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giosch commented on Micro Snitch – Know when someone spies on you   obdev.at/products/microsn... · Posted by u/octosphere
vtail · 7 years ago
If you stop for a minute to think about it, it's a very sad state of affairs that you need to buy a closed-source app for the most secure consumer operating system, and pay constant attention to its status, in hope to avoid (or detect) spying.

I'm personally re-thinking my approach to security and anonymity online, esp. in light of recent news re: Facebook (Cambridge Analytica, account breach), Google (Chrome 69, increased spying), etc.

I've bought a new laptop, and for the first time in 12 years it's not a Mac - it's Thinkpad X1 Carbon 6 (similar/better specs vs Macbook Pro at half the price) with OpenBSD, which takes 10 min to install, works flawlessly with Thinkpad's hardware (minus bluetooth and finger scanner) and have a security model I can trust.

giosch · 7 years ago
"the most secure consumer operating system" ?
giosch commented on Show HN: Retweet disabler/enabler   retweet.rip... · Posted by u/willcosgrove
mrmondo · 8 years ago
Is any further information available about how the app works before I authorise it to act as me on Twitter (change my profile, post tweets etc...)
giosch · 8 years ago
I was baffled by the absurd permissions it requires too! I guess I'm never going to try what "a world without retweets" is...
giosch commented on Frank Abagnale: “Catch Me If You Can” – Talks at Google [video]   youtube.com/watch?v=vsMyd... · Posted by u/ludlu
lamp_book · 8 years ago
He spoke at my University and mentioned that he does talks regularly now - not sure if any other are recorded though.
giosch · 8 years ago
Talks yes, telling his own story I don't think so. He specifically say that he rarely tells his story at the beginning of this.
giosch commented on Uber Paid Hackers to Delete Stolen Data on 57M People   bloomberg.com/news/articl... · Posted by u/coloneltcb
HaoZeke · 8 years ago
That sounds really inefficient
giosch · 8 years ago
That sounds reasonably secure and quite common for a big tech company.
giosch commented on Waymo now testing its self-driving cars on public roads with no one at the wheel   techcrunch.com/2017/11/07... · Posted by u/lemiant
dx034 · 8 years ago
Also local human overrides. I as a passenger want to determine the route to take. Maybe I just don't like the recommended route, maybe I know that it won't work. There's no reason why the passenger shouldn't be able to determine the route.
giosch · 8 years ago
Only if you own the car. If you are using uber you cannot choose the route...
giosch commented on Show HN: Cyborg Writer - In-Browser Text Editor with Neural Autocomplete   cyborg.tenso.rs/... · Posted by u/antimatter15
giosch · 8 years ago
I was expecting it to at least generate valid words, but that doesn't seem to be the case...
giosch commented on Big brother is here, and his name is Facebook   thenextweb.com/contributo... · Posted by u/ahiknsr
kuschku · 9 years ago
Here Maps is a serious competitor to Google maps, in many regiona being far superior.

For Google calendar, almost any self hosted calendar service can easily compete with that.

Email is also easy to run yourself, as is Google Photos.

"Easy" meaning a task a CompSci student can accomplish during a summer or two of coding.

giosch · 9 years ago
You don't want to run your own mail/web server. At least, you do not want a lot of people doing it. Because most of the will get the security part wrong. Horribly wrong.
giosch commented on How to change your life and become a developer without going to university   medium.com/@KeepCoding_/h... · Posted by u/Keep_Coding
giosch · 9 years ago
AKA: how to provide a lot of work to security engineers, pentesters and security researcher for a long time.

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