andrerm

6 ms·

1.
by andrerm 7y ago
> which is deplorable. But There is always a but
2.
by andrerm 7y ago
> “They [Google contractor] said to target homeless people because they’re the least likely to say anything to the media,” the ex-staffer said. “The homeless people didn’t know what was going on at all.”
3.
by andrerm 7y ago
> When you turn on Incognito mode in Maps, your Maps activity on that device [...] won’t be saved to your Google Account and won’t be used to personalize your Maps experience. This doesn't state that it won't be used to profile
4.
by andrerm 7y ago
So if police or someone can get your phone they can just point the phone to your face and get access to all info ?
5.
Empire Files: NSA Whistleblower: Government Collecting Everything You Do(mediaroots.org)
19 points by andrerm 7y ago|2 comments
6.
by andrerm 7y ago
After this and this [1] I must say I'm in favor of DoH. I know for sure every major application/game on every device/platform will also hijack DNS queries with their own DoH client and redirect them to their own DNS resolver.
7.
by andrerm 7y ago
SIM Swap [1] is not covered by this. SIM Swap is a social engineering attack powered by PII leaking from everywhere and for long time. Today, SIM Swap attackers don't even need to use phishing or buy PII from ilegal sources. After so
8.
by andrerm 7y ago
ISPs will quickly move from domain names tracking to IPs tracking. How many times pornhub changes their IP? Never?
9.
by andrerm 7y ago
> Smartphone ads at least give the perception of being personal. Ads maybe but phones are personal as much as your contacts list and metadata leaks. > I'd like to think that alternatives to advertising finance are on the horizon,
10.
by andrerm 7y ago
Microsoft just came late to the behavioral profiling party
11.
by andrerm 7y ago
> In some cases, your ability to access or control your personal data will be limited, as required or permitted by applicable law. How you can access or control your personal data will also depend on which products you use. > Not all
12.
by andrerm 7y ago
Be aware of Australian's Assistance and Access Bill 2018.
13.
by andrerm 7y ago
How does Google rank pages with and without nosnippet?
14.
by andrerm 7y ago
Is this treaty public? Where is it?
15.
by andrerm 7y ago
Debian's OpenSSL fiasco. For the record, I use, like and support Debian, OSS and free software but we must not spread myths
16.
by andrerm 7y ago
There are really smart and empowered people just waiting for really dumb but empowered people to make the move that opens the path to constant mass surveillance.
17.
by andrerm 7y ago
For the same reason "user consent" is inaccurate when used as an argument by big tech: big tech can't fully inform people because they have a conflict of interest. Moat of the time, it's not unethical or something, it&#x
18.
by andrerm 7y ago
This fix brings a problem that now you're paying to be tracked and profiled. It may not be a problem for everyone but...
19.
Ask HN: DoH Cookies?
1 points by andrerm 7y ago|0 comments
20.
by andrerm 7y ago
Although I don't think Firefox is the Privacy by Default role model, I would like to see people talking more about Privacy by Default. Developers usualy argue that opt-out is necessary because otherwise people would not opt-in. But IMO
21.
Firefox calls BS on Google's full-page privacy ads in the Washington Post(mashable.com)
9 points by andrerm 7y ago|1 comments
22.
by andrerm 7y ago
Because advertisers would lose tracking people which would make very hard to measure ad effectiveness. Also, ad tech co would lose tracking which would make it harder to profile peoples behavior on line.
23.
by andrerm 7y ago
The day a journalist loses free speech is the day a reader loses it too. So the value is the same for both.
24.
by andrerm 7y ago
Great work. Without uBO, Forbes loads 151 cookies.
25.
by andrerm 7y ago
What makes it not legit? It's not clear at all.
26.
by andrerm 7y ago
That's not what they said. For the record, they said: > Identification of well known legitimate bots; > Hand written rules for simple bots that, however simple, get used day in, day out; > Our Bot Activity Detector model that
27.
by andrerm 7y ago
This is Claudfare saying that now that they arbitrated X and everybody said "OK" they are moving from infrastructure into infra and arbitration. My question is, what if you are starting an alternative search engine or something le
28.
by andrerm 7y ago
Source: https://www.blog.google/products/assistant/doing-more-protec...
29.
by andrerm 7y ago
> So do I understand it correctly? The solution to SSH remote login is to not have it? > With systemd-homed access to the home directory is simply impossible unless the luks keyphrase (aka "user password") is specified (i.e.
30.
by andrerm 7y ago
Great work. Thank you. If I may, don't show bad scored results in the first page. Bad advertising is still advertising, and we all assume they are all bad anyway. I understand the surprise people have a first but the next step is findi

More ›