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In short gdpr compliant means you can configure it but it must not be compliant by default and also there is no guarantee.

They are constantly changing their software and settings. More than once they believed that something is legal but can be risky for the atlassian customer.

For example training AI on metadata which they believe are anonymized but are maybe not enough changed.

Training data or metadata permisson can not be configured on all subscriptions. But as a data processor they must follow the contract otherwise they become data controller.

Also there are risks associated with privacy data framework, cloud act etc. to be non compliant just by data transfers to other countries.

10 times the amount of digits is the possible number space.

smaller than 384 means 384 numbers (including 0) divided by the amount of possible numbers (see above) imho

The probability of getting a 0 is the same for every digit. However, in my opinion, the probability of getting a number that starts with two zeros is 1/10 * 1/10, and the probability of getting a number that starts with the same two digits is 10 * 1/10 * 1/10.

But the probability to receive one number or the other are the same.

Re:Small Programming Tricks on Thursday September 17, 2026 @01:56AM (#49736909)
You have a link? :-) (Still a student)
Re:Giving up on smart rings on Tuesday September 15, 2026 @02:20PM (#49716615)
In a hospital, they may need to remove the ring quickly for example, if your finger was injured and begins to swell.
Certification takes time and probably overlaped with the phone development. Fairephone is small compared to e.g. samsung and they describe themself more "stable" and long-term support than bleeding edge.
Re:4.5B Posts Scraped from TikTok on Thursday September 03, 2026 @10:05AM (#49550088)
Because a lot of things is public online and can't be copied and sold e.g. due to copyright, patents and trademark. Also if you access a website you are bound to a ToS contract and this is a breach of that contract.
Yes. In this case probably not fineeprinting is not allowed because not strictly necessary (cookie law) and therefore needs consent from user.
Yes. In this case probably not allowed because not strictly necessary (cookie law) and therefore needs consent from user.
Re:Software Engineering fundamentals matter more on Sunday August 16, 2026 @06:56AM (#49318863)
The problem with this analogy is responsibility. Same set of problems if you have a self driving car imho. Not?
Re:AI agent hacks gym to get its user a spot in pilates class on Wednesday August 12, 2026 @04:27AM (#49269346)
If you publish the bug then it could be unfair competition in my opinion. There was a product test where the mentioned some flaws of a medicine but didnt mention other producers of same drug. They broke the UC rules and paid some money: https://politchronik.swiss/de/prozesse/57953-das-kassensturz...
Re:AI agent hacks gym to get its user a spot in pilates class on Wednesday August 12, 2026 @04:17AM (#49269283)
If you access "private" data it's also unlawful acording to 143. Pentesting is a hot topic but there are comapnys acusing you of hacking if you send them a security report (hacking). If they mention a bug bounty program then you are allowed to test their security as described in this program but not more.
Re:AI agent hacks gym to get its user a spot in pilates class on Wednesday August 12, 2026 @03:54AM (#49269116)
In switzerland it depends 143bis StGB:

Any person who, with the intention of securing an unlawful gain for themselves or another obtains for themselves or another data that are stored or transmitted electronically or in some similar manner and which are not intended for them and have been specially secured to prevent their access shall be liable to a custodial sentence not exceeding five years or to a monetary penalty.

Re:Tailscale didn't stop the Hugging Face intrusion on Monday August 03, 2026 @04:18AM (#49152743)
Env variables are considered best practice (factor 3): https://developer.ibm.com/articles/creating-a-12-factor-appl...

If I would avoid env then i need to put it in some kind of conf file and configure the app to read this file (e.g. mount into container). If I use a fault then i need some kind of credentials to receive the credentials.

So again what do I gain if I avoid env variables in containers?

Re:Tailscale didn't stop the Hugging Face intrusion on Friday July 31, 2026 @04:07PM (#49127987)
Why should that help to have no env variables?
I just use my home router as VPN to not care if the 100 apps om my phone have a working encryption. I also use it to access my home services so that they are not exposed to the internet. I also use it to limit exposure on my VMs on a cloud hoster.
Re:The unreasonable difficulty of time series forecasting on Tuesday July 21, 2026 @05:24PM (#48998573)
Exists randomness or is it just lack of information? :)
Re:EF Core 11 makes your split queries faster on Sunday July 12, 2026 @07:53AM (#48880411)
I think compression would reduce the problem not? I think if you swap the wire format to something like jsonb you would need to parse it again anyway and pay the cpu time.
Re:.de TLD offline due to DNSSEC? on Wednesday May 06, 2026 @05:15AM (#48034071)
acme.sh supports multiple CAs there is even a RFC for CAs that describe the api.
Re:.de TLD offline due to DNSSEC? on Wednesday May 06, 2026 @05:14AM (#48034061)
I would define high as "double time needed to fix a dns issue" and account for weekends
What's the threat model. Where do you store the decryption key?

E.g. if my app needs a db connection I can ask a vault service but I need creds for that. The vault service can rotate the creds very fast but is it addition security.

Edit:

Banking has no selfservice password reset. A lot of work for customer support due to identification. Nobody wants to do that for free and if the accounts are freenyou may get DOSed by bots which trigger passwort resets.

> But then your hardware dies

A lot of services have password reset email features. If the email account has passkey you're screwed. But restore by snail mail can be possible but slow (for paid services). More secure? Don't know but same category of problems already known due to sim swapping attacks in mobile sector. But for sure the Mail account is a high value target.

Storing passkeys in a database may be possible but complex to do it right e.g. backup verification, avoiding to leak while backup etc.

Re:Mastodon: Don't use "Mastodon" or "mstdn" in domain names on Thursday April 16, 2026 @01:25PM (#47796671)
Pull request to notify on setup (2 weeks old): https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/pull/38548
Re:State of Homelab 2026 on Monday April 13, 2026 @01:23AM (#47747918)
Is that legal? Do you avoid uploading somehow?
Re:Password managers less secure than promised on Saturday February 21, 2026 @05:59PM (#47105846)
Not if the advertise zero knowledge encryption. As far as I understand the password sharing / collaboration feature is often the problem.

Second: The provider can get the passwords with a simple server change.

Re:Password managers less secure than promised on Saturday February 21, 2026 @05:54PM (#47105780)
> Much like the other products we analyse, 1Password lacks authentication of public keys. This trivially enables sharing attacks similar to BW09, LP07 and DL02, something that the 1Password whitepaper...

> IMPACT. Complete compromise of vault confidentiality and integrity. The adversary can read and decrypt all vault con- tents encrypted after the attack, including passwords, credit card information, secure notes, and other sensitive data stored in the vault. Similarly, they can inject new items into the vault after the attack. REQUIREMENTS. The client fetches key material from the server, for example due to the user logging in on a new device. If executed on a non-empty vault, the attack results in the client losing access to all items already in their vault, while leaking any new items added to the vault after the attack took place. If the attack is executed at the time of vault creation, the attack is effectively undetectable by the client, since it cannot distinguish between a ciphertext it created and the ciphertext created by the server during the attack. PROPOSED MITIGATION. A straightforward mitigation is to have the client sign vault keys using the RSA private key in the keyset before encrypting them with the RSA public key. Ideally, two different key pairs would be used for...

from the paper: https://eprint.iacr.org/2026/058.pdf

Re:Discord Alternatives, Ranked on Tuesday February 10, 2026 @06:04AM (#46958084)
In europe you need identification to buy a sim or esim.

https://www.reddit.com/r/europe/comments/9ziqfi/european_cou...

> online access is as necessary as water We have paper money and also can work and buy stuff offline.

I would say online access is as necessary as a car. Possible without but less flexible.

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