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Overcast 4.2: The privacy update(marco.org)
13 points by josecastillo 8y ago|0 comments
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by josecastillo 9y ago
It might be worth making another post to highlight an additional concern: this repository itself appears to leak profile images of many Grindr users. The raw-data folder includes nearly 14,000 files, including many ads and scripts, but also
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by josecastillo 9y ago
I think you're referring to this, depth data mapping from the dual camera in the iPhone 7+: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/avfoundation/avdep...
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by josecastillo 9y ago
That may well be a factor in what's going on, but for whatever reason, there is evidence [1] of a height-based pay gap in hiring and compensation. We're seldom aware of our subconscious biases, but they still influence our actions
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by josecastillo 10y ago
Nuking the caches is one thing, but what about services like the Internet Archive whose job it is to hang on to these pages? Pages with leaked data are clearly difficult to identify; removing the leaked data without nuking the document may
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by josecastillo 10y ago
My read was that the SIP protocol was just less well suited to a mobile environment. Not merely that long-lived connections are bad, but that it would be inappropriate to use a long-lived connection that requires keepalive packets or loses
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For Philando Castile, Social Media Was the Only 911(wired.com)
1 points by josecastillo 10y ago|0 comments
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Launching SIGILANCE, Or, the Long Way Around(joeycastillo.com)
1 points by josecastillo 11y ago|0 comments
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by josecastillo 12y ago
Also worth noting: in 2009, the Texas Forensic Science Commission was looking into the Willingham case. Two days before the commission was scheduled to hear evidence that could have exonerated Willingham, Gov. Rick Perry ousted the chairman
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by josecastillo 13y ago
Here's an anecdote. I have a friend who worked at a tech company in the bay area (not Mozilla). He met and fell in love with a Canadian. They got engaged. At one point after a visit to Canada, they're both headed back to Californi
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by josecastillo 13y ago
I'm glad someone is talking about this. If you set a passcode, iOS encrypts your data with a key derived, in part, from your passcode and a per-device salt; Apple claims that even with access to the device, a nine digit passcode would
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by josecastillo 13y ago
You could use NFC, sure; QR codes just seemed more accessible since every phone has a camera nowadays. But it's just 70-80 bytes you need to exchange, any method of moving those bytes would work.
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Show HN: Blanket, an attempt at an anonymous, secure, trusted messaging app(github.com)
2 points by josecastillo 13y ago|2 comments
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by josecastillo 13y ago
In high school my friends and I decided that once we understood the concept of, say, the Pythagorean Theorem, making us solve it over and over again was busywork. So we made programs to solve things, and then an application called AMATH to
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by josecastillo 15y ago
I think it would ameliorate a lot of the fear, uncertainty and doubt around this situation if Google could answer the following question: Does the user in question currently have the ability to extract the data he had in Google services, an
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by josecastillo 15y ago
"Users should be able to control the data they store in any of Google's products. Our team's goal is to make it easier to move data in and out." This philosophy, or at least the "out" part, should apply doubly after someone's account is te