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Submission + - Mozilla enables ad-tracking by default in Firefox 128

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: A couple of years ago, Mozilla acquired Anonym, an adtech firm started by two Meta employees that claims to anonymize user ad tracking including information on when they click on ads. Mozilla calls this feature Privacy Preserving Attribution and as of Firefox 128, it is enabled by default. Mozilla claims it's an experiement but further justfies enabling it by default as a user-hostile distraction. Now, the problem is not the technology — but Mozilla keeps advertising their browser as the most privacy protecting browser over its competitors. To disable this ad-tracking, in Firefox, go to Settings, select Privacy and Security and scroll down to Website Advertising Preferences. Uncheck "Allow websites to perform privacy preserving ad measurement".

Submission + - New UK password guidance says re-using OK, regular changing a waste (www.gov.uk) 1

Submitted by isoloisti
isoloisti writes: New UK govt guidance on how to handle passwords "advocates a dramatic simplification of the current approach." "Unlike previous guidance, this doesn't focus on trying to get ever more entropy into passwords." For example: "Regular password changing harms rather than improves security, so avoid placing this burden on users." And "given the infeasibility of memorising multiple passwords, many are likely to be re-used. Users should only do this where the compromise of one password does not result in the compromise of more valuable data protected by the same password on a different system."

Blog launching the guidance: https://cesgdigital.blog.gov.u...
Main guidance doc: https://www.gov.uk/government/...
Editorial

Submission + - Scott Adams (almost) saves the planet (wsj.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: In spite of Mr. and Mrs. Beaver, his suspicious neighbors, Scott Adams builds himself a "green" house (as opposed to a greenhouse), and details his experience for those interested in following in his missteps.

Submission + - Why Developers Get Fired (earthweb.com)

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jammag
jammag writes: "Other coders get canned — but never you, right? From a developer who's now a manager (and who admits being fired himself) comes the inside story on how the Big Ax might sneak up on you. To prevent it, he recommends some strategic bragging, keeping a CYA folder to document your efforts, and making sure that your talent isn't frittered away so much that even your most mediocre colleagues look good. Cover your butt!"
The Courts

Submission + - Supreme Court Nominee Sotomayor's Cyberlaw Record

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Hugh Pickens
Hugh Pickens writes: "Thomas O'Toole writes that President Obama's choice for Associate Supreme Court Justice, Sonia Sotomayor, authored several cyberlaw opinions regarding online contracting law, domain names, and computer privacy while on the Second Circuit. Judge Sotomayor wrote the court's 2002 opinion in Specht v. Netscape Communications Corp., an important online contracting case. In Specht, the Second Circuit declined to enforce contract terms that were available behind a hyperlink that could only be seen by scrolling down on a Web page (pdf). "We are not persuaded that a reasonably prudent offeree in these circumstances would have known of the existence of license terms," wrote Sotomayor. Judge Sotomayor wrote an opinion in a domain name case, Storey v. Cello Holdings LLC in 2003 that held that an adverse outcome in an administrative proceeding under the Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy did not preclude a later-initiated federal suit (pdf) brought under the Anticybersquatting Consumer Protection Act (ACPA). In Leventhal v. Knapek, a privacy case, Judge Sotomayor wrote for the Second Circuit that New York state agency officials and investigators did not violate a state employee's Fourth Amendment rights when they searched the contents of his office computer for evidence of unauthorized use of state equipment. While none of these cases may mean much as far as what Judge Sotomayor will do as an Associate Supreme Court Justice "if confirmed, she will be the first justice who has written cyberlaw-related opinions before joining the court," writes O'Toole."

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