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by kevcampb 8y ago
The Ocean Conservancy report has been cited by quite a few articles now, and it pains me every time I see it. As ever, the conclusions drawn are quite misleading. 1) The source of the data is cleanup on beaches, not ocean trash. If anything
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by kevcampb 8y ago
At peak times in Hong Kong's subway, it pains me to see one side of the escalator basically empty. Normally I walk up, so that should make things faster for me, except it's impossible to get to the escalator for the queue of peopl
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by kevcampb 8y ago
One important thing to note. PCCW the main local telco uses Hong Kong ID numbers as passwords by default, or at least they used to do so. This means that this database contains usernames and passwords in cleartext for a significant number o
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by kevcampb 8y ago
It cannot Source: I worked in a related field for five years, and evaluated a lot of technologies from major players.
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by kevcampb 8y ago
Future job role: Sesame Credit Optimisation (SCO) There's going to be so many ways to game this system when it gains wider adoption, it's going to be insane.
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by kevcampb 8y ago
Multiple keywords on your resume (S3, AWS, Lambda, Serverless)
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Supermicro Announces Suspension of Trading of Common Stock on Nasdaq(ir.supermicro.com)
64 points by kevcampb 8y ago|8 comments
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by kevcampb 8y ago
Except it isn't, it's fishing nets https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-018-22939-w
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by kevcampb 8y ago
The fact that this is news is the real story
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by kevcampb 8y ago
To do this you need access to the SS7 network. I don't believe this is the issue in question, as the providers have APIs for partners doing location services. Source: I used to have direct access to such an API
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by kevcampb 8y ago
The information is likely to be provided by an API from AT&T and others, which is obtained from cell towers.
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by kevcampb 8y ago
Providers who uses these services need to agree to follow guidelines such as obtaining opt-in, sending notifications to devices being tracked with option to opt-out by replying with STOP, etc. The guidelines are not enforced or audited.
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by kevcampb 8y ago
I'm not clear if you missed the point here? This isn't aggregate data, it's obtaining the location of a specific individual just by knowing their phone number. It can be done without their knowledge or consent. By your webser
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by kevcampb 8y ago
I'm betting the opt-in is something along these lines "FirstName LastName wants to obtain your location..." Also betting that you can put 160 characters into those fields, so effectively a blank SMS is received Betting furthe
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by kevcampb 8y ago
Can you post the SMS opt-in message you received? Curious as to whether this is exploitable as well
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by kevcampb 8y ago
I just discovered this treasure trove from the UK house of commons in 2006 https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200506/cmhansrd/vo06... "To extend that to adults, The Guardian journalist Ben Goldacre
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by kevcampb 8y ago
Carriers have been providing these services to 3rd party providers since at least 2006 https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2006/feb/01/news.g2 A few points to note: * Obtaining consent is entirely lef
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by kevcampb 8y ago
Have a look at https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2006/feb/01/news.g2 This news article was about a year later than the original once, from what I remember. It misses the part that you can replace th
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by kevcampb 8y ago
This has been the case since around 2004 at least. I reported it to the press at the time, without much fanfare. Things to note with the SMS opt-in. * You can abuse the opt-in message of "Real Name wants to track..” by registering with
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Thin film converts heat from electronics into energy(m.phys.org)
6 points by kevcampb 8y ago|3 comments
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Airbnb China tells hosts it will share their data with the gov’t from Friday(hongkongfp.com)
2 points by kevcampb 9y ago|0 comments
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Chinese police don high-tech glasses to nab suspects(hongkongfp.com)
148 points by kevcampb 9y ago|148 comments
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by kevcampb 9y ago
I misread from the images. Should have slowed down and thought twice before posting that. Annoyingly was too late to put an edit in my reply. Apologies.
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by kevcampb 9y ago
"Turn off suggestions (stop sending keystrokes to Bing)" It's right there under where you were typing Nothing to see here folks
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What is randomly replacing Baidu TongJi (Analytics)'s JavaScript code?(stackoverflow.com)
2 points by kevcampb 9y ago|0 comments
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Google reports “high-severity” bug in Edge/IE, no patch available(arstechnica.com)
1 points by kevcampb 10y ago|0 comments
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by kevcampb 10y ago
In other words, Baidu are currently sitting on a treasure trove of keys and passwords.
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by kevcampb 10y ago
The reason i wrote citation needed was that it was clearly wrong. It's likely based on this pew research survey from 2013[0]. At no point does it suggest homosexuals should be executed. Note that the US also polled with 33% recipients
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by kevcampb 10y ago
Citation needed
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Windows 10 update broke DHCP, knocked users off the Internet(arstechnica.co.uk)
1 points by kevcampb 10y ago|0 comments

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