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> Activists also use virtual private networks, which can minimize data collected about browsing, and encourage Polish women to contact them on encrypted channels like Signal. They …

I don't understand the cognitive dissonance seemingly on display by the game collector throughout the article: > He’d had a kind of philanthropic hubris as an owner and collector, …

I am not making a claim, I am laying out how the process could hypothetically occur, hence the use of "would" in my post. I'm curious, however, why did you not make a similar post …

> This is a public blockchain analytics service that has nothing to do with Coinbase's other services. Are you familiar with the concept of parallel construction? It's a tactic LEO…

Kind of like we find out weekly what happens when Facebook decides it needs to enforce US foreign policy for its worldwide users?

Yeah, I'm aware of the any number of infinite Evil China (TM) hypotheticals. Let's put the sinophobia on hold for just a second, and answer my question: what are the practical (mea…

What are the actual privacy/security issues with TikTok, concretely? Citizen Lab published a report last year - https://citizenlab.ca/2021/03/tiktok-vs-douyin-security-priv... - wh…

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> You're going really hard in the paint to defend Chinese genocide of Muslim Turkic people. Where did I do so? Please either provide a quote of me doing so, or retract your stateme…

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> Why is Beihang involved in hosting the W3C? Why is MIT? Do you not have an issue with them also getting funding from the American defense department? Or if you're concerned with …

> Government should mandate only allowing SSN for tax identification purposes. CafePress was presumably collecting SSNs precisely for tax identification purposes.

> Again, 2FA isn't an account recovery process at all; it's a reason you need account recovery. Your reading of the FTC text seems to be that you think the FTC has conflated accoun…

As per NIST 800-63B: > To maintain the integrity of the authentication factors, it is essential that it not be possible to leverage an authentication involving one factor to obtain…

> But requiring 2FA tokens is not a universal practice. It is not universal practice, but it is industry-standard, so I don't particularly understand why it is surprising that the …

What I mean is that executives value their personal livelihoods above money, though the two are often correlated. Therefore the punishment needs to strike at the core, their person…

It's all Monopoly money to corporations. If there is no fear of an actual corporal punishment, then there is no personal skin in the game, so to speak. An executive who causes a co…

> But the simpler fix here is just to require password reset emails, not to mandate multi-factor authentication. Password resets lead to iterative passwords, which lead to password…

Bullshit like this will continue happening en masse until there are mandatory prison sentences for C-suite executives for negligence and malice like this.

What does "inviting" mean? It sounds like it means "Facebook wants free labor instead of paying for formal and expensive security audits".

Not my list, but I use https://gist.github.com/0XDE57/fbd302cef7693e62c769#privacy-...

> Firefox security patches are applied to prevent vulnerabilities Sure, but at what rate? If Mozilla releases a critical patch today, and the core maintainer responsible for build …