If you don't mind adds but don't want to be tracked, e-mail the website admins and tell them so. They may not be aware their adds are tracking and switch to non-tracking ones. It's a long shot, but even if they don't change, at least you've regained your peace of mind knowing the website owners don't care if you see their adds.
Do you have a link to the firefighter's test (preferably with video)? I would love to see something like that. I'm guessing it would be similar to how fuses work.
Actually, the common way of doing that is to make the hash impossible to achieve. Adding an invalid character such as a ! to the beginning is a unix favorite and works quite well.
But then you run into the whole issue of the resets being sent in cleartext anyways, so not much improvement there...
The big problem with this method is when the website uses one those absolutely asinine recovery systems that asks you for the answer to a secret question. Most security-wise people fill that field full of gibberish making recovery impossible.
More and more? I've seen that opposite trend in the last 10 years. Industries long ago learned that you can do pretty much anything you want, as long as you introduce it one piece at a time. It's absolutely astounding how much crap the general population will put up with as long as it's spoon fed to them one bite at a time.
Or like the hotel giving you your room key and you going to the wrong door and the key works. Further testing shows ALL the locks are the same. I'm honestly wondering how many hotels/motels might actually be vulnerable to this...
Federal Privacy Commissioner Timothy Pilgrim said the Privacy Act applied only if the information collected identified individuals.
Hmm, let's see if they qualify.
Path Intelligence national sales manager Kerry Baddeley stressed that no mobile phone user names or numbers could be accessed.
Sounds good so far
One unnamed Queensland shopping centre is next month due to become the first in the nation to fit receivers that detect unique mobile phone radio frequency codes to pinpoint location within two metres.
Hmm. That's close, but still doesn't identify you. Looks ok at this point.
It's much less intrusive or invasive than existing people-counting methods, for instance CCTV cameras and number plate monitoring.
Ahhhhhh, but when combining cell tracking (to 2 metres) and CCTV's, you are now tracking identified individuals!
Not quite. One party of the conversation (that the other party/parties know are part of the conversation) must know about it. So if Alice, Bob and Charlie are having a conversation and they all know each other are involved, any one of them can record it without informing the others. Dave on the other hand can't (unless doing so on behalf of Alice, Bob or Charlie).
That's funny, the schools around here (Canada) are turning their gyms into classrooms because the *$&%# government won't pay for more schools. We have literally run out of room for portables (they have been placed on fields for years already).
Right, because spies only kill people. There is no way they could be monitoring hostile countries to ensure *they* aren't planning to kill people. And while we're at it, let's just publish the full list of names and locations of everyone in witness protection, they're all criminals anyways. As a show of good faith, why don't you post you full name, date of birth, mother's maiden name, current place of residence, credit card number and annual income? It's not like the government is keeping any of THAT data secret for you.
I find it absolutely stupid when people chant "Secrets are bad, mmmkay" while using an online pseudonym.
One of the HUGE advantages of linux (and other *nix derivatives) is the ability to seamlessly move the OS from one machine to another without having to make ANY changes. The only exception is moving from nvidia to ati video cards (or vise-versa), but the OS will still boot. These "check at install time" fixes are very dangerous to that huge feature. You guys are actually demanding a software fix to a firmware bug. Absolutely unbelievable...
That would be like if the company that made your engine created a bug where piston 3 would miss-fire ever 8th stroke, and then YOU demanding that the ECU programmers test for the bug when you start the car and not fire the 3rd piston each 8th revolution.
Honest question here. Do you know of any other, reputable, sites people can use to see which video cards work best with linux, which SSD's actually deliver on speed, etc? I've long used phronix simply because it was all I knew about, but would love to have some other sites to at least compare notes with.
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If you don't mind adds but don't want to be tracked, e-mail the website admins and tell them so. They may not be aware their adds are tracking and switch to non-tracking ones. It's a long shot, but even if they don't change, at least you've regained your peace of mind knowing the website owners don't care if you see their adds.
Do you have a link to the firefighter's test (preferably with video)? I would love to see something like that. I'm guessing it would be similar to how fuses work.
Actually, the common way of doing that is to make the hash impossible to achieve. Adding an invalid character such as a ! to the beginning is a unix favorite and works quite well.
