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by abraham 12y ago
Pretty much all of the security considerations are factors for the provider and not the consumer. Consumers should use validated TLS and encrypted storage, but beyond that consumers have more to worry about keeping their own application sec
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by abraham 12y ago
OAuth 2 is not difficult to implement as a consumer.
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by abraham 12y ago
The entire point of the article is that "all the other changes" include security fixes nobody knows about.
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by abraham 12y ago
Also 83476 pages tested vs 6893497.
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How to upgrade your app’s design from Holo to Material Design(medium.com)
2 points by abraham 12y ago|0 comments
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by abraham 12y ago
It will depend on the configuration of the sending server. Some will retry for a while, some will return failures.
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by abraham 12y ago
It's not pointless because many sites don't care about privacy/security so speed is more likely to sell them on TLS/SPDY.
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Feds want Apple’s help to defeat encrypted phones, new legal case shows(arstechnica.com)
5 points by abraham 12y ago|0 comments
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by abraham 12y ago
As I understood it Google updated Hangouts to use a PNaCl so that the needed code would be downloaded automatically instead of requiring users to install a plugin. Browsers that don't support PNaCl should have continued working with th
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by abraham 12y ago
A missing feature != ban. Plus I'm pretty sure you are wrong. "This setting applies to all Hangouts notifications from Gmail, Google+ and the Chrome extension on the same desktop computer." Gmail and Google+ are both supporte
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by abraham 12y ago
> the ban on non-Chrome browsers accessing Hangouts What do you mean by this? The documentation lists support for Chrome, IE, Firefox, and Safari. https://support.google.com/plus/answer/1216376
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by abraham 12y ago
*experimental Blink features
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by abraham 12y ago
Even if you are logged into your Gmail account, Google still requires you to enter your password to disable 2-step auth.
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by abraham 12y ago
Everytime I go to https://www.google.com/settings/security and click on 2-step verification, I'm required to enter my password if I haven't done so in the last 5 min or so.
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by abraham 12y ago
I didn't downvote. My reply was to "other trusted devices can bypass 2factor" about yes they can access the account but they can't change the password without knowing the current password. (Accidentally deleted a comment
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by abraham 12y ago
That requires you entering your password which shouldn't be left in plaintext on your device.
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by abraham 12y ago
Bypass 2-step to access your account but they can't change your Google password.
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by abraham 12y ago
Simply stealing your phone isn't enough. They also need to know your password change 2-step settings.
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by abraham 12y ago
Disable SMS for 2-step and SMS for password resets and use a 2-step mobile app. https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/1066447
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by abraham 12y ago
The old Google Bookmarks can't be merged with Chrome bookmark sync because Bookmarks uses tags while Chrome uses folders. The same URLs would end up getting duplicated in several folders.
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Motorola Mobility becomes part of the Lenovo family of companies(motorola-blog.blogspot.com)
25 points by abraham 12y ago|10 comments
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by abraham 12y ago
It would probably depend on the background-image-generating websites TOS.
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by abraham 12y ago
Although for goo.gl "6292349 pages we tested on the site over the past 90 days, 826 page(s) resulted in malicious software" and for bit.ly "91856 pages we tested on the site over the past 90 days, 721 page(s) resulted in mali
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by abraham 12y ago
I'm on T-Mobile and using http://httpbin.org/headers I did not get any headers I would not expect from Chrome.
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by abraham 12y ago
Inbox changes nothing about how email works. It simply tries to make the UI/UX more useful. Gmail content is what powers Inbox.
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by abraham 12y ago
Not supported is not broken.
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by abraham 12y ago
I just depends on what the phone hardware supports. The Nexus 6 e.g. has two hardware variations. The US variation supports T-Mobile, AT&T, Verizon, and Sprint all with the same device. http://www.androidpolice.com/2014&
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by abraham 12y ago
Mailgun charges $59/month for a dedicated IP. http://www.mailgun.com/pricing
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Chromium Blog: Gradually Sunsetting SHA-1(blog.chromium.org)
3 points by abraham 12y ago|0 comments
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by abraham 12y ago
I find that fantastically useful when I'm traveling to meet family somewhere or when family is traveling to meet me. You can handily swipe them away if they are not useful though.

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