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by oil25 7y ago
> it insists on me giving more permissions to Google services Can you clarify what you mean? I use Signal without Google Play Store/Services and am curious about said requirement. > it relies on me a phone number as an ID I disli
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by oil25 7y ago
So glad Firefox has recently started blocking third-party cookies. It's comforting to know there's still a web browser which put thought into guarding our privacy. https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2019/06&#x
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by oil25 7y ago
You're not missing anything - Tor is not designed to defend against a global passive network observer. > A global passive adversary is the most commonly assumed threat when analyzing theoretical anonymity designs. But like all pract
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by oil25 7y ago
> Do you think that ad blockers are reducing the quality of the web Not my concern as a user. > should they be limited? How and by whom would they be limited? Ad blockers - essentially user agents - are already open source and freely
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by oil25 7y ago
> I use a third party VPN service to get around the fact that my residence comes with broadband that hijacks all DNS and routes all HTTP (port 80) connections through a Squid... You could set up a local resolver to NXDOMAIN specific IP a
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The Delicate Ethics of Using Facial Recognition in Schools(wired.com)
1 points by oil25 7y ago|0 comments
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by oil25 7y ago
Either xfce or dwm. Here's a great guide to OpenBSD on a 5th generation X1 carbon: https://jcs.org/2017/09/01/thinkpad_x1c
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by oil25 7y ago
When I asked in IRC, I was told U2F was not implemented in browsers on OpenBSD because, "do you really want browsers to have full access to your USB stack?"
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by oil25 7y ago
I've really been enjoying using OpenBSD full time, both on my desktop (AMD Ryzen build) as well as laptops (Lenovo X230, X1 Carbon). Everything literally "just works", the documentation is impeccable, and I love being able to
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by oil25 7y ago
I've been using LineageOS on a Nexus 6P for a good while now. No Google Services/Play Store was especially challenging to adapt to. But overall the experience has been pleasant, rewarding and surprisingly trouble-free. As for miss
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by oil25 7y ago
Improving privacy is reducing the quantity and quality of data collected about you. Making changes to Firefox improves privacy because web sites can collect less data about you. Improving anonymity is reducing the odds that data can uniquel
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by oil25 7y ago
Does Twitter not allow connection from the Tor network any more? What a depressing reality. > 403 Forbidden: The server understood the request, but is refusing to fulfill it.
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by oil25 7y ago
> making changes like this makes you far, far more fingerprintable, as the vast majority of users don't make changes like this. You're confusing privacy and anonymity. They can be mutually exclusive.
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by oil25 7y ago
Enabling DNT is worth it, but not for the reason which seems obvious. The DNT header was created so Internet advertisers could point and say, "only 0.1% of users have enabled DNT - this is evidence that people don't care about or
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by oil25 7y ago
Fat has more calories and is more easily stored by the body than carbohydrates. Processed carbs, simple sugars give a greater rise in the hormone insulin, which basically puts fat into fat cells. It is not carbs' conversion to fat whic
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by oil25 7y ago
Fruit is absolutely healthy for humans - physiologically we are frugivorous apes, after all. Hence why nearly all evidence-based nutritional guidelines from all around the world encourage whole fruit consumption, as part of a diet with othe
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by oil25 7y ago
Regarding them as distinct actors is a mistake. Both enable each other: Apple enables pervasive surveillance; in turn China enables huge profits. How bottomless is the guile of a corporation willing to put lives at risk to make some money?
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by oil25 7y ago
An application capable of reading the clipboard is just as capable of covertly taking screenshots, recording keystrokes and otherwise compromising data being executed in the context of the same system user. Is gives a false sense of securit
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by oil25 7y ago
One possible solution is to block access to Microsoft IP ranges on your firewall: $ whois -h whois.radb.net '!AS8075' $ pfctl -t drophosts -T add <results> Or on Linux: $ for range in <results> ; do
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Ask HN: Is the Tor Browser Developers GPG Key Attacked or Compromised?
4 points by oil25 7y ago|1 comments
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by oil25 7y ago
This is the absolute reality with closed source proprietary software: the user has no say nor ownership in the product; they are in effect granted a revocable license to use a set of features for some indeterminate period of time. The owner
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by oil25 7y ago
Some software components are open source, others are not.
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by oil25 7y ago
> Let me introduce you to the nice folks over at Objective See.. https://objective-see.com/products.html The "nice folks" at Objective-See is Patrick Wardle, a former NSA rootkit expert who would like nothing
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by oil25 7y ago
> A program that surreptitiously reinstalls software when you uninstall it is by definition malware. Not quite. Malware is short for "malicious software" and malice has a specific legal definition: the intent to harm. By your s
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by oil25 7y ago
> Yes, Apple does have the power to change every bit on your hard disk if you let it. Things like EULAs are supposed to govern to what extent they can use that power. Please help me understand this. Where in the EULA or elsewhere have us
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by oil25 7y ago
> iMessage is end-to-end encrypted. The keys are managed by the devices themselves. There is no facility to backdoor or intercept the messages. That is only a half-truth. Apple controls the key infrastructure; they may replace your keys
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by oil25 7y ago
Well said. Apple loves to flex muscle as a show of force - virtue signaling - when there is some great drama going on. It is terrifying to know they have covert remote root code execution on Macs and iPhones at all times, which they may use
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by oil25 7y ago
Apple only does so when it's also convenient to their bottom line. They provide the Chinese government backdoor access to iMessage, remove VPN apps from their store to enable censorship, and have we all forgotten they are a PRISM partn
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by oil25 7y ago
A macOS "app" is just a directory with an executable binary and some convenient helper files for Finder. Dragging it to the trash does not remove artifacts, such as logs, supporting binaries, even methods of persistence, which may
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by oil25 7y ago
Qubes OS is an operating system which pursues exactly these design goals, and unlike iOS, it is free and open source.

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