There is a lot of unused bandwith in some areas, and it is crowded in other areas. You cannot just sum it up, because this would mean "when your net is slow, move to a place, where noone else is using the net, then you can use the available bandwidth there". Its just Bullshit, to see it that way.
i trust, others are reading it. And i assume its to much danger for projects like linux to get caught doing nasty stuff. This would be in all IT-News, next the reputation of linux would be zero. And spies know this, this is why they do not even ask these project to do so. And somebody tried to sneak in a backdoor into linux once (something in exit.c), it was found in very little time.
Linux users are happy for each upgrade, cool new Features, optimizations, things running better than before. Windows users on the other hand are fearful. What will MS ruin on the next version, which new annoyances will be added?
no app can send premium SMS without consent from the user. There is a big screen listing all the permissions the app wants to have, when you install an app. When your "virus scanner" sends a premium sms, it cannot be a big surprise, because it announced it while you installed it.
Bullshit. This is just like saying "don't like $randomopensourcesoftware? You have the source, improve it". While i need to learn programming to fix opensource software, i need to have a lot of budget and tech knowhow to create a startup, which has the right starting point to compete with a existing one. And then i still have a marketing problem to compete with the established brand. So i can provide a much better system and no one will use it, because it came too late.
no, people will just memorize what button to click, without bothering to think if this is the action they want to do. They want to continue, not to decide something.
the whole article is about the problem, that tinyurls hide the link target, while good urls speak for themself. Something like domain.tld/messages/inbox ist quite obvious, something like sho.rt/bla is not.
salting is not interesting for you as a single user, only for the site admin. unsalted passwords lead to faster finding of weak passwords, once the password file is stolen. so the weakest password can be found very efficiently. But for you as user, its only important if YOUR password gots cracked, and if i want to brute-force your password, it can be salted and my bf is as efficient as it will be when its not salted.
so this script visits the url with preview option, or even some thirdparty-service... giving out the url you may visit soon and your ip adress. not very privacy friendly, is it?
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interesting question. And will it be pseudonyms for everything in the google account, or just "we do not show your realname to strangers"?
google had its SN before, orkut.
There is a lot of unused bandwith in some areas, and it is crowded in other areas. You cannot just sum it up, because this would mean "when your net is slow, move to a place, where noone else is using the net, then you can use the available bandwidth there". Its just Bullshit, to see it that way.
and you can always solve it the same way.
i trust, others are reading it. And i assume its to much danger for projects like linux to get caught doing nasty stuff. This would be in all IT-News, next the reputation of linux would be zero. And spies know this, this is why they do not even ask these project to do so.
And somebody tried to sneak in a backdoor into linux once (something in exit.c), it was found in very little time.
OTR is THE way to encrypt chats, i.e. pidgin has a good plugin for this.
i know this problem from ext3, is it better on ext4?
Linux users are happy for each upgrade, cool new Features, optimizations, things running better than before.
Windows users on the other hand are fearful. What will MS ruin on the next version, which new annoyances will be added?
anti piracy and anti privacy movements do the same things.
its called a freudian slip. That means, when you want to say one thing, but think of a mother.
no app can send premium SMS without consent from the user. There is a big screen listing all the permissions the app wants to have, when you install an app. When your "virus scanner" sends a premium sms, it cannot be a big surprise, because it announced it while you installed it.
Bullshit. This is just like saying "don't like $randomopensourcesoftware? You have the source, improve it". While i need to learn programming to fix opensource software, i need to have a lot of budget and tech knowhow to create a startup, which has the right starting point to compete with a existing one. And then i still have a marketing problem to compete with the established brand. So i can provide a much better system and no one will use it, because it came too late.
no, people will just memorize what button to click, without bothering to think if this is the action they want to do. They want to continue, not to decide something.
yeah, +, preview., etc. But the problem is, you need to learn the way to do it of each new shortener, which comes up.
the whole article is about the problem, that tinyurls hide the link target, while good urls speak for themself. Something like domain.tld/messages/inbox ist quite obvious, something like sho.rt/bla is not.
no. you just need to change it to something, your attacker already tried. he does not know you changed the password, so he will not try it again. ;)
salting is not interesting for you as a single user, only for the site admin. unsalted passwords lead to faster finding of weak passwords, once the password file is stolen. so the weakest password can be found very efficiently. But for you as user, its only important if YOUR password gots cracked, and if i want to brute-force your password, it can be salted and my bf is as efficient as it will be when its not salted.
no, the user uses a qr-code to avoid typing in the link. when the user needs to type, he can just type in a short-url.
> I also tend to click OK buttons without hardly even reading them
This is PEBKAC, you cannot solve it with tech stuff.
so this script visits the url with preview option, or even some thirdparty-service ... giving out the url you may visit soon and your ip adress. not very privacy friendly, is it?
you're tempting me to register yrsfdfcvb.com.
erm ... so you think if your browser is safe, its totally okay to visit goatse?
tinyurl.com/bla -> preview.tinyurl.com/bla. Much easier, because it even works without cookies
yeah, now the hyperlink in your reader says bit.ly/bla. What now?
with the gpl, you do. With other software licences, you may or may not be allowed to do.