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otriv··on Gab.com Booted from Hosting Provider Due to User Account
Except that The Daily Stormer is creating their own content while Gab is just hosting others. I'm sure I could find YouTube comments equally as bad as comments on Gab.
otriv··on The military’s obsession with energy drinks is contributing to PTSD
Perhaps the people who have PTSD are more likely to drink energy drinks?
otriv··on Apple's new parental control: Daily Stormer is in, sex-ed is out
I don't really see an issue here. The Daily Stormer is just a political site, should political sites really be banned for having wrong think? Sex related topics on the other hand tends not to have any intellectual use for people below 12.

I'd rather find my son reading The Daily Stormer than sex ed when he is 10.

otriv··on 69 of the Richest 100 Entities on the Planet Are Corporations, Not Governments
This is fairly obvious. In order for a government to have a large income, there must be large corporations. The larger the government income, the larger the corporations. Not all countries will be large, therefore the largest government (in terms of revenue) will have many, many companies larger than smaller governments.

I suppose it's an interesting headline to read.

otriv··on A timing attack with CSS selectors and JavaScript
This is a good time to shill NoScript. If your browser runs JavaScript automatically, then you are putting your privacy and safety at risk.
otriv··on The Only Linux Foundation CII Gold Rated Project Is a .. PHP Markdown Parser
To be honest I don't find this completely surprising. PHP is widely used and the code can be just as clean as any other language.
otriv··on Bring Your Custom Image to DigitalOcean
This is great news for making use of OpenBSD and other non-native OS. Most hosting I've used doesn't support OpenBSD or any other *BSD.
otriv··on Lenovo Thinkpad X1 Extreme – 64GM RAM and GTX 1050 in an Ultrabook
I'm currently on a x200 and would like to upgrade to a newer ThinkPad. Unfortunately this has a processor that has Intel ME. When will hardware companies start caring about user privacy?
otriv··on Ask HN: How secure is Protonmail really?
> Placing those demands on everyone else in your life is going to result in fewer emails

Sometimes this is a good thing.

otriv··on Ask HN: How secure is Protonmail really?
Not sure what you mean by 'secure'. If you send a person an email with ProtonMail, it defeats all the security that ProtonMail has (unless it's to another PM email). You should only rely on yourself for security. Start using PGP and demand that all your friends/relatives use PGP. Only sign in through Tor, use different emails for different services, etc.

You can't rely on a company to provide you security or privacy.

otriv··on Free email that’s not gmail
You should use PGP so your messages can't be read. When signing up for services I try to use a new email for every service so that one email can't be used to track me. Besides that the ones I use: cock.li, elude.in, protonmail.com, danwin1210.me, and a few others. These all work when registering through Tor.

That should be good to start you off.

otriv··on Exploit vendor drops Tor Browser zero-day on Twitter
The article says:

> This Tor Browser exploit was acquired by Zerodium many months ago as a zero-day and was shared with our government customers.

It's a possibility that it has been used. I'm not sure if a government would buy an exploit and not use it before it's patched, unless they couldn't find any use for it. This exploit is different than the one the FBI used on the child porn site though. They'd need to combine it with something that can bypass the Tor Browser's socks5 setting. It would be a much bigger deal if they had an exploit that could do that.

otriv··on Tor Browser 8.0 released
If you click the green onion next to the site URL, you're able to view it too. You can create a new site identity from that too.
otriv··on Tor Browser 8.0 released
This is probably the worst update I have ever seen. If they fix the NoScript UI and remove the user agent leaking, I'll be happy. I use Whonix, so the Quantum design looks funky.