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They are watching DHCP Discover option 55. The device tells the server what options it expects to receive, and different vendors and device ask for different options or ask for them in a different order, and they are fingerprinting that.

Cisco also describes the tactic: https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/support/docs/security/identity-services-engine/116235-configure-ise-00.html

The fingerprints are viewable at https://github.com/karottc/fingerbank/blob/master/dhcp_fingerprints.conf - it is more specific than a mac vendor but not extremely anti-privacy, anybody watching firewall logs will know an iPhone connected pretty easily too.

I think it was primarily BIOS limitations, just like some old machines now don’t support USB boot.

Windows XP could also be installed using boot floppies, but I think was the last version to do so.

We didn’t grow up on iPads. shrug

Great album.

What stuff? Snap? The official flatpak? The official deb repository?

Discover only removes it from ten sites.

They are talking about the password lookup: https://haveibeenpwned.com/Passwords

But, it’s the same deal. You have to trust they are actually doing what they say. Mozilla uses haveibeenpwned for their basic Monitor service too.

No. If your name is Dave Jones they have to look around those broker sites for Dave Jones. If those sites were using hashes then they could use hashes too.

This is no different than any credit or identity monitoring service. The need to give them basic information should be obvious, people have to decide if the company is trustworthy or not.

There is some controversy recently due to partnering with Brave for search results, and the response to comments. Brave tends to be controversial any time it comes up anyway, outside of Eich’s political views.

company x founder personal political views was not a factor in this evaluation for this or any any provider we added (for betteor or worse) and merit of technology was the main factor. Politics finding its way into tech is one of the reasons we do not have innovation any more

People can go whatever direction they want with that.

Netanyahu has much to gain from a Trump presidency too.

Nearly every Republican will vote for Trump. Meanwhile, the Democrats are notoriously fickle already, and have to convince enough independents to vote for them, and they’re doing everything in their power to alienate people in both camps.

Typical establishment hubris. The other side supports fascism, so we dare you not to vote for us, or just the assumption that enough people support them out of the gate to win (like Hillary Clinton). And we are fucked by the two party system again.

“If you can’t handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don’t deserve me at my best.” - Establishment Democrats

Unlike most, macOS is also registered and can use the UNIX name.