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I wonder if they will stop security patches after three years ?


You don’t have to guess. You can actually see it.

What you can infer is why and who. Which is the real danger. I would trust google to protect sensitive data like sexual preferences before I trust my ISP.


It all depends how much is abstracted behind a common host (eg name based virtual hosting). I can see you are going to Google. But I don't know what within Google you are really accessing or using in most cases.


This doesn’t cover any new attacks. Good read though.


Realized after buying a windows laptop you can’t get bitlocker or drive encryption without having a MS account or paying for pro. So security isn’t a feature, it’s a paid add-on.


VeraCrypt is a good alternative.


Young people now think it’s ok to send out a message and respond whenever they feel like it. Communication is no longer a conversation in the tradition sense, it’s a series of monologues or statements where the sender usually only cares about whether you are impressed by the statement.

IRC was all about conversation. You went there to have a conversation, like a party line voice bridge. You even waited around for someone to have a conversation with... oh I miss it...


> Young people now think it’s ok to send out a message and respond whenever they feel like it.

Boomers demand attention constantly.


If everyone could afford to hire a PI to dig up dirt on some random person they didn’t like, it would be a highly regulated industry. Because it’s mainly a service only the powerful or wealthy can afford no one bothers.


Where do they find these disgusting PIs anyhow? Craigslist?


One thing I found find suspect in iOS 13 is Apple automatically enables collection of data of your usage of 3rd party apps. Any idea what this is for?


Can't address authoritatively, but speculatively, there is reason to believe they would use device telemetry to check their platform exposure to malware.

It's a blanket excuse to say "security," but the only viable malware detection works by inventorying telemetry off-device, as on-device can be detected instrumented around by any advanced attacker.


Doesn't it ask you during the setup process whether you'd like to share analytics and usage data?


There is a per app sharing option. So perhaps they added granularity to what usage data sharing to exclude sensitive applications.


Interesting, this doesn’t get anywhere close to the 1000 upvotes and 800 comments the Joi resignation story did.


Any improvement in reading plates at a angle? From my experiments it’s very difficult to ready plates from dash cameras of cars in the left and right lane, even though the human eye can identify them.


“all funded by the largess of child molesters.”

I thought it was mainly funded by corporations?


don't be so obtuse.


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