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Comment · 10 months ago
"I specifically checked to see if 'Deus Ex: Human Revolution' was delisted.

While the game was upgraded to the 'Director's Cut,' the original version (without the Director's Cut content) is no longer available."

Comment · 9 years ago
Comment · 9 years ago
There are more post on social media about the breach now. There was no interaction with Amazon.com at all, I tried to login Amazon.com minutes after receiving these two emails. The result shows the account does not exist on Amazon.com anymore. Again, didn't click any link, it just happened.

>This often works wonders as people re-use the same password elsewhere. Was your password unique to your Amazon account?

I really doubt it. The way password managed and password used on this Amazon account is HackerNews approved.

Comment · 9 years ago

  As I mentioned in #1107: we will not be 
  removing analytics support entirely. It 
  is extremely useful to us and we have 
  already weighed the cost/benefit of 
  using tracking.
“The Party seeks power entirely for its own sake. We are not interested in the good of others; we are interested solely in power, pure power.”

Mozilla Developer also mentioned:

  Actually, @muffinresearch pointed out we could probably just observe Do Not Track here, 
  because this pane is actually a web page loaded in an iFrame inside the browser page. 
  That might be faster to ship. Just thinking aloud :smile:

  I'm definitely for giving users the option to disable this.
“Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing.”

- 1984, George Orwell.

Comment · 9 years ago
Comment · 9 years ago
Since the landing page required everyone interested to enter a keyword to search, the back-end server can record all query and ip-addrs.

I doubt if WikiLeaks.org use this exact same method to study what document attract traffic|attention. WikiLeaks' new releases are not signed by PGP anymore, I take that as either a Warrant Canary or some kinds of warning.

Of course, if everything packed in a torrent, then there's no way to conduct such a study.

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