stifle867

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[–] stifle867@programming.dev 6 points 1 year ago

There's a lot of asterisks attached to that sentence. My point being that no one wants to think about all the ways Google is going to wiggle out of its commitments each time they make a new one. It erodes trust and I'm glad that they are getting more and more negative press about it. They need to be held accountable. Their strategy of making a product at a loss while they drive out all competition until they realise it's not a billion dollar product and promptly shut it down while shafting everyone who grew to rely on it needs to stop.

[–] stifle867@programming.dev 3 points 1 year ago

Wow thank you! Bonus points for citing case law and referencing dissenting opinions. To go back to the original article, one thing I did not consider that even though one man was not on US soil he still would have been a US citizen when he was charged the fee. Only after the fee was paid was his citizenship renounced. For some reason it's funny to me that if not for that fact, the government may have been able to argue that based (on face value) on Hernandez v. Mesa that he wasn't in the US nor a citizen at the time!

[–] stifle867@programming.dev 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You say inhabitants but it's clear from the article that at least some of the litigants were not inhabiting USA territory. And I thought the entire point of setting up Guantanamo Bay was that it "technically" wasn't US soil therefore they are not afforded the same protections.

[–] stifle867@programming.dev 2 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Just to be clear, are you saying Firefox with fingerprinting resistance used in conjunction with Arkenfox user.js provides fingerprint unification, similar to what Tor browser does? I'll have to check that out.

I think both approaches are valid tbh. Having a unique fingerprint obviously uniquely identified you, but if it's randomised then your browsing sessions can't (in theory) be linked.

[–] stifle867@programming.dev 8 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Yes that makes sense now, thank you!

I have a few weird questions if you have time to answer them. How does it work in the case where the person was outside of the USA at the time, seeing as they were not on USA "soil" at the time? It's just that one of the parties (in this case the federal government) has to be on USA soil?

And how does that work if, say, you're standing on the USA side of the Mexican border and you throw a brick at someone on the Mexican side? Could the Mexican citizen in this case file a lawsuit in a USA court?

[–] stifle867@programming.dev 5 points 1 year ago (9 children)

Yes that was my understanding of the situation. Feel free to explain why I'm wrong, that's why I asked the question. Even the term "foreign national" is something I'm not familiar with and it's not entirely clear whether you would even use it in some of the cases cited in the article considering that one individual is self described as living overseas when he renounced his citizenship.

[–] stifle867@programming.dev 5 points 1 year ago (5 children)

This is a great idea! I wish more websites did warrant canaries, and those that do often fail to maintain them or plan for the case when a gag order prevents them from updating an existing canary. The only thing I would suggest is making it more clear that being in an alpha stage means that the product should not be relied upon in critical situations.

[–] stifle867@programming.dev 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's a common use case but probably a bit out of scope for the team at the moment. It's probably better to have a seperate "todo" type of app for that.

[–] stifle867@programming.dev 13 points 1 year ago (23 children)

How can you file a lawsuit in a country you are not a citizen of, against a country you are not a citizen of? Real question.

[–] stifle867@programming.dev 1 points 1 year ago

Agreed. However, you did reply to a comment that specifically said "in some contexts".

[–] stifle867@programming.dev 1 points 1 year ago

No other email client on any platform behaves this way AFAIK. Below is Gmail, you can see from the placeholder text which only displays when the contents are blank. Proton Mail also displays this placeholder text when the body is blank.

Gmail (default):

Proton Mail (after deleting empty lines):

[–] stifle867@programming.dev 3 points 1 year ago

Even CSS alone is sufficiently advanced to allow fingerprinting.

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