I am Jake Winters, also known by my pseudonym "Inference", a security
researcher based in United Kingdom.
I am the founder, lead developer, and administrator, of Inferencium.
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forward-slash when there is more to the system than only GNU.
All dates and times across my services are
ISO 8601-compliant. The
short-form format YYYY-MM-DD is used for dates, and
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YYYYMMDDThhmmss-hhmm (with negative offset).
I care about upstreaming and sharing code, strongly preferring licenses which
have high license compatibility in order to permit sharing code with as many
other projects as possible; for this reason, permissive licenses are my
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isn't "free", it's not open-source, either.
This list contains the policies and practices of my services.
My policies and practices are heavily security- and privacy-focused, with
improvements made on an ongoing basis as new technologies, protocols, and
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"Humpf, I am not convinced this is the right way to announce this.
We never did that, and half the CVEs aren't useful anyway, hence I am not sure
we should start with that now, because it is either inherently incomplete or
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systemd GitHub Issue 6225
"Yes, as you found out "0day" is not a valid username. I wonder
which tool permitted you to create it in the first place. Note that not
permitting numeric first characters is done on purpose: to avoid ambiguities
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It's no secret that I'm an advocate of Chromium and will use it for the
foreseeable future. It is a highly secure web browser which provides strong
protection against malicious wesbites and the code they run, and, while I am not
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web.
In order to combat the Chromium monopoly, users typically go over to
Chromium's classical rival, Firefox. However, Firefox is dying and has lost
almost all of its userbase over the last 2-3 years; the reason for this is a
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tactical, not emotional.
Supporting Safari is the first step in supporting WebKit and promoting usage
of the independent web engine. Buying time while supporting and contributing to
WebKit browser projects is the best and only chance anyone has at competing with
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A recent trend is seeing people move towards decentralised services and
platforms. While this is reasonable and I can understand why they are doing such
a thing, they are seemingly doing it without thinking about the possible
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will discuss some of the security issues with the decentralised model.
When it comes to messaging your contacts on a centralised
platform, such as Twitter or Facebook, the keys are pinned to
that user account, using the user's password as the method of
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I'll cut to the chase; there isn't a definitive solution. The best way to
handle this situation is to design your threat model and think about your
reasoning for avoiding centralised platforms. Is it lack of trust of a specific
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would make this impossible to implement in any form.
Do not demand anonymity; demand privacy and control of your own data.
Complete anonymity makes it impossible to have a root of trust, and is typically
never necessary. It is possible for someone else to hold your keys, without them
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