Good! curl is a dangerous tool that can be used to circumvent deep link protections for corporate intellectual property. Imagine the kinds of evil that can be done by pirates if they are able to construct a URL and then simply fetch it using this so called haxx (hacks, aka hackers) tool.
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#43im always chuffed and fascinated when tech companies cloister themselves in the robes of moral arbiter. Twitter does this now, albeit it seems like a cheap excuse to pump user numbers by forcing authentication. Why 18? why not 21? or 23? What qualifies as explicitly "adult" content? violence perhaps could disqualify most military recruiting sites from my vodaphone. Alcohol? its certainly a moral vice in the UAE but i…
> pump user numbers by forcing authentication Pump, how? Wouldn't forcing ID tank the numbers when all the bots are excluded?
It makes users who previously accessed a site anonymously create accounts or leave. For some sites, the increase in users signed-in may be worth the loss of other users (and bots).
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#44Many years ago, I used to work for Vodafone - and had some responsibility for their filtering stuff. One of the main problems was that, at the time, it was all managed by Blue Coat. As they were a US company, many of the "violations" that they picked up just weren't considered problematic for a UK / EU audience. Similarly, they would use blanked keyword blocking. So sex education resources would frequently get blocke…
> As they were a US company, many of the "violations" that they picked up just weren't considered problematic for a UK / EU audience.
Just out of curiosity: could you provide some examples?
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#45Meta-comment mostly meant for @dang
daniel.haxx.se is Daniel Stenberg's blog (famously known as curl maintainer), and would best be displayed with the subdomain as daniel.haxx.se rather than haxx.se, similar to how substacks include the subdomain to make it clear at a glance what the source is.
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#46Many years ago, I used to work for Vodafone - and had some responsibility for their filtering stuff. One of the main problems was that, at the time, it was all managed by Blue Coat. As they were a US company, many of the "violations" that they picked up just weren't considered problematic for a UK / EU audience. Similarly, they would use blanked keyword blocking. So sex education resources would frequently get blocke…
I wonder what the disconnect is that causes people to blame Vodafone for content requested over their network, but not Royal Mail for the content that arrives in their mailbox, or Google/Chrome for the content of webpages, or Dunder Mifflin for content printed on paper. Has that ever actually happened, or is it just corporate risk aversion?
Well there was that quabbity assuence issue with the two cartoon characters..
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#471. intercept traffic to IP
2. present custom "valid" certificate
3. ???
4. profit!
... isn't this something that certificate transparency should help solve?
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#48Many years ago, I used to work for Vodafone - and had some responsibility for their filtering stuff. One of the main problems was that, at the time, it was all managed by Blue Coat. As they were a US company, many of the "violations" that they picked up just weren't considered problematic for a UK / EU audience. Similarly, they would use blanked keyword blocking. So sex education resources would frequently get blocke…
Oddly enough, vodafone filtering is less restrictive in other ways. For instance, they never blocked The Pirate Bay, but I just switched ISP from vodafone and my new ISP (Sky) blocks the site via some TLS tricks. It's odd because while adult content blocks are purely a per-ISP choice (they offer it as a service/choice to customers), I had thought that TPB was blocked because of court orders. So how come one ISP block…
> "I had thought that TPB was blocked because of court orders.
> So how come one ISP blocks it, and other doesn't?"
- BRITISH SKY BROADCASTING LIMITED
- BRITISH TELECOMMUNICATIONS PLC
- EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE LIMITED
- TALKTALK TELECOM GROUP PLC
- TELEFÓNICA UK LIMITED
- VIRGIN MEDIA LIMITED
[1] http://www.bailii.org/cgi-bin/markup.cgi?doc=/ew/cases/EWHC/...
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#49ESNI cannot come fast enough.
It's ECH now, Chromium/Google are actively working in it. So soon™
In addition to that we need ODoH and NTS as well. It's pretty clear neither countries or ISPs (not to mention attackers) can keep their grubby fingers out of anything unencrypted. MITM should be visible or impossible.
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#50Vodafone is a mess. I bought a 24Gb pre-paid sim which was supposed to last 2 years but they 'lost' my plan after 6months and 2Gb of data use. Spent an hour on chat with them telling me that no such plan had ever existed until I told them I had all the receipts and evidence of how much data I had used and threatened to take them to the small claims court with expenses at £60/hr for my time. They capitulated quickly a…
I think it's semi deliberate. They put systems in place to catch errors that cost them money but they don't go looking for errors that cost their customers. The result is inevitable but there is enough plausible deniability to avoid any serious consequences for the company.