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Comment · 5 years ago
Maybe the article would be more clear if the author articulated:

1) What is my use case for email?

2) Who am I emailing with?

3) What are the threats and malicious actors I’m concerned about?

I think this brings up something not addressed... It seems that free SMTP hosting services are incredibly ill-suited to the privacy requirements of the author. Signal or Wire perhaps?

Comment · 6 years ago
Any counterexamples besides Itanium?
Comment · 6 years ago
This is my basic setup:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20835428

I'll possibly put a post together if anyone is interested.

Comment · 6 years ago
> There is no material difference between Cisco and the United States government.

Agree?

Edit: This isn’t intended as a rude or rhetorical question. I’m really interested in your answer.

Comment · 6 years ago
I am not religious whatsoever, but I do like this passage from the book of Ecclesiastes in the Old Testament:

  I have seen something else under the sun:
  The race is not to the swift
    or the battle to the strong,
  nor does food come to the wise
    or wealth to the brilliant
    or favor to the learned;
  but time and chance happen to them all.
Comment · 6 years ago
This content has been on https://media.ccc.de/ for weeks, so there is no need to watch on the Roku store.
Comment · 6 years ago
I’ve found that jq is great for quick one-offs. But it also has a very rich syntax that allows for more complicated use cases. That said, instead of heading for the jq manpage I find it’s much easier to hack something together in Python. What’s the draw of jq here? The ability to parse with only a command line?
Comment · 7 years ago
Yes, please update this thread!
Comment · 7 years ago
I'll probably get downvoted into oblivion here as I'll attempt to defend Google, but they have recently added a bug bounty program for extensions that violate user privacy:

https://security.googleblog.com/2019/08/expanding-bug-bounti...

I recently received a nice bounty for reporting a VPN extension, with nasty privacy violation, using this program. I understand that El Reg will get their clickbait here, but the situation isn't nearly as bad as described.

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