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beardog
10y ago
> But post Snowden, and particularly after the result of the last election here in the US, it's clear that everything on the web should be encrypted by default. I agree, however, https only barely protects against this, as state act
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beardog
10y ago
I Don't get it. They last updated in august. Wouldn't the next be due in December?
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beardog
10y ago
One of Signals worst problems is that it entirely relies on Google to not provide a malicious APK during initial installation of the app. (Yes, it is open source, but most people don't have the knowledge or time to compile software the
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beardog
10y ago
Are gTLDs like this even worth it as a primary domain? In my limited experience, these kinds of domains tend to confuse people who are not technically oriented.
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beardog
10y ago
Not sure why people trust a closed source app to keep their coms private. Signal is much better.
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beardog
10y ago
The pirate party is actually pretty socialist.
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beardog
10y ago
[ Citation Needed ]
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beardog
10y ago
reCAPTCHA intentionally occasionally calls correct answers wrong in order to make it harder for bots to learn.
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beardog
10y ago
It would be pretty creepy if my self driving car could know that the people in our path have a criminal past
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beardog
10y ago
or setup your own number station from a russian VPS and waste millions of tax dollars as intelligence agencies around the globe try to crack your garbage data
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beardog
10y ago
Agreed. This is just Caddy with less features.
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Put That There (Original 1979) – MIT
(youtube.com)
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beardog
10y ago
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Exploiting Window.Opener
(chaoswebs.net)
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beardog
10y ago
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beardog
10y ago
While i love Zeronet, this can run in Chrome and Firefox (possibly others?) without a "complicated" program you have to download and run, and learn the interface of. (I don't think its complicated to use but, the average non-
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beardog
10y ago
I agree, although you can install Random Agent Spoofer on Firefox, which among other things, has am option to limit fonts.
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beardog
10y ago
Isn't this technically wiretapping and illegal in some countries?
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beardog
10y ago
Even worse is that javascript is default enabled, making the security as strong as the Firefox sandbox.
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beardog
10y ago
Redirect to another website, push malware, show shock material, exploit a vulnerability in your browser.
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beardog
10y ago
Yes, snoopers can only see the domain you visit (not the full url). (although they can make good educated guesses based on file sizes)
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beardog
10y ago
The problem with this is that it makes it very difficult to do network/isp level caching, this is especially problematic in areas where internet connectivity is slow, expensive, and limited.
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beardog
10y ago
How is publicly sharing your public key a security flaw?
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New attack steals SSN, email addresses, and more from https pages
(arstechnica.com)
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10y ago
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beardog
10y ago
They do not target Tor users directly (although since Tor is a country code there is an off-by-default option to block/annoy all Tor users), they merely target any IP that is associated with malicious traffic, which is what many Tor ex
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beardog
10y ago
They don't. Purism is mostly a marketing gimmick.
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beardog
10y ago
The issue was mainly that he didn't responsibly disclose the exploit.
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10y ago
Weev https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weev
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beardog
10y ago
That would be very foolish of duckduckgo, their whole niche is privacy.
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beardog
10y ago
How? its all proxied and the 'yahoo server' is duckduckgo owned.
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Certificate Patrol – Key pinning for every https site
(addons.mozilla.org)
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10y ago
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beardog
10y ago
TIL running a destructive command does destructive things.
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