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This is good and clever work, and I applaud the author for looking at a boring feature and seeing in it a potential attack vector that probably wouldn't have occurred to most peopl…

A very similar thing happened when the folks at flathub tried to package MultiMC. Unfortunately the author threatened to sue for trademark infringement and they backed down. https:…

Are those from Infineon->Intel->Apple modem lineage or is that a different team?

Wait, this just looks like cryptographically signing pictures. What's so scary about that? You can do it today from your terminal if you feel like it. I guess I agree that the 'tru…

If it's a simple proxy tunneling HTTPS traffic to Google, Apple probably doesn't know anything about the content of the queries, and Google doesn't know who sent them. If each kept…

AFAIK the fundraising done by actual elected officials is not highly automated, but tools for phone banking, canvassing, and that sort of organizing are definitely partisan (see fo…

False. See 828 F.3d 1068 at 1077 (9th Cir. 2016): >From those cases, we distill two general rules in analyzing authorization under the CFAA. ... Second, a violation of the terms of…

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~850 million US-based passenger * flights per year ~15 minutes in TSA waiting per passenger per flight ~80 years in a life 850,000,000 passengers per year * 15 minutes = 12,750,000…

Not necessarily. Obviously this argument requires a corporate right to First Amendment protections. But that doesn't imply that corporations (or anyone) should be able to make unli…

A residential area in Sunnyvale seems like an inopportune place to put a data center.

The current problem in Flint was caused by the Flint River being more corrosive than Lake Huron, not by lead contamination at the water source. The reason lead testing is done in h…