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shif··on Google DeepMind's first deal with the NHS was illegal, UK data regulator rules
Can't they fine the strawberrynet blatant disregard for privacy?, It's based on the UK, you can access personal information of anyone registered in the site with only their email address and they say It's not a big deal.
shif··on By installing NAT, MIT stifles innovation
But you can, a simple reverse proxy can let the same port be used for multiple servers and pick based on hostname or query (for http).

reverse proxies like nginx also have plain tcp support so it allows you to easily run several services

shif··on By installing NAT, MIT stifles innovation
That's the blogger platform
shif··on Verelox Wiped by Ex-Admin
What if one of the people that has part of the key gets mad and leaves without sharing it?
shif··on Verelox Wiped by Ex-Admin
An ex admin would probably have access to the physical backups too, this could have been done before he left the company.
shif··on Wikipedia’s Switch to HTTPS Has Successfully Fought Government Censorship
The government could force pc manufacturers to deploy a root CA that they control and then do a MITM proxy to read everything the user is doing, they could also redirect wikipedia domain to another domain that just acts as a reverse proxy and deploy a legit cert on that other site
shif··on Ask HN: Google Doc email virus?
It's sophisticated because of it's simplicity and effectiveness.
shif··on Getting Started with Headless Chrome
It's headless so most likely yes.
shif··on “Users will only be able to view patents via HTTP. HTTPS will no longer work”
https://www.cvedetails.com/product/2387/Drupal-Drupal.html?v...
shif··on “Users will only be able to view patents via HTTP. HTTPS will no longer work”
HTTPS isn't bulletproof either, the argument could still be made with TLS
shif··on “Users will only be able to view patents via HTTP. HTTPS will no longer work”
chrome://net-internals/#hsts

doesn't seem to show anything for the domain

shif··on “Users will only be able to view patents via HTTP. HTTPS will no longer work”
That's regressive as fuck, it's like saying that cars will no longer be allowed, only horse carriages
shif··on What Happens When You Send a Zero-Day to a Bank?
Ctrl + Shift + J

in chrome

shif··on Next Generation MITnet
You should see the other companies that hold /8's apple for example owns 17.0.0.0/8 and barely uses any of their 16 million addresses
shif··on Phishing with Unicode Domains
I wonder how the domain displays on email clients like gmail and outlook, this is the scariest part, most people will just look at the domain and think it's a valid mail and follow the instructions of that mail, it could be catastrophic for companies, the ubiquity $40 million fiasco comes to mind.