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Are drive-by downloads and installs a significant threat to an average modern Android or Firefox for Windows user?

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Today I learned that drive-by downloads and drive-by installations are or have been a thing. Yet there’s something very counterintuitive about them if considered a real threat for modern smartphone or modern mainstream web browser users. F… Continue reading Are drive-by downloads and installs a significant threat to an average modern Android or Firefox for Windows user?→

Is wavefunction collapsing in quantum physics a property that could be used to detect man-in-the-middle attacks? [closed]

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Assuming wavefunction collapsing means that observing a thing changes it by making the observed thing collapse to some state from a set of possible states, and that this property is a property of the real world instead of just a way of mod… Continue reading Is wavefunction collapsing in quantum physics a property that could be used to detect man-in-the-middle attacks? [closed]→