Here’s a wild shot in the dark: We’re thinking about protecting the plaintext from the person doing the computation on it. But what if the objective was to protect both the plaintext AND the algorithm? Take, for example, MRI machines. The most expensive part of the MRI machine is the algorithm in which the machine … Read more
I disabled uBlock origin which removed the warning in the console
Cookies seem to be considered 3rd party if they come from different base domains (base domains being example.com or example.co.uk), but not if they come from different subdomains of the same base domain. myapp.example.com will be able to set cookies with domain myapp.example.com if it is embedded within www.example.com. Having myapp.example.com set cookies with domain … Read more
None of these answers give a full useable workflow, I want to git push, not send an email! Here’s how to do it properly but there’s a bit of setup required. Instructions are for OSX Publishing anonymously to github with tor+ssh Download tor browser bundle AND the tor command line proxy brew install tor brew … Read more
From the documentation NSLocationWhenInUseUsageDescription (String – iOS) describes the reason why the app accesses the user’s location normally while running in the foreground. Include this key when your app uses location services to track the user’s current location directly. This key does not support using location services to monitor regions or monitor the user’s location … Read more
If you are paranoid about what kind of data (if at all) your installed applications/plugins send and where to, you will first have to inspect the plugin source code line-by-line, followed by the setup of a kind of man-in-the-middle proxy server that’s logging every network transaction. There is a tool fittingly called mitmproxy that is … Read more
As far as I know, there is no specific standard for the privacy policy. You can have a look at the policies of other reputed apps to get an idea on how to write it. There is no hard and fast rule of the writing style either (remember, this is neither legislature nor a court … Read more
Important Note: Apple just released iOS 6.0 and the NDA has been lifted. For developers who preemptively included code that referenced [[UIDevice currentDevice] identifierForAdvertising] this method has NOT been included on iOS 6. If you use the above method, your app will (most likely) crash and be rejected! Instead, Apple has created a new class … Read more
It seems that it’s part of Chromium’s GREASEing strategy: User agents’ brands containing more than a single entry could encourage standardized processing of the UA string. By randomly including additional, intentionally incorrect, comma-separated entries with arbitrary ordering, they would reduce the chance that we ossify on a few required strings. Looking at the Chromium repository, … Read more
On Android prior to 4.2, go to Google Settings, tap Verify apps and uncheck the option Verify apps. On Android 4.2+, uncheck the option Settings > Security > Verify apps and/or Settings > Developer options > Verify apps over USB.