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by asquabventured 11y ago
That's the most totalitarian/fascist thing I've read all day, congratulations I suppose. "Paternal education" has been seen before on a horrifying worldwide scale, for the most recently famous examples we have Stali
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by asquabventured 11y ago
I read this and think to myself sarcastically "Thank God the government got involved." and then I realize there are probably a non-trivial amount of people within the US who probably think the government should re-involve themselv
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by asquabventured 11y ago
You could install refspoof plugin and set your referrer to https://news.google.com for site wsj.com
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by asquabventured 11y ago
Great list! Missing a couple important ones I think though! Privacy Related: - NoScript - Random Agent Spoofer Generally Useful: - RefControl - The Addon Bar (restored) - Unloadtab
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Generalized Covert Data Exfiltration with Funtenna(blackhat.com)
18 points by asquabventured 11y ago|3 comments
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by asquabventured 11y ago
>Why is rent stabilization bad? It means that you've removed the incentive owners typically have to keep the place looking nice, repairing damages, etc. Why invest anything if you know your rate of return will be low or negative? I
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by asquabventured 11y ago
Better to just disable it from the about:config menu in my opinion, no need for an extension. To do this In Firefox: 1) Type 'about:config' in your address bar 2) Set 'media.peerconnection.enabled' value to 'false&#
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by asquabventured 11y ago
>You can't even turn it off in the case that you don't want to use WebRTC. In Firefox, you can easily disable it: 1) Type 'about:config' in your address bar 2) Set 'media.peerconnection.enabled' value to &#x
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by asquabventured 11y ago
ublock origin is the original creator maintaining the code. it is better than ublock! https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/ublock-origin... Some others potentially worth installing: https:/&#x
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by asquabventured 11y ago
From the referenced link above: Please note that you may end up with an "View Pocket List" entry in the bookmarks menu when you disable Pocket this way. If you want to get rid of the bookmarks menu entry as well, you need to handl
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by asquabventured 11y ago
Great point, just like tons of users are using 30boxes.com starting with the Firefox v3.0 calendar integration feature. Ohhhhhh, wait. Why is something like gecko.handlerService.schemes.webcal.0.uriTemplate default string 30boxes.com and st
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by asquabventured 11y ago
1) Type about:config in the browser's address bar and hit the enter-key afterwards. 2) Confirm that you will be careful if the prompt appears. 3) Search for browser.pocket.enabled. 4) Double-click on the preference to toggle its state
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ProxyHam: A $200 DIY Wi-Fi router to help whistleblowers hide just disappeared(businessinsider.com)
36 points by asquabventured 11y ago|0 comments
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How a Russian hacker made $45,000 selling a 0-day Flash exploit to Hacking Team(arstechnica.com)
14 points by asquabventured 11y ago|1 comments
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by asquabventured 11y ago
> Could someone please get the NYT to drop the paywall on hackernews links? Use self-destructing cookies or a plugin like it to delete the cookie everytime you close the tab and you won't run into the NYT paywall. Alternatively, you
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by asquabventured 11y ago
This is true, as well as enable 2-factor authentication for sites that support it.
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by asquabventured 11y ago
The key it seems to me is by using both a master password and a key file. If a site gets cracked and they find your site specific password that won't help them determine your keepass database master password &/or generated key
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by asquabventured 11y ago
A solution I have found that (I think) is relatively secure. Setup a keepass database that requires the use of an unlock password and key file. Sync the database to Google Drive but never sync the key file! Only store the keyfile on a l
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by asquabventured 11y ago
There is no such thing as total security, there is only what we know and then what we do not know.
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by asquabventured 11y ago
https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/ (PIA) works for me. Of course with any VPN you run the risk of providing all of your information through a (potentially) captured source.
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by asquabventured 11y ago
Can you add Drudgereport to that list? I follow a lot of links from drudge and when he links to a FT article and I click without realizing I end up at the paywall splash screen and just immediately close the tab.
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by asquabventured 11y ago
Perfect! Thank you!
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by asquabventured 11y ago
Self-Destructing cookies extension also keeps the read count at 0 after you close the tab. As an added bonus the extension should also help prevent you from being tracked across the web by various advertising/state agencies.
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by asquabventured 11y ago
Jeremy, Useful plugin but BLAH chrome! Any chance you will port this to Firefox?