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    Comment #22363852

    Yeah, one of the last companies I worked for (pretty well known one in SV) enabled SSH on all Macs, and they used a default password...

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    Comment #21760546

    This is cool! What about availability on phones/tablets? Can Elektron apps be easily ported?

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    Comment #21178179

    Yeah, recently Project 0 did a few odd things... first the dramatic iPhone stunt, then more of silence post about Android kernel 0 day still today actively used to exploit Pixel ph…

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    Comment #20874931

    Exactly, welcome back the good old Internet Explorer days!

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    Comment #20641822

    Yeah, last 20 years were rapid growth. Places like Pudong didn't really exist just 20 years ago... hard to believe now.

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    Comment #19999202

    At least we know that Google doesn't get it right either.

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    Comment #19442288

    Yeah, that's not unusual.

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    Comment #19006964

    Isn't that exactly what A/B testing is? I'd say lack of consent is the unethical part of it.

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    Comment #19005379

    Hopefully the EU sues them - this is unacceptable. Facebook should have never been allowed to buy out its core competition.

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    Comment #19005375

    I uninstalled all Facebook appps but WhatsApp so far - but with recent happenings and announcements around WhatsApp, it needs to go too. Its a bummer, since i always liked it a lot…

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    Comment #18955179

    also, did you read the article? thats even addressed

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    Comment #18955176

    did you read the article? thats even addressed

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    Comment #18955170

    not stupid, just good critical thinking. most people are too naive when using facebook as the past shows.

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    Comment #18955160

    Its interesting that they can just get away with this so easily and make it the consumers problem. im also wondering how often consumers dont know nor realize they bought something…

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    Comment #18870909

    Wasn't DocumentDB the old name of Azure Cosmos DB? just marketing wise this seems like a bad choice for a name.

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    Comment #18842961

    Neat idea. That's why u2fa is so important!

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    Comment #18784021

    Saw this. Also was discussed at 35C3: https://c3lt.de/35c3/talk/CK3DWH/

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    Comment #18734218

    Correct, it doesn't. If you grab that cookie and then pass the cookie from somewhere else it will work. Section 7.2.3 talks about cookie theft.

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    Comment #18523296

    Microsoft seems to struggle the least at the moment amongst the tech giants.

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    Comment #18304547

    Imagine that interview... Google Guy: can you please take off your shirt? Candidate: aeh... why? Google Guy: Oh, I just want to give you a backrub. Candidate: thats a bit strange..…

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    Comment #18304508

    Amazing how this is a common and recurring pattern at Google without much consquences - some of these folks had repeated violations!

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    Comment #18267060

    I had the same thought - he seems to have indulged in the data quite a bit to come up with such a thourough analysis.

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    Comment #18079208

    Wow, time flies. I still remember installing version 6.0 like 20 years ago or so for the first time. The client tools, like Enterprise Manager, were much better then, faster, more …