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  1. Re:What about tracker blockers? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on It Is Easy To Expose Users' Secret Web Habits, Say Researchers (bbc.com)

    In case you are interested, other researchers have compared popular tracker blockers in a recent paper titled "Benchmark and Comparison of Tracker-blockers: Should You Trust Them?". Results shows that your mileage may vary, with some plugins performing overall quite poorly. Here is the link to the conference program and here the PDF of the paper.

    BTW, that PDF reports tests on uBlock, whereas uBlock Origin is the current actively supported program. New users should not be confused.

  2. Re:What about tracker blockers? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on It Is Easy To Expose Users' Secret Web Habits, Say Researchers (bbc.com)

    In case you are interested, other researchers have compared popular tracker blockers in a recent paper titled "Benchmark and Comparison of Tracker-blockers: Should You Trust Them?". Results shows that your mileage may vary, with some plugins performing overall quite poorly. Here is the link to the conference program and here the PDF of the paper.

    BTW, that PDF reports tests on uBlock, whereas uBlock Origin is the current actively supported program. New users should not be confused.

  3. What about tracker blockers? by fasuin · · Score: 1 · on It Is Easy To Expose Users' Secret Web Habits, Say Researchers (bbc.com)

    In case you are interested, other researchers have compared popular tracker blockers in a recent paper titled "Benchmark and Comparison of Tracker-blockers: Should You Trust Them?". Results shows that your mileage may vary, with some plugins performing overall quite poorly. Here is the link to the conference program and here the PDF of the paper.

  4. What about tracker blockers? by fasuin · · Score: 1 · on It Is Easy To Expose Users' Secret Web Habits, Say Researchers (bbc.com)

    In case you are interested, other researchers have compared popular tracker blockers in a recent paper titled "Benchmark and Comparison of Tracker-blockers: Should You Trust Them?". Results shows that your mileage may vary, with some plugins performing overall quite poorly. Here is the link to the conference program and here the PDF of the paper.

  5. IFIP has issued a statement on the issue by dreixel · · Score: 1 · on Academics Should Not Remain Silent On Government Hacking

    IFIP has issued a statement on the issue. Excerpt:
    There is reason to believe that major practical pillars of trust in the Internet, e.g. the trustworthiness of relevant communication nodes and the security of cryptographic implementations in the web such as SSL, are being intentionally weakened in a systematic way at the behest of government organizations and other major actors in the field. This is endangering and undermining the fabric of the Internet and the Information Society, and contradicts the claim of those actors to be trusted with e.g. sensitive personal information. Moreover, any deliberately introduced weakening or backdoor is equally exploitable by (ostensibly) legitimate and illegitimate third parties alike.

  6. IFIP has issued a statement on the issue by dreixel · · Score: 1 · on Academics Should Not Remain Silent On Government Hacking

    IFIP has issued a statement on the issue. Excerpt:
    There is reason to believe that major practical pillars of trust in the Internet, e.g. the trustworthiness of relevant communication nodes and the security of cryptographic implementations in the web such as SSL, are being intentionally weakened in a systematic way at the behest of government organizations and other major actors in the field. This is endangering and undermining the fabric of the Internet and the Information Society, and contradicts the claim of those actors to be trusted with e.g. sensitive personal information. Moreover, any deliberately introduced weakening or backdoor is equally exploitable by (ostensibly) legitimate and illegitimate third parties alike.