Onno (VK6FLAB)

Anything and everything Amateur Radio and beyond. Heavily into Open Source and SDR, working on a multi band monitor and transmitter.

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  • This is true.

    However, I’m running trusted software, not the backyard efforts of someone randomly selected off the internet.

    Additionally, the Docker container is running on a dedicated Debian virtual machine with only Docker installed.

    What’s of deeper concern is that all instances are running on X11 which means that they all share information via the clipboard for example.



  • Excluding Chrome, Firefox and Safari means that you are now relying on some random developer to understand security and privacy and as a software developer for over 40 years I can tell you that this is a fools errand.

    Don’t get me wrong, the big three absolutely have privacy issues, but they can be mitigated in many different ways without compromising on security.

    For example, you can force DNS requests to one of your choosing, you can run them in incognito mode, refuse cookies, run them inside user accounts without personal information, etc.

    I tend to run individual instances of a browser in incognito mode and am very conscious of which tabs are open in which instance, so websites cannot steal information from other tabs.








  • As a developer I can confirm that we see all kinds of “stuff”.

    My most memorable was an elected official who entered their credit card information into a name field when they made a purchase online. It showed up in a banking report and stood out.

    The purchase went through because they also put the credit card information into the correct fields.

    How did I know it was an elected official?

    Their email address had their full name and government department.








  • Onno (VK6FLAB)@lemmy.radiotomemes@lemmy.worldTotally happened
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    22 days ago

    The experience depends entirely on which shop you go to, how much space there is for your trolley, which model of self-checkout you encounter, how well the touch screen is calibrated and cleaned, which software version is installed and when the last time was that maintenance was done on it, not to mention what state the previous user left it

    In other words, it’s a stressful and moving feast that many, myself included, absolutely detest.