works, since this is only part? I'm excited to see more widespread adoption of privacy technology. Thank you for listening to our complaints, genuinely happy to see progress on this front.
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by Forbo 8y ago
I'm surprised to see this is the first mention of convex mirrors. I get some of the stick-on variety for any car I'm driving, as it dramatically increases the viewing angle for my side mirrors. I get them for my friends to put on
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by Forbo 8y ago
How many lives did he save by directing people away from violent street level dealers?
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by Forbo 8y ago
Project CyberSyn and GLONASS show that these things were an eventuality, just a matter of who got there first.
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by Forbo 8y ago
When using the "Ubuntu Software" application I am shown results for snaps, as well as results from the apt repos. Creates a bit of confusion as to which one should be installed, even more so when version numbers vary between the t
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by Forbo 8y ago
This! I love my setup. I use KeePassXC and sync my password db with NextCloud. I love having an open source password manager that is useful across all of my devices, be it Android, Linux, Mac or Windows.
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by Forbo 8y ago
I'd say it's probably closer to: > OpenBSD finds yet another way to harden their OS. This is a conscious choice to disable something that could potentially allow for an entire class of security vulnerabilities. I suppose a dece
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by Forbo 8y ago
From the commit message, it sounds like that might not necessarily be the case: "Note that SMT doesn't necessarily have a posive effect on performance; it highly depends on the workload. In all likelyhood it will actually slow do
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by Forbo 8y ago
The Signal vulnerabilities did not affect the mobile apps, only the desktop app.
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by Forbo 9y ago
Both Decred and Gridcoin have governance voting built in.
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by Forbo 9y ago
> It’s a shame PoW is based on arbitrary hashing instead of, say, “Proof-of-Folding@Home” - that would do some good at least, methinks. It already exists, it is called Gridcoin and is based on Proof-of-Research. Coins are awarded based o
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by Forbo 9y ago
> “The good news is that in Signal the attack is very difficult to execute,” Green noted. “The reason is that in order to add someone to your group, I need to know the group ID. Since the group ID is a random 128-bit number (and is never
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by Forbo 9y ago
Which could still be done by compiling the source then disassembling it. You lose nothing by it being open source to begin with.
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by Forbo 9y ago
Apparently you never experienced the aberration that was their earlier generations. Sony had decided in their infinite wisdom to make their laser lenses out of acrylic instead of glass, causing them to discolor and fail. I've never bee
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by Forbo 9y ago
NTP uses UDP, so he was probably the victim of a spoofed NTP request amplification attack. He probably didn't have clients that we're actually requesting the time, the requests were just spoofed to look like they came from his IP.
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by Forbo 9y ago
> composition (no dict words), This is an outmoded guideline for password security. String enough dictionary words together and you achieve a high level of entropy. See for example https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dicew
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by Forbo 9y ago
You should take a look at Utah's liquor laws some time. Perfect example of what happens when people who don't drink decide to legislate alcohol.
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by Forbo 9y ago
You might be interested in searx.me
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by Forbo 9y ago
Anybody who wants to avoid the surveillance economy would benefit from using anonymity networks.
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by Forbo 9y ago
Any indication this is still the behavior in Android 7.0 and beyond? What about in Pixel phones? The one first-party Google device used in the study was a Nexus S running 4.4.
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by Forbo 9y ago
!sp for startpage is really nice to use if you want to have the Google results without the tracking. Edit: looks like this was already mentioned below. Whoops.
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by Forbo 9y ago
Can you provide some examples? The FAQ beginning with [1] seems to paint a different picture, and it would be nice to hear something from the i2pd side. [1] - https://github.com/monero-project/kovri-docs/blob/
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by Forbo 9y ago
Some states allow for reduction of felonies to misdemeanor offenses after a specific amount of time has passed without re-offending. Many background checks don't reveal misdemeanors.
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by Forbo 9y ago
The Reddit discussion thread has a response indicating the BÜPF doesn't apply to their VPN service, with an official blog post upcoming: https://www.reddit.com/r/ProtonMail/comments/6id4lw/protonvp..
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by Forbo 10y ago
You can have transparency and privacy, they are not mutually exclusive in this case. Government spent X amount of money on Y number of prescriptions for medication Z. You can determine if there needs to be further auditing if Y exceeds the
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by Forbo 10y ago
Good luck scaling that. Things like DesuDesuTalk have pretty limited adoption for a reason.

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