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by relevant_thing 5y ago
This is good and clever work, and I applaud the author for looking at a boring feature and seeing in it a potential attack vector that probably wouldn't have occurred to most people. Kudos! That said, I think the security implications
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by relevant_thing 5y ago
A very similar thing happened when the folks at flathub tried to package MultiMC. Unfortunately the author threatened to sue for trademark infringement and they backed down. https://github.com/flathub/flathub/pull&
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by relevant_thing 5y ago
Are those from Infineon->Intel->Apple modem lineage or is that a different team?
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by relevant_thing 6y ago
Wait, this just looks like cryptographically signing pictures. What's so scary about that? You can do it today from your terminal if you feel like it. I guess I agree that the 'trusted computing' stuff it seems like they&#x27
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by relevant_thing 6y ago
If it's a simple proxy tunneling HTTPS traffic to Google, Apple probably doesn't know anything about the content of the queries, and Google doesn't know who sent them. If each kept records, they could get together and combine
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by relevant_thing 7y ago
AFAIK the fundraising done by actual elected officials is not highly automated, but tools for phone banking, canvassing, and that sort of organizing are definitely partisan (see for example https://act.ngpvan.com/paid-phones
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by relevant_thing 9y ago
False. See 828 F.3d 1068 at 1077 (9th Cir. 2016): >From those cases, we distill two general rules in analyzing authorization under the CFAA. ... Second, a violation of the terms of use of a website--without more--cannot be the basis for
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by relevant_thing 9y ago
http://www.aldaily.com
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by relevant_thing 9y ago
https://stratechery.com/2016/apples-organizational-crossroad...
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by relevant_thing 10y ago
~850 million US-based passenger * flights per year ~15 minutes in TSA waiting per passenger per flight ~80 years in a life 850,000,000 passengers per year * 15 minutes = 12,750,000,000 minutes of passenger time per year ≈ 24,241 years of pa
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by relevant_thing 11y ago
Not necessarily. Obviously this argument requires a corporate right to First Amendment protections. But that doesn't imply that corporations (or anyone) should be able to make unlimited expenditures on electioneering. This brief assume
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by relevant_thing 11y ago
A residential area in Sunnyvale seems like an inopportune place to put a data center.
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by relevant_thing 11y ago
The current problem in Flint was caused by the Flint River being more corrosive than Lake Huron, not by lead contamination at the water source. The reason lead testing is done in houses instead of just at treatment plants is to make sure th