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by flotzam 6y ago
Google probably has a good enough handle on you to serve the easy captchas. But keep in mind that for users they can't fingerprint (e.g. with Tor Browser), reCAPTCHA is usually insanely hard or even blocked ("Your computer or netw
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by flotzam 6y ago
Nathan for You S01E05: "Nathan makes a haunted house scarier by convincing visitors that they have contracted an airborne disease." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Nathan_for_You_episode...
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by flotzam 6y ago
Good luck paying an Iranian mail-order shoemaker... It's not hypothetical: https://www.coindesk.com/bitcoin-iranian-shoe-store-trade-sa... (EDIT) Sorry for my rude reply. Your point about intra-national transfers stand
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by flotzam 6y ago
> Each bitcoin transaction costs about $50 now. That's off by a factor of 18 even if you want it to be fast, according to https://bitcoinfees.earn.com "The fastest and cheapest transaction fee is currently 110 satos
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by flotzam 6y ago
Thus "FWIW" :) By all means, use a throwaway number for signup / 2FA setup.
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by flotzam 6y ago
FWIW after enabling non-phone 2FA, you can delete the phone number from your Google account - this doesn't remove 2FA.
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by flotzam 6y ago
AFAIK NoScript whitelists don't respect first-party isolation (so a JS-enabled website can be included in a JS-disabled website), which makes it a relatively simple coordination problem between website A and B (possibly automated by a
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by flotzam 6y ago
Both of these vulnerabilities are bogus. 1. "using JavaScript, you can identify the scrollbar width [...] so an attacker can identify the underlying operating system" Using JavaScript, you can simply ask Tor Browser what platfor
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by flotzam 6y ago
https://2019.www.torproject.org/docs/faq.html.en#TBBJavaScri...
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Onion Service version 2 deprecation timeline(blog.torproject.org)
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by flotzam 6y ago
Replace twitter.com with nitter.net: https://nitter.net/Foone/status/1014267515696922624
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by flotzam 7y ago
> Back then fever was still considered one of the symptoms, and I didn't have any. Wikipedia still lists fever as the most common symptom (87.9%), before dry cough (67.7%). But their data is from a middle of February WHO report. Is
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by flotzam 7y ago
Is this incompatible with a substantial crust, or can you have both in one loaf of bread? (I'm asking as a very novice baker.)
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by flotzam 7y ago
Their closest competitor seems to be https://smsprivacy.org who are similarly anonymity friendly (supporting Tor and cryptocurrency, and not requiring personal data for signup) and don't filter incoming registration message
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by flotzam 7y ago
https://gitweb.torproject.org/torspec.git/tree/proposals/279...
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by flotzam 7y ago
The thing that strikes me about these decline narratives is that they seem unwilling to give even the slightest inch to the "other side". Has the author really never seen (in this case) a beautiful tattoo? Nor asked other people t
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by flotzam 8y ago
Cooperating websites can subvert first-party isolation by redirecting the top level page through multiple first-party domains (with an ID in the URL). And Google does exactly that when you login. How to properly prevent it is still an open
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by flotzam 8y ago
Amazon Locker storage boxes can be used without any address and with a pseudonym as your Amazon account. You receive a six digit code to pick up your stuff. Only works for items that are fulfilled by Amazon, though.
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by flotzam 8y ago
> never commingle inventory At the very least, Amazon should mark the commingled vs. non-commingled status for each offer. Right now, you only see this once you hold the item in your hands - if there's a barcode starting with "