How I got over 300 Tor exit nodes removed https://lobste.rs/s/9h14un #privacy #security
https://kaba.cx/posts/20261020_Tor/
privacy
There’s one thing I’d like to add to this list. If an account is not necessary, do not make an account . Become worthless (to tech companies) • Cory Dransfeldt https://www.coryd.dev/posts/2026/become-worthless-to-tech-companies #Tech #Technology #Security #Privacy
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"...Hackers ripped down a Flock camera above a roadway, made a near-complete copy of the data stored inside it, and shared the files with 404 Media and WIRED, revealing in new detail how exactly Flock Safety’s cameras track the movements of both vehicles and people. The hackers say they are also publishing details on how they managed to obtain the software, in the hopes that other people may copy them.
The breach provides an unprecedented look inside a system that Flock has described as protected by on-device encryption. The hackers were able to copy the camera’s storage and recover an encryption key stored on the device, which unlocked videos of thousands of vehicle detections..."
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🦣 Herds that roam apart still come down to the same waterhole to keep watch together.
Introducing Waterhole: an open-source collaborative moderation tool built specifically for Mastodon instances that manually review and approve signups.
As Fediverse communities grow or spam waves hit, registration queues can quickly become overwhelming. Waterhole gives your moderation team a shared, real-time workspace to review applicants efficiently without compromising server autonomy or applicant privacy.
✨ Key Features:
• 📋 Shared Queues: Pending registration requests mirror directly into Waterhole. Claim requests, filter them by risk, and coordinate review status in real time.
• 💬 Team Discussion: Leave internal notes and discuss applicants collaboratively before deciding.
• 🔍 Proactive Signals: Automated checks highlight known throwaway email providers, datacenter IPs, Tor exits, templated join reasons, and burst signup patterns.
• 🛡️ Collective Defense: Opt-in cross-instance alerts notify you when the same spammer or bot pattern is prowling around multiple herds. Sharing only behavioral tracks and signals, never private applicant details.
• 🔒 Full Server Autonomy: Approvals and rejections are dispatched directly back to your instance via your Mastodon Admin API. No automated bans or AI decisions. You always keep complete control over who joins your community.
Waterhole is 100% free software under AGPLv3.
🔗 Connect your Mastodon instance to our Waterhole:
https://waterhole.toot.io/about
💻 Explore the source code, documentation, contribute, or self-host:
https://github.com/tootio/waterhole
#Mastodon #Fediverse #FediverseAdmin #MastoAdmin #OpenSource #SelfHosted #Privacy
Bot-free self-hosted analytics with GoatCounter on NixOS https://lobste.rs/s/1xxu7n #privacy #web
https://vincent.bernat.ch/en/blog/2026-goatcounter
Privacy note: While they may appear to be, polls on here are not anonymous under the hood. It's possible to learn who voted how. It's easier for the admin(s) of the instance the poll came from but it can also be possible for regular users under some conditions depending on the software involved. Like most things on the Fediverse, an inherently-public medium, privacy is not absolute.
Farage proposes to scrap GDPR in the UK... where to start?
GDPR protects women, workers, patients, ethnic minorities, LGBTQ+ communities, and everybody else from discrimination and abuse.
Scrapping it would be a capitulation to abusive Big Tech corporations and the Trump administration that backs them.
https://www.politico.eu/article/nigel-farage-wants-to-scrap-gdpr-for-the-uk/
#dataprotection #gdpr #privacy #reformuk #farage #ukpolitics ukpol
How did we end up at a place where this is ok and "asking for consent"? Is this even legal?!
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ChatGPT now knows what you do on other websites via ad collector via @jrgtt https://lobste.rs/s/jbnmj9 #privacy
https://www.buchodi.com/chatgpt-now-knows-what-you-do-on-other-websites-via-ad-collector/
#SCOTUS Allows Expansive Voter Screening Tool Ahead of #Midterms
The #Trump admin’s system to monitor the #citizenship status of voters raised alarms about #privacy & improper #VoterPurges.
