claudius

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811.
by claudius 13y ago
> I don't know about the EU, but in the U.S. your statement is simply not true. Ah, I forgot that we are taking US data protection laws into account when an Austrian group files a complaint against an Irish subsidiary. E.g. in Germa
812.
by claudius 13y ago
Even Opera (12.15, the proper one) has TLS 1.2, and Firefox doesn’t even have 1.1? Why?
813.
by claudius 13y ago
I had some problems with loading times/pipelining in Opera (12.x) and Privoxy and hence changed to AdBlock (which appears to be the same as AdBlock Chrome referred to above). Browsing became much smoother afterwards.
814.
by claudius 13y ago
The problem here is that QC is not lagging behind in the field of computer science (all the theories are there) nor the field of hardware engineering (the engineers can build every we tell them to), but in (condensed matter) physics. And ph
815.
by claudius 13y ago
> not due to quantum computing - a theory that has originated in the 1980-1981 and that has yet to yield actual machines that we can use. Uhm – classical computer science originated sometime in the early 19th century (possibly earlier) i
816.
by claudius 13y ago
> greedy superstitious primates Press Release: Scientists found $VALUABLE_RESOURCE, making whoever gets there first the richest of all mankind, on $DISTANT_PLANET. Clearly, as God chose $OUR_PEOPLE, we must go there as soon as possible t
817.
Nightfall: Mudding since 1990(nightfall.org)
6 points by claudius 13y ago|0 comments
818.
by claudius 13y ago
Opera allows you to set up a master password, if you want it. If you don’t want it, you can copy around wand.dat as you like (even from your computer to your phone!) and it just works. :)
819.
by claudius 13y ago
How is your phone inherently more secure than your computer?
820.
by claudius 13y ago
Yeah, these Ruby guys releasing incompatible versions every other weekend and expecting to be allowed to blurt their stuff all over the system was rather strange. Good thing Debian provided decent packages.
821.
by claudius 13y ago
SailfishOS (your newest vaporware on the block) can apparently run Android APKs. And if it’s remotely similar to Meego Harmattan, I am more than sold. Didn’t Lenovo want to start a phone business?
822.
by claudius 13y ago
You can greatly customise the layout of the results page, and even store these customisations in the GET parameters, i.e. your browser’s search engine settings.
823.
by claudius 13y ago
I find the option to ‘save’ options in the URL much nicer. If I want to change my default language, safe mode etc. with Google, I need to enable Cookies. With DDG, I can save these in the search engine settings in Opera :)
824.
by claudius 13y ago
If I understand this correctly, it is supposed to be free to the customer, not the provider. So it is not about whether provider A pays provider B if A's users roam in B's network, but whether A's users pay more to A whil
825.
by claudius 13y ago
Well, she is essentially accusing him of being intelligent and not a total dork. One wonders why…
826.
by claudius 13y ago
You can turn that on/off in the settings dialog, essentially it is meant to hide the search queries from the target website.
827.
by claudius 13y ago
I guess he was referring to the ddg bot answering your questions over XMPP.
828.
by claudius 13y ago
The way the head of state is chosen doesn’t really matter with regards to whether the state is a republic or a monarchy. Monarchies have crowned head of states, republics don’t. For example, the Holy Roman Empire (aka this bundle of German
829.
by claudius 13y ago
Hm, what’s wrong with just calling? It is probably the easiest way to find out whether someone is generally willing to cooperate, and if they don’t, the NSA doesn’t lose much either?
830.
by claudius 13y ago
One could start with the war in Afghanistan.
831.
by claudius 13y ago
Take note of the white ‘sample’ written over the VISA/MasterCard pictures.
832.
by claudius 13y ago
That is not really auto-update (only if you enabled it system-wide) – and after reviewing the source code, which is necessary anyhow to make sure it is actually ‘secure’, you would then remove the file in /etc/apt/sources.lis
833.
by claudius 13y ago
git-annex has local encryption for specific remotes (i.e. you can add a remote and say ‘encrypt data before putting it there’, and then add another remote, such as a USB key, and don’t encrypt data on it). I haven’t used it in a while, but
834.
by claudius 13y ago
Nobody sane wants software to auto-update, especially not security-relevant software. This is in particular true if you reviewed the source code of the software at one point in time. Furthermore, for the software to be able to even auto-upd
835.
by claudius 13y ago
The NSA is not the average guy listening in on your wifi and then using your CC to buy stuff online. HTTPS protects against those, and it does so relatively efficiently.
836.
by claudius 13y ago
Would it be helpful to run a forwarding (at least non-exit, possibly entry) Tor node on one’s own computer to mask the Tor traffic actually originating from this machine?
837.
by claudius 13y ago
There’s a little description text at the top explaining the meaning of the various labels, including ‘location’ (the last bullet point).
838.
Tor and HTTPS(eff.org)
430 points by claudius 13y ago|127 comments
839.
by claudius 13y ago
Most cron daemons understand /10 to have a job run every ten minutes. And installing random binaries from the web is rarely a good idea – especially since this very version of grive is already in Debian (unstable/testing): $ r
840.
by claudius 13y ago
Hosting it yourself at your company is probably the most secure way, depending on the value of your time, possibly also the most expensive. Use a small VPS somewhere to act as a smarthost for email if you are on a ‘residential’ internet con

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