But then you run into the whole issue of the resets being sent in cleartext anyways, so not much improvement there...
The big problem with this method is when the website uses one those absolutely asinine recovery systems that asks you for the answer to a secret question. Most security-wise people fill that field full of gibberish making recovery impossible.
More and more? I've seen that opposite trend in the last 10 years. Industries long ago learned that you can do pretty much anything you want, as long as you introduce it one piece at a time. It's absolutely astounding how much crap the general population will put up with as long as it's spoon fed to them one bite at a time.
How do I get Aussies to riot.
Replace all their beer with Coors.
Or like the hotel giving you your room key and you going to the wrong door and the key works. Further testing shows ALL the locks are the same. I'm honestly wondering how many hotels/motels might actually be vulnerable to this...
He was talking to the other AC.
Then maybe the managers should fix the problem with their subordinates huh?
Federal Privacy Commissioner Timothy Pilgrim said the Privacy Act applied only if the information collected identified individuals.
Hmm, let's see if they qualify.
Path Intelligence national sales manager Kerry Baddeley stressed that no mobile phone user names or numbers could be accessed.
Sounds good so far
One unnamed Queensland shopping centre is next month due to become the first in the nation to fit receivers that detect unique mobile phone radio frequency codes to pinpoint location within two metres.
Hmm. That's close, but still doesn't identify you. Looks ok at this point.
It's much less intrusive or invasive than existing people-counting methods, for instance CCTV cameras and number plate monitoring.
Ahhhhhh, but when combining cell tracking (to 2 metres) and CCTV's, you are now tracking identified individuals!
Exactly. If you could open arbitrary connection in JS, then your entire internal network would be vulnerable to the simplest of JS code.
Well, except for the small percentage on IPv6.
Right, because watching 30-second clips obtained via searching for "police brutality" will give you a non-biased view of the situation.
Did you also know that all hospitals abuse their patients? I mean it MUST be true, just look at all the proof!
I've also known lots of cops (5 off the top of my head) and none of them would even consider doing anything like that.
Well I guess they could have just left the old one in there. Or do you have any better ideas that you are for some reason keeping to yourself...?
Or better yet get the ISP's and government websites ADDED to the list!
Apostrophes, how do they work?
Wow, didn't hear about that one. Do you have a link to it (would like to look into it).
Not quite. One party of the conversation (that the other party/parties know are part of the conversation) must know about it. So if Alice, Bob and Charlie are having a conversation and they all know each other are involved, any one of them can record it without informing the others. Dave on the other hand can't (unless doing so on behalf of Alice, Bob or Charlie).
That's funny, the schools around here (Canada) are turning their gyms into classrooms because the *$&%# government won't pay for more schools. We have literally run out of room for portables (they have been placed on fields for years already).
Right, because spies only kill people. There is no way they could be monitoring hostile countries to ensure *they* aren't planning to kill people. And while we're at it, let's just publish the full list of names and locations of everyone in witness protection, they're all criminals anyways. As a show of good faith, why don't you post you full name, date of birth, mother's maiden name, current place of residence, credit card number and annual income? It's not like the government is keeping any of THAT data secret for you.
I find it absolutely stupid when people chant "Secrets are bad, mmmkay" while using an online pseudonym.
How long do you SPEND in the bathroom...?
One of the HUGE advantages of linux (and other *nix derivatives) is the ability to seamlessly move the OS from one machine to another without having to make ANY changes. The only exception is moving from nvidia to ati video cards (or vise-versa), but the OS will still boot. These "check at install time" fixes are very dangerous to that huge feature. You guys are actually demanding a software fix to a firmware bug. Absolutely unbelievable...
That would be like if the company that made your engine created a bug where piston 3 would miss-fire ever 8th stroke, and then YOU demanding that the ECU programmers test for the bug when you start the car and not fire the 3rd piston each 8th revolution.
Honest question here. Do you know of any other, reputable, sites people can use to see which video cards work best with linux, which SSD's actually deliver on speed, etc? I've long used phronix simply because it was all I knew about, but would love to have some other sites to at least compare notes with.
So where's YOUR workaround genius?