SCOTUS ruled Friday the Trump admin can deploy an expansive online system that combines citizenship info, #SocialSecurity numbers & other sensitive #data on millions of Americans, including to allow #states to use it to hunt for ineligible voters.
#law #ElectionInterference #InfoSec
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/us/politics/supreme-court-citizenship-voter-lists.html?unlocked_article_code=1.D1E.3wuv.WZb9so1toFOj&smid=nytcore-ios-share
Verdetto's closed test is open. If you scan QR codes and want a scanner that shows you the link before it opens, with no ads: join the testers list https://groups.google.com/g/verdetto-testers, then opt in here https://play.google.com/apps/testing/com.verdettoqr.scanner. Android 8 and up, 14 days, feedback welcome.
Nitter, XCancel Shutdown Over Cease-And-Desist https://lobste.rs/s/zfhall #culture #privacy #web
https://github.com/zedeus/nitter
Adamsdesk Bans Font Squirrel Over Privacy Concerns?
Find out what lead to the discovery of privacy concerns, complications whether to ban linking to certain websites and what decision was made.
https://www.adamsdesk.com/posts/font-squirrel-privacy-concern/
The EU KidsAct is just a rebranded version of #ChatControl the similar threats with a new name.
But we stopped Chat Control before. We can stop this too.
The EU Kids Act is still stoppable. Sign:
https://citizens-initiative.europa.eu/initiatives/details/2026/000011_en
#StopChatControl #CSAM #Privacy #EU #DigitalRights #KidsAct #EuKidsAct
META’S REAL AI WAS HIDING
IN PLAIN SIGHT. 💎
I watched a video this morning called 'The (Overdue) Collapse of Meta,' expecting another story about a giant technology company finally coming unstuck.
BUT THAT REALLY WASN'T THE STORY.
Meta is still making extraordinary amounts of money.
The metaverse was a spectacular failure. Zuckerberg renamed the company around it, talked about a billion people eventually inhabiting virtual worlds, and poured tens of billions of dollars into trying to make it happen.
PEOPLE MOSTLY DIDN'T COME.
But while everyone was laughing at cartoon legs and expensive headsets, something else inside Meta was working extraordinarily well.
THE ADVERTISING MACHINE
For more than a decade, Meta has been using AI to learn from the tiny signals produced by billions of human brains. What we stop to look at. What we click. What we ignore. What keeps us scrolling?
WHAT WE ARE ABOUT TO BUY
And increasingly, what we might be about to do. That system became astonishingly good at turning human behaviour into advertising revenue. Which changes the story rather dramatically.
META DIDN'T FAIL TO BUILD POWERFUL AI.
It was built years ago. It just wasn't sitting there chatting pleasantly to us. It was behind Facebook and Instagram, watching behaviour and learning how to predict it.
And the enormous advertising business generated by that machinery is now helping to finance Meta's next gigantic gamble: superintelligence, data centres, researchers, and infrastructure costing tens of billions of dollars.
There is something almost perfect about that. The metaverse failed because people didn't particularly want what Meta was selling. The advertising machine succeeded because we WERE what Meta was selling. And perhaps that is the part worth paying attention to.
Because sometimes the most important question about technology isn't:
DID IT WORK?
It is:
WHAT DID IT LEARN TO DO TO US?
@3goodthings @DigitalCoup @meditation @economics_that_works
#Meta #Facebook #Instagram #ArtificialIntelligence #AI #SurveillanceCapitalism #SocialMedia #BigTech #Privacy #Technology #DigitalRights #people #humans #brain
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My new video is up!
It's about the practice of surveillance pricing, emerging regulation against it, and steps you can take to limit its impact on you personally. (And hopefully save all those little bits of cash getting stolen by the algorithm.)
If you like the video, please take a sec to hit the like button, as that helps us small creators a ton. Thank you!
#YouTube #Privacy #SurveillancePricing #Video #Technology #Tech
John Ternus kicked off his tenure as Apple CEO by announcing the long-awaited folding iPhone.
