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Re:MIT severs ties to company promoting fatal brain uploading by Analemma_ on Tuesday April 03, 2018 @02:09PM (#16747432)
That's interesting. Why are the storage APIs disabled, instead of just using ephemeral storage that goes away when the window is cleared?
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Re:MIT severs ties to company promoting fatal brain uploading by lallysingh on Tuesday April 03, 2018 @02:42PM (#16747789)
It's less work to disable them. There's likely already an API access control system in place, for internal-only APIs, testing, etc.
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Re:MIT severs ties to company promoting fatal brain uploading by eridius on Tuesday April 03, 2018 @02:51PM (#16747869)
It also means sites can avoid promising to do things that aren't actually possible, like saving information for access next time.
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