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by chopin 6y ago
I hate Chrome with a passion. But: Annoyingly, Firefox hides the the call stack for some error messages which is especially painful if these come from a framework. Chrome never fails me to show the entire call stack. As well inspection of r
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by chopin 6y ago
You not only need to trust the German government but any intermediate all the way to the store. I doubt that Apple or Google build the app from the repo. To add, there are currently discussions underway in the German parliament to give our
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by chopin 6y ago
Does that work, though? Afaik the app needs Google's or Apple's blessing to use the API.
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by chopin 6y ago
Being curios, I looked up https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spyware . In my book Windows 10 fulfills what is listed there.
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by chopin 6y ago
Putting /var/log/ somewhere else mitigates this.
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by chopin 6y ago
- a bunch of choices of really good backup apps. I never got this running well on Windows.
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by chopin 6y ago
I do this for Android. Works like a charm.
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by chopin 6y ago
Using Ubuntu. I use Mint. I pretty much left everything as it defaulted to.
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by chopin 6y ago
That's pseudonomization, not anonymization. The former is generally not GDPR compliant.
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by chopin 6y ago
Even pulling out the sim wouldn't help. Without sim the phone can do emergency calls, so the phone is still connected to a network (afaik). My paranoia is fulfilled with switching the phone off (before leaving home), but others would r
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by chopin 6y ago
The session (or any auth) cookie is essentially the same as sending your password. Security wise there's no big difference between sending a password or a session cookie over https (other than the session cookie is short lived, which m
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by chopin 6y ago
But if enough opt out, you're back to square one. It would be of more help if GDPR was enforced in a really painful way (to offenders). GDPR is not about cookies. It's about tracking without explicit consent. If offenders were fin
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by chopin 6y ago
Most fingerprinting relies on Javascript (or maybe some CSS shenanigans) which you could prove from the client. Using fingerprinting for tracking is not GDPR compliant.
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by chopin 6y ago
While the protocol may be good, the app implementing it may be not. Google and Apple have gone to great length that you cannot control what's running on your device. The next update can be nefarious and you can do only little about it.
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by chopin 6y ago
This can be solved with enough cameras. When those spot someone they immediately can check whether the person is tagged correctly. If not -> that's left as an exercise for the reader.
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by chopin 6y ago
Hopefully this will be a conversation about how a government uses a crisis to expand its surveillance powers.
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by chopin 7y ago
Not being profound at statistics should be a strict no-go for anyone practicing medicine. Many great discoveries come from linking different disciplines. I hope there is more to live than just a career. I am very grateful for the broad spec
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by chopin 7y ago
Mercury would like to have a word with you.
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by chopin 7y ago
I switched my phone off yesterday. I plan to power it on only on emergencies.
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by chopin 7y ago
I was referring to the seed.
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by chopin 7y ago
If superdeterminism is true your PRNG isn't random.
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by chopin 7y ago
I think Ireland has done something along this line related to abortion and gay marriage.
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by chopin 7y ago
Unfortunately, GDPR doesn't give you the right to sue. Enforcement is only possible via (hollowed out) data protection agencies.
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by chopin 7y ago
I would prefer that root certificates have restriction on what they can sign, eg. a Khazachstan root certificate can't legitimately sign a .com certificate. I think that not having this is a fundamental flaw in the certificate setup.
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by chopin 7y ago
But the GP's pricing scheme would put a hard incentive on fixing it.
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by chopin 7y ago
But very often it's sloppiness. On Android you can write data just fine without permissions, just not everywhere. When I encounter an Android App which needs file permissions for no apparent reason I assume malicious intent. Edited to
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by chopin 7y ago
I am wondering: shouldn't the head be a solenoid? If the head is permanent magnetic it would destroy the stored information.
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by chopin 7y ago
You get a root certificate on all machines.
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by chopin 7y ago
Opt-out is not legal under GDPR.
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by chopin 7y ago
Good reply but you have to know that you need to look for this. This is only obvious in hindsight.

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