What is the most common Screen Size and Color Depth (forpanopticlick)

Lewis wrote, on Wed, 28 Jan 2015 22:58:21 +0000:

That is absurd.

What is absurd?
Having 5,000 fonts, or being unique?

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Lewis wrote:

Okay, so one time? In band camp? Sage was all, like:
So you have five times as many fonts as I do, which, not surprisingly,
will make you even "more" unique, than I am

That is absurd.

I ran that on my Linux machine, and I have 4702 !!1!
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Where's the Vangelis music?
Pris' tongue is sticking out in in the wide shot after Batty has kissed her.
They have put back more tits into the Zhora dressing room scene.
-- notes for Blade Runner

In article , Sage wrote:

MailVelope:
https://www.mailvelope.com/
MailVelope seems to be a public key email encryption scheme, which
is nice, if it's done well, but, again, there are many PGP/GPG
email solutions out there, and, we only need one.

Of course there are, but MailVelope works nicely with Gmail, has its own
version of GPG, and stores its own keys. Maybe there's a backdoor, but
....


Is there a solution out there that will protect login credentials
if you go to a web forum that doesn't have https, such as craigslist
or android central?

Yes - go and use a computer at your library, login via a "secure boot
key" and create an identity on those sites that doesn't point back to
you or your true email address. The research is up to you.
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Where's the Vangelis music?
Pris' tongue is sticking out in in the wide shot after Batty has kissed her.
They have put back more tits into the Zhora dressing room scene.
-- notes for Blade Runner

In article ,
Lewis wrote:

Okay, so one time? In band camp? Warren Oates was
all, like:
In article ,
"David W. Hodgins" wrote:

Make's my system unique. Why is that a problem? Don't send
anything over the internet that you would not be comfortable
having your neighbours read. Having helped design and develop
an email system (on an IBM mainframe) back in the early 1980s,
I am fully aware that anything that is not properly encrypted
can be read by any admin running the system it's sent from,
the system it's sent to, or any system in between.

This isn't about email. Companies like Google and Facebook (say) want to
know that user A12345X, identified because he's in Nfld Standard Time
and uses Opera on a Mac G3 has visited LL Bean's website 431 times this
year so that they can target him with adverts for wool shirts and baggy
chinos.

Of course, anyone who's visited the LL Bean site 431 times is already
desperate for wool shirts and baggy chinos.

But that's not really what the tinfoil crowd is worried about.

Their fear is that "A user we've uniquely identified as having posted
this message on ihatejews.com also posted this other message on
sarahpalinshot.com" (is that shot or 's hot at the end, I wonder?) and
that the UN's secret police will round them up and put them into the
secret prison that is in the hollow earth where they filmed the fake
moon landing.

Been there! (Bin theyah!)
--
Where's the Vangelis music?
Pris' tongue is sticking out in in the wide shot after Batty has kissed her.
They have put back more tits into the Zhora dressing room scene.
-- notes for Blade Runner

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"Gene E. Bloch" wrote:

I find myself wondering about LL Bean's tinfoil hats - are they any
good, or would I be better off at Lands End?

Bean have a better returns policy.
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Where's the Vangelis music?
Pris' tongue is sticking out in in the wide shot after Batty has kissed her.
They have put back more tits into the Zhora dressing room scene.
-- notes for Blade Runner

On 1/28/15 PDT 4:20 PM, Warren Oates wrote:
In article ,
Lewis wrote:

Okay, so one time? In band camp? Warren Oates
was all, like:
In article ,
"David W. Hodgins" wrote:

Make's my system unique. Why is that a problem? Don't send
anything over the internet that you would not be comfortable
having your neighbours read. Having helped design and develop
an email system (on an IBM mainframe) back in the early 1980s,
I am fully aware that anything that is not properly encrypted
can be read by any admin running the system it's sent from,
the system it's sent to, or any system in between.

This isn't about email. Companies like Google and Facebook (say)
want to know that user A12345X, identified because he's in Nfld
Standard Time and uses Opera on a Mac G3 has visited LL Bean's
website 431 times this year so that they can target him with adverts
for wool shirts and baggy chinos.

