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ParadoxOryxon Cellphone Spy Tools Have Flooded Local Police Departments

Yes, your calls would be traveling over an encrypted tunnel to the carrier instead of the (simulated) cell tower, thus preventing the Stingray/site-simulator from carrying and listening in on your call.

However, it would not stop someone from listening to the call at any point over the rest of the path since the call itself is not encrypted, only the transport between the carrier and your phone.

ParadoxOryxon Testing GCC

Here's the Google cached version - http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:https:/...

ParadoxOryxon FBI will no longer accept FOIA requests by email

I'm definitely interested... what do you need?

ParadoxOryxon Amazon Plans First Air Cargo Hub

You can use this Chrome extension: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/xray/dgkdfehohjdbm...

ParadoxOryxon Amazon Plans First Air Cargo Hub

If you're using Chrome, this extension should get around paywalled articles: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/xray/dgkdfehohjdbm...

ParadoxOryxon Rave Panic Button: Vulnerabilities in a Nationwide Emergency Alert System

That's definitely concerning. Makes you wonder how well secured our other emergency/critical systems really are.

ParadoxOryxon Telegram Desktop reaches version 1.0

I think they are referring to the username functionality that Telegram has — https://telegram.org/faq#q-what-are-usernames-how-do-i-get-o...

ParadoxOryxon Google AMP Cache, AMP Lite, and the Need for Speed

Sounds like Cloudflare is working on it [1].

"In the spirit of open source, we're working to help develop updates to the project to address some of publishers' and end users' concerns. Specifically, here are some features we're developing to address concerns that have been expressed about AMP: ... A way for end users who would prefer not to be redirected to the AMP version of content to opt out"

[1] https://blog.cloudflare.com/accelerated-mobile/

ParadoxOryxon Show HN: Wiplo – A beautiful Trello replacement

The landing page looks a lot like Stripe's [1]. Really good looking design.

[1] https://stripe.com

ParadoxOryxon Bringing Wide Color to Instagram

Looks like the OP link is 404'ing.

Here's the working one — https://engineering.instagram.com/bringing-wide-color-to-ins...

ParadoxOryxon TSA Quietly Forcing Some Through Body Scan *AND* Pat-Down, Even If Scan Is Clear

With how poorly trained so many of the TSA agents currently seem to be, I'd be more than a little concerned with the idea of handing them all guns.

ParadoxOryxon Why time management is ruining our lives

On macOS, you can hold the command key and drag the clock off the menu bar.

ParadoxOryxon Apple Responds to Dash Controversy

I believe the app stays available in the Purchases section like you said if the developer "unpublishes" the app, but not if the account or app is "terminated" by Apple.

In addition to Dash (which I'm not able to locate in my Purchases tab), I've noticed this to be the case with apps that violate Apple's rules, like those hidden proxies or emulators that have sprung up over the years and were later removed by Apple.

ParadoxOryxon Apple Responds to Dash Controversy

According to his blog post [1], it sounds like the other account that was engaged in fraudulent activity was notified, but "his" account was not.

[1]: https://blog.kapeli.com/dash-and-apple-my-side-of-the-story

ParadoxOryxon Apple Responds to Dash Controversy

He's based in Romania, where (as best I can tell) one-party consent is legal [1].

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telephone_recording_laws#Roman...

ParadoxOryxon WeChat’s world

I hate to be the Telegram shill, but Telegram supports sending an unlimited amount of any type of file up to 1.5GB in size each.

https://telegram.org/blog/shared-files

ParadoxOryxon AT&T, Apple, Google to work on 'robocall' crackdown

You can! The FCC requires wireless providers to transmit all 911 calls, including those from phones with no service.

https://www.fcc.gov/consumers/guides/911-wireless-services

ParadoxOryxon Setup Keybase.io, GPG and Git to sign commits on GitHub

Here are a few as well:

  https://keybase.io/inv/16bbae7280
  https://keybase.io/inv/ca4549544a
  https://keybase.io/inv/666215bb91
  https://keybase.io/inv/417ae3ff89

ParadoxOryxon Building fast.com

I believe another HN user, CyrusL, owns slow.com and redirected it to fast.com - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11723650

ParadoxOryxon Reverse engineering and removing Pokémon GO’s certificate pinning

Thanks! Here's a copy on archive.is as well: http://archive.is/gjgYx

ParadoxOryxon The Apple Goes Mushy Part I: OS X's Interface Decline

How'd you make it transparent?

ParadoxOryxon Facebook Bug – Delete Any Video

Here you go! http://archive.is/THOiu

ParadoxOryxon Peter Thiel Has Been Funding Hulk Hogan's Lawsuits Against Gawker

It's on archive.is - http://archive.is/JK6N7

ParadoxOryxon The curious case of slow downloads

It sounded to me like LoSboccacc's solution was to serve files from S3, not that they experienced the same issue on S3.

ParadoxOryxon Show HN: Like Tim Ferriss's Podcast? Skip ads and go to the best parts

It looks like they're not rehosting the files, just linking to them on their original host (Libsyn). Does that count as republishing?

ParadoxOryxon U.S. Says It May Not Need Apple’s Help to Unlock iPhone

They don't want to lose and have a precedent set that doesn't allow them to do what they want.

ParadoxOryxon How we built Facebook Lite for every Android phone and network

I think they're talking about the world's internet connected population, which is about 3 billion[1].

[1] http://www.internetlivestats.com/internet-users/

ParadoxOryxon A Message to Our Customers

The iPhone uses AES encryption which would prevent cloning the flash storage [1]. There was an informative discussion of this over on AppleInsider - http://forums.appleinsider.com/discussion/191851

[1] http://www.darthnull.org/2014/10/06/ios-encryption

ParadoxOryxon Introducing the Keybase filesystem

I've got a few Keybase invites, email me if you want one!