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Western Companies Get Tangled in China’s Muslim Clampdown(wsj.com)
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by tonyztan 7y ago
Dup: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19804232
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Auto-delete controls for your Location History and activity data(blog.google)
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by tonyztan 7y ago
It appears this ruling is based on the Massachusetts State Constitution, not the U.S. Constitution. States are allowed to have stronger protections against searches and seizures than what the 4th Amendment requires, and the U.S. Supreme Cou
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What Happened When The DEA Demanded Passwords From LastPass(forbes.com)
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by tonyztan 8y ago
In most (all?) states in the U.S., the local and/or state government has an official record of real property ownership. In some states it's available online; otherwise you may find it at the local courthouse, city hall, or county
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Georgia Tech Data Breach Exposes Info for 1.3M People(bleepingcomputer.com)
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Told U.S. security at risk, Chinese firm seeks to sell Grindr dating app(reuters.com)
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by tonyztan 8y ago
> "Cloudflare should really message if this is the case when using their gateway. Small UI changes to note this would likely go a long way toward coercing better overall security." I've always hoped that Cloudflare would a
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by tonyztan 8y ago
> "untargeted national snooping" While I do not disagree with your sentiment, there have been cases of untargeted national snooping/censorship affecting sites with flexible SSL because governments can and often do sit betw
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by tonyztan 8y ago
(Note: The parent comment claimed that ProtonMail paid "millions" in ransom. It appears to have been edited to say "thousands" now.) I am not affiliated with ProtonMail, but the answer is no. ProtonMail has paid a ransom
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Microsoft Workers Protest $480m HoloLens Military Deal(nbcnews.com)
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The Obama Presidential Library That Isn’t(nytimes.com)
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Someone Impersonated New Jersey AG to Demand Cloudflare Takedown 3D Printed Guns(techdirt.com)
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by tonyztan 8y ago
> "The NFL is the world's sketchiest non-profit." While I don't disagree with the rest of your post, I'd like to point out that the NFL is no longer a non-profit: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check
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Signal Messenger Rolls Out Optional Link Previews(signal.org)
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by tonyztan 8y ago
I am not a lawyer, but this 6th Circuit case might be relevant: Taubman v. Webfeats. "Even if [the] use is commercial, it must still lead to a likelihood of confusion to be violative of the Lanham Act. 15 U.S.C. § 1114(1). In Planned
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Google Demanded T-Mobile, Sprint Not Sell Google Fi Customers' Location Data(motherboard.vice.com)
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by tonyztan 8y ago
> "This was more of a copyright claim than censorship." Why should taxpayer-funded creations be copyrighted? They should be in the public domain by default, like in the U.S. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Co
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10 Personal Finance Lessons for Technology Professionals(troyhunt.com)
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FCC approves new text message rules, giving carriers more power(theverge.com)
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Patreon suspended my account. They have not notified me(twitter.com)
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by tonyztan 8y ago
NEXUS: https://www.cbp.gov/travel/trusted-traveler-programs/nexus Global Entry: https://www.cbp.gov/travel/trusted-traveler-programs/global-...
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by tonyztan 8y ago
I've always wanted a two-factor lockscreen, so that I can scan my fingerprint and then type a PIN. A face scan would work even better in this context.
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by tonyztan 8y ago
> "why should that be any of the US's business?" I think one justification is that the U.S. shares sensitive intelligence information with Germany, and a compromised German network might jeopardize the information.
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by tonyztan 8y ago
"Like all major U.S. wireless carriers, T-Mobile and Sprint do not use Huawei equipment, but their majority owners, Germany’s Deutsche Telekom AG and Japan’s SoftBank Group Ltd, respectively, use some Huawei gear in overseas markets.&q
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by tonyztan 8y ago
> "your backend servers 'dial-out' and connect to the edge load balancers" I believe Cloudflare offers this as an option: https://www.cloudflare.com/products/argo-tunnel/
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Uber's Arbitration Policy Comes Back to Bite It in the Ass(gizmodo.com)
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by tonyztan 8y ago
https://www.eff.org
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by tonyztan 8y ago
Along the same lines, it is important to note that death (whether of park rangers or the general public) did not notably increase after this policy change, either, so it is not a particularly dangerous policy as you suggested. Unless you se

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