sydli

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Encrypted DNS could help close the biggest privacy gap on the Internet(eff.org)
2 points by sydli 7y ago|0 comments
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by sydli 7y ago
even with e2e email like pgp or s/mime, a lot of email metadata (even subject lines, commonly) gets leaked onto the wire. improving transport security prevents that.
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by sydli 8y ago
It's an anti-separatist crackdown that can be compared to China's similar crackdown on Tibet. In fact, the top official (Chen QuanGuo) who ran and experimented with surveillance technology and forced assimilation in Tibet was tran
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by sydli 8y ago
Reminds me of this research from Princeton, on the exfiltration of personal data via equivalent session-replay services for web: https://freedom-to-tinker.com/2017/11/15/no-boundaries-exfil...
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by sydli 8y ago
From one party's perspective, it may just look like the other party does not support TLS. Without another point of reference, MTAs can't tell the difference between a lack of TLS support and a downgrade attack. Alternatively, the
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by sydli 8y ago
In the majority of cases, TLS for SMTP (delivery between MTAs) is still trivially downgradeable. So they could presumably downgrade and read SMTP traffic that's going between MTAs in Norway and MTAs outside Norway.
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by sydli 8y ago
I saw that you also wrote about how these cars phone home real-time analytics data to the manufacturers and Chinese government: https://qz.com/1490376/chinas-electric-cars-are-government-s... Has there been any word wh
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by sydli 8y ago
> Yes, the exact guidelines are going to be vague, that’s a good thing. It might just show they understand that it should be okay to allow art and breastfeeding and other forms of nudity that aren’t explicitly pornographic. "Vaguene
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by sydli 8y ago
My father grew up in a neighboring town to Liqian, in Gansu. This is essentially an urban myth of sorts that several locals still believe, though as the article itself points out, it's been proven false a decade ago. In recent years th
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by sydli 8y ago
That would be fine, too, and reflects in part what MTA-STS is trying to do. A point that may be obvious, but I would like to make explicit, is that unlike on web, end-users have no good way to express whether they prefer security over deliv
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by sydli 9y ago
This is the model for internet/Facebook access in several sub-saharan African countries and others: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_Basics#Participants They've partnered up with large telecom operators in
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by sydli 9y ago
A point that is brought up occasionally, but probably not enough: Deleting Facebook really isn't possible for a nontrivial percentage of the world population, since Facebook is the internet in some places. Their monopoly over interne
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by sydli 9y ago
> Care to link a few? From Friday, in which Turkey takes advantage of HTTP downloads to install spyware on YPG computers: https://citizenlab.ca/2018/03/bad-traffic-sandvines-packetlo... From a couple months ago