To be fair, discord is maybe not exactly the most appropriate place to disclose potential security issues, and it’s possible OP derailed an existing conversation to bring this up.
I realize they are probably trying to imply a more ominous tone to the response though… and which one is true (or both), I don’t know. Seven days does seem quite extreme to me though (but they also claim in another place it was only 3 days).
Which is why I’m confident it will fail spectacularly.
Their devices were running standard software, and the tricks they used were simple.
Although Sky News has verified the methods used by Ms Kubecka and Ms Popovici, we won’t give details or name any software used.
It really can only be like one of three things… vpn, proxy or tor-like networks… this is not rocket science (to technical people). And all of those things are legal… so when they say:
“Platforms have clear legal obligations and must actively prevent children from circumventing safety measures, including blocking content that promotes … workarounds targeting young users.”
I’m not sure how they think that’s possible… is that not at odds with freedom of speech at the very least? Do they really expect every tech company is going to voluntarily ban e.g. all VPN usage because it can be used to circumvent porn blocks? The entire economy and large parts of society would grind to a halt if that were to happen… for example healthcare would suddenly become massively unavailable because they regularly use VPNs to send/receive patient data.
Basically instead of launching completely new processes for each tab, which uses the (now updated/different) binary on disk, it uses a small secondary process that stays running the whole time the browser is open, and new processes are forked from that one, which makes them all use the same in-memory copy of the old process even after the program is updated.
This only works on *nix because you can’t overwrite binaries on Windows that are in use… but Linux keeps the old binary in memory the whole time, so it doesn’t care if you replace it, as it won’t be used until you restart the program.
So it doesn’t actually update anything at all while it’s running.
Will this stop the constant crashing I’ve been having the last several versions?
I understand how people can infer subjective conclusions, but I don’t agree that it objectively says as much.
Did you read the article?
I don’t see how that even implies that not having a presence in the first place is inherently a red flag…
Does this mean their hundreds of petabytes of pirated content will go away now?
I have not seen any language that suggests that, nor what EFF is saying.
I guess nobody can really know for sure, but in my opinion, if you truly don’t have anything, nothing happens, as that’s what they want, complacency.
I think EFF is just what-ifing things they could theoretically do in the future… which they do a lot. Not saying EFF is bad, but they do speculate a lot. Sometimes it’s a good thing though.
It used to be an awesome clone of the famous MS Trackball Explorer (now that the patent has expired), but apparently they have completely changed the design and don’t offer it anymore: https://www.trackballmouse.org/ploopy-classic/
Unfortunately I’m not interested in this new design at all.
If anyone is still looking for an explorer clone, I highly recommend Sanwa.
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Also remember:
As a rule, strong feelings about issues do not emerge from deep understanding.
and:
If you can’t argue your position without attacking a person’s character, you already lost the argument.
By being humble and understanding that not everybody will perceive the world like you do, you will be able to engage in deeper conversations that foster more fulfilling relationships that can boost your well-being.
Why write it in two completely different languages?
duckduckgo, icon.horse and favicongrabber.com also have their own APIs for this
I bet there is a way this could be abused in order to proxy/tunnel arbitrary requests via google IPs. Even if it’s slow and must be done through e.g. PNG image data and dynamic subdomains or something, it would still be possible.
Yes they are, but when a platform prides itself on decentralization and tries to gain users based on that, only for the user to find out they’re already wrongly banned everywhere because of a centralized blocklist (my personal experience as an example)… to me that’s still too centralized.
Sounds like an attempt to curb their massive abuse problem.
On Matrix, you can actually upload files using special message types that don’t even show up on normal clients, but persist forever… you can imagine the very illegal types of content that people post using such methods.