wybiral

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by wybiral 7y ago
It's usually viewed as a protective measure more than a mechanism of oppression. And it is protective. If you believe that widespread dissidence could lead to the collapse of your government then preventing that is a necessary evil to
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by wybiral 7y ago
I've heard this argument for years but they keep on sliding back those privacy policies more and more. And every time a story comes out about how those policy changes were actually utilized to track people in a new way people get upset
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by wybiral 7y ago
Users grasp the idea that posting on social media is a public thing. It's like getting on stage and shouting to everyone in the room... It's not private. But, Facebook is invading privacy in subtle ways that users aren't so g
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by wybiral 7y ago
If they do it the way that the OCR recaptcha works, it allows some new ones to go through and uses consensus to classify them. So most of them will have already been classified and those are used to test your integrity (and verify you) but
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by wybiral 7y ago
I agree with that. Our stories are compatible once you realize that it's not necessarily rural vs urban but rather wealthy elites vs working class (across various political divides).
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by wybiral 7y ago
See, the argument I've heard along these lines is that the "wealthy elite" lobby conservative politicians to avoid regulations that would improve the quality of life for those rural folks. Things like health care, education a
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by wybiral 7y ago
> You can make a good argument that policy in the US is set by urban elites that favor city people and values, and result in an impoverished rural population. You could also make an argument that policy in the US is set by politicians ca
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by wybiral 7y ago
You seem to be justifying crime because it was so easy to commit that you might as well. Yard ornaments might be easy to steal, I mean, heck, people just leave them in their front yard over night. But it's still theft, it's still
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by wybiral 7y ago
> Like, what did you expect, that they wouldn't run third shifts or sell the stuff to whoever paid them for it? Yes. Because of those pesky things called "laws" and "trade agreements". It's still theft even
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by wybiral 7y ago
I've always thought of "climbing Mount Everest" as being a literal figure of speech for something incredibly difficult and potentially very dangerous. Why do these people think it's going to be anything less than that?
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Show HN: Invading privacy by inspecting localhost(github.com)
5 points by wybiral 7y ago|1 comments
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by wybiral 7y ago
As far as Apple goes, I'm not sure. But Facebook and Google have been walking in this direction from their own behavior regarding consumer data and omnipresence online.
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by wybiral 7y ago
It shouldn't be a whataboutism, it's true. They gave too much of a pass to ISPs and that needs to stop. But it doesn't stop by relaxing on tech companies like Google, that would only further normalize it.
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by wybiral 7y ago
Not working on Firefox (Linux) either.
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These can be done without Javascript, btw, using images and other assets. The Steam block example in the article is using the favicon.
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Always secure your localhost servers(davywybiral.blogspot.com)
5 points by wybiral 7y ago|2 comments
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by wybiral 7y ago
I wonder if these fingerprint checks look for the more stealthy and sinister approaches, like localhost port scanning [1] and specific CSS selector behavior...? [1] https://twitter.com/davywtf/status/11320265810381
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by wybiral 7y ago
I've been really impressed with Firefox Quantum for the steps they've taken towards privacy and transparency. This definitely seems like the edge that Mozilla will have when trying to stand out against Chromium-based browsers goin
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by wybiral 7y ago
That's not what I was suggesting at all. If you control the cell infrastructure you absolutely can put cellular capabilities into products that aren't explicitly advertised. That would be a bigger risk for surveillance tech. Your
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by wybiral 7y ago
It seems like they're just saying: - China makes most of the drones - A lot of them aren't very secure Which isn't surprising to me considering the state of things like DVR cameras (also mostly made by China, also plagued wit
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by wybiral 7y ago
It also wouldn't be the first time a shipping/logistics error caused a package to be misrouted. The obvious and most probable answer is usually the right answer unless you have evidence otherwise. Not every weird incident is part
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by wybiral 7y ago
Why wouldn't an intelligence agency just intercept it quietly? If I were sufficiently motivated and had global assets willing to do my bidding I could probably have found a way to intercept it at a sorting facility or en route or by se
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by wybiral 7y ago
Are you now implying that Huawei is lying about them being documents to cover up what they were actually shipping or something? (I genuinely can't tell if this is a joke or not)
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by wybiral 7y ago
They were documents. Why wouldn't they have just intercepted them in-place instead of sending them to the US? It doesn't make sense to be anything other than an error and Huawei being paranoid (rightfully so, but still).
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They were documents.
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by wybiral 7y ago
> There are at least two possible arguments behind this question. What was the question?
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by wybiral 7y ago
The Alanis Morissette definition.
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by wybiral 7y ago
The censorship war is more likely to cost them GitHub access since it's been used to bypass state censorship so much lately.
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by wybiral 7y ago
I didn't say it was hypocritical. Just ironic.
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by wybiral 7y ago
The irony here is that this article has at least 20 trackers. PS: Firefox Quantum is great

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