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by tonyztan 9y ago
It's more like asking a bunch of robbed banks if the FBI has warned them of plots by thieves.
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by tonyztan 9y ago
To expand on that, the iPhone hardware (secure encalve) limits the number and rate of PIN attempts. Depending on configuration, after a number of incorrect attempts, it either takes an increasingly long time to make a guess or just wipes th
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by tonyztan 9y ago
Any recommendations for a Google Drive replacement?
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FCC ignored your net neutrality comment unless you made ‘serious’ legal argument(theverge.com)
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The Government Is Keeping a U.S. Citizen Secretly Locked Up Without Charges(aclu.org)
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by tonyztan 9y ago
Lack of competition is because: 1) ISPs agree not to compete; and 2) It is expensive for new entrants to build infrastructure. It would be ideal to solve NN with free market. But the ISPs have monopolies that prevent competition. Making net
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by tonyztan 9y ago
Because the ISPs control your Internet access. They don't compete with each other. Without net neutrality, they can prioritize, slow down, or block any site or content they want to. Many people cannot simply switch away. They have only
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by tonyztan 9y ago
ISPs are free to compete with Google, Facebook, etc by offering competitive web services. Instead, ISPs want to leverage their almost-exclusive control of Internet access to unfairly crush competition. Users can choose not the use Facebook.
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by tonyztan 9y ago
ISP-funded lobbyists seem to have a lot of sway. Ajit Pai's FCC is against net neutrality as a result. The fact that Pai was Verizon's top lawyer doesn't help, either.
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by tonyztan 9y ago
Here's a screenshot from the Portuguese ISP's pricing page: https://twitter.com/RoKhanna/status/923701871092441088 Exactly like a cable bundle.
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by tonyztan 9y ago
> "except those implied by letting common people freely communicate." This is the key. They don't want people freely communicating without interception capabilities.
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Uber concealed huge data breach that affected 57M customers and drivers(bbc.com)
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Texas woman killed after non-impaired driver taking breathalyzer test hits her(foxnews.com)
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Trial of Polygraph Critic Renews Debate Over Tests' Accuracy (2015)(npr.org)
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Two Passwords Are Always Better Than One(theoutline.com)
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Senator urges ad blocking by feds as possible remedy to malvertising scourge(arstechnica.com)
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Quad9: free, recursive, anycast DNS for security, performance, and privacy(quad9.net)
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How the Pixel 2’s security module delivers enterprise-grade security(android-developers.googleblog.com)
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What is First Party Isolation? How does it work?(np.reddit.com)
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Equifax says it owns all its data about you(washingtonpost.com)
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by tonyztan 9y ago
I am not a lawyer, but if you can figure out who is calling you, I believe you can file a lawsuit against them for violating the TCPA (Telephone Consumer Protection Act), which carries statutory damages of up to $1,500 per violation. Source
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How to Destroy Bitcoin with 51%(medium.com)
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Privacy Pass: A browser extension for anonymous authentication(medium.com)
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Apple says it immediately contacted FBI about unlocking Texas shooter’s iPhone(theverge.com)
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States Race to Secure Their Voting Systems Before Hackers Strike Again(pbs.org)
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by tonyztan 9y ago
Shouldn't sites be serving the the full trust chain, except for the root?
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by tonyztan 9y ago
> "on Android apps can do anything and everything once installed." Not necessarily. Modern Android devices have granular permissions, just like the iPhone. https://developer.android.com/training/permissions
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by tonyztan 9y ago
> "So to be sure nobody issued a cert for one of my properties I would have to check regularly on CT logs to be sure that only certs requested by me are issued." CertSpotter does this for you automatically: https://s
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Maryland takes digital driver's licenses for a spin(gcn.com)
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by tonyztan 9y ago
Have you tried using a standard OpenVPN client (on your phone, on Linux, etc.) with PIA profiles?

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