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  1. IIRC there is not proof up to now, that islamist extremists used encrypted messengers.
    On the other hand, government of different states want to be able to read everything their citizens are writing. No more secrets.
    Stop this bullshit!

  2. Re:Whatever happened to "location not found"? on Kansas Couple Sues IP Mapping Firm For Turning Their Life Into a 'Digital Hell' (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    And then deposit all their stolen devices there.

  3. Re:Whatever happened to "location not found"? on Kansas Couple Sues IP Mapping Firm For Turning Their Life Into a 'Digital Hell' (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    It's "location is the us" and would be like "center of us plus very big radius" and people just assume the center of the circle must be a good starting point, without looking at the radius.

  4. Re:Seems Reasonable on Facebook Will Force Advertising On Ad-Blocking Users (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    this only works, if you attract non-adblocking users.

  5. Nice post. Would mod informative.

  6. Something is waterproof or it is not.

  7. Re:Wait, what? on Google: Unwanted Software Is Worse Than Malware (thestack.com) · · Score: 1

    the point is not the correct name, but the correct handling. They may still be called ad injectors, but my anti virus should eliminate them.

    Does spybot s&d still exist?

  8. Unwanted software bundled to installers ... on Google: Unwanted Software Is Worse Than Malware (thestack.com) · · Score: 1

    Unwanted software bundled to installers ... ... like browsers?

  9. How do you know, when somebody got no clue on trol on Stopping Trolls Is 'Now Life and Death For Twitter', Argues Backchannel (backchannel.com) · · Score: 1

    trolling?

    When he mentions trolls and abuse in the same sentence.

  10. Re:Because I WANT to share the same password with on Google's Open YOLO Project Will Remove the Need For Passwords On Android (thenextweb.com) · · Score: 1

    It's better and worse.

    if somebody controls your googleaccount he controls everything and probably even knows where the login works. Okay. But you can choose a strong password and 2FA. You will probably be secure and if there is a hack, it has a large impact and everyone will react.

    If you use the same password everywhere, people do not know where else you used it (but can guess with your e-mail and password combo), but you have a lot of different hashes, some insecure and sometimes maybe not hashed at all. So if then a weak site loses it (and the odds that a site without good security doesn't use good hashing either are large), they have your password for everything.

    If your password gets lost, you need to reset it on 100 sites. If your google acc ist hacked, you need to lock it one time fastly, then change the password one time to a secure one.

    So both approaches have ups and downs. And both lose to one-password-per-site with 2FA per site where available.

  11. nothing new, if you use login with google/facebook/twitter everywhere. Even Slashdot let's you use your openid stuff.

  12. Authorization? Why authorization? Fuck it, we have your data anyway.

  13. The strange thing: They did not buy snapchat.

  14. Yahoo Mail is still quite popular, because it was one of the good free mailers and had less invite / phone verification bullshit than gmail. Of course google is now dominating, especially because of android.

  15. A really bad idea on Apple Replaces The Pistol Emoji With A Water Gun (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    This is a really bad idea, if you consider what emoji are.

    Emoji are the idea, not to send tiny graphics, but to have a standard codepoint for smileys. Everyone can implement them and use their icon set for display. Either to have a strong brand, or to allow users to theme them or just because they have no rights on the graphics from other vendors.

    Now there already were problems. Take the pistol icon, which had the problem that it had different directions in different sets. I do not know which set it was, but let's assume its apple vs. google.
    Now they take it a step further and apple replaces the pistol with a water gun, while google did not yet do this.

    Here a smiley example:
    (smiley)(pistol)(female smiley)

    Apple interpretation: I shoot with water on my girlfriend (and we have fun)
    Google interpretation: I shoot with a pistol in my head where she's there (maybe because we have trouble)

    Considering, that smileys were the idea to convey emotions words cannot, its not only silly to have smileys for objects, but even more stupid to use non-matching icon sets. Remember the hairy heart trouble?
    https://www.engadget.com/2014/...

    Even the unicode consortium recommends to find better long term solutions:
    http://www.unicode.org/reports...

    > The longer-term goal for implementations should be to support embedded graphics, in addition to the emoji characters. Embedded graphics allow arbitrary emoji symbols, and are not dependent on additional Unicode encoding. Some examples of this are found in Skype and LINE—see the emoji press page for more examples.

  16. Re:Restore VM snapshot on New Site Checks Your Browser's Fingerprint · · Score: 1

    Always the same snapshot, always the same fingerprint.
    You at least need to share your vm with a lot of people to be secure.

  17. Stop reducing the fingerprint, increase it on New Site Checks Your Browser's Fingerprint · · Score: 1

    Change so much on each visit, that you're unique every time. You will not eliminate all data, but if everything is zero except one identifier, i get you using this one. If everything always changes, i always think i identified somebody new.

  18. I thought you need signed drivers at least since windows 7 and this is one of the reasons why for example andlinux isn't available anymore?

  19. And that's the problem with docker on Vine's Source Code Was Accidentally Made Public For Five Minutes (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Deploy with one click. But your image contains all your secrets (and outdated libs of course).

  20. Re:Proper CtrlTabbing on Ask Slashdot: Best Browser Extensions -- 2016 Edition · · Score: 1

    Ah, that way round. Sorry, i misunderstood this.

  21. Re:Alternate Headline on WhatsApp Isn't Fully Deleting Its 'Deleted' Chats (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Strange, somehow it still sounds easier to dump the blockdevice, search for "From: Some Name" string inside the Dump and then cut a big block around it and recover the deleted e-mail instead of sending NSLs to Samsung to create a new firmware.

  22. Re:Proper CtrlTabbing on Ask Slashdot: Best Browser Extensions -- 2016 Edition · · Score: 1

    tried ctrl+pgup/pgdown?

  23. Re:Don't Fuck With Paste on Ask Slashdot: Best Browser Extensions -- 2016 Edition · · Score: 1

    noscript.

  24. Re:Primary browser: Vivaldi on Ask Slashdot: Best Browser Extensions -- 2016 Edition · · Score: 1

    chromium (core) is not chrome.

    Even if the closed parts in chrome may spy on you is vivaldi not using them. They build on the chromium opensource part, as it is packaged i.e. from debian. And you can bet, they wouldn't package any spyware functions.

  25. FFProfile on Ask Slashdot: Best Browser Extensions -- 2016 Edition · · Score: 1

    As Meta-Extension: www.ffprofile.com to create a firefox profile with security defaults. Creates a prefs.js and a zip with some (but not many) extensions.