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What is the point of "query privacy" when browsers send host addresses in plaintext (SNI) and destination IPs are still visible to the internet provider? Layering DNS over TLS (or …

It is relevant, because Facebook does not let you create new identities.

Using O_APPEND does not imply, that kernel needs to purge the pages from cache ASAP, does it? Removing pages from cache may be expensive operation by itself, so I presume, that it …

VM certainly does "call underlying host kernel operation", it just does so indirectly — the guest userspace calls fadvise(), kernel implementation of fadvise() asks the virtio disk…

Java is FOSS. Oracle used excuse, that it's current OpenJDK license (GPLv2) is incompatible with license, used by Google's runtime (Apache 2). If Google re-licensed it's Java imple…

Machine learning also has tendency to unlearn things and corrupt it's own models when left unaided.

You are making it sound like "injecting random garbage into HTTP" is some new hotness. It have been done since forever. By the way, — email still works that way. But Google and a c…

I doubt, that any government is inherently more trustworthy than any other. It just coincidentally happens, that US controls 100% of root CAs and Kazakhstan (most likely) controls …

I would love if null encryption ciphers actually worked in real life, but they don't (for the same reason why plaintext HTTP/2 does not — everyone disabled them under political pre…

So a bunch of centrally controlled monopolies agreed to realign their offerings to maximize profit and gain greater control over end-user. They also pretend, that compromising 3-mo…

Indeed. The same is also true for repositories, served via SSL. Majority of HTTPS traffic is sniffable and largely non-confidential, unless you pad every file and web-request to se…