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I live in the US. I don't hold much hope in gun control changing after recent years. Recent federal and state policy is trending towards less regulation and removal of the previous administrations regulations.

In 2024, estimated 16,576 deaths in the US from guns (excluding suicide, which is a very large addition on top of that), and 499 mass shootings.

This article is about graduate student stipends. Tuition does not have a cost for these students, so the stipend only needs to cover living costs (which as the article points out, it frequently does not).

In CS, graduate students often intern over the summer and can make up for some of the difference.

Tuition is paid by the university, typically from a grant.

> a non-profit organization

> should be taken into account when comparing the goals and motivations of organizations developing various other communicators.

Business or funding models can change for both for- and non-profit organizations. Especially as people move to options that are believed to have better user-privacy, the idea that they do not sell/monetize collected user data today does not indicate what they will do tomorrow.

Unless users have strong evidence that companies are not collecting and/or monetizing this information (which as the OP pointed out, there is for Signal as found in a subpoena), the "billboard" approach towards promising user privacy via marketing and PR is a shallow one at best for non-profits as well as for-profit companies.

Isn't "being on life support" nearly the opposite of "set to skyrocket" from a service perspective?

US phone verified facebook accounts cost less than $1 each.

There's no need to use twilio, the ecrime marketplace has this covered.

Starting out of school with a BS in computer science or computer engineering was GS 7 or 8, so around $40-50k/year. The salaries are public for each level.

Additional degrees do not move you off the GS scale.

Reaching the equivalent of executive level can mean moving beyond GS to the senior executive service (SES).

The idea that even spam is does not fall into "content moderation" is very interesting.

A fake Rolex email is an interesting advertisement to some people and belongs in the garbage for others.

Research has shown that buyers of spam advertised products will literally dig through their spam folder to find a store to buy from.

As this (naturally, pun intended) expands to green coffee, açai, news articles about Florida man, and on up to what we see as disinformation, the difficulty in identifying intent becomes equally as challenging.

There's no way to "just host content", and anyone attempting to do this will face a range of laws, user challenges, and more that introduce "content moderation" into the platform.

What was Slack's role in all of this?

They appear to have turned over historical images and chat logs, not just for the person indicted, but even others in the same channel.

Did the FBI ask nicely or was there actually some formal process?

In the US, an ERB is only required for federally funded research or (much more rarely) by specific publication venues.

Probably when Reader is brought back.

There's been public analysis of the right to be forgotten. A few good reads: A summary article from NPR [1] and a research paper with a lot more details [2].

[1] https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/02/28/589411543...)

[2] https://g.co/research/rtbf_report

I'd argue that other questions around how the data is:

- handled

- available for access by employees

- retained, deleted, and stored

etc.. are at least as important for your privacy.

As someone who works in security, I am as concerned or more about the seemingly inevitable breach's impact on my privacy.

So it's fine to trust cloudflare "blindly" with the same data?

(I agree that for privacy DNS over https is good, but the resolver still sees your dns queries)

The requirements that GDPR imposes on development and data handling are much more broad than the right to be forgotten.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Data_Protection_Regula...

As you said, the goal with OP [1] (and in the initial Chrome [2] and MS research [3] work) was really to apply what we had learned with isolation for operating system level security (for the last several decades) onto how we build web browsers. Dropping privileges and routing calls via smaller kernel should not be cutting edge today.

edit adding references: [1] https://wkr.io/public/ref/grier2008op.pdf [2] https://seclab.stanford.edu/websec/chromium/chromium-securit... [3] https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/publication/the-mul...

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Also used the "Enhanced Networking" option on the instances which means single root I/O virtualization underneath.

It's also only a good signal as long as you aren't actioning on it.

As soon as it becomes advantageous enough to fit in with the normal user patterns, the attackers will modify their behavior accordingly.

The time-of-day, internationality, and many other signals mentioned in this post are easily evaded when it becomes profitable to do so.

U : Unclassified, S : Secret, SI : special intelligence (an SCI control marking), REL : marking that designates release

There's a bunch more too:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classified_information

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sensitive_Compartmented_Informa...