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by drivebyacct2 13y ago
This is why I suspect they've drug their feet on Google Voice integration. They want to make that seamless. You want to call [Person] and you shouldn't have to even think about whether it's over Hangouts or PTSN. That's
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by drivebyacct2 13y ago
No idea, I'm taking the GP at their word, their phrasing made me think that they work in the browser space and know that as a fact. I can't say I've inspected Chrome specifically in Wireshark, nor looked at the code, so I wil
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by drivebyacct2 13y ago
What are we supposed to take away from those links? The latter isn't even written from the perspective of Microsoft, it's just another generic {Open/Web}GL rant (if anything, you've granted MS legitimacy here by acknowle
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by drivebyacct2 13y ago
Is that even true now that IE11 keeps itself auto-updated to the latest major version?
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by drivebyacct2 13y ago
Usually I groan when people complain about the Malware features in Chrome in relation to privacy but this is definitely one I'd not heard of. The hash of the whole file is bad enough, but even if it were unique, the full URL could easi
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by drivebyacct2 13y ago
The "freakout" in the "media" outside of the HN/reddit/internet bubble is mostly obsessed with "Where in the World is Carmen, I mean Edward, Snowden?" and not so much in the whole PRISM, constant univ
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by drivebyacct2 13y ago
/me nods http://html5labs.interoperabilitybridges.com/cu-rtc-web/cu-r...
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by drivebyacct2 13y ago
Wow. IE11 looks like it has some really great stuff in it, particularly the dev tools, even over the WebGL. Props to the IE team!
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by drivebyacct2 13y ago
This is a terribly written, horribly sourced, mash up of information that has been known for some time. >Access to Windows source code is supposed to be highly compartmentalized, actually making such actions easier because many of the pe
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by drivebyacct2 13y ago
Why would someone make that their goal ?
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by drivebyacct2 13y ago
Not a single drop (that I've seen, and I'm a sucker for clicking on all the Skype-fud-bait links)
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by drivebyacct2 13y ago
"Crackpots"? Is this a serious, honest comment? Or is a crackpot anyone who doesn't choose and create philosophically and technically inferior products for the sake of "Just one more social network that will surely be wo
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by drivebyacct2 13y ago
wrong on top of wrong on top of wrong. Like I said, people still don't get it. Supernodes are a directory service. "Traffic" as in text and video traffic rarely, if ever, is transmitted through Supernodes.
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by drivebyacct2 13y ago
I just explained that. You and I have a secure P2P connection (aka Skype). But my client and your client check hashes of URLs against a third party service before transmitting the message to the other person. There, you can blacklist URLs a
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by drivebyacct2 13y ago
Seriously? I give up.
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by drivebyacct2 13y ago
If used properly they should have an identical result.
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by drivebyacct2 13y ago
I can think of ways, but I don't know how Skype does it. The client could have a local blacklist, they could only send hashes of URLs to a server, etc.
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by drivebyacct2 13y ago
In what way is imgur not a gift "to" reddit? It might not have been "exclusively for reddit", but I'm willing to be a huge sum of money that most top subreddits, including the first 4 pages of the frontpage are domi
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by drivebyacct2 13y ago
Yeah, I just Inspect Element and look for the real <img> tag.
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by drivebyacct2 13y ago
I've been saying this for, probably close to a year now. Moving supernodes from being personal consumers to running in a cloud is a good thing and has minimal impact on privacy. Even comments here indicate people clearly didn't re
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by drivebyacct2 13y ago
I don't know, I guess I have a very pessimistic view of interviews asking these sorts of questions almost vindictively. I'd prefer questions and problems and challenges that I'm likely to face and address as an engineer. If G
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by drivebyacct2 13y ago
I'm playing Devil's Advocate here, but why would I be worried about Google? I search through Bing. My email is through Hotmail/Outlook. My online cloud sync is through Skydrive. Why am I cowering from Google any more than MS
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by drivebyacct2 13y ago
And my point is that there's about a zero percent chance that the person making that decision, or even giving significant feedback about it, is going to be within 20 feet of the people in question who will be implementing it. Or more p
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by drivebyacct2 13y ago
What a truly, truly, truly absurd statement. I run my own webserver and have Roundcube exposed. It's only accessible via my VPN and even then, it's HTTPS. So tell me, how are you planning to compromise that?
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by drivebyacct2 13y ago
> basically the authorities will have access to your e-mails anyway How is this not the wide assumption being made right now? How is there ANY question remaining of whether or not they have such access?
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by drivebyacct2 13y ago
> the most dangerous aggregation of personal information Speak for yourself.
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by drivebyacct2 13y ago
That's a complicated question with a complicated, nuanced, business-driven answer.
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by drivebyacct2 13y ago
Ask for code. TALK about algorithms at a high level. I have an aptitude for reading people, but my day two impressions of coding with a new person tend to lead to valid assumptions about them months later.
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by drivebyacct2 13y ago
Same here, amazingly happy with LastPass and it even makes logging in on mobile a breeze :)
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by drivebyacct2 13y ago
Yes, precisely. Local running malware = owned, period.

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