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New Rule: Every website must disclose their password storage format on the signup page.
(gizmodo.com)
Scared to disclose? It's too weak.
Original email: http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/perpass/current/msg00183.html
Privacy Claims Based on LinkedIn’s Security Promises Survive Motion to Dismiss
(blog.ericgoldman.org)
There's some pretty good examples in here, e.g., google maps leaking search terms.
tl;dr Because of the 25th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square protests, the Chinese government has been blocking access to Google sites. A group has circumvented this by mirroring Google search on AWS.
From [this event](https://www.win.tue.nl/eipsi/surveillance.html).
Endless: An iOS web browser with a focus on privacy and security - now in the App Store
(itunes.apple.com)
When I switched again from Android to iOS, I had to give up using Firefox and its add-ons like HTTPS-Everywhere, Disconnect, and Self-Destructing Cookies.
I started making a browser for iOS (as a wrapper around UIWebView, of course) that had these things built-in, and I have been using it as my p...
There's been discussions on lobste.rs in the past about whether https-everywhere is really necessary. While I'm sure not everyone will agree that apparently-widespread ad injection via http really changes anything, it's a way an MITM can be intrusive that hasn't gotten a lot of attention in the pas...