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  1. Re:It won't work but I'm sickened and impressed on Ultrasound Tracking Could Be Used To Deanonymize Tor Users (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    The browser isn't the only attack vector. Imagine, you download a message from snowden as video via tor (okay okay ...) and watch it with sound on your pc. The NSA inserted a ultrasound-id in YOUR download and your phone receives the id and reports its IMEI to the advertiser, which cooperates with the NSA.

  2. Re:Defense: Unplug speakers or headphones on Ultrasound Tracking Could Be Used To Deanonymize Tor Users (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    on laptops it is not. You can activate both speakers and headphones in the mixer. Maybe not (that easy) on windows, but on linux there is no problem. It's a feature, not a bug.

  3. Re:PC speakers can't emit 'utralsounds' nor can on Ultrasound Tracking Could Be Used To Deanonymize Tor Users (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    Maybe you should watch the presentation recording.

  4. Re:/. is getting slow with actual news on Ultrasound Tracking Could Be Used To Deanonymize Tor Users (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    it isn't slow, but there was a recent presentation at the big hacker event in hamburg, bringing up the topic again.

  5. The NSA even used a firefox zeroday. So you're better too paranoid.

  6. Every time you read millennials, replace it by snake people.
    This makes the bullshit a bit more funny.

  7. They remove the app hoping there will be protest in china as well as in the "western world", so the government gets some pressure to stop the broad censorship (of apps).

  8. Just use chromium. Or is this solution too easy?

  9. And for something forced that hard, 14% is very little.

  10. Re:Nice little malware trick on Creepy Site Claims To Reveal Torrenting Histories (iknowwhatyoudownload.com) · · Score: 1

    > Right now you do. Who's to say that they won't change that functionality once they're sufficiently widely popular?
    Can you tell for ANY url shortener?

    btw. exploiting a browser isn't like a standard feature, but requires an unpatched vulnerability. There isn't the hacker, which can type "password override", computer security is a bit more complicated.

  11. They didn't copy 3 on All the Features Facebook Copied From Snapchat in 2016 (recode.net) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    > Messages sent using the new camera are ephemeral.
    You think, they are ephemeral, because YOU cannot see them anymore.

  12. It's great until now. We will see, who's going to die.

  13. You're looking at it the wrong way on Android Users Are So Committed that Exploding Note 7 Did Little To Help Apple: NPD (appleinsider.com) · · Score: 1

    You're looking at it the wrong way.
    It's not android vs. apple.
    Its samsung and many many other manufacturers against apple. People do not care about android vs. iOS. When samsung devices burn, they may loose some users. But the odds that they choose apple next are just 1/N, when there are N-1 android devices left and just 1 iOS device.

  14. ouch, quite a bit of bullshit here.
    mozilla -> firefox is quite the same, just some idea of "lets make a lean browser" (you may laugh about this today)
    mysql -> mariadb are a bit different usecases. And mariadb is from the mysql founder.
    cyanogenmod to lineage is just a renaming (because of abandoned cyanogen (without mod) OS).

  15. Re:There needs to be a time limit, and "Edited" fl on Jack Dorsey Says Twitter Needs An Edit Function (buzzfeed.com) · · Score: 1

    who cares about them?

  16. Re:Rape by fraud? on Seattle Man Accused of Using Social Media To Set Up Fake Porn Agency (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 1

    In sweden they have some kind of law, which allows for such constructs, that's the basis they want to sue assange on.

  17. avoid the primary keys.

    give noone your phone number. The phone number is often used to link profiles together, as its unique and hard to change.
    Do not install apps from untrusted companies (like facebook, microsoft, etc.), they will collect your phone number, be aware that your phone os knows the number (i.e. google, apple have this identifier already).
    use different e-mail adresses. A a domain is cheap, a catch all with forward to your mailaccount is free with most dns hosters.
    Do they really need to know your real name? The surname as well? But you're at least never giving out your real postal address, are you?
    They do now allow you to fake address data? Maybe you just don't sign up there ...

    If you're lucky, your data will accumulate at different profiles, which are not linked together. But one mistake can give you away ...

    btw. that using an adblocker and deleting cookies at browser exit or sooner (install self destructing cookies) is a must should be obious.

  18. Re: This! Don't change my text without permission! on Has the Internet Killed Curly Quotes? (theatlantic.com) · · Score: 1

    Just setup a compose key. Then you just hit compose and the symbols which look like they give the char you want and they will give the char you want.

  19. Re: Twitter isn't helping on Has the Internet Killed Curly Quotes? (theatlantic.com) · · Score: 1

    So we need to fix programming languages to support them. And have a syntax error, if the left and right ones mismatch.

  20. Bullshit on Self-Driving Cars Will Make Organ Shortages Even Worse (slate.com) · · Score: 1

    Just add up the organs "saved" by having less accidents and the organs not available because of less accidents.

    If you really want to get a positive number from this equation, you need to make deadly accidents (which keep your organs intact) necessary for car crashes.

  21. So, tell me how this site can distinguish my ip from the other 100 users behind the same ip.

    The only chance anyone has is to catch someone in the act and press the vpn provider to start wireshark on his network. Everything else doesn't work. They may get 100 users, if the vpn provider stores log (despite promising not to do so), which will be a very broad court case.

  22. Of course they are not. A dynamic ip + timestamp is enough to identify you. NAT is behind your plastic router, so they still see the ip you got from you isp.
    VPN on the other hand helps.

  23. Re:Nice little malware trick on Creepy Site Claims To Reveal Torrenting Histories (iknowwhatyoudownload.com) · · Score: 1

    Maybe you should check your facts before posting.
    You get a goo.gl url, which redirects with 301 to a iknowwhatyoudownload.com url, which redirects with 303 to the target url. No content loaded on the two redirects.

  24. Betteridge's Law of Headlines on Can Learning Smalltalk Make You A Better Programmer? · · Score: 1

    No.

  25. Re:No, not $14 billion on Bitcoin Circulation Hits Record High Of $14 Billion (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    That's what i am saying.