blit32 
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Syrian-American Programmer, Linux lover and Open Source enthusiast.
Joined Jan 2019
Wow this is scary! Stealing a Google master token using only an embedded webview!
https://blog.usejournal.com/how-i-stole-the-data-in-millions-of-peoples-google-accounts-aa1b72dcc075
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These are all dystopian questions that a healthy society shouldn’t have to ask
The #FBI is asking for the public's help in identifying individuals who unlawfully entered the U.S. Capitol on January 6. Visit http://ow.ly/iZ2U50D705S to see a new poster with more people, and if you see someone familiar, submit a tip at http://fbi.gov/USCapitol.
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time to repost this, i think. let's see who objects.
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Stealing Your Private YouTube Videos, One Frame at a Time
https://bugs.xdavidhu.me/google/2021/01/11/stealing-your-private-videos-one-frame-at-a-time/
(submitted by gbrown_)
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Mark Zuckerberg comments on Trump's Facebook ban
https://www.facebook.com/zuck/posts/10112681480907401
(submitted by minimaxir)
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Trump's legacy is being defined second by second now. This is what will remain of his presidency.
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So Telegram's security team is not concerned that anyone is able to triangulate the exact location of other users? That's telling.
https://blog.ahmed.nyc/2021/01/if-you-use-this-feature-on-telegram.html?m=1
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this would unironically help me use browsers for fewer things
(though then again, a lot of the native apps are just electron anyway)
note that this isn't an "electron bad" thing or anything
this is a "google will continue to tailor the browser experience - which they have complete over - for their own benefit, which means that as time goes on, browsers will be progressively less useful as de-facto tools; to combat this, we need to create alternative ways of doing things that have a similar degree of convenience, and we have to start doing it BEFORE it becomes a choice of downgrading your experience vs not being able to do anything google doesn't want you to be able to do"
(though then again, a lot of the native apps are just electron anyway)
note that this isn't an "electron bad" thing or anything
this is a "google will continue to tailor the browser experience - which they have complete over - for their own benefit, which means that as time goes on, browsers will be progressively less useful as de-facto tools; to combat this, we need to create alternative ways of doing things that have a similar degree of convenience, and we have to start doing it BEFORE it becomes a choice of downgrading your experience vs not being able to do anything google doesn't want you to be able to do"
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The Life in the Simpsons Is No Longer Attainable
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/12/life-simpsons-no-longer-attainable/617499/
(submitted by MrJagil)
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**After months of negotiations, UK, EU secure Brexit trade deal**
"Anticipated announcement comes just one week before the UK exits the EU's single market."
Happy solstice 🥳
Israeli NSO group hacks 36 Aljazeera employees with zero click iMessage exploit.
The Great iPwn: Journalists Hacked with Suspected NSO Group iMessage 'Zero-Click' Exploit - The Citizen Lab
https://citizenlab.ca/2020/12/the-great-ipwn-journalists-hacked-with-suspected-nso-group-imessage-zero-click-exploit/
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Hello new users! Mastodon (and the wider Fediverse it belongs to) isn't quite like other social media sites you might have used, and there's an existing culture here that might take some getting used to. Here are some hints for getting started: http://www.guidetomastodon.com
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Syrian-American Programmer, Linux lover and Open Source enthusiast.
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