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by 13 11y ago
Websites offering self hosted, static advertising isn't so much of a problem as random bits of javascript and tracking cookies loaded from god knows where every time you load a page. Harder to block, the advertiser needs to pass their
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by 13 11y ago
You should fix that error message too, it's pretty awful.
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by 13 11y ago
Probably a lot of sources, depends how well connected you are. The biggest one is just routing information and rDNS hosts which give away a lot of the information required anyway. If you were really thrifty you would make agreements with se
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by 13 11y ago
A fun edge case is that .au domains are not registrable by any entity, except for the ones that exist just because. http://csiro.au/
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by 13 11y ago
That's been fairly clear from the start. Almost anything actually useful needs an oracle, and then you get back to the problem of wait, didn't Bitcoin already solve this problem half a decade ago? Once you get past the marketing y
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by 13 11y ago
> DEFINITELY NOT FINANCIAL ADVICE: Personally, I think $2.80/0.01 XBT is low and I would not be in a rush to sell at this price. But, I do understand if you're bearish and you wanted to dump in to the bulls ahead of everyone el
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by 13 11y ago
Money buys a lot of commits. Give me a few million dollars and we'll get together a group of people that will build an entire computer from discrete transistors. People involved and amount of work doesn't make something worthwhile
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by 13 11y ago
I think you put far too much trust in one of thousands of clone VPN services. There's no reputation to taint, there's stock standard scripts running on commodity VPS boxes they rented from somewhere else. I would be shocked if at
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by 13 11y ago
Just giving the benefit of the doubt here, a lot of the time it's unclear if your disclosure even made it to the right people in a company or not. No response is the norm for security disclosures, as is claims of "we didn't g
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by 13 11y ago
Why do you trust Amazon AWS and this company more than your own connection?
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by 13 11y ago
Why is their target 8 seconds to load the page? That's a ridiculously long time.
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by 13 11y ago
That's rich, coming from The Verge. 245 objects requested, 48 JavaScript files loaded, 9.8MB.
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by 13 11y ago
Why would it be corrupted? Just because it contains a malicious payload doesn't mean it has to be unviewable normally. Could even just tack onto all outgoing MMS by default and never raise anybodies suspicions.
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by 13 11y ago
If malware has root access it can alter everything on the phone without you ever seeing it. Any information falsified, all detection tools subverted.
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by 13 11y ago
Probably has engineering challenges past what you would normally face, which thankfully makes a 1B device botnet a little unrealistic. I can't imagine how you'd even begin to control such a thing, just a sequential numerical list
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by 13 11y ago
It's likely too late for panic, everyone is probably owned already. It has the best infection vector ever, unauthenticated, unsolicited messaging with an easily discoverable addressing method. What more could a worm want?
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by 13 11y ago
Why target people specifically? A phone has all the tools necessary to infect every other peer they can reach. Almost instant billion device botnet, each with a new list of targets to infect in the contacts book. It'll be interesting i
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by 13 11y ago
Slightly exaggerated, but that sort of thing absolutely happens.
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by 13 11y ago
Web 3.0 is pretty much that. Load 10MB of JavaScript libraries sequentially, then every element on the page needs a new loader, 30 HTTP requests, and a web socket.
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by 13 11y ago
You don't remember Microsoft Surface, the coffee table touch computer?
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by 13 11y ago
On a statistical side almost anything else is likely to kill you. There's probably more people killed each year by ladders than some perceived external threat, and I don't see a war on ladders happening anywhere.
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by 13 11y ago
To me that sounds like no trust at all.
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by 13 11y ago
I don't understand anybody using that as justification. Why is that necessary? We live in a pretty miserable world if your only answer is "because everyone else is doing it".
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by 13 11y ago
If Mr Doob is impressed, drop everything and go look at it.
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by 13 11y ago
.xyz is a utterly ludicrous TLD.
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by 13 11y ago
I can replicate on a 2014 Retina MacBook and a 2012 MacBook Pro. Lots of people disable the transparency, not just for accessibility. I'm not a fan of burning up my whole battery doing Gaussian blurs.
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by 13 11y ago
Disable UI transparency, the volume change overlay still has black corners. http://i.imgur.com/pRNO7Oc.png It doesn't for iTunes, just for volume and screen brightness changes.
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by 13 11y ago
Why on earth does that need canonical ordering.
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by 13 11y ago
What is this blind obsession with "THIS NEEDS A BLOCKCHAIN!!!!!!!"? There's nothing, absolutely nothing, in a system of storing playlists which needs decentralized canonical ordering. A blockchain is literally one of the most
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by 13 11y ago
Then why the hell are you advertising it as "secure"? There's utterly nothing secure about it.

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