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Re:A mysterious grey-hat is patching people's outdated MikroTik routers on Friday October 12, 2018 @03:42PM (#18204141)
Not sure what they mean by "mysterious". He isn't hiding and never was. He posted his photo, name and other personal details in articles about MikroTik on Russian IT blogging platform[1]. His name is Alexey Sopov, 34, from Novosibirsk. Quick search revealed his social network accounts:

https://fb.com/100005153643926

https://vk.com/lmonoceros

[1] https://habr.com/post/353530/

Re:Vivaldi now includes Qwant, a privacy-focused search engine based ... on Thursday July 19, 2018 @06:11AM (#17565037)
Is there a way to opt-out or disable this telemetry? Under privacy laws isn't Vivaldi supposed to give users a choice: whether they want to be tracked or not?