Questions tagged [privacy]
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What are the IP ranges of Apple's privacy protection proxies?
Apple introduced privacy protection measures in macOS Monterey and iOS 15 which use a network of randomly assigned IPs to act as proxies when loading (amongst other things) email content. Does anyone know, or know how I can find out, what the…

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Google Chrome incognito (private/anonymous browsing) not available in Google Workspace (GSuite) account
Recently, incognito mode disappeared in Chrome while signed-in as Google Workspace account (signed-in as regular gmail account has been working just fine).
So I did an obvious check on policies (chrome://policy/), everything looked just fine:
So I…

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GitLab self-hosted instances data sharing
I'm working on a personal project with some friends and it is becoming quite large, so I'm considering to self-host a GitLab instance to help preventing the development to go to complete chaos.
However, I discovered that GitLab's privacy policy…

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Disclosure of recipient’s forward email address when my email bounces
A few times I had a situation like this:
I sent an email to foobar@example.com.
For this email, I received a delivery failure report, giving reasons like "550 5.1.1" (user unknown) or "552-5.7.0" (security issue).
In this delivery failure report, a…

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Hosting two domains on a VPS while preventing an attacker from finding domain A given domain B?
I would like to host two websites on a VPS. One of them is my portfolio. The other one is a gaming website. I don't want an attacker to find my portfolio domain name if they know my gaming domain name. How can I do this?
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How important is customer support for just domain registration?
I'm looking at two companies to register a domain in, it's either going to be GoDaddy or 1and1.
I checked out some of the reviews and saw that 1&1 offers free private domain registration while GoDaddy offers better customer support.
My question is:…

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are new snapshots that are being created using elastifox are public ?
I use elastifox firefox plugin to create instances and snapshots of volumes that I created.
in 'volumes and snapshots' tab in the bottom table i can filter the snapshots that I see by 'My snapshots' and 'no filter'.
does it mean that people can use…

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Does ssh save the code in the remote computer?
When running python code using ssh on remote computer by a sudo user, does it save the code in the remote computer ? does the root user can see actual python code?
ssh user@remotehost < python /home/codes/script.py

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Trying to erase disk content by filling all bits with "1", not "0"
I have 2 old 160GB WD drives that do not have "Security-Delete" option when querying with hdparm.
I understand the current acceptance of the mechanism overwriting entire disks with zeros.
REF: Does filling up disk with dd removes files securely?
But…

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Nginx - Redirect a bunch of domains to a single domain, with SSL
Nothing insidious going on but I've got a bunch of domains that we've bought for a service and I don't want to buy an SSL certificate for them all (there's about 11).
As an example, we've…

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Deep packet Inspection Stenography
I'm trying to develop something that can get around Deep Packet Inspection so that rather than looking like OpenVPN traffic etc, I could put all that into HTTP packets as extra information or some other protocol. I would control the client and the…

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How does The Pirate Bay mask itself from its VPS providers?
From https://torrentfreak.com/pirate-bay-moves-to-the-cloud-becomes-raid-proof-121017/
The hosting providers have no idea that they’re hosting The Pirate Bay, and even in the event they found out it would be impossible for them to gather data on…

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Privacy implications of a LAN-wide DNS server
My university department has a local DNS server that serves all of the computers in the department. I am concerned about the privacy and security implications of this. Posit that I am merely one of the users on a workstation, with no privileged…

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What can my ISP know about a website hosted at my house?
I am hosting a public website, say example.com, at my house using my home Internet (fyi, the contract allows it). My Internet plan also comes with a static IP. I use CloudFlare to hide the server's real IP address. The site example.com is fully…

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Does connecting to a work VPN via Cisco AnyConnect give the domain administrator access to your computer?
I've been connecting to my work computer via Cisco AnyConnect for the duration of the pandemic and I'm now concerned about privacy.
Can a domain admin on the company network access my files or my PC remotely while I'm connected to the network? Can…

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