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Engineering at DEPT®
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Engineering at DEPT® is the company blog at engineering.deptagency.com, writing about programming and web. Since 2022, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-07-15, and you can follow it by feed.
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Why HN links it
HN readers link this DEPT engineering post on securely storing data on a device. It is cited in a thread on Swift clocks as an alternative to fingerprinting, using an ID stored on the device.
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What Hacker News says?
It gets even more funny when you realize that devices & browsers let you set data per device that you can just retrieve later ... Why bother fingerprinting when you can just assign them an id and retrieve it later. https://developer.apple.com/documentation/devicecheck https://engineering.deptagency.com/securely-storing-data-on-... https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Window/loca...
Comment linking /securely-storing-data-on-ios
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