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Kalanick is a Napoleonesque figure, a great conqueror who doesn't know when to pull back on the reigns, because he knows nothing else. Our memories are short, we're skewering him for being exactly the kind of animal that not to long ago most everyone was rooting for.
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There are quite a bit of SKUs, but not enough to make the phone unique itself. You'd ultimately need something more special to do so, such as the MAC address. It's not clear if such code would work today on the latest iOS version but maybe. They probably used a private API to do so, and that itself was obfuscated in the compiled binary such that apples automatic analysis would fail to catch it.
No, they fingerprint the phone like browser fingerprinting. Unique settings, apps installed etc. Very hard to have a non-unique set up with enough data points.
I'd assume the miners just wipe a phone clean, reinstall Uber & create a new account.
There are no special settings & variability in installed apps in that case.
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>Clinton wasn't gaslighting; she was just espousing the (correct, as far as I can tell) idea that in order to be a successful leader, you have to convince different sides that you believe different things Not sure how well that worked for her. See "Poll: Just 12 percent of Dems see Clinton as 'honest and trustworthy'" and similar headlines. Plus losing to a pretty bad opponent.
Yeah, I agree. She doesn't quite have the temperament for what America wants from a leader: duplicity is hard for her and straight-up gaslighting even harder. She can't pull it off in a way that is convincing, and so people perceive her as untrustworthy. Meanwhile, her opponent is almost a parody of the stereotype of the politician who lies about everything to get votes, and people just assume he's playing 11-dimensi…
Buried lede here: "They spent much of their energy one-upping rivals like Lyft. Uber devoted teams to so-called competitive intelligence, purchasing data from an analytics service called Slice Intelligence. Using an email digest service it owns named Unroll.me, Slice collected its customers’ emailed Lyft receipts from their inboxes and sold the anonymized data to Uber. Uber used the data as a proxy for the health of…
Wow I think this unroll.me thing is the real scandal here. I am an unroll.me user, but had no idea they sell user data to companies this way. Their whole value proposition is to help people control their own privacy and now I kind of feel betrayed..
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I don't do anything novel. I have my private key on three devices.
How do you get that private key on each of your devices, this is a real issue for a lot of less technical users.
With an HSM, it would have to be marked as exportable (bad for security), or to happen via some proprietary HSM to HSM cloning method endorsed by the vendor.
That said, I don't see that much HSM usage outside of the government or their contractors.
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Couldn't you leak anonymously?
I don't believe in that. For one, there is no such thing as anonymity to begin with, for another, I think if you do a thing like that you should stand by it.
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I worked for a company that nearly acquired unroll.me. At the time, which was over three years ago, they had kept a copy of every single email of yours that you sent or received while a part of their service. Those emails were kept in a series of poorly secured S3 buckets. A large part of Slice buying unroll.me was for access to those email archives. Specifically, they wanted to look for keyword trends and for receip…
Probably (and hopefully) only a matter of time until someone starts to work on an Open Source version of Unroll.me.
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I'm genuinely curious how that would even work on the technical level. As an app developer, I'm not making the connection here as to how iOS would even allow that. Edit: Read up a bit more on it. Turns out it was the practice of fingerprinting and tracking after re-installs, not after an uninstall. TechCrunch provided a better technical description: https://techcrunch.com/2017/04/23/uber-responds-to-report-th...
To me it seems like this is mischaracterized to make it sound worse than it is. Can someone explain why people are making a big deal about this practice?
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That's a clever media hack. Using provocative headlines and misleading lead to get clicks and shares, but using a separate medium (Twitter) to get away with it. Clever, but it's disappointing that even NYT is turning into this madness.
They've also updated the article text now: "To halt the activity, Uber engineers assigned a persistent identity to iPhones with a small piece of code, a practice called “fingerprinting.” Uber could then identify an iPhone and prevent itself from being fooled even after the device was erased of its contents." Note that this was at least 4 hours after the outrage on Twitter started. Seems like a very intentional, well-…
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they're cheaper because they can subsidize their fares via VC money
> they're cheaper because they can subsidize their fares via VC money That's not the (only) reason why they're cheaper. They're cheaper because they offer drivers less downtime, therefore the drivers can end up earning more money since they're driving more of the time and earning fares. They're also cheaper because services like uber pool and lyft line allow riders to spilt the fare among themselves. I also think tha…