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Awful. Who are the suits that are sabotaging Mozilla's core mission? Don't they understand that Mozillas Unique Selling Point is trust? Why the hell are they fumbling the ball?

This is a great concept. Getting rid of settings, add-ons and plugins for people that "just want their browser to work" is a good thing, especially when this is paired with good pr…

For anyone looking into free DynDNS alternatives: I have tested several of the established alternatives without success. I then looked into some of the newcomers and ended up choos…

To cite the wiki: "sandboxing the content processes is a separate project from Electrolysis". So Electrolysis lays the foundation for sandboxing.

I'm surprised nobody has mentioned SQRL for truly anonymous identification and authentication yet https://www.grc.com/sqrl/sqrl.htm

I'm surprised they went live with this without an expiration date on their permanent redirects. Now there's no way back, even if anything breaks. Looks like an unintentional Big Ba…

> Whitelisting is free for all small and medium-sized websites and blogs. However, managing this list requires significant effort on our side and this task cannot be completely tak…

Agreed. There was also AdBlock Lite, but they now recommend ABE too https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/adblock_lite/

Here's a sample nginx config that would prefer PFS over other key exchanges if the client supports it and is not vulnerable to the BEAST attack: ssl_ciphers EECDH+AES:EDH+AES:-SHA1…

> Gmail messages must only be captured when they leave the Google network. They are the only provider to support server-to-server TLS We should start lobbying for broader support f…

It sounds a bit as if you were worried your CA could hand out your key to the NSA. That's not how SSL works. CAs only certify the validity of your public key. Your private key neve…

Alternatives: Chrome: http://getadblock.com/ Firefox: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/adblock-edge/ Safari: https://safariadblock.com/

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I don't think they will be able to hold up to their promise to provide "a comprehensive analysis of (...) potential costs, timeframe, and technical challenges". A rate of $100 per …

It's interesting to see major players beginning to compete on the level of privacy they offer to their users. "Personal information" has become one of the currencies on the web by …

iCab Mobile had to remove the YouTube download function with the latest update: Apple rejected the update. The reason was not the bugfix, they rejected the App because of a feature…

It's just a matter of time until Apple kills this app. Not even web browsers are allowed to save downloaded YouTube videos for offline use ( http://www.icab.de/blog/2013/01/26/app-…