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by davb 8y ago
I done this recently and almost every app was using certificate pinning, so seeing the actual data was difficult. My sokution in the end was to setup a tiny vm with dnsmasq setup to forward all requests and log then as it does so, then just
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by davb 8y ago
On a related note, I recently found out that Chrome uses its own DNS resolver, ostensibly to improve performance. On some Android devices, this ignores the nameserver precedence set against network connections on the device. The result is t
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by davb 8y ago
I applaud your user-centric philosophy, I really do. And I don't mean to insinuate that all SaaS providers are out to take advantage of users (I've worked at a few and feel that we've always looked out for our users). That sa
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by davb 8y ago
It's even worse than that. The toggle they make you turn on in order to save an address in Maps is "Web and App Activity". This includes your search history, app activity (including third party, non Google apps) and most worr
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by davb 8y ago
I disagree. I think vendor lock-in is actually much worse with SaaS because you rarely control your own data or infrastructure. Quality can slowly erode over time and migrating from one SaaS provider to another is often more technically and
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by davb 8y ago
I really hope interest based advertising dies. I'm not convinced it works and every time it's brought up, someone links to some study suggesting it's not particularly effective. I actually don't mind ads all that much, i
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by davb 8y ago
Of course, but my concern is that DoH makes it easier for apps (Chrome, etc) to handle their own DNS queries internally rather than relying on the device's network libraries. MiTM intercepting HTTP(s) traffic on my Android devices is r
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by davb 8y ago
One of my concerns is that DNS over HTTP(s) is really just a way to obfuscate DNS queries from the oversight of network level ad blockers like Pi Hole, AdBloka et al.
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by davb 8y ago
I see people say this a lot, but I'm using an Honor 10 and have spent a bit of time this week alternately MITM proxying connections from the phone and capturing DNS at the router. I found very infrequent calls to HiCloud (Huawei's
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by davb 8y ago
I recently seen a trial of this concept on the BBC News website, where you could choose between in-depth and summarised, simplified coverage of various aspects of the story. It was at the section level, so you could read a detailed account
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by davb 8y ago
BT TV do it with a base64-encoded subscriber account ID on the top right (easily recognisable due to the '=' padding characters).
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by davb 8y ago
I’m Scottish, so I do get the context and humour. I just feel it often gets in the way of the stories and the great journalism going on at the Reg. Sometimes the pun-filled headlines feel like a brain teaser to be deciphered or a page from
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by davb 8y ago
I remember that writing style from Amiga magazines too! But back then I was reading them for fun as a young hobbyist. It grates a little, reading that style now when looking for industry news. Worse still when sharing their stories as a rel
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by davb 8y ago
They cover stories I don't often see elsewhere (especially UK-centric tech news) and go into great detail, but I hate the writing style. I know it has a popular following but I feel it gets in the way of otherwise fantastic content. Ca
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UK plans sat-nav system to rival EU's Galileo(bbc.co.uk)
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by davb 8y ago
> The parks are heavily curated and managed — think of them as open air museums. Most museums in the UK are free to visit too. They generally have donation boxes which is a great way to let those who can afford to do so support the museu
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by davb 8y ago
> one drive Mac OS does come with a fairly deep iCloud Drive integration, and iOS defaults to backing up photos and files then tries to upsell to a higher package when space runs out. It's only fairly recently that iOS shipped with
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by davb 8y ago
Surprisingly, before you click Agree they make no third party requests and only set one cookie (AB=1, presumably because I'm using an ad blocker) and one Session Storage value (slateFontsLoaded=true). Unlike Samsonite, who I recently d
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by davb 8y ago
They could support both use cases by popping up a dialog on sign-in to a Google web property: "You're signing into Gmail. Would you like to link Chrome to joebloggs@gmail.com? This will enable automatic notifications in Gmail, syn
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by davb 8y ago
I switched back to Chrome recently because the ublock origin port on Safari has been pretty broken recently. Setting third party domain blocking options in advanced mode doesn't seem to work any more (can't save the settings) and
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by davb 8y ago
I got the impression where they said that China would not have e-sim but would instead have a dual SIM tray that it was a mutually exclusive thing. E-sim or physical but not both. I hope I’m wrong. There’s a link on the spec page (point 11
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by davb 8y ago
I’m quite concerned about the fact that only China will be getting nano-SIM and every other territory will have e-SIM only. On a recent trip from the UK to South Korea and Japan (where my network has very high roaming prices), it was relati
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by davb 8y ago
I've been a user since the beta too, and while they do have less outages than when they used a third party payment platform, they certainly still have more outages than my other UK bank.
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by davb 8y ago
I've noticed that on iOS, Google can be quite pushy with regards to their apps. No matter how many times I click "don't ask me again", Hangouts always asks if I want to install Chrome whenever I try to open a web link (i
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by davb 8y ago
My understanding is that each Switch cartridge has a unique key or certificate. People have begun dumping the cartridge ROMs (including certificate) and sharing these online or burning them to writable carts. Nintendo is blocking these keys
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by davb 8y ago
Circle are currently doing this (well, £5 in the UK)
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by davb 9y ago
Just an FYI - that website (evisaonline) isn’t an official government site. They seem to be some third party who provide some sort of ESTA application service. The official site is at https://esta.cbp.dhs.gov/esta/
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by davb 9y ago
And it’s comparatively one of be simplest and most reliable transports for business data exchange. In my first professional job, we used PKI-encrypted email as a transport for ebXML messages (order, despatch notifications, etc) between our
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by davb 9y ago
From the outside it definitely looks this way. And some enterprise software (Oracle, Peoplesoft) definitely have some real UX gaps. However... in a professional, power-user environment, high information density is massive plus. Being able t
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by davb 9y ago
Oh wow. Yeah, that sort of thing seems to have been so common in ERP software. My first professional programming job was working on a bespoke ERP and industrial process control suite (written in PowerBuilder). The program had a huge number

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