The Daily Build

I put “privacy” in quotes, because under the scheme below you’re still giving up a lot of data, but you can (I think) still maintain “silos” of data so that, for example, your search data isn’t correlated with your YouTube or GMail data. See What Actually Changed in Google’s Privacy Policy from the EFF for [...]

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The auth.log on one of my servers (really, on all of the servers I have access to) is full of stuff like this: Dec 8 03:19:33 localhost sshd[4718]: User root from 10.1.2.3 not allowed [...] Dec 8 03:19:35 localhost sshd[4721]: Invalid user db2inst1 from 10.1.2.3 Dec 8 03:19:38 localhost sshd[4723]: User root from 10.1.2.3 not [...]

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