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Comment · 4 years ago
Its not open, if you open the box of pandora just a little...
Comment · 7 years ago
Comment · 7 years ago
This is not correct anymore since dns over tls. Well most routers do not support this yet, but its possible within your distro.
Comment · 7 years ago
> redirecting to ads on an unknown domain

I can cleary see that, in states like iran or china, getting redirected to somewhere you did not chose to go is really problematic, but getting redirected to ads by your own provider, does this happen in your country?

In germany, i guess, this would be quite illegal for a provider to do and be considered as attacking the ingetrity of the dns system for personal gain.

>If you connect to something fronted by CloudFlare your ISP can see you connecting to CF, if they provide your DNS then they can see what you're connecting to that's fronted by CF. A subtle yet important distinction.

Well, most of the time, you would connect to ips that are not fronted by CF servers, so theres nothing to gain there.

Comment · 7 years ago
So, the dns server of my provider against Cloudflare DNS it is. That seems to be a good idea for people in unfree countries like iran.

But since my provider knows every ip i connect to, they already have everything they need in the first place, even if i dont use their dns.

So handing over the dns requests to a third party seems to be a rather not so smart move to me.

edit: oh, and the cloudflare dns servers are located within the 5 eyes states? nice...

Comment · 8 years ago
Its especially chilling, because in germany, we dont have the food of the poisonous tree doctrine. So even if the police searches those places illegaly, if they find something else while conducting the search, lets say small amount of drugs, they will prosecute you for that.
Comment · 8 years ago
Well, it would have been to hillarious if there was, but it was transferred about an hour ago. :D
Comment · 8 years ago
Isnt the author, well, supposed to keep his private key private? It was quite easy to create a text file with that 1b0be2162cedb2744d016943bb14e71de6af95a63af3790d6b41b1e719dc5c66 key and "geth account import key.txt" into a ethereum wallet to get a seemingly valid account. Please tell me that i am missing something very important here.
Comment · 9 years ago
As a person from germany and as many of you might not know, the "daily stormer" is directly connotated to "Der Stürmer" [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Der_St%C3%BCrmer].

That newspaper with its very popular antisemitic caricatures was one of the main sources of radicalization in germany.

Comment · 10 years ago
Think about it this way: You get a product, its free to use. The Company running the service is telling you, they wont share your data ever. You get reliant to the product, everyone uses it. Then they start sharing your data.
Comment · 10 years ago
Here in Germany, saying that, after being accuired by facebook, you wont exchange any data with facebook, was a huge sales pitch because people started to get really worried about data privacy.

Even people like my mother, who normally has no idea about whats going on, were worried back then but then calmed down by that statement. And the media, where this had quickly became an issue, stopped reporting, because everything seemed to turn out fine.

But now, they broke that promise and altered their product, which now results in those accusations of misdirection of the users and the public. They made that statement, people everywhere became reliant to whatsapp and now everything stated before turned out to be a lie.

Comment · 10 years ago
They did not. Opt-Out is not asking for consent. And even if you Opt-Out, WhatsApp will submit your data to facebook for analytic purposes.

The real problem here was quoted as "misdirection of the [whatsapp] users and the public" because WhatsApp stated that there wont be any data exchange between them and facebook, when they were accuired two years ago.

Comment · 10 years ago
Comment · 10 years ago
I am very skeptical about this, because when tattoo ink fades, it accumulates inside the lymphatic system, it is not flushed out of the body.

Black ink, for example, colors the lymph nodes within the area of the tatoo completely black. Black ink is made out of soot which often contains polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, a carzinogen.

So if they say their product is "designed to break down after a year" and "By using smaller molecules, we’ve encapsulated them inside this spherical structure that’s big enough that your immune system doesn’t take it away. But when you remove it, it essentially eats away one of the components and the dye molecules are flushed out", i really wonder if this could quickly develop into a real health problem.

Smaller molecules really sound like nano particles and since tattoo dye is not flushed out of your body, i tend to assume those nano particles will accumulate inside the lymphatic system. And what about that "spherical structure" stuff, what is it made of? And that "removal solution" they talk about on their website, the symbol next to it looks like its also tattoed into the skin.

Comment · 11 years ago

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