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Cybernetic Vermin
Apr 18, 2005

Hed posted:

LinkedIn coming up with new eBlasts to send to me to unsubscribe from

yeah, overall i view linkedin as pretty benign, it and pretty much all its users know what it is about, but they still can't resist now and then send you some dumb engagement email

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Cybernetic Vermin
Apr 18, 2005

i'd guess the cloud spellcheck is the same general technique apple uses though, where they send home a cryptographic hash of a text fragment (usually a word) along with a single/few unencrypted bits from a position of the word derived from the device id. so e.g. for words/phrases only you use they will only ever know it has hash 91e4a58.. and bit number 27 is a 1, while if enough people use the word they can reconstruct it.

at least it has no real downsides while giving some privacy for really unique bits.

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