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Comment #47720757
This is different than push data, which already does not contain any content or metadata in Signal. This is about local OS caches, whereas for push notifications Signal only sends …
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Comment #47314608
I really want a small SBC with USB-C DP Alt mode that I can stuff into a ~60%ish mechanical keyboard-sized case to make into a headless laptop thing so I can justify buying some di…
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Comment #47280189
Parent comment was talking about relay nodes, not exit nodes. The risk of running a relay node is essentially zero in a free country.
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Comment #47280172
I think the hosts that Tor recommends against because there are already so many nodes hosted on them like OVH and Hetzner are perfectly happy with their (quite good) reputations.
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Comment #47093307
That’s almost what we already have with the CVE system, just without the legal protections. You report the vulnerability to the NSA, let them have their fun with it, then a fix is …
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Comment #46994209
Your opinion is that Apple should have just handed over Jamal Khashoggi‘s information to the Saudi Arabian agents who were trying to kill him, because then Saudi Arabia wouldn’t ha…
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Comment #46970922
OpenSSH has been moving quite quickly in the direction of multiple, privilege separated processes, each also heavily sandboxed with pledge and unveil
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Comment #46650784
As of 2025 OpenBSD has support for AMD SEV and SEV-ES, with support for SEV-SNP work-in-progress, so with the right hardware yes it's able to isolate itself sufficiently https://ww…
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Comment #46111564
> very deep interests in things i was completely unaware that they existed ... say goodbye to the cognitive ability of a large chunk of future generations I would think very deep i…
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Comment #45911290
Is this comment AI written?
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Comment #45673323
Why won't these sites simply block this browser?
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Comment #45582367
What's the story behind adsbexchange selling out?
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Comment #45227508
No, historically the vast majority of communication was not recorded, and so a warrant could not be used to access the communication. The fact of the modern world is that for the f…
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Comment #44673556
> They forgot about training and practice. Try it with airplanes. "The results surprised us. Given Boeing 777 they thought they will get from London to New York in 7 hours, but the…
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Comment #44449880
I would expect that data to be mostly noise though, after all, there is pretty strong evidence towards some soft form of "set point" level of happiness: https://en.wikipedia.org/wi…
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Comment #44373327
All of them are real? You have a 100% rate of reports closed as valid?
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Comment #44368868
Related: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/05/open-source-project-...
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Comment #44055750
Except for the fact that the security of Session is drastically worse than Signal. https://soatok.blog/2025/01/14/dont-use-session-signal-fork/ https://soatok.blog/2025/01/20/sessi…
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Comment #43851980
> the EU has not yet stomped them into mulch hard enough yet I see This is literally the result of EU "stomping"
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Comment #43605858
And yet I don't see Apple on the list of contributors of the OpenBSD Foundation ( https://www.openbsdfoundation.org/contributors.html ), shame.
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Comment #43500957
The Isosceles blog post[0] on the initial webp exploit, linked by the article, says: > Google's OSS-Fuzz project has fuzzed hundreds of open source libraries for many years now, in…
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Comment #43473350
An actual strongly encrypted messenger app like Signal is not really like a FBI fake-encrypted honeypot app like Anom
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Comment #43391281
No, "I am XYZ hedge fund and I want to buy stock ABC" is not material non-public information to XYZ hedge fund. If it was, any buying or selling of stocks would always be illegal, …