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A couple of browsers can connect to Tor without installing anything extra so maybe as the internet is tightened down more browsers will add this ability. To your point though it is still slower and p…
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Another possibility is to have shaken the stock market so friends of friends can buy up stock cheap then back off the tariffs and sell but maybe I am just being cynical.
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Some vendors allow fallback / secondary email addresses. There is a process for getting a domain back. I've never been through it but I hear it is painful and not guaranteed. My process is…
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Small sites will probably move to Tor .onion domains .
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I did something like this ages ago and attracted some hackers that in turn attracted the FBI to my house. I suppose in hind-sight I should have made them sign legal documents and had them notarized b…
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If the phone can boot off a thumb-drive then people could have a keychain thumb-drive that serves the sole purpose of a minimal OS that can iPXE, boot the real OS and pull down the users contacts, app…
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It may also be worth mentioning that when using CAA and also using something like LetsEncrypt one can specify which account is permitted to create and update certs and which method is approved DNS in…
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Google have a lot of different companies . It sounds like this is one of them. I know a journalist that could look into it.
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Someone may want that behavior if they were intentionally injured and kept from their phone for 3 days. The perpetrators will eventually get past the hospital security. Contents should be backed u…
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If it just redirected to this site, why not just bookmark this site and go directly to it?
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A few decades from now people will discover that drugs are not the right way to kill fungal infections.
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Not bad. If I could make a feature request it would be something like, After 3 days of being idle: - [ ] Reboot - [ ] Power Off - [X] WIPE triple opt-in Maybe there is a custom phone OS for this …
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Also, that does not improve the security that much especially if the IP address is later reused for something else Hard disagree. That's one person out of the billions that is your potential a…
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This is an interesting one. I've seen Censys bots hit all my stuff hundreds of thousands of times and yet for some reason I had no idea that belonged to Google. Makes sense, I just never connec…
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The site says I submitted this 7 minutes ago but it was some days ago. Edit: I see what happened. Ars had an article on reduced power usage I submitted today but they Ars changed it and HN seems t…
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Never talk to the police. Let your lawyers do the talking.
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I've never received an AMP email but it looks like based on the format [1] one could search the body for cdn.ampproject.org and either REJECT, DISCARD in Postfix or quarantine it if using some …