Of course, anyone who's visited the LL Bean site 431 times is already
desperate for wool shirts and baggy chinos.

But that's not really what the tinfoil crowd is worried about.

Their fear is that "A user we've uniquely identified as having posted
this message on ihatejews.com also posted this other message on
sarahpalinshot.com" (is that shot or 's hot at the end, I wonder?) and
that the UN's secret police will round them up and put them into the
secret prison that is in the hollow earth where they filmed the fake
moon landing.

Been there! (Bin theyah!)

Ayyop! And, will ya go again?

Jolly Roger wrote, on Wed, 28 Jan 2015 23:51:34 +0000:

Can't use something that isn't there. Websites that do not provide SSL
cannot be coerced into providing it.

I understand.
I was swayed by what the description said.
The description should have been clearer, but, I understand now, that I can't
"add" encryption when it's not there.

I guess the only way to do that is to tunnel into an encrypted network,
and then do all the connections from that encrypted network.

But, I don't have access to one.

Lewis wrote, on Thu, 29 Jan 2015 02:16:35 +0000:

So you think that means it will force sites without HTTPS to use the
HTTPS they don't have?

Not any more.

Lewis wrote, on Thu, 29 Jan 2015 02:19:51 +0000:

The idea that more fonts = more unique.

This is Usenet, so, confusion will abound, and clarification will
always be needed.

We all agree, as shown in the title of this thread, that the goal,
for the purpose of bits of identifying information, is to have the
most common (screen size, fonts, plugins, time zone, settings, etc.).

If, say, the original 1,000 fonts that came with the system are the
most common, then having five times that will certainly flag you,
if it's not common to have those particular additional 4,000 fonts.

However, if it's most common to have those particular 5,000 fonts,
then that, of course, would be the desired font set, for the purpose
of reducing bits of identifying information.

On Thu, 29 Jan 2015 02:18:21 +0000 (UTC), Lewis wrote:

Okay, so one time? In band camp? Gene E. Bloch was all, like:
On Wed, 28 Jan 2015 22:56:48 +0000 (UTC), Lewis wrote:

This isn't about email. Companies like Google and Facebook (say) want to
know that user A12345X, identified because he's in Nfld Standard Time
and uses Opera on a Mac G3 has visited LL Bean's website 431 times this
year so that they can target him with adverts for wool shirts and baggy
chinos.

Of course, anyone who's visited the LL Bean site 431 times is already
desperate for wool shirts and baggy chinos.

But that's not really what the tinfoil crowd is worried about.

I find myself wondering about LL Bean's tinfoil hats - are they any
good, or would I be better off at Lands End?

All corporate tinfoil hats are made to enhance surveillance. Everyone
knows you need to make your own hat.

Noted.

I shall proceed accordingly.

Thanks for your excellent advice.

--
Gene E. Bloch (Stumbling Bloch)

In article , Gene E. Bloch
wrote:
On Thu, 29 Jan 2015 02:18:21 +0000 (UTC), Lewis wrote:
Okay, so one time? In band camp? Gene E. Bloch was
all, like:
On Wed, 28 Jan 2015 22:56:48 +0000 (UTC), Lewis wrote:

This isn't about email. Companies like Google and Facebook (say) want to
know that user A12345X, identified because he's in Nfld Standard Time
and uses Opera on a Mac G3 has visited LL Bean's website 431 times this
year so that they can target him with adverts for wool shirts and baggy
chinos.

Of course, anyone who's visited the LL Bean site 431 times is already
desperate for wool shirts and baggy chinos.

But that's not really what the tinfoil crowd is worried about.

I find myself wondering about LL Bean's tinfoil hats - are they any
good, or would I be better off at Lands End?

All corporate tinfoil hats are made to enhance surveillance. Everyone
knows you need to make your own hat.

Noted.

I shall proceed accordingly.

Thanks for your excellent advice.

