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Re: Edge sends images you view online to Microsoft

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Post by kevincox »

dhx wrote: post #407
Terr_ wrote: post #362

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Even if the payload is inaccessible, consider the implications of leaking an URL like: medical-intranet.example.com/uploads/secure_link/adc83b19e793491b1c6ea0fd8b46cd9f32e592fc/john_doe_1987-04-23_chlamydia_1.jpg

And what prevents a distributed denial of service attack or fuzzing using Microsoft's infrastructure? If you were to trick many users into visiting a site with 1000 variants of: or

This is really no different than having the client do the request without the Microsoft proxy.

Re: Edge sends images you view online to Microsoft

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Post by kayxspre »

benatkin wrote: post #69
reaperducer wrote: post #23

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Which one is the browser that i can pay for and keep my privacy, then? Safari?

Opera GX

But Opera has been sold to Chinese companies, so those who are concerned about surveillance may not be comfortable with it. Opera's founder later created Vivaldi, which I have used ever since

Re: Edge sends images you view online to Microsoft

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Post by npteljes »

BasedAnon wrote: post #93

When are people going to grow a backbone and switch to Linux? It's kind of hard to feel sorry for tech-literate Windows users

The same day all evangelists are going to be nice. So, never. As long as businesses continue to exploit human weaknesses legally, they'll continue to do so, because it either brings in profit, and/or helps them stay competitive. And the users are going to be human: vulnerable, and also having priorities other than the latest shenanigan of a mega-corp.

Re: Edge sends images you view online to Microsoft

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Post by npteljes »

7373737373 wrote: post #7

So how can we remove this and other Microsoft spyware from our systems?

If you need Windows, like I do for multiplayer games' anticheat, Windows LTSC is an option. It has much less bloat (no Microsoft Store, Camera, Cortana, OneNote, GameBar, ...), but you still get the Windows platform.

But of course, you are either in or out, and unless you're completely out, you're in. As long as there's MS stuff on the PC and it's connected to the internet, some bullshit will surely seep in.

Re: Edge sends images you view online to Microsoft

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Post by hutzlibu »

midasuni wrote: post #441
hutzlibu wrote: post #433

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"People really don't change defaults..." Because they are scared of breaking things. Also, most people actually do change defaults: style and theme.

they don’t https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2013/dec/01/default-s... https://www.propublica.org/article/set-it-and-forget-it-how-...

Your links talk only about technical standards. But have you ever looked at a normal persons phone/desktop?

They are usually quite colorful and this is not the standard.

Re: Edge sends images you view online to Microsoft

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Post by Rediscover »

Dalewyn wrote: post #325
KennyBlanken wrote: post #310

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HIPAA requires "reasonable" measures. Hilariously, you can't chuck a drive full of plain text PII into a dumpster in the back of your building... ...unless there's a fence around it. A lot of the nonsense around shredding hard drives is just the drive industry convincing people that they need to destroy perfectly good devices. Unless you're facing state-level actors a simple zero-out or pipe from /dev/random will suf…

>A lot of the nonsense around shredding hard drives is just the drive industry convincing people that they need to destroy perfectly good devices. Unless you're willing to prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that each and every such hard drive does not in any shape or form contain sensitive information and pay hefty fines and jail time when you inevitably fail, the only nonsense here is you. It has been proven time and…

Trivia: At the old AT&T (not at&t, the (mostly) mobile/cell company), it was standard to degausse the drive then drill through the middle of the radius and park a bolt there.

Bonus points if You had a spot welder to secure a nut to the bolt.

Fun times.

Re: Edge sends images you view online to Microsoft

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Post by lesuorac »

russdill wrote: post #358
lesuorac wrote: post #71

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> e.g. inventing a cleanly readable but hallucinated license plate number on a car, or financial figure, where the original is blurry? You can use enhanced images in trials. In general, Courts rely on expert witnesses so if you can get one that says X method is applicable and used in that field then it's a go. It then becomes the other side's job to find an expert witness to say X actually has these flaws and is untr…

Super resolution algorithms are not image enhancement.

> [1]: Super-resolution imaging (SR) is a class of techniques that enhance (increase) the resolution of an imaging system.

It looks pretty clear to me that a Super Resolution Algorithm enhances images (aka Image Enhancement).

Although I think you missed the point of my post. As long as you can get an expert witness to certify the accurate you can use a technique in court.

Somebody else [2] linked the Rittenhouse case as an example as to this being disallowed but that's not what the Rittenhouse case shows. The Prosecution wanted to use pinch-to-zoom; the defense challenged that zooming wouldn't be an accurate representative; the Judge asked the Prosecution if/how they knew that zooming would be an accurate representation; the Prosecution admitted they had no idea how pinch-to-zoom works; the Judge (very reasonable) didn't allow an unknown method to be used in court. The lack of an expert witness to explain how Zooming wouldn't've changed the image was the problem.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super-resolution_imaging

[2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36297039

Re: Edge sends images you view online to Microsoft

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Post by ycombobreaker »

Cloudef wrote: post #353
ProfessorLayton wrote: post #180

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Exactly. Nintendo spent many years developing a sequel to Breath of the Wild, when they certainly could've gone for a cheap cash grab, and instead released an extremely high quality followup to a beloved game. Not only that, but they delayed release for a year to fix bugs and polish TotK [1]. They deliberately missed the holiday '22 window for this! No one else seems to care about their games as much as Nintendo in t…

Isnt ToTK just a BOTW DLC?

The use of "just" here is classic underestimation of complexity or investment required. Technologists everywhere face this negative language from customers and other laypeople, and I expect many readers understand from first hand experience how insulting it feels. Please don't "share" that negativity with other creative arts.

Re: Edge sends images you view online to Microsoft

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Post by jimmywatersabc »

TLDR: F MS.

I only use a Microsoft PC for gaming.

I use MacOS generally, because I prefer its UX & general software & hardware quality.

I use Linux Desktop if I choose not to use MacOS for some reason.

I would never want to use Microsoft for anything. I would not use it at all, if it weren't that its the primary OS for most PC games.

...And... just found out I can run Squad on Linux via steam. Ill have to start looking into gaming on Linux.

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