Ansil849

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The Other Players Who Helped Almost Make the Biggest Backdoor Hack(theintercept.com)
2 points by Ansil849 2y ago|1 comments
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'Wild West' of neuroscience drives new laws on brain privacy(context.news)
1 points by Ansil849 2y ago|0 comments
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Privacy or safety? U.S. brings 'surveillance city to the suburbs'(context.news)
8 points by Ansil849 3y ago|1 comments
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by Ansil849 4y ago
This was mentioned in the article from yesterday, https://theintercept.com/2023/02/14/whistleblower-image-crop...
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Google Lets Anyone See Original Uncropped Images – Proof of Concept(docs.google.com)
3 points by Ansil849 4y ago|1 comments
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by Ansil849 4y ago
> It might stun you to learn that the US is part of the west and isn't blocking RT. Golly gee, you sure got me there on that! Let's rephrase to "parts of the West", what impact does that have on the argument that Wes
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by Ansil849 4y ago
> I'm in the US That's great. The block is in the EU. Which is in...the West.
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by Ansil849 4y ago
Sure: RT- Russia Today English RT- Russia Today UK RT - Russia Today Germany RT - Russia Today France RT- Russia Today Spanish Sputnik’ Source: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/PDF/?uri=OJ:L
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by Ansil849 4y ago
I'm so tired of "whataboutism" being used to as some attempt to shut down an argument. It is perfectly valid to point out hypocritical arguments. And it might stun you to know that the West isn't solely composed of the U
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by Ansil849 4y ago
> The great firewall of China prevents most of their citizens from seeing news that isn’t the party line Totally not like how access to Russian news outlets has been blocked by parts of the West.
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by Ansil849 4y ago
You should not. But if it makes you feel any better, Americans do the same thing by allowing Chinese tech like Zoom and TikTok operate in their country.
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by Ansil849 4y ago
Lockdown is literally presented by Apple as being for people targeted by APTs like those developed by NSO Group, therefore I expect it to prevent attack vectors used by these APTs, like exploitation of the Developer program to facilitate si
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by Ansil849 4y ago
> "What constitutes an enterprise that should be allowed to have 'enterprise apps'" Apple has a list of requirements - https://developer.apple.com/programs/enterprise/ - for example, a compa
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by Ansil849 4y ago
> Running an enterprise app still is not a trivial single tap on iOS. Yes, but still successful, as Hermit demonstrated. So my question is whether Lockdown mode would have prevented APTs like Hermit which it claims to prevent against. If
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by Ansil849 4y ago
> High-level targets (for whom this mode is specifically advertised) are likely aware of the dangers of installing apps. I firstly don't believe this is true at all, plenty of high-level targets are not tech savvy; but more to the p
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by Ansil849 4y ago
> So this would have prevented Hermit as you'd need to install a new configuration profile to allow sideloading of applications from that source. Are you sure that's true? I haven't seen a Hermit sample firsthand, but from
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by Ansil849 4y ago
It's not clear to me if Lockdown Mode would have prevented Hermit, the latest mobile APT which targeted iOS via sideloading by enrolling in the Apple Developer Enterprise Program. The list of lockdown features don't seem to explic
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by Ansil849 4y ago
Wanted to say thank you everybody for your nuanced responses, this has helped me understand the issue better.
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by Ansil849 4y ago
> You can't take back someone's education Sure you could, you could rescind someone's diploma so that they no longer have the degree.
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by Ansil849 4y ago
> How failure to generate income on their degrees is a lender's problem? Clearly,there is an issue with inflated costs of getting a degree and finding a job with a low-demand degree, but why try solving it at the lender's expen
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by Ansil849 4y ago
An overworked population is precisely the one that needs thought-provoking cinema.
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by Ansil849 4y ago
The only winning move is not to play.
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by Ansil849 4y ago
Yes, this is by design: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1369357 Privacy is at odds with usability, sometimes.
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by Ansil849 4y ago
> In practice, more details would be useful. More details (the lists of whitelisted fonts per OS) are here: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1336208
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by Ansil849 4y ago
You can create a separate Firefox profile to effectively use as your PDF reader application.
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by Ansil849 4y ago
To lessen font enumeration attacks in Firefox, you can go to about:config and make sure privacy.resistFingerprinting is set to True .
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by Ansil849 4y ago
> If 1000 big youtubers put $100/month toward an association or union of some kind, they could afford a $100,000/month legal team to combat this. Millionaire youtubers can already afford high-priced lawyers if they want to, I&#
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by Ansil849 4y ago
> For what it's worth, the work of an few engineers implementing the business decisions of their employer does not make those people inherently evil I think when people do unethical actions, it makes the person doing the unethical a
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by Ansil849 4y ago
Comparing American football and hockey and other brutal sports to a high five is what dilutes the meaning of the word. These are sports where men aggressively assault each other. They are institutionalized violence.
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by Ansil849 4y ago
> The answer to this is sports. War is competition through violence. Absolutely not. Sports is competition through violence, as well. Watch a game of American football, or ice hockey, or basketball for that matter and be able to say othe

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