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_xgwon Apple adds a tracker blocker to desktop Safari

It's more than just the browser, it's the exact, EXACT version of the browser which can be very revealing if you're not updating your browser (almost) every day. For example: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/40.0.2214.85 Safari/537.36

_xgwon Do Geography and Altitude Shape the Sounds of a Language?

Is then a language simply a combination of sounds which are the easiest to produce depending on the climate, altitude, terrain where we live?

_xgwon The Fuck – An app which corrects your previous console command

What would be the Mac design principle way of doing this then? Would every command line tool then be an Anti-Mac user interface?

_xgwon Dishwasher has directory traversal bug

What's the worst thing that could happen from someone exploiting this vulnerability?

_xgwon United Arab Emirates goes from 10k Tor users to 250k in days

I don't think so. The news about WhatsApp supposed backdoor was published on the 13th: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/jan/13/whatsapp-... and the uptick of UAE users began around the 15th and the 16th: https://metrics.torproject.org/userstats-relay-country.html?... Wouldn't there have been a more direct correlation between the 13th and the numbers of users?