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Cutting the Mustard (2018)(fettblog.eu)
2 points by cyberlab 5y ago|0 comments
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by cyberlab 5y ago
Yes, pasteboard scraping and exfil was rampant prior to Apple's new prompts.
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by cyberlab 5y ago
Yes that's what I forgot to mention. Windows can steal focus and you could accidentally spill secrets into them
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by cyberlab 5y ago
I always wondered about JS-powered keyloggers. What if you type your Linux admin password, or other sensitive things by accident into the webpage and it all gets scooped up? Yes: the keylogger would have a privacy policy in place, but it ir
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by cyberlab 5y ago
> The Yerkes-Dodson law, when applied to social facilitation, states that "the mere presence of other people will enhance the performance in speed and accuracy of well-practiced tasks, but will degrade in the performance of less fam
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Stackmate.io – Effortless Cloud Deployments(stackmate.io)
5 points by cyberlab 5y ago|0 comments
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WinSpy – Select and view the properties of any window in the system(catch22.net)
3 points by cyberlab 5y ago|0 comments
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What Functional Programming Is, What It Isn't, and Why It Matters(inner-product.com)
3 points by cyberlab 5y ago|0 comments
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by cyberlab 5y ago
The Internet is largely run by the geeks and is a sort of mecca for geeks, all pepped up on caffeine, or some even enjoy using illegal nootropics to create websites and this would give them superhuman unfair advantage over the general popul
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by cyberlab 5y ago
Does anyone else notice that many 'hamburger menus' don't work when JS is disabled? It would be considerate to use the <details> element to make a hamburger menu work with JS disabled, for that dynamic effect. Note: I
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by cyberlab 5y ago
You can watch one of his talks here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RAGwol-keXM and here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xneBjc8z0DE He always had a certain eccentricity to him. I never met him in perso
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by cyberlab 5y ago
Amazing that Tumblr is still around. Someone needs to scrape it and have a backup copy incase it gets shutdown for whatever reason. (Similar to the fate of Soup.io) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soup.io
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by cyberlab 5y ago
If you're looking for domains potentially getting 'dropped' by Google, look no further: https://infogalactic.com/info/List_of_Google_domains
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by cyberlab 5y ago
Thanks for that. Had a quick cursory glance and randomly spotted this gem: 'The arsenal of OSs is abstraction'. It sounds debatable, but it's probably correct lol
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by cyberlab 5y ago
Somewhat related: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impostor_syndrome Although impostor syndrome is usually talked about in the context of the workplace, not being a 'foreigner' in another city.
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Proposal for New Emoji: Do-No-Evil Monkey(github.com)
2 points by cyberlab 5y ago|0 comments
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by cyberlab 5y ago
> Firefox, OBS Studio and many applications built with Electron and Flutter take advantage of Wayland automatically, for smoother graphics and better fractional scaling. I think it's great that Firefox is bundled with Ubuntu, but I
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by cyberlab 5y ago
There's more proposals here: https://github.com/Crissov/unicode-proposals/issues/ There's a rather whimsical one proposed called the Priest Emoji! https://github.com/Crissov/uni
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by cyberlab 5y ago
Sorry, I skipped that part where you meant the developing world. I'm referring to how I spend my money in the EU. Revolut has all these 'neobank' features of limiting contactless spend, creating a virtual disposable card for
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by cyberlab 5y ago
In layman's terms: Bitcoin's borderline-fraudulent use of energy will be able to /fix/ the energy that was spent in mining new coins, and the dirty deed can be forgotten. Except you can't so easily forget damage to
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by cyberlab 5y ago
> People commonly withdraw thousands of dollars and then disappear from online banking or bank-card use In fairness, using contactless payments is super convenient and although it leaves a data trail, the sheer convenience of being able
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by cyberlab 5y ago
It took me forever to realize that it's the process, not the outcome that matters. There's a saying: 'Enjoy the journey, not the destination'. Because the destination is fleeting, but the journey takes longer and you sho
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by cyberlab 5y ago
This is a form of blue team hacking, and instead of doing offense, you are doing defense. It's worth remembering how it can all come crumbling down due to bad OPSEC. Read this for more information: https://blogsofwar.com&#x2
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by cyberlab 5y ago
> PDF forms now support JavaScript I thought they always required JS to be enabled. I have JS disabled by default in uBlock Origin, and the inbuilt Firefox PDF viewer doesn't work unless I whitelist and enable JS temporarily for the
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Why Do Consumers Love Fintechs?(thefinancialbrand.com)
1 points by cyberlab 5y ago|1 comments
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by cyberlab 5y ago
I Googled it and I found these two articles that touch on it briefly: https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Network-level-DNS-Finger... https://securitytrails.com/blog/cybersecurity-fingerprinting I
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by cyberlab 5y ago
> when you can do network level fingerprinting Which can be addressed with a VPN. By insulating an IP away from other IPs you can stop IP correlation.
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by cyberlab 5y ago
Another compelling reason to have JS disabled by default. If you need to browse those sites listed on the page, consider having a dedicated laptop that would have a specific fingerprint separate from the machine you would do most of your da
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Manifesto for Software Craftsmanship(manifesto.softwarecraftsmanship.org)
2 points by cyberlab 5y ago|0 comments
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by cyberlab 5y ago
> Anything interesting in particular you'd recommend diving into? Hackernews itself is a nice portal into the indie-web, or the small pocket of indie bloggers and webmasters who share their wild and 'magic' ideas. Yes, HN

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