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Comment · 6 years ago
Can you provide any examples of high quality subreddits?
Comment · 6 years ago
I think the phrase 'the cloud is not your computer' is actually useful, since literally it is true and forces people to consider that they should be careful with data management since all that data stored on the cloud is being managed by a third party.
Comment · 6 years ago
Does anyone know if Telegram will ever move away from relying on phone numbers for authentication?
Comment · 6 years ago
The motives for explanation 2 are currently not known. MBS might have had numerous reasons, ranging from WaPo or AWS. But regardless, there could have been many reasons to target Bezos. The part that doesn't sit right with me is the leaks, since it would have burned the 0day and connected Saudis to hacking phones which I doubt they would have wanted.
Comment · 6 years ago
There were also claims of android keyboardd being used to log messages on Signal (and maybe Telegram), by Naomi Wu and others. No proof for this though.
Comment · 6 years ago
Assuming Tor Browser, just change Tor circuit, ctrl+l (I believe), until you get one without captcha (works after 2-3 times usually). Only use Google search when absolutely necessary though.
Comment · 6 years ago
Think he means DYR, do your research.
Comment · 7 years ago
An honest question - What outcomes would there be if countries like Spain decide one day to impose exorbant taxes, like those totalling $1b annually for Google?

Would it just be cheaper for these companies to pull out? And what international recourse would happen?

Comment · 7 years ago
Does someone know if in cases like these Google will inform you why this happened?
Comment · 7 years ago
I think this is a disproportionately negative title compared to what actually happened, and solely for one word, "breach".

My opinion is that it conveys something more serious than a bug. Thousands of secrets have been leaked on Github/Bitbucket, and we don't need to report every single one as a "breach".

For instance many AWS credentials have been reported as being leaked on HackerOne, but I don't see Ars writing an article for each one saying "X company breach let's outside hacker have full access to X's infrastructure"

Comment · 7 years ago
It wasn't law enforcement taking the domain name, it also was only solved fast because of intervention from the Namecheap CEO.
Comment · 7 years ago
I briefly read through those leaked FB files, I think they're on NBC News. There was an email and other documents that showed they were thinking about opening a cloud offering multiple times, but it seems they never got round to launching it in the end.
Comment · 7 years ago
Agree with you, it's impossible to compare numbers of data breaches. It's possible to compare reported data breaches, but every source is different, as its almost impossible to collate every single one reported or known.
Comment · 7 years ago
I hope those that get fired sue for wrongful termination to see if Google really did interfere purposely with the labor organizers, or if the organizer maliciously acted and their termination was justified.

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