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terrik··on Up to tenth of Amazon shoppers in GB 'bribed' by sellers to offer good review
Fakespot is a tool that can help identify products with manipulated reviews.

https://www.fakespot.com/

terrik··on I can see your local web servers
Would this have implications for people who use Cryptomator, which uses loopback connections to a local WebDAV drive in order to encrypt/decrypt files?
terrik··on Tails – simplified installation method
You could write the image to your hard drive like you would your flash drive.

OTH, installing to your hard drive kind of goes against Tails’ ephemeral approach.

terrik··on Hacking Gmail’s UX with 'From' Fields – Another Phishing Vector
Clicking this PoC link on iOS shows that the iOS Mail app suffers the same UI vulnerability. It appears like you are emailing support@paypal.com, when you are not.
terrik··on Mechanism many macOS security tools used to check signatures could be bypassed
> “To be clear, this is not a vulnerability or bug in Apple’s code... basically just unclear/confusing documentation that led to people using their API incorrectly,” Wardle told Ars. “Apple updated [its] documents to be more clear, and third-party developers just have to invoke the API with a more comprehensive flag (that was always available).”
terrik··on Man Accused of Making 97M Robocalls
For those on iOS, you can block wildcard number ranges like this with Number Shield[0].

I have been receiving alot of these spoofed neighbor number calls, and this app saves me a lot of time and stress. You can also prevent it from blocking contacts that fall into your blocked number range.

0: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/number-shield/id1319082167?m...

terrik··on Incremental Backups Using GNU Tar and S3
A great, though non-free, backup tool that supports incremental encrypted backups is Arq[0].

Arq supports painless back ups to multiple cloud storage providers, with budget enforcements, etc.

[0] https://www.arqbackup.com

terrik··on GitHub pages is now running Jekyll 3
Today, I tried out your service with a previously-unused domain and a brand new gh-pages repo.

When I ran into a small issue, I used the instant chat applet inside the Kloudsec control panel, and Steven quickly discovered the problem (I simply needed to remove the two A records pointing to GitHub pages, leaving only the Kloudsec A record).

Everything is working flawlessly so far, in regards to having TLS/SSL for custom domain hosted on GitHub pages. I especially like the option to enable HSTS for the domain's SSL. I wish GitHub Pages' own SSL on username.github.com offered that option.

All in all, painless plus quick, and without the unclean feeling that comes with Cloudflare's free SSL option. Additionally, I'm impressed with Steven's quick and quality assistance via chat and email.

edit: I've now noticed that there are large blocks of Javascript injected into my one-page test website. Ostensibly for the Speed Booster CDN plugin; I'll update after confirming the JS is gone upon disabling all plugins aside from the One-Click Encryption plugin.

edit2: Confirmed. Speed Booster plugin was source of JS injection. I suppose that's the drawback to a CDN who doesn't also host your DNS. Ironically, due to test site being small and static, disabling the Speed Booster plugin to remove all the JavaScript increased page load speeds.

Still, this doesn't detract from Kloudsec's simple deployment of LetsEncrypt SSL certificates for custom domains hosted on GitHub pages.

terrik··on Hacker news for data scientists
This is one of the "HN for X" websites that I truly hope takes off. I have signed up, and submitted a few interesting articles. I've already found a few interesting reads on their homepage.

Best of luck to the DataTau founders!

terrik··on EFF has 2x matching donations until Dec 17th
Donated. This is a great way to help the EFF, and even a small donation can go a long way.

You can also help the EFF non-financially at their Action Center: https://www.eff.org/action