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mimi89999

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    Comment #44557945

    Who is responsible for preventing a child from running into a busy road and being hit by a car? And why, on the internet, does that responsibility seem to fall on everyone else?

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    Comment #41596918

    Shouldn’t Windows just show a huge warning explaining the implications of such actions when a user who has never used the Windows Run function nor PowerShell suddenly attempts to r…

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    Comment #38672000

    Is it similar to https://friendlycaptcha.com/ ?

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    Comment #38385029

    I wonder how safe libfprint drivers are

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    Comment #33188556

    Yes, WebAuthn is an open standard, but it seems that Passkeys can only be synced using Google password manager and I don't see any API that would allow the user to use a different …

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    Comment #33188532

    It's a known issue with Android. You need to install Play Services beta. It will work flawlessly.

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    Comment #33182206

    Do you know if it's possible to see a list of stored passkeys in Android? I installed the Play Service beta, managed to create a passkey and sign in, but can't see the list of cred…

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    Comment #32795108

    I think that once users realize how difficult it is to transfer passkeys between their PC and mobile device, they will just ababdon them. The only risk I see is that passkeys will …

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    Comment #32164376

    DNS has known privacy issues, but this solution just (conviniently for them) shifts trust and data from the network operator to Google DNS or another central provider

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    Comment #27949136

    Well, the problem is that many desktop workflows require data passing through many apps. How would you do that on the iOS model?

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    Comment #27470509

    That's what Firefox is doing

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    Comment #27275108

    That would have to happen on the device before encryption or after decryption.

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    Comment #27096858

    Doesn't HTTPS Everywhere solve this problem?

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    Comment #27095697

    Malicious Tor exits should not be an issue. Tor is for anonimity and protects your identity. Enforce HTTPS to protect against MITM.

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    Comment #27095687

    Why is this an issue? Most websites support HTTPS. It should be required and impossible to disable. Other malicious actors could also be running such attacks even at a much smaller…

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    Comment #25972837

    The pattern is that their reviewers are really bad and the appeal process is almost nonexistent. Improving the quality would probably be a huge cost and they have no real reason to…

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    Comment #25327836

    The point is that if browsers block the cert it will make the MITM impossible without them releasing thieir own browser. It will be much more clear for normal uaers that the custom…

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    Comment #25177602

    They have a donnate page on their website.

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    Comment #25155422

    I also did not notice it. Will need to check OONI Probe.

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    Comment #24875257

    Maybe you would prefer https://github.com/rbrito/pkg-youtube-dl ?

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    Comment #24864278

    Some SW can simply be run in a VM and you can do anything you want on the host computer and activate and deactivate passed devices.

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    Comment #24667623

    Was it unreadable? Sometime ago everybody believed that after the IPv4 exhaustion everybody will quickly switch to IPv6. It was quite reasonable to sell them while they were still …

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    Comment #24326522

    It would give reputable battery producers with all kind of certificates a thing and not buying dubious compatible batteries from Amazon/EBay/Ali/whatever a thing. It would also mak…

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    Comment #24302002

    Vehicle speed can be easily measured and is a fact and an offense. Here there were conflicting informations about the other person's age and the offendents could have believed that…