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I have the same question. I am logged in FF extension and see no link to use this. To open web vault is too time consuming and clunky


This memory issue is also driving me insane. Why its so hard to fix ?


I am checking their homepage. It does not seem like they are doing something else? Still its a network to low bandwidth network to connect devices ?


Helium started out as a local IOT play but realized that nobody wanted their custom radio stuff. So now they're doing mesh-something-with-blockchain.


We were suspended once for serving deceptive ads. Yet the only ad network we use is Google Adsense. We had to remove Google Ads to be allowed back in.


Ah, the ol' "Do as we say and not as we do" clause by Google, huh.


Pretty sure the latest iteration of mobile search result ads on google.com would get banned by google


I had apps removed for not describing them as containing ads because Google at that time was busy undermining the definition by defining basically any link to anything as advertising.


Note sure how that is possible? Was your app so ugly that everything looked like an ad, kinda like reverse camouflage?


Probably a deceptive ad (likely violating Google Ads rules) was shown via Google Ads during Google testing, automated or otherwise.


I love that.


your comment is 100x more informative and interesting than the main article :)


Thanks. I tried to post it to HN but got no traction :)


The idea seems great, but I was not able to navigate the interface.

If I understood correctly you have access to past data from satellite. If yes, it would be fantastic resource to actually validate avalanches that happened. For that you would need to improve how to find the specific place as well - I could not figure it out.

e.g. I live in the Pyrenees and often go off-piste snowboarding and see avalanches, also sometimes I see some avalanches directly from my home as well. If you give me Pyrenees coverage and better UI I would love to play with it


What browser are you on? Because, IE and Edge does not work right now. This is simply because I do not have access to those browsers. I will probably just block them in the future.

If you use another browser, could you please be more specific about what did not work?

I'll see if I can add the Pyrenees in the coming weeks!


Now I have straight out blocked Microsoft web browsers, providing an explanation to why I use other browsers instead.


That requires being logged to the wi-fi network. The technique that those researchers are proposing does not need that.


No? It requires you to just listen to the network.


But without the wifi key it's gibberish and you can't recognize MAC addresses, right?


No, my understanding is that the MAC address is always visible, even on wifi networks in WPA/WPA2 personal or enterprise mode.

Also, I believe modern phones randomize their MACs when they scan for networks, but use their real MAC when they connect, and that's visible to anyone within listening range.

Btw, most "guest" wifi networks rely on MAC-based access control, using these same publicly visible MAC addresses.. it's an inherent weakness of the wifi standards and I think the main reason why devices can't randomize their MACs when actually connecting.


Yes, that is true, for modern devices that randomize their MAC addresses. I wasn't up to speed on that. But at least you should be able to see that a device was newly connected to the network. (Due to increased traffic between the two.) If the home WiFi does not have very many devices coming and going, you could probably do pattern matching and learn to fingerprint individual devices. At the very least, you should be able to see that "someone is home".


According to someone at DerbyCon (I know who, but don't have permission to say who), they made the claim that Bluetooth is always on and does not randomize the management frames. And that when phones turn off Bluetooth, they actually just turn off data comms from the BT chip TO the mobile CPU.

Their claim was that BT still responds to mgmt frames even when off, doesnt randomize MAC addresses, and some data can even be sent that will then turn on when the BT is 'turned on'.

I saw demonstrations of it. It, well, scared and awed me.


Is this person planning on releasing their findings soon?


I believe they already have on GH. But I'm unable to find it. It was loud in the lobby when they said what repo it was.

I'll message them via Twitter and ask for the repo to build their device.


Google does no evil. Yep :)


zero rating is like Google putting its own content (or content of their partners) to the top of search results.

both are legal and both are harming competition


Didn't they get in trouble doing this with their amazon competitor? I remember for a while searching for things would give me options to buy them from google.


I have the same attitude. Especially its been hard when Google entered our "niche" last year and suddenly became #1 result overnight:

I blogged about it back then: http://blog.speedchecker.xyz/2017/07/20/lessons-learned-from...


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