So... the electric company can't become a monopoly because you can spend the money and effort to create your own electric company? How can that not be said for anything anywhere that becomes an obvious monopoly?
In addition to the non-cookie fingerprinting mentioned by others that can happen, there is a loophole in the GDPR cookie control legislation that allows "legitimate interest" cookies to continue to be placed and tracked when you click Reject All.
You have to edit your cookie preferences for the site (assuming they provide the option) and deselect Legitimate Interest cookies proactively in order to block them.
This recent write-up on Reddit alerted me to this information:
I have somehow never gotten around to throwing away the box of ancient floppies I've got in a closet from ages ago, and the Windows 95b (OSR2) installation disks I made were still in it, complete with custom color printed labels I splurged on.
The media I copied from took up 28x 3.5" HD floppy disks. It's possible they were copied from what was originally a CD-ROM. I don't remember clearly anymore.
Note: I'm not trying to refute or correct your 13-disk figure, which was clearly a different installation set, and likely original Windows 95 rather than my OSR2, which came out around 1997.
Why can't somewhere.com have the public key for [email protected] and serve it to other e-mail providers on request?
Letting one's provider hold onto the private key doesn't provide the same level of security as the user being the only one with it, but it's a helluva lot better than not bothering with encryption at all.
Private keys can also be protected with a password, right? So the provider could have a copy of the private key but not the password to utilize it. The user would just have to never forget the password as opposed to never losing their private key to a hard drive failure or whatever.
I am a layperson, so the answer is probably painfully obvious, but why can't e-mail have TLS-style key exchange, where the sender's server gets the public key from the recipient's server and encrypts the message with it before sending it over?
The recipient could keep their private key secure so that only their client could decrypt the messages, and take the risk of losing access to those messages if they lose their private key.
Or they could let their provider hold onto a copy of the private key so they don't ever have to worry about losing it, with the trade-off that the provider could decrypt their e-mails.
But either option requires zero user interaction on the sender's or recipient's part past "login and send" or "login and receive", while limiting decryption to the recipient and maybe their provider.
"Targeted" for me would imply that Windows is checking first to see whether Firefox is installed, and only showing the suggestion if so.
If this is just a general suggestion that gets pushed out to all Windows computers, then it's not so much targeted as merely questionable use of platform.
> I think that for any size k less than the total size of the database, it is not anonymous.
Wouldn't that require that every field of every record in the database be globally unique?
If something as simple as gender is a field in the database, the best k you could get would be the lowest count of records of each existent gender option.
> Authorities are looking to promote tourism at Dahshur, located about 17 miles south of central Cairo.
> The site, which lies in the open desert, attracts just a trickle of visitors and is currently free of the touts and bustle of Giza.
> The promotion of Dahshur is part of a wider push to boost tourism, an important source of foreign revenue for Egypt that dipped steeply after the country’s 2011 uprising before gradually recovering.
