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zachholman.com 10y ago

Opt-in Transparency

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www.youtube.com 10y ago

Pythagorean theorem water demo

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moz.com 10y ago

The ROI of Content Distribution Networks: Outbrain vs. Taboola vs. NRelate

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opensource.com 10y ago

Why use NGINX as a load balancer?

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polyfills.io 10y ago

Polyfills as a Service

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bitcointalk.org 10y ago

(Almost sure) Brainwallet stole 22BTC from me

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www.wired.co.uk 10y ago

Digital Magna Carta vote demands free, open, uncensored web

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sixcolors.com 11y ago

SIMply irresistible: An unlocked phone is a traveler's best friend

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www.fullstory.com 11y ago

FullStory – See what your users see

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magento2x.com 11y ago

Optimize magento database by Cleaning log

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www.bhorowitz.com 11y ago

Lead Bullets (2011)

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blog.dmbcllc.com 11y ago

Why Is It Called “Inversion of Control”?

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addons.mozilla.org 11y ago

UBlock Origin

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www.bbc.com 11y ago

France seeks to extend Google's “right to be forgotten”

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openletteronthedigitaleconomy.org 11y ago

Open Letter on the Digital Economy

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sourcesleuth.com 11y ago

The Basics of Using Twitter to Find a Source

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www.frozenmountain.com 11y ago

Frozen Mountain Software

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openbadgespec.org 11y ago

Open Badges Technical Specification

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sethgodin.typepad.com 11y ago

Not all who are lost, wander

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firstlook.org 11y ago

First Look – Code Projects

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www.stateoftheinternet.com 11y ago

2015 State of Internet Security (Report)

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hangouts.codebuddies.org 11y ago

CodeBuddies – Peer-to-peer organized Google Hangouts for studying together

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www.moshe-online.com 11y ago

Satisficing vs. Optimizing

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www.pulseboy.com 11y ago

PulseBoy web-based musical sequencer

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www.bbc.com 11y ago

'True face of Shakespeare' appears in botany book?

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www.facebook.com 11y ago

Get that job at Facebook

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www.jquerylane.com 11y ago

Egg.js – JavaScript Library to Add Easter Eggs to WebPages

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deepknowledgeventures.com 11y ago

Deep Knowledge Ventures – Investment in disruptive exponential technologies

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xkpasswd.net 11y ago

XKPasswd – Secure Memorable Passwords

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www.kullo.net 11y ago

Kullo – Secure Communication

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₋ Four Letter Acronyms do not a policy make

₋ The net is a-central and not dependent on a single facist org to run it

₋ Pirate utopias will crop up to subvert any such control mechanisms.

⸗ 4 letter acronyms by virtue of being over⁻arching make the net stronger by way of streisand effect

Yeah but we then assume the data is there and exists with all the context intact too. Big Data is a one way mirror into what's happening, but this just results in watching but not being able to take part. It's a one-way operation like calculating a prime

Assumes that software is a tangible item, when a more suitable term for it is the wetware between the CPU and a user's screen? This connotation of software with some form of product is analogous to selling sand to The Arabs. There is more than enough to go around, and it is not scare. Soo leave it alone and create products borne from soft, not make the soft the product.

There are tools to remove redundant verbs, adjectives, and adverbs. I like this tool: https://www.textunited.com/blog/shorten-text-to-be-a-faster-... HemingwayApp is also neat, if a little opinionated about what should be edited out. Some phrases only sound right in certain contexts, and I never liked that about academic papers, because they presume an ivory tower readership when infact their target audience could be any body of people

"Your data" assumes there is some sort of Doppelganger attached to a data bundle which is mostly hot air and used to persuade those who buy from data brokers that the data is in-fact correct. I know some FOIA pests who are purposefully polluting such data-sets and then asking for the information and seeing some very skewed results. What if I sell back my data, since that's what they're after anyway? I keep more logs than brokerages and would be happy to hand them over for a fee. One item of browsing history alone is probably worth upwards of $10,0,00

Luckily I have taken out entire classes of attacks against the browser (this one included) using simple, baseline configs that harden the browser. I am unsure how many people take these measures and I don't know the stats for how many people are hardening their browser in some way, but I suspect large swathes of web users are at risk here.

Since this is Hackernews, my efforts to educate the masses on weaponized browser attacks like this would be futile, and I am sure many have configured their browser in some rudimentary way to merry away the assholes.

There is a certain sigh of relief and 'ha catch me if you can' that coats me when I see PoCs like this rendered obsolete and inert.

Hacking with DNS 12 years ago

Another bunch of slides with no context. Is there an accompanying video to go with these, or can we gleen solid info from this?

My takeaway from this is that DNSSEC is done wrong from the outset here, and hence all these vectors are possible. The vectors don't seem particularly nasty if we verify the integrity of DNS from the get go.