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Comment · 6 years ago
Some people claim that the coinhive story had some unnecessary doxxing aswell:

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2020/03/annual-protest-to-fight-... (see comments)

The users of said image board do a yearly fundraiser to protest against the unnecessary doxxing. The first one was started by a random user.

Comment · 7 years ago
> They probably took it down because as the original app it violated the App Store’s guidelines on data collection.

Or maybe Apple took it down because - as you said - it violated the store guidelines. Or Apple just encouraged them to do it by themselves (for a better PR). So effectively, they were forced.

Comment · 7 years ago
Any European people affected? How does this play with the GDPR? Are the user's over 16? Anyone tried to file a GDPR data request?
Comment · 7 years ago
As this is valid, but only useful as documentation:

    void foo(const int n, const char data[n])
Is this also valid?

    void foo(const int n, const char data[static n])
Comment · 7 years ago
By "this" I mean encoding information in the address in general, not this signage-thing. See my other reply in this thread.
Comment · 7 years ago
Comment · 7 years ago
If this becomes more common, the IPv6 address space will be exhausted pretty quickly. There already was a proposal on encoding phone numbers in IPv6 addresses.
Comment · 8 years ago
Well, no.
Comment · 8 years ago
Sessions, IP addresses and User Angents associated with oneself.
Comment · 8 years ago
The stuff you can't scrape is the interesting stuff.
Comment · 8 years ago
Maybe they want that people realize that the project in question depends on donations. If they just give them a bunch of money, many people won't notice.
Comment · 8 years ago
Well, yes. I was solely looking from a user's perspective.
Comment · 8 years ago
Comment · 8 years ago
What about [email protected] and the remaining RFC system addresses?
Comment · 8 years ago
I recommend the Firefox addon "Bloody Vikings!". You can just right-click on a form field and select from a bunch of trashmail providers. The inbox gets opened and the address is inserted automatically.

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