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1. 631.▲
   by mpeg 10y ago

   So you're saying with your idea Twitter, a company with 4000+ employees, can make around $10k MRR from its largest customers.
2. 632.▲
   by mpeg 10y ago

   It's still very clickbait-y, especially as that guy is basically just trying to get PR for his firm so he can crowdfund the money needed to sue Uber (campaign is looking very sad at the moment with £4k out of £75k raised on day 3) and
3. 633.▲
   by mpeg 10y ago

   It weeds out the competition.
4. 634.▲
   by mpeg 10y ago

   Very clever use of the Chrome debugger APIs. We should connect, my company doesn't have anyone fully remote right now but maybe we could do in the near future...
5. 635.▲
   by mpeg 10y ago

   Yeah it's basically browser fingerprinting (incl. GPU fingerprinting, hence the slowdown) plus google cookie. If your browser is standard (AKA no anti-fingerprinting plugins) and your advertising cookies are not blocked (privacy or adb
6. 636.▲
   by mpeg 10y ago

   Yes, recaptcha works based on advertising cookies.
7. 637.▲
   by mpeg 10y ago

   It's more urban legend than fact, recaptcha checks your google cookies and little else. They initially marketed it as looking for "human signs" such as mouse movements but they didn't, and AFAIK they still don't.
8. 638.▲
   by mpeg 10y ago

   Let me guess, you use privacy enhancing browser extensions or adblockers? :)
9. 639.▲
   by mpeg 10y ago

   Any executable is vulnerable to DLL hijacking, they're just looking for easier targets that load known DLLs (with known function signatures) from their own folders (NOT system folders). I'm assuming the goal is to minimise detecti
10. 640.▲
    by mpeg 10y ago

    I don't really get into political commentary, and I'm not a US citizen, but there's some great RE tips in there. I genuinely lol'ed at their assessment about Comodo's whitelist-only firewall/av. Also, this: ht
11. 641.▲
    by mpeg 10y ago

    Most people I know date their coworkers, you're still missing the point.
12. 642.▲
    by mpeg 10y ago

    Why not? It's not generally forbidden unless there's conflicts of interest (like sleeping with your boss) And definitely a reality of most industries, especially if you spend a lot of time in the office and little time socialising
13. 643.▲
    by mpeg 10y ago

    I don't think you're looking at it the right way. Coworker or not, consent and respect is essential. I've had sex with coworkers and never been accused of inappropriate behaviour, turns out if we're all adults it works o
14. 644.▲
    by mpeg 10y ago

    Yep, I have exactly the same problem.
15. 645.▲
    by mpeg 10y ago

    There's no new techniques, this stuff all uses the same javascript APIs and that's what the crawlers that look for this stuff look for. People have been doing GPU fingerprinting since the canvas APIs were available, with accuracy
16. 646.▲
    by mpeg 10y ago

    Yes and yes. Take a look at the work of Steven Englehardt around cookie syncing and gpu fingerprinting [0] [1] [0]: https://freedom-to-tinker.com/2014/08/07/the-hidden-perils-o... [1]: https://free
17. 647.▲
    by mpeg 10y ago

    And advertising, and payments (most credit card companies will fingerprint you as part of the "verified by visa" prompt), and bot detection in general...
18. 648.▲
    by mpeg 10y ago

    Wow, apparently this other John von Neumann [0] achieved a certain fame in the racing world, and was a Ferrari distributor in California in the 50s. [0]: http://www.september8th.com/news_neumann1.htm
19. 649.▲
    by mpeg 10y ago

    I wrote my first non-toy lines of code in VB6, with a (pirate) copy of the IDE that I had to ask for as a request to a dude that sold cds in a public park. At that time, I only had a C/C++ compiler that I didn't know how to use (b
20. 650.▲
    by mpeg 10y ago

    Every IP address has to be registed to an ISP, VPN servers are pretty trivial to detect as you'll see that the registration info from ARIN, RIPE, APNIC, etc. comes up as "HideMyAss" or "Amazon". There are companies
21. 651.▲
    by mpeg 10y ago

    Voice messages are massive everywhere in Asia though, even in places where they mostly use latin alphabets or English like Malaysia, Singapore, Philippines ...
22. 652.▲
    by mpeg 10y ago

    It's tricky, after I googled you and your other projects like 7DollarYear I understand a bit more about why you have this up front. But I agree with other commenters that bringing up this whole story on a page that is normally reserved
23. 653.▲
    by mpeg 10y ago

    They missed a trick by not naming it Sai.
24. 654.▲
    by mpeg 10y ago

    I'm cool with HIDs being installed, but an Ethernet device that hijacks my entire network and then quietly disappears? Uh... I'd notice a new usb plugged in, but I wouldn't easily notice this.
25. 655.▲
    by mpeg 10y ago

    As a user, it'd be nice to assume that if I'm not logged in new USB devices won't be installed though.
26. 656.▲
    by mpeg 10y ago

    (A year ago)
27. 657.▲
    by mpeg 10y ago

    Yet the article you just commented on lists some concrete ways it affected everyone; like increased TLS usage, FDE and e2e encryption being standard with consumer products and general increase in public awareness around online privacy.
28. 658.▲
    by mpeg 10y ago

    http://everything2.com is (kinda) still going strong.
29. 659.▲
    by mpeg 10y ago

    They accept contributions from non-US nationals, but I'm not sure how easy it would be to join if your company is not already in the task force as mine was.
30. 660.▲
    by mpeg 10y ago

    I have worked with them in the past. One of the key things was that they managed to get every company in the tech task force to collaborate through things like shared hash databases; so if someone uploads child pornography to imgur, faceboo