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Facebook surveils everyone's web browsing regardless of whether they have an account or not, as described in this paper: ssrn.com/abstract=1717563
A simple way to prevent any packets being sent to or received from Facebook from your hardware is to set up filtering using iptables, a kernel-level firewall. On most GNU and Linux distributions, you can run the following three commands as root:
The URL can be changed for other sites as well if you wish. Eg - for Twitter's "tweet" buttons run the same commands but using platform.twitter.com as the domain to reject. I also recommend adding Facebook's content delivery network: fbcdn.net to the blacklist.
For more documentation on iptables, I recommend the Arch Wiki - wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/I…
A simple way to prevent any packets being sent to or received from Facebook from your hardware is to set up filtering using iptables, a kernel-level firewall. On most GNU and Linux distributions, you can run the following three commands as root:
iptables -A INPUT -d facebook.com -j DROP
iptables -A OUTPUT -d facebook.com -j DROP
iptables -A FORWARD -d facebook.com -j DROP
The URL can be changed for other sites as well if you wish. Eg - for Twitter's "tweet" buttons run the same commands but using platform.twitter.com as the domain to reject. I also recommend adding Facebook's content delivery network: fbcdn.net to the blacklist.
For more documentation on iptables, I recommend the Arch Wiki - wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/I…
ACTA Lives: EU and Canada using CETA as backdoor
Re-post from Michael Geist's blog, who is a law professor :-
Last week, the European Parliament voted overwhelmingly to reject ACTA, striking a major blow to the hopes of supporters who envisioned a landmark agreement that would set a new standard for intellectual property rights enforcement. The European Commission, which negotiates trade deals such as ACTA on behalf of the European Union, has vowed to revive the badly damaged agreement. Its most high-profile move has been to ask the European Court of Justice to rule on ACTA's compatibility with fundamental European freedoms with the hope that a favourable ruling could allow the European Pa
Nationality Meme
i don't usually do these, but i'm bored so bleh :P
● BRITISH ●
[ ] You drink a lot of tea.
[ ] You know what a brolly is.
[ ] Deal or No Deal has taken over your life.
[ ] You wanted Ben to win X Factor.
[ ] You use the word "bugger"or the phrase "bloody hell."
[ ] Fish and Chips are yummy.
[ ] You can eat a Full English Breakfast.
[ ] You dislike emos almost as much as you dislike chavs.
[X] It's football... not soccer.
Total: 1
● AUSTRALIAN ●
[ ] You wear flip flops all year.
[ ] You call flipflops thongs, not flip flops.
[ ] You love a backyard barbie.
[ ] You know a barbie is not a doll.
[X] You lo
Colour IQ Challenge
Greetings all.
I found this colour test/quiz/challenge/game/thingus and thought it was somewhat appropriate to share with dA. It measures how well your eyes differentiate between colours. Don't know how accurate it is exactly, but it seems interesting.
Clicky: http://www.xrite.com/custom_page.aspx?PageID=77
Comment back with your score! ^^
I got 8.
O HAI!
sorry for the silence.
i've not been anywhere photo-worthy recently, and i've got 3-4 unfinished works on my laptop with little motivation to complete them. i'll get to it eventually.
in other news, i finished uni :) and now joining the job-hunt :(
oh yeah, and the guitar i was working on from the previous post (if anyone remembers it) was finished quite a while back. pictures on UG http://profile.ultimate-guitar.com/heminder/pictures/gear/666381/666382
...and now i've run out of things to say to keep anyone mildly interested :P
so, bye bye!
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