The Bilodeau sieve is an identity/identify concept, created by Robert J. Sawyer. From Wonder, the 3rd instalment of the WWW-trilogy by Robert J. Sawyer: The Bilodeau sieve, developed by Marie Bilodeau of the RCMP, was based on a simple premise: the specific websites and blogs regularly accessed by a person are idiosyncratic to that person. […]
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Apparently, of all things, it stands for ‘Do not disturb – Masturbation in progress’ 😯
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Yes. PPTP is (and always has been) insecure. It is a very common protocol (present in Microsoft Windows ever since Windows 95). There are several known security issues with PPTP, and it’s likely that intelligence agencies (and perhaps others?) decrypt PPTP with ease. It may be easy to set up and available on many platforms,
Go to https://www.google.com/addurl and enter the URL of the page you wish to add.
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HTML status code 418, “I’m a teapot”, is definitely the odd one out in the list of status codes listed in the Wikipedia. The status code was defined back in 1998, as an April Fools’ joke of the IETF, in RFC 2324, Hyper Text Coffee Pot Control Protocol. The RFC specifies this code should be
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The quick way to prevent robots visiting your site is put these two lines into the /robots.txt file on your server: User-agent: * Disallow: / but this only helps with well-behaved robots.
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