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URL paths over https wouldn't be transparent to the ISP though, would they?
They would not - GP was probably bringing up something not directly relevant, but still related. (they should have clarified though)
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I'm tired of the framing in the media these days. "Mythos will end the world!!" "How?" "By finding a bunch of wide open security holes that have existed for years." Oookay. Is this a Mythos problem? Or a lazy/greedy/uncaring people problem?
It’s systematic “6-12 mo to shaky profitability + ability to quickly iterate” is a business that has a good chance of surviving while “However long it takes to be fully secure” is a business that is not only rigid but needs massive up-front capital to get there and even then there’s no guarantee that the market fit is right And after that is something we could call the “Pareto spiral”: if a company find market fit an…
Seems given that the new security equilibrium baseline will settle much higher.
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I’d be more surprised if they weren’t capturing this information. Especially if you have autocomplete-while-searching type of features on.
Why don’t they also capture information you enter into forms on Chrome? They control the entire browser surface, technically they can know everything, even TLS and E2E encrypted data, that they silently phone home… If you think this is silly, consider that Microsoft Recall had been observing everything on people’s entire SCREENS and phoning home much of it. That is how a guy was caught recently: https://x.com/t3chfal…
Especially in managed environments where it’s someone’s job to keep systems autonomously updated…
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I'll take a wild guess and assume they are of a German or Polish language background. Wait 'til you encounter a French person who accidentally uses guillemets if you want one even «weirder».
Or the Nordics ”like this” or the UK ‘like this’ or Japan 「like this」. Basically every country has their own standard: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quotation_mark#Summary_table
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It’s systematic “6-12 mo to shaky profitability + ability to quickly iterate” is a business that has a good chance of surviving while “However long it takes to be fully secure” is a business that is not only rigid but needs massive up-front capital to get there and even then there’s no guarantee that the market fit is right And after that is something we could call the “Pareto spiral”: if a company find market fit an…
Surely there's a competitive dynamic where if you really want to take down your competition you point your weaponized agent at their stuff and find some holes. Seems given that the new security equilibrium baseline will settle much higher.
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On the one hand, news coverage is overblown. But scale and accessibility are absolutely a new class of problem. In the 1960s you could pay thousands of people to watch hundreds of cameras and listen to hundreds of phone lines to monitor people, but the cost was so enormous that unless you were in East Germany or Moscow it wasn't a realistic threat model. Now with computers we can cheaply have thousands of cameras wit…
Storage is less cheap right now I've often shared my prediction that future historians will study us all and that every living human will be the subject of someone's PhD thesis. I'm updating that prediction to be that those future someone's will be silicon based.
Compared to "pay humans to watch hours of footage and take notes", $700 for a 16TB hard drive that will hold months of video footage is an absolute steal.
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It’s absolutely true. It is a documented fact. It was discovered and entered into public record during the DOJ antitrust investigation into Google Chrome. They call the signal „popularity“ and it is a successor of the Google Toolbar signal. https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/department-justice-wins-signi...
> „popularity“ Why are you using weird quotes?
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Holy crap I hope that's not true. I've also had unguessable pages indexed, though, and don't have an explanation.
It’s absolutely true. It is a documented fact. It was discovered and entered into public record during the DOJ antitrust investigation into Google Chrome. They call the signal „popularity“ and it is a successor of the Google Toolbar signal. https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/department-justice-wins-signi...