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Facebook releases transparency report: France censors 37k pieces of content(newsroom.fb.com)
1 points by envy2 10y ago|0 comments
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WSJ: FBI Plans to Keep Apple iPhone-Hacking Method Secret(wsj.com)
3 points by envy2 10y ago|0 comments
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by envy2 10y ago
Paywall bypass here: https://archive.is/CYpbc
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The Encryption Farce: Justice and the FBI can’t get their Apple stories straight(wsj.com)
3 points by envy2 10y ago|1 comments
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by envy2 10y ago
"Broken" would suggest that this isn't intentional. But yes, you are correct; domestic internet is fine, but traffic in/out is slowed and interfered with nearly to the point of being unusable.
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Secret Rules of the Internet: a history of moderation and the future of speech(theverge.com)
1 points by envy2 10y ago|0 comments
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Facebook's new gigabit Wi-Fi system is coming to San Jose(theverge.com)
3 points by envy2 11y ago|0 comments
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Burr-Feinstein “Compliance with Court Orders Act of 2016” officially released [pdf](burr.senate.gov)
4 points by envy2 11y ago|0 comments
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How an internet mapping glitch turned a random Kansas farm into a digital hell(fusion.net)
147 points by envy2 11y ago|39 comments
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by envy2 11y ago
It's now signed "Jan and Brian."
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by envy2 11y ago
> 2) It's a shame to see key words be killed off by internationalisation concerns. 12 words seems so much more friendly, at least to English speakers, than a 50 digit number. In practice I doubt any non-trivial numbers of people wil
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by envy2 11y ago
WhatsApp have published further details for users[1], as well as a technical whitepaper[2] explaining the implementation. There's also a blog post[3]. [1]: https://www.whatsapp.com/security/ [2]: https:/&#x2
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by envy2 11y ago
> grossly expensive I'm not one to defend Comcast, but $300/month for 2Gbps fiber is NOT "grossly expensive." It's the exact same product (minus SLA) they sell business customers for thousands. I'm paying $2
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by envy2 11y ago
This strikes me as scaremongering: yes, it's possible that this is some soft of malicious behaviour, but the article provides no evidence of that beyond "China." It's far more likely that the cheap Chinese smartwatch man
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by envy2 11y ago
It's not that simple: it seems that the issue isn't that WhatsApp/Facebook have wilfully disregarded the subpoena, but rather that Brazil isn't happy with their assertions that the information requested doesn't exis
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by envy2 11y ago
Not the same as Prime Now (which offers one or two-hour delivery). Prime Same Day is an in-by-noon, arrives by 9pm service; if you order later than noon, you get next-day service. It covers a larger selection of items than Prime Now, and se
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by envy2 11y ago
Seems like Prime shipping is still free on orders of any size, with a $35 requirement for free same-day shipping when applicable. I'd be curious how many Amazon customers actually don't use Prime and will thus actually be impacted
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Facebook, Twitter side with Apple in iPhone fight(usatoday.com)
3 points by envy2 11y ago|0 comments
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by envy2 11y ago
Sorry, this isn't "suspicious": there is a publicly available court order[1] issued by the US District Court for the Central District of California for Apple to comply with, which you could have found in 15 seconds of Googlin
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by envy2 11y ago
You might be interested in this set of videos[1] of public testimony by WhatsApp's Deputy General Counsel at a hearing on cybercrime in Brazil in December 2015, where he explains in some detail the type of information they have and don
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by envy2 11y ago
Jan Koum is WhatsApp's co-founder and current CEO, and a Facebook board member. I had this in the original title but it seems to have gotten removed—sorry!
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Jan Koum: “I couldn't agree more with everything [Apple] said”(facebook.com)
255 points by envy2 11y ago|73 comments
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by envy2 11y ago
This reminds me of cleaning the Comet Cursor[1] adware, which did this (and other random and obnoxious effects), off of people's PCs back in the early 2000s. IIRC, it was bundled with Real Player and usually accompanied with Gator... [
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by envy2 11y ago
Just bought it after being quite impressed with the online demo, and figured it was worth a shot for $25. First impression after downloading: an unsigned OS X app? Really? This is commercial software; it's not that expensive to get a d
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by envy2 11y ago
Honestly, if you're running on a simple Apache config, you almost certainly don't need to worry about any of the technical issues the article raises.
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by envy2 11y ago
rbenv[1] makes installing and managing Ruby pretty damn straightforward, at least on *nix. Once you have Ruby itself up and running, installing any needed Gems is child's play. [1] https://github.com/rbenv/rbenv
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by envy2 11y ago
"He" didn't dump the agreement as separate PDFs; that's how these things are almost always handled because most people involved are focused on specific areas (be they negotiators, interest groups, or concerned citizens).
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by envy2 11y ago
I walked up and down those many times as a student at the LSE. It would've driven me mad if I'd had to stand; very, very few things annoy me as much as being stuck behind people (or traffic) moving unnecessarily slowly. While obvi
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NYC ride-sharing congestion impact study released [pdf](www1.nyc.gov)
1 points by envy2 11y ago|0 comments
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Facebook “friend finder” feature ruled illegal by Germany's highest court(juris.bundesgerichtshof.de)
2 points by envy2 11y ago|1 comments

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