m3rc

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by m3rc 10y ago
What? This is a giant [citation needed]
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by m3rc 10y ago
I doubt any sort of real revolution would happen, my comment was probably worded badly. I meant more as a turning point for the sort of privacy-conscious people who already use Signal. I, and a lot of the people I talk to, take a position o
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by m3rc 10y ago
http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/316130-trump-wh-s... Try googling next time
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by m3rc 10y ago
Truly decentralized solutions like riot may be the next step. I have a group of friends that have been in a singular group chat since high school and I plus one other convinced everyone to move to Signal the day after election day. In anoth
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by m3rc 10y ago
I think if Signal gets shut down it will be a real turning point. Either a huge number of people are going to move to the Riot solution of hosting their own messaging, or a hundred new Signal's are going to pop up just forking the alre
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by m3rc 10y ago
A huge number of Trump's staff all run private email servers. Just because things aren't as publicized doesn't mean they're not still problems.
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by m3rc 10y ago
I don't think really anyone except marketing goons and the type of people that parrot marketing goons believes the "you can't see 60 fps" thing.
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by m3rc 10y ago
With the state of internet privacy today it's more important than ever to evangelize about Firefox and Mozilla's efforts.
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by m3rc 10y ago
If you're seriously convinced structure has already passed the point of no-return what are you doing commenting here on some internet site?
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by m3rc 10y ago
This is exactly why I started using a password manager, the situation you described is infuriating. Additionally, all it takes is one site with poor security practices having a breach and someone could figure out your scheme and use it to f
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by m3rc 10y ago
Do people really complain that size is an issue in syncing password data? The author of this article's file was 512 KB, personally mine is 10 KB. That's basically none.
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by m3rc 10y ago
How ridiculously melodramatic
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by m3rc 10y ago
The not moving iPhone to USB-C is the real killer. It makes NO sense from a technical standpoint, and makes every self-indulgent speech about moving technology forward just drip with marketing bullshit. It even makes other decisions, like U
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by m3rc 10y ago
http://www.macrumors.com/2014/11/11/apple-lawsuit-imessage-i... here's the lawsuit, I can't find a definitive source on any memo so maybe that was just unfounded rumors
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by m3rc 10y ago
I know the steps, the class-action was because even after doing all that iMessage would still not properly deregister numbers, and then a memo was leaked revealing that Apple purposefully didn't solve the problem because it lead to peo
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by m3rc 10y ago
Why should a scalper even be punished by having their email shut down? That's not a service connected to the phones.
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by m3rc 10y ago
There was a class action about the bullshit Apple pulls with iMessage but I don't remember how it resolved.
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by m3rc 10y ago
Long path up to just getting blocked by no-script
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by m3rc 10y ago
This is fantastic. I got so caught up in trying to advance through the stages I ended up dead before i even knew it. It seems dumb to have not seen that coming but you seriously do get caught up in the small details of each requirement for
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by m3rc 10y ago
That's an interesting interview, thanks.
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by m3rc 10y ago
With badusb and other exploits I've heard security researchers suggest treating usb devices as hypodermic needles and never reuse them and guard your ports like your veins. Almost impossible to actually do, but gives you a sense of jus
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by m3rc 10y ago
I used to spend time arguing with people on the internet about how systemd was an actually very useful tool but I never changed any minds and didn't help myself any. Now I just wait and watch for new helpful things it does to show up a
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by m3rc 10y ago
Which is exactly why we need to fix this problem. Consumer products don't have good security at all and it's making the world a worse place
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by m3rc 10y ago
Is that something Google wants? I don't see the advantage for them short of adding on C# devs
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by m3rc 10y ago
Does this spell Google moving away just a little bit from Java in the future?
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by m3rc 10y ago
The issue is that an attacker could gain access to the inside of your car only briefly, but leave a device that continues carrying out the exploit
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by m3rc 10y ago
The algorithms that govern things like Facebook feeds play a big part in polarization. The best confirmation bias is literally never being able to see information that disagress with your world view
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by m3rc 10y ago
The problem of convincing un believers is more of a cultural and language issue than a rhetorical one. When we analytically look at these sort of people it turns out being shown data that conflicts with their views will at best leave them j
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by m3rc 10y ago
Humans have a pretty infinite ability to fill time, and to always find something new they "should" be doing. Early household cleaning appliances like the vacuum sold on promises of freeing up housewife's time to do other thin
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by m3rc 10y ago
I can't stand touchscreen systems. Instead of a single physical switch to turn AC on or off it's two latency laden taps. Part of it's menu design but I can't help but feel like it's always gonna happen with touchscr

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