But behind the scenes, it looks like products and services are going to get more expensive to please shareholders and he’s ready to sacrifice privacy on the altar of AI.
https://disconnect.blog/red-flags-at-the-start-of-apples-john-ternus-era/
#tech #ai #apple #privacy #iphone #iphoneduo #generativeai #surveillance
Do this now! In all your web browsers, go to https://emudhra.we-have-a-problem.com/ and go to the section titled "Does your client still trust the compromised intermediates?" and look at the right-most "Result" column. If any say "❌ Connected", you need to update your SSL/TLS certificates now. This can affect email, banking, software updating, and anything that uses #SSL, #TLS, and #HTTPS.
Edit: You can also go to https://bgp.tools/ and see if it says "Your SSL/TLS stack is accepting certificates from a #CertificateAuthority tree that is totally #compromised" I think/hope that browsers and operating systems will auto update certificates ASAP but don't do anything private until you're sure they're updated #IMHO!
#sysadmin #cybersecurity #security #privacy #CA #eMudhra #certificates
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I think Meta knows I do not use any of their garbage AI things so they’re asking me to send over proof of my identity because my activity is suspicious, according to them.
I of course have refused and now others are wondering, yet again, how to get a hold of me if I’m not on Facebook messenger. I posted a status to friends only giving out my VOIP phone number for SMS and calls but absolutely no one over there wants to keep my phone number, they just want to use Facebook messenger.
This has made me think no one actually wants to leave the walled gardens except for those of us that have already left.
I tried getting everyone into signal, or better yet, Delta Chat but I honestly quit trying and now just use SMS. I couldn’t care less if SMS isn’t the most private or secure, it was like having a root canal just trying to get others to SMS me alone, and I had even less success with trying to get others to use apps like Signal and Delta Chat.
I’m using #JMP as a Voip number via the fabulous #XMPP
I don’t understand why everyone likes those garbage walled gardons so much because ever since finding RSS again, and chronological timelines, I don’t get the appeal.
And that fucking interface. I do not understand how sighted people tolerate it. I’m sure it looks very pretty and polished, but it’s an absolute nightmare to use.
It's official, Halis can now onboard new users fully automatically.
You can now find a registration button on halis.io, if you want to try out some of the services available there
I am aware I am addressing the wrong crowd here, because if you are on the fediverse, you may not need what Halis provides, but one never knows :)
I have been working on this infrastructure for years at this point, aiming to provide anyone in need with a corner of privacy, and this is only the first iteration !
Let me know if you have any feedback, and boosts are very much appreciated !
#selfhosted #halis #privacy #fediverse #register #selfhosting #selfhost #opensource #mastodon #matrix #synapse #kubernetes
Blair is reported to have said that the Freedom of Information Act was one of the things he regretted the most. Possibly even more than Devolution (although that was inevitable). This is an example of why. The government must hate it.
But don’t worry, practice will make perfect.
#FOI #FreedomOfInformation #Blair #Labour #Legislation #UKPol #FacialRecognition #Privacy #Security
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🇪🇺 European Citizen's Initiative against ID age verification online
Just yesterday, Stop Killing the Internet, from the people at @StopKillingGames, launched an ECI against ID age verification! This is great but it needs 1 million signatures !
So, if you are a citizen of #eu , please sign it! If you don't, or even if you do, still share it around so more people know about it and can sign it!
https://eci.ec.europa.eu/066/public/#/screen/home
Reaching the signature threshold will not mean that ID age verification will immediately become illegal, but the subject will be brought to the @EUCommission and they'll have to do SOMETHING about it. This is already a huge step in the right direction!
Please boost and share this post to spread the word! Thank you!
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"we have a company that is a big player in the age verification space, talking up age and identity verification laws, that appears to have had a long-standing ongoing leak of every ID it scanned.
At this point, anyone still supporting age verification requirements, especially claiming it’s for “child safety,” should have to answer for all the millions of people put needlessly at risk due to data breaches like this."
Following legal advice, the Nitter project will continue https://lobste.rs/s/jsxzwl #culture #privacy #web
https://github.com/zedeus/nitter/commit/1428b4c2b4246f92a7e5b2673438e5fb39fcc4a3