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by vaduz 6y ago
> Does Debian ship packages for individual browser extensions? They do, for a couple of more notable ones (HTTPS Everywhere, uBlock Origin, Proxy Switcher, etc.) [0] > I mean, if they do I'm sure it's not scalable and-- afte
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by vaduz 6y ago
> What's a Manual Task? It's a task in a schedule that has its dates hardcoded and thus will not move, which is really insanely wrongheaded. A scheduling tool like this is, at a basic level, all about assembling a list of tasks
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by vaduz 6y ago
The GP has been complaining about Adobe services that start in Services (automatically or on trigger) - as far as I remember, none of those are visual apps, so they indeed behave like daemons. It's like complaining that Gnome Tweak Too
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by vaduz 6y ago
Task manager "start-up apps" is to blame, though, as it is restricted to only show a subset of startup locations. Use Mark Russinovich/Sysinternals Autoruns [0] as Windows has just too damn many places where the application c
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by vaduz 6y ago
> Rebellion is bad, but maitaining some remote possibility is good. There is that little affair from 1765 to 1783 that gets generally good press, though. "Context is for kings" is tinged with irony on that one. > This case i
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by vaduz 6y ago
The goal of similar questions (also, my favourites: have you ever been training child soldiers, or have you been involved in a violent overthrow of a legal government) is to make any discrepancy a separate immigration offense - making it a
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by vaduz 6y ago
Unless they come with an actual search warrant (which is rare, but can happen [0] as I wrote in a cousin thread, sometimes with the police assist), yes, you can. Capital/TVL have no inherent power to enter your premises unless invited
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by vaduz 6y ago
You can apply for exemption [0] - needs to be reconfirmed every 2 years and sometimes more often if TVL/Capita thinks there 'might' have been changes you did not report (e.g. you subscribed to a service that participates in t
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by vaduz 6y ago
>> These officers aren’t empowered to forcibly enter homes, so in the event a homeowner declines to cooperate with an investigation, TV Licencing will apply for a search warrant. > I would be quite surprised if this has actually ev
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Rather trivially, as any superheterodyne receiver from has an intermediate frequency oscillator that is mixed with the signal - and it is hard to not emit RF from that. Modern equipment just tends to be better designed to tighter tolerances
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by vaduz 6y ago
Until the repeal/replacement of Wireless Telegraphy Act of 1967 came through in 2013, the TV sellers were obliged by law to report any sale of TV equipment to anyone - and sooner or later the purchaser would get that impersonal note. [
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by vaduz 6y ago
The web app comes with the same snooping (every little bit of analytics mentioned in the article is something that the Teams servers see - you are not stopping them by not using the app) and similar resource usage - though as bloated modern
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by vaduz 6y ago
... (4) Not actually becoming a US state Not being flippant here - there are territories already within the USA that for various reasons cannot become a "US state".
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by vaduz 6y ago
> At least in Italy, your work contract always falls within the general rules established with the unions. At the end of the day, you are somehow unionized. That is true in many countries - though there are some (US being one) where non-
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by vaduz 6y ago
Unions are not impartial - their power in the company is proportional to the number of unionised employees, so they have an incentive to take your side if you are a member - and against you if you are not. It's more complicated in pra
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by vaduz 6y ago
And general costs. Whilst SMS might be free (or effectively free, plans including thousands of messages per month are not unknown) for vast swathes of people, but MMS is most definitely not.
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by vaduz 6y ago
It's essentially a smartcard (certificate storage) in a more convenient form factor for most users, so you could use them to store your RSA keys - though personally I would not trust them - but they are not FIDO/FIDO2 so they are
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by vaduz 6y ago
You are missing the point here. There is no argument here that the corporation should be able to monitor communications going on or out of their systems (though some limits how and for what purpose that monitoring can be done do exist ,
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by vaduz 6y ago
> Yep. And corporate/enterprise environments should (not nearly enough do) do exactly that with devices owned and managed by the enterprise. Sure! But the fact that they should (and many have been) already be doing just that does no
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> You seem to be implying that a company should not know what kind of web requests are coming from its computers. Please point out where I made that claim. All I am saying is that the way "knowing what kind of web requests" - a
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by vaduz 6y ago
For non-malicious apps, generally speaking DoT is something you need to specifically enable, whereas certain major applications are working towards using DoH by default (or they already do [0]). DoH is also mixed with regular HTTPS traffic,
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by vaduz 6y ago
It's clearly also spurred by the attempts to further obfuscate the use of DoH via Oblivious DoH [0] - though they don't go into much details on it. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25344358
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by vaduz 6y ago
> Sending your DNS queries to a resolver that you control is hardly MITM. That's if your users are well-behaved and follow the rules. To stop the users from being badly behaved, NSA recommends blocking connectivity to well-known IP
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by vaduz 6y ago
HPKP is dead for all intents and purposes as far as browsers go. What pinning? The CA certificate store that the browser is using is something any enterprise that is interested in control is already extending by adding their own CA cert -
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by vaduz 6y ago
Dropbox DL and Preview urls take a form of https://uc[26 character hex string].dl.dropboxusercontent.com/... and https://uc[26 character hex string].preview.dropboxusercontent.com/... - it does not have to
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Dropbox actually provides an unique domain for each and every user - and separates the UGC from the web front code and Dropbox own assets that way - that's where the files you preview/download are actually coming from. I have no d
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> Doesn't Chrome upload everything downloaded to VirusTotal (a Google product)? It doesn't, unless you opt for SafeSearch "Enhanced Protection" or enable "Help improve security on the web for everyone" in &q
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No, we are saying that a site owner should not get to choose which features of the browser the users decide to use. It's the same reason why HN is dogpiling on any site that announces "Only works in Google Chrome", "Best
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It's a relatively long article - but it does not answer one simple question, which is quite important when discussing this: were there any malicious files hosted on that semi-random Cloudfront URL ? I realise that Google did not provi
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Your users did decide to use it, though - and this particular feature is one of the reasons why that particular browser if popular. It was one of the major differentiators of the "better" browsers in the sad old IE days. For all

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