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Episode #953 Quiz

Active Listening
Date: 2023-12-19 | Length: 1.75 hrs | Episode page at twit.tv

About this episode

The episode examines proposed child-privacy legislation, Chrome’s third-party-cookie deprecation, Cloudflare’s 2023 Internet trends, SpinRite’s code-signing and drive-recovery improvements, and CMG’s “Active Listening” claims. Security implications include age-verification privacy risks, cross-site tracking reduction via cookie partitioning, TLS 1.3 post-quantum adoption, bot mitigation, and ISP-scale surveillance concerns with encrypted DNS.

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Question 1: According to the episode, what change did Chrome announce for third-party cookies in 2024?

Question 1

According to the episode, what change did Chrome announce for third-party cookies in 2024?

Disable third-party cookies for 1% of users in Q1, then ramp to 100% by Q3 Disable third-party cookies for all users in January, then restore them later in the year Allow third-party cookies only for signed-in Google services and block all others Partition third-party cookies only for users who opt into enhanced privacy settings

Question 2: What Internet traffic growth figure did Cloudflare report for 2023?

Question 2

What Internet traffic growth figure did Cloudflare report for 2023?

Global Internet traffic grew by 25% during 2023 Global Internet traffic was flat during 2023 despite seasonal spikes Global Internet traffic grew by 15% during 2023 Global Internet traffic grew by 40% during 2023

Question 3: Which browser-based programming language ranked first for automated API requests in Cloudflare’s 2023 summary?

Question 3

Which browser-based programming language ranked first for automated API requests in Cloudflare’s 2023 summary?

NodeJS, at 14.6% of requests Python, at 14.6% of requests Go, at 14.6% of requests Java, at 14.6% of requests

Question 4: What did Steve say SpinRite would change about waiting for troubled drives in the next release?

Question 4

What did Steve say SpinRite would change about waiting for troubled drives in the next release?

Wait 10 seconds and then permanently skip the drive Wait 30 seconds and then retry the drive reset once Wait indefinitely until the drive reports ready again Wait a full 60 seconds and show a waiting-for-drive countdown

Question 5: What was Cox Media Group’s stated explanation for how its 'Active Listening' advertising product worked?

Question 5

What was Cox Media Group’s stated explanation for how its 'Active Listening' advertising product worked?

It directly recorded every subscriber’s microphone input and sold the raw audio to advertisers It used third-party aggregated, anonymized, encrypted data sets for ad placement It relied only on browser cookies and never used device or voice data It used carrier billing records and GPS logs to infer consumer intent

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