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jmull3n··on Tech my dad banned in our house when I was a kid
This is definitely the most reasonable response in this thread.
jmull3n··on Finding vulnerable Twitter accounts with expired domains
>If you rely on bio-authentication methods, you risk your privacy especially when the master database gets compromised.

It's my understanding that these methods (TouchID, FaceID) don't actually store your thumb prints or images of your face rather they store hashes of the output. Similar to how passwords should never be stored in plain text.

jmull3n··on Apple, Epic, and the App Store
As a user I'd much rather pay for a service used on my phone through Apple Pay and not have to worry about how the service is handling my card details/personal information. If I want to cancel any subscriptions I can easily do it from the one place inside my iPhone as well. I agree it's probably not worth paying 30% extra for though.
jmull3n··on Facebook sues EU antitrust regulator for excessive data requests
Can I sue facebook for excessive data requests?
jmull3n··on Massive spying on users of Google's Chrome shows new security weakness
uBlock Origin, Dashlane, Wappalyzer & NewsGuard
jmull3n··on Zoom to bring end-to-end encryption to all users, including non-paying
You missed the part where they acquired Keybase to help them build e2e encryption. https://techcrunch.com/2020/05/07/zoom-acquires-keybase-to-g...
jmull3n··on Unc0ver Jailbreak for iOS 11.0 to 13.5
This doesn't work without a $99 developer certificate when you get to the Cydia Impactor step
jmull3n··on Unc0ver Jailbreak for iOS 11.0 to 13.5
I use NextDNS, works pretty well.
jmull3n··on Spotify signs ‘The Joe Rogan Experience’ to an exclusive multi-year deal
I believe it's due to the DRM protection Spotify use. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Encrypted_M...
jmull3n··on Stuxnet's Legacy Lives on in New Windows Bug
The Mastermind by Evan Ratliff
jmull3n··on Stripe responded to my concerns about user tracking
I'm not sure Google's Recaptcha is a good example. They use the same methods and their business model is using your personal data to target ads to you.
jmull3n··on How to Kill a Startup Idea with Google Keyword Planner and AdWords: A Case Study
You would only need to be paired with one maid though.
jmull3n··on How a Chinese Company Built a $250M Search Hijacking Empire
Is there anything actually illegal about this? What laws are broken?
jmull3n··on Founder came back after 8 years to rewrite Flash photo editor in Canvas/WebGL
It's obfuscated to protect their source code. https://github.com/javascript-obfuscator/javascript-obfuscat...
jmull3n··on NSW Digital Driver Licence
One problem I have personally encountered is I am unable to obtain a digital form of identification while my license is suspended for a speeding offence. This is more annoying than not being able to drive as I still have to carry a wallet for the 1 remaining card I can't get on my iPhone.
jmull3n··on Google Accused of Creating Spy Tool to Squelch Worker Dissent
>A representative for Alphabet Inc.’s Google said, “These claims about the operation and purpose of this extension are categorically false. This is a pop-up reminder that asks people to be mindful before auto-adding a meeting to the calendars of large numbers of employees.”

This sounds a lot more plausible than Google creating a chrome extension to access data they already own. This article is nonsense.

jmull3n··on Reversing Safeway's private APIs to automate coupon collection
I did something similar to check if tickets are available on Resident Advisor. https://github.com/jmcmullen/ra-resell-check/blob/master/src...
jmull3n··on Personal information and ads on Twitter
You can be targeted just for ending up in a database leak.
jmull3n··on Kiss – A Linux distribution with a focus on “less is more”
Awesome project, nice work.
jmull3n··on Reddit was down for over two hours
Yes but I manage my subreddit subscriptions
jmull3n··on Reddit was down for over two hours
Ever been to Ikea?
jmull3n··on Google Fi Unlimited Plan
AldiMobile is on Telstra's network too, making it the best option by a mile.
jmull3n··on Canada Border Services seizes lawyer's phone, laptop for not sharing passwords
Did they look for any other file extensions or was that literally it?
jmull3n··on Uber used secret spyware to try to crush Australian startup GoCatch
What is Surfcam and where can I find out more about it?
jmull3n··on Prisoners in England to be taught code
Is giving a criminal the skills to write Malware really a smart move?
jmull3n··on How we do Vue: one year later (2017)
Agreed. Give me MobX over Redux any day of the week.
jmull3n··on How we do Vue: one year later (2017)
Vue can also be used from a CDN and doesn't require NPM.
jmull3n··on Ghidra, NSA's reverse-engineering tool
Vue.js
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