It's worse than ... tin-foil hats don't even contain any tin ... it's a
massive government conspiracy and cover up taht's been going on for
years! ;-)

On Thu, 29 Jan 2015 18:35:03 +1300, Your Name wrote:

In article , Gene E. Bloch
wrote:
On Thu, 29 Jan 2015 02:18:21 +0000 (UTC), Lewis wrote:
Okay, so one time? In band camp? Gene E. Bloch was
all, like:
On Wed, 28 Jan 2015 22:56:48 +0000 (UTC), Lewis wrote:

This isn't about email. Companies like Google and Facebook (say) want to
know that user A12345X, identified because he's in Nfld Standard Time
and uses Opera on a Mac G3 has visited LL Bean's website 431 times this
year so that they can target him with adverts for wool shirts and baggy
chinos.

Of course, anyone who's visited the LL Bean site 431 times is already
desperate for wool shirts and baggy chinos.

But that's not really what the tinfoil crowd is worried about.

I find myself wondering about LL Bean's tinfoil hats - are they any
good, or would I be better off at Lands End?

All corporate tinfoil hats are made to enhance surveillance. Everyone
knows you need to make your own hat.

Noted.

I shall proceed accordingly.

Thanks for your excellent advice.

It's worse than ... tin-foil hats don't even contain any tin ... it's a
massive government conspiracy and cover up taht's been going on for
years! ;-)

So - we're foiled again.

--
Gene E. Bloch (Stumbling Bloch)

In article , Wolf K
wrote:
On 2015-01-29 12:35 AM, Your Name wrote:
In article , Gene E. Bloch
wrote:
On Thu, 29 Jan 2015 02:18:21 +0000 (UTC), Lewis wrote:
Okay, so one time? In band camp? Gene E. Bloch was
all, like:
On Wed, 28 Jan 2015 22:56:48 +0000 (UTC), Lewis wrote:

This isn't about email. Companies like Google and Facebook (say) want
to
know that user A12345X, identified because he's in Nfld Standard Time
and uses Opera on a Mac G3 has visited LL Bean's website 431 times this
year so that they can target him with adverts for wool shirts and baggy
chinos.

Of course, anyone who's visited the LL Bean site 431 times is already
desperate for wool shirts and baggy chinos.

But that's not really what the tinfoil crowd is worried about.

I find myself wondering about LL Bean's tinfoil hats - are they any
good, or would I be better off at Lands End?

All corporate tinfoil hats are made to enhance surveillance. Everyone
knows you need to make your own hat.

Noted.

I shall proceed accordingly.

Thanks for your excellent advice.

It's worse than ... tin-foil hats don't even contain any tin ... it's a
massive government conspiracy and cover up that's been going on for
years! ;-)

And Everybody Knows that Aluminum causes Alzheimer's! It's a conspiracy
to prevent seniors from voting!

Yep, that's why real countries make their tin-foil out of alumin*i*um
instead ... much safer than that cheap Americanised knock-off. ;-)

On 2015-01-28, Sage wrote:

anything that is not properly encrypted
can be read by any admin running the system it's sent from,
the system it's sent to, or any system in between.

Speaking of that "proper encryption", I'm wondering about the millions
of web sites that don't have https encryption.

For example, let's say I have a web forum account
which requires a login and a password, yet, it's not https.

What are our options, if we don't want to just hand our passwords
to anyone snooping on that login process?

a: the website uses out-of-band auth eg oauth against google and facebook
who have an encrypted auth page, or client side CRAM based auth.

b: avoid the website

tor and https everywhere don't help. (unless the website is an onion
domain)


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umop apisdn

On Sun, 25 Jan 2015 11:54:44 +0000, Andy Burns


drek wrote:

Madison James wrote:

what is the most common Screen Size and Color Depth today?

One source lists 1366x768 as tops by a large margin.

Yep, used by loads of el-cheapo wide screen laptops.

There's no attempt made to determine cost so that isn't relevant to
the data set of 45 billion visits it comes from or the original
question. It wouldn't be surprising to find there are more cheap
computers in the world than expensive ones or that users choose
resolution based on readability rather than capability.