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  1. Yeah, but if your REAL address were in anyone else's contacts that that were handed over, then you were compromised without even knowing.

    Which is why I always give my *FAKE* email address to all my contacts. Haha! Spam me now, suckersss!!

  2. Re:We have space program b*itch! on Debris From India's Anti-Satellite Test Poses Threat To ISS, Says NASA (npr.org) · · Score: 1, Informative

    India is being called out or this *now* because they have only just joined the 'blowing satellites up' club. Meanwhile America (among others) developed this tech back in the 1950s and developed their own test program that deposited a fair chunk of space debris as a result (Weapon System WS-199A).

  3. Re:And if they are any good... on Russia Orders Major VPN Providers To Block 'Banned' Sites (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 2

    Users don't need a VPN provider to use a VPN, they need a single-core VPS which can be obtained for the around monthly cost of a VPN and without making a traceable payment.

    Scripts like streisand mean that a user can put together their own VPN server (and Tor OBFS4 private bridge) on a cheap VPS paid with monero.

    How can countries who claim to 'ban VPNs' ever hope to ban every VPS provider in the world?

  4. Re:Well what did you expect? on Is Social Media Losing Ground To Email Newsletters? (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    Big Brother might have been concerned by Social Media's claims that it's future is messaging, encryption, and privacy.

    But if people instead switch to old-fashioned unencrypted email, the TLAs who were relying on social media access don't lose their personal info data-pipe.

  5. Re:How is this different on New App Gives Free Movie Tickets To People Who Watch 15 Minutes of Ads (indiewire.com) · · Score: 2

    PreShow's app will only unlock with your phone's facial recognition technology. Your phone's camera monitors your level of attention. Walk away or even obscure part of your face? The ad will pause after five seconds.

    Well, that sounds like a pretty good deal. But I think I may have a better one. How about... I give you the finger and you give me my phone call.

  6. Re:Here's how much you should care on F5 Acquired NGINX For $670M (zdnet.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    and will integrate F5 cloud-native blockchain technology with NGINX's deep learning software load balancing A.I. technology.

    ~ FTFY

  7. I just do not understand why those cable are not encrypted end to end, rendering any taping threat moot.

    Or the end users could encrypt their own traffic themselves before it even gets to the cable, rendering the threat of surveillance from either side moot. Luckily the world's governments aren't lobbying to water down the strength of encryption at the moment.

  8. Re:Yes... on Death Metal Music Inspires Joy Not Violence, Study Finds (bbc.com) · · Score: 2

    This would explain why the torturers at Guantanamo Bay found that using the track F*** Your God by death metal band Deicide did not work as well as I Love You by Barney the Purple Dinosaur

  9. Re:I see a string on Firefox Send Lets You Share 1GB Files With No Strings Attached (cnet.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    It's also a single download and single day limit.

    The send.firefox.com site defaults to one download for one day. Attempting to change to more than one download, or more than one day, triggers an account login page. Also you have to be careful not to visit the link in any way, as this wipes the download and your recipient will receive a 'link expired' page.

    So, long story short, wetransfer is more useful at moment.

  10. Re:That's why you can't have nice things. on Paris Street To 'Shut Out Instagrammers' · · Score: 1

    I can sense a 'Street Streisand Effect' will reverse the intention of the Rue Cremieux restrictions. (I'd never even heard of this place.)

  11. Re:Does Facebook scan conversations? on Mark Zuckerberg Says Facebook Will Shift To Emphasize Encrypted Ephemeral Messages (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    I do know something about history. See all this? It's simply shaping tomorrow. A tomorrow without a lot of Menlo Park white-boys' ideas in it.

  12. Wire is also still free, and encrypted, and doesn't require a phone number.

  13. Re:There is nothing wrong with tracking Monero on Former Hacking Team Members Are Now Spying on the Blockchain for Coinbase (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Coinbase is known to conduct taint analysis. If they're going to consider BTC that can be traced back to an XMR-BTC conversion to be tainted, then (1) BTC isn't truly fungible and (2) avoid Coinbase.

  14. Re:Not sure about Monero... on Former Hacking Team Members Are Now Spying on the Blockchain for Coinbase (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Undoubtedly Neutrino are only able to denonymise sloppy XMR users. If the XMR is converted using correct opsec (use Tor, crypto -> XMR at non-KYC exchange, run monerod, download entire XMR blockchain, run full node, split many transactions between many wallets offline), then output is mathematically unrelated to input. Only timing attacks remain, which can be mitigated against.

  15. Re: But not Android on Linux Users Are Unable To Manage Their Apple ID on Applecom (9to5mac.com) · · Score: 2

    Bear in mind we're talking about Apple, the company that maintains Linux's printing subsystem.

  16. Re:But not Android on Linux Users Are Unable To Manage Their Apple ID on Applecom (9to5mac.com) · · Score: 2
    Alexander Martin, the fosstodon.org person who discovered the issue writes:

    It sniffs your User-Agent.
    If it says Linux, Bad Gateway error.
    IT WORKS WITH A WINDOWS UA
    IT WORKS WITH A BSD UA
    IT WORKS WITH ... OS/2 UA

  17. Re:Apple and free don't mix well on Linux Users Are Unable To Manage Their Apple ID on Applecom (9to5mac.com) · · Score: 1

    Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.

  18. It's an 'all-new' Apple, so they won't renew the connectors, they'll just invent new ones. Proprietory, never-seen-before, custom, Apple-licensed connectors that require a 'new generation of peripherals' that conform to a new standard that lasts 24 months.

  19. Re:I did it just for fun on Bruce Perens Calls For Open Source, Security, and Data Rights In IBM Ad (youtube.com) · · Score: 2

    Let's not forget that, in addition to open software, IBM is also championing open hardware.

    Which, in a world of hardware with closed-source firmware (Intel's ME and the like) keeps the flame of an open alternative alive.

  20. Re:Reverse correlation on Reddit Users Are the Least Valuable of Any Social Network (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Hey, this is Slashdot. A literal irony is a reverse correlation!

  21. a display on screen saying 'I'm fine my owner will be right back'

    This is like schrodinger's dog, with passers-by unable to determine whether it's 'dead' or 'just fine and sleeping'.

  22. Re: What does the last sentence in the summary mea on Please Stop Using Internet Explorer, Microsoft Says (mashable.com) · · Score: 1

    To boldy go... where no browser has gone before.

  23. Re:Hydrochloric acid challenge next? on Eight People Suffer Burns After Attempting Viral 'Boiling Water Challenge' (abc13.com) · · Score: 2

    It's important to differentiate between intelligence and common sense.

    I know plenty of very intelligent people who seem to do boiling water challenge grade stupid on a fairly regular basis.

    But we live in a society that rewards 'brains on legs' type people. Provided your brain can make someone money, and you can hold your life together just enough to stay alive, society seems to consider you valuable.

    The concept of the village idiot is morphing into the village savant.

  24. Re:How about a do not send on Apple Removes Useless 'Do Not Track' Feature From Latest Beta Versions of Safari (macrumors.com) · · Score: 1

    Browser fingerprinting has evolved into an artform, and tracking companies don't need javascript, cookies, browser data, font lists or any of that stuff anymore to uniquely identify and track a browser.

    Technologies like e-tag tracking ('cookieless cookies') mean that, unless you disable both disk and memory caching, a website can identify and track you.

  25. Oh, that's already been figured out. Seth Meyers has been using the University of Columbia's technology for a few months now and broadcasting the results in the form of...

    The Tiny Voice In The Back Of Donald Trump's Head

    For example, Trump's inner voice on Don't Lose The Queen