shoeboxam

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   by shoeboxam 5y ago

   Consider Alice's census response as a row in a table of responses. You can reconstruct every attribute/column for which a sufficiently large number of summary statistics are released. Names are not a part of the statistics the Cen
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   by shoeboxam 7y ago

   It would be possible to write a learned program to simulate browsing habits. It is ironic, in a way, that you would need to track yourself, to avoid tracking.
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   by shoeboxam 7y ago

   I use Firefox personally, but develop with Chrome. I have a hard time getting stack traces from Firefox reliably. Oftentimes one of the following occurs on Firefox: There is no error, but the page won't load. There is an error, but the
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   by shoeboxam 11y ago

   I think his concern is- since the security program would need to run on the attacker's computer, the attacker may simply opt not to use it, circumvent it. That being said, I don't see why it can't be used to sanitize requests
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   by shoeboxam 11y ago

   Interstingly, you can just hit "skip survey" to load the rest of the article.
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   by shoeboxam 11y ago

   In addition, being a security researcher doesn't give you a license to put the public in any form of danger! That's why we have private disclosures.