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OrgNet··on European Union Calls for Five Year Strict Ban on Facial Recognition Technology
yes, license plate readers, wifi/bluetooth scanners/loggers, TPMS loggers, facial recognition, etc... all fall in the same category.
OrgNet··on Microsoft to force Chrome default search to Bing via Office365 ProPlus installer
While this is bad, Google got Chrome installed on many computers using equally bad practices (Chrome defaults to Google search), which might be worst because they got executable files installed.
OrgNet··on Jeff Bezos's phone 'hacked by Saudi crown prince'
The Russians used a Saudi account....
OrgNet··on Jeff Bezos's phone 'hacked by Saudi crown prince'
> zero days are rare

really?

OrgNet··on Cloudflare is turning off the internet for me
Google's Recaptcha is a much bigger problem then Cloudflare's service for me currently, but it could change at any time.
OrgNet··on Apple dropped plan for encrypting backups after FBI complained
What Apple claims and do are two different things... just like politicians tend to do.
OrgNet··on Immune discovery 'may treat all cancer'
If I need this right now no matter the outcome, what do I need to do?
OrgNet··on People can be identified by the way they dance
/s/by the way they dance/by the way they move
OrgNet··on Coin washer keeps Westin St. Francis' change shiny (2010)
They are probably damaging rare/valuable coins by washing them... this is a pretty ridiculous idea anyways...
OrgNet··on Amazon reportedly wants to turn your hand into a credit card
As long as you are still protected 100% against fraud, that's sounds like a good idea...
OrgNet··on It costs $10k to ‘own’ a Chick-fil-A franchise
> Fantastic food

The spices on the chicken taste weird to me...

OrgNet··on America’s aggressive use of sanctions endangers the dollar’s reign
Is it the beginning of the great/bad crash of 2020? That would be the only way that Trump would loose the 2020 election...
OrgNet··on Data Brokers
They should add a column for cost per record /s
OrgNet··on Volkswagen exec admits full self-driving cars 'may never happen'
That's a nice way of saying that Elon Musk is full of it with his autopilot...
OrgNet··on Goodbye, New York, California and Illinois – Hello where?
free homes? (if you don't count the tear-down costs)
OrgNet··on EU considers temporary ban on facial recognition in public spaces
It's one thing to limit facial recognition, but maybe those videos/pictures should not exist in the first place?
OrgNet··on SpaceX tests black satellite to reduce ‘megaconstellation’ threat to astronomy
the Space Force will take care of that
OrgNet··on What DoorDash pays, after expenses, and what’s happening with tips
Why would you tip before getting service anyways? that never made sense to me
OrgNet··on Growing evidence that the universe is connected by giant structures (2019)
Can we teleport to those giant structures?
OrgNet··on Pwning your web server the easy way or why exposing –/.ssh/ is a bad idea
lol...

in other news: Pwning your passwordless web server the easy way

OrgNet··on Show HN: Write a private diary using good old email
> How do you solve the "won't read my emails" problem ?

true end-to-end encryption is the only way?

OrgNet··on Please make your products work with URLs
> I don't believe I've ever, once, in my entire history of browsing the internet, come across a direct hyperlink to a video file to play in the browser.

Here is one of many examples (look at the bottom): https://media.ccc.de/v/35c3-9462-what_the_fax

I see those all the time.

OrgNet··on Tesla Surges Above $500, Leaving Analyst Targets in the Dust
I still want a slide out keyboard like my Nokia N900 had... and if you don't think $1000 is overpriced for an I-Phone, you probably haven't tried a $300 phone that has very similar capabilities...
OrgNet··on EU: Call to introduce common charger for all mobile phones
This is exactly how micro-usb became the standard (except for apple of course)... but yeah now it appears to be a good time to switch to usb-c
OrgNet··on DuckDuckGo Is Now a Default Search Engine Option on Android in the EU
I've been using DDG for about 2 years almost exclusively, but in the last month, quality appears to have degraded a lot? I actually switched back to Google last week, unfortunately.
OrgNet··on How to be anonymous in the age of surveillance
Some "cameras" can get an accurate image of your body under your clothes... the TSA uses some of those and it's probably only a matter of time before everyone has access to them. What we need is legislation to limit the use of theses technologies.
OrgNet··on Anonymous shell companies buying American real estate
I'm probably going to buy my next home anonymously with the help of an LLC...
OrgNet··on A billion medical images are exposed online
Does it need to be anonymized since it is now public? maybe just don't publish identifying information in your results
OrgNet··on Bees are essential to the almond industry, and billions are dying in the process
in other words, CA could not have chosen a worst crop to grow (I heard that it also requires a lot of water to grow, something that CA is short on)
OrgNet··on OpenBSD won't update Firefox, advises users to switch to ESR
they should make an effort, since this is Firefox...
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