John Wilander

@johnwilander

Writing a hacker fiction novel. Apple WebKit Engineer behind Safari’s Intelligent Tracking Prevention. Ethnicity: 🇸🇪, DNA: 🇸🇪+🇮🇳

SF Bay Area, USA
Joined July 2009

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  1. Pinned Tweet
    25 May 2016
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  2. Today, this one goes in the fridge in preparation for the upcoming beta reader round of my debut novel.

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    There are 120,000 people living in The Villages, and three of them are Democrats. Two of them are my parents, and the other one is this guy

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  4. Retweeted
    Jan 31

    Google gave $5000 to Senator Martha McSally, a prominent opponent of LGBT rights who has also called for withholding health care from undocumented people, on December 20.

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    Jan 31

    Google gave $5,000 to Oklahoma Senator Jim Inhofe, one of the most ardent climate change denialists in the Senate, on December 20.

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    Jan 31

    Google donated $5000 (the maximum allowed by law) to re-elect Susan Collins, also on December 20. Collins is one of the most vulnerable Republican Senators in the country.

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    Finally got around to deleting my Facebook account. I don't trust FB, and I don't want to tacitly encourage other people to trust it. Anyone who wishes to reach out, please either or twitter (DMs open) or Wickr: krebswickr. Thanks.

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    This person had a vote. When democracy becomes just a vote, that’s when it dies. Democracy is investing in people. Democracy is education. Democracy is systemically protecting and celebrating diversity. Democracy is being able to have a say every day, not just on election day.

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    I'm quitting Facebook. Not comfortable with the flood of false information that's allowed in its political advertising, nor am I confident in its ability to protect its users' privacy. Follow me (and Molly, aka The Thing of Evil) on Twitter, if you like.

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  11. Jan 31

    Correction: Chrome team members have let us know that the partial rollout starting Feb 17th was the intention and is normal practice for this kind of a change. Thus, not postponed.

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    By a vote of 51 to 49, the Senate refused to subpoena witnesses in this impeachment trial. I've never heard of a trial where you don't have witnesses. This is a sad day in American history.

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  13. Jan 31

    Chrome postpones the SameSite=Lax cookie change. I've predicted this for some time. It's unfortunate but I have high hopes they will soon start moving toward tracking prevention.

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  14. Jan 31

    Today is the UK's last day within the EU. My prediction: The UK will announce 0% corporate tax, at least for a limited time and under certain conditions such as "move your HQ here."

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  15. Jan 31

    It’s interesting to see how the privacy industry is ~10 years behind the security industry. I constantly get pinged on job offerings in security and never on privacy. Back when I mostly did security, I got pinged for development jobs.

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    “Facebook says it will start removing fake posts and conspiracy theories about coronavirus” Coronavirus should just run for president. Then they’d be allowed. (And would probably make a better president, tbh.)

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  17. Jan 30

    “Avast’s core mission is to keep people around the world safe and secure” Sounds like a brand new mission. The previous one seems to have been to leverage users’ trust to collect and sell their data.

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  18. Jan 30

    Great slide deck on tracking prevention in browsers with a comprehensive timeline of changes/enhancements and an interesting breakdown of all the things cookies are used for.

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    SharePoint vulnerability CVE-2019-0604 from a year ago has been used to hack the UN. Three different UN agencies got owned, about 20 domain admin accounts accessed and implants on 40 servers. They didn’t disclose.

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    Amazon appears to be tracking every tap on Kindle. I just got my data back and there are 90K rows of this

    spreadsheet showing tons of time stamps and 'NextPageWithTap' 

	2018-01-31T23:39:05.000Z	2018-01-31T23:39:03.000Z	NextPageWithTap		Book:Reading:MainContent	2018-01-31T23:21:03.000Z			
	2018-01-31T23:39:05.000Z	2018-01-31T23:39:03.000Z			Book:Reading:MainContent	2018-01-31T23:21:03.000Z	Text		
	2018-01-31T23:39:05.000Z	2018-01-31T23:39:03.000Z			Book:Reading:MainContent	2018-01-31T23:21:03.000Z	PHL
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    Jan 29

    We’ve published an explainer about an idea to harden SMS-delivered one-time passwords by allowing senders to associate the codes with a website. We’ve been talking about the idea with some folks at Google, and would like more feedback.

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