privacy
I mostly post about the podcast, but not about the book that started it all. The 5th ed has over 200 tips and explains key #security and #privacy concepts. For you family IT support types, it's an easy-button gift for your loved ones. Just sayin'.
https://firewallsdontstopdragons.com/buy-the-book/
"To access our latest innovations in AI driven #enshittification, please disable your regional regulations."
I need to warn as much people as possible: @session is no longer private.
For those interested to chat with me, you can do so at @simplex : https://simplex.chat/contact#/?v=2-7&smp=smp%3A%2F%2Fhejn2gVIqNU6xjtGM3OwQeuk8ZEbDXVJXAlnSBJBWUA%3D%40smp16.simplex.im%2FVFQu0uG1tfjQrrR5nmgPKnSo1wM2PBcL%23%2F%3Fv%3D1-3%26dh%3DMCowBQYDK2VuAyEAMQF7q6rz05pBzOWga95DOVNrhiGjfsIG3YvAJoQvPSo%253D%26srv%3Dp3ktngodzi6qrf7w64mmde3syuzrv57y55hxabqcq3l5p6oi7yzze6qd.onion
#session #sessionmessenger #privacy #mastodon
https://cyberplace.social/@GossiTheDog/113670684442332060
En 2018 avec le pote @sebv on avait organisé un café vie privée à Lannion au Truc Café, et c’était chouette !
Personne n’a repris depuis, donc 2025 est la dernière année où le site web sera en ligne.
Si des gens veulent reprendre le projet (nom de domaine, site web), me contacter en privé.
#privacy #technopolice #surveillance #cryptocurrency #Lannion #vieprivée #cafévieprivée
Looks like #obsidian shot itself in the foot with that webviewer... It looks like many users aren't happy with it. Is it based on #chrome ? What about data and #privacy ?
I love the KISS¹ and *nix approach, one tool for one purpose. Never been a fan of products trying to do everything for you.
Maybe that's why I prefer #vim to #emacs 🤷🏽♂️
¹ Keep It Simple, Stupid. !
Carta aberta do #pixelfed para o Zuck da #meta.
O que acharam??
”Querido Mark, espero que isso te encontre bem. Eu notei algo interessante hoje - parece que o Instagram está bloqueando links para o meu pequeno projeto de código aberto. Você sabe, aquele que permite que as pessoas compartilhem fotos sem coletar seus dados pessoais ou forçar feeds algorítmicos nelas. Tenho que admitir, estou lisonjeado. Quem diria que uma pequena equipe de voluntários poderia construir algo que chamasse sua atenção? Estamos apenas tentando dar às pessoas uma escolha sobre como elas compartilham suas memórias online. Sem VCs, sem capitalismo de vigilância, apenas código e comunidade. Lembra quando o #Facebook começou? Era sobre conectar pessoas, não maximizar métricas de engajamento. Nosso projeto pode ser pequeno em comparação com o Instagram, mas estamos nos mantendo fiéis a esse espírito original das mídias sociais - dando às pessoas controle sobre sua presença on-line sem transformá-las em produtos. Você poderia ter nos ignorado. Em vez disso, ao bloquear nossos links, você nos deu o melhor endosso que poderíamos pedir. Você confirmou o que temos dito o tempo todo - que a grande tecnologia está mais interessada em proteger seus jardins murados do que em promover a inovação genuína. Toda vez que você bloqueia um link para nossa plataforma, você lembra às pessoas por que o construímos em primeiro lugar. Sua ação diz a eles que existem alternativas que valem a pena explorar, aquelas que respeitam sua privacidade e agência. Muito obrigado, Mark. Você transformou nosso pequeno projeto em um símbolo de resistência contra monopólios digitais."
#fediverso #fediverse #privacidade #privacy #instagram
@fediverse @fediverso @privacidade (pode seguir os 3 para acompanhar conversas do tema)
@pixelfed https://mastodon.social/@pixelfed/113849098386232034
I meant to publish a rant about Google and Chrome Web Store for a while now, and now it is out: https://palant.info/2025/01/13/chrome-web-store-is-a-mess/
This details many of Google’s shortcoming at keeping Chrome Web Store safe, with the conclusion: “for the end users the result is a huge (and rather dangerous) mess.”
I am explaining how Google handled (or rather didn’t handle for most part) my recent reports. How they make reporting problematic extensions extremely hard and then keep reporters in the dark about the state of these reports. How Google repeatedly chose to ignore their own policies and allowed shady, spammy and sometimes outright malicious extensions to prevail.
There is some text here on the completely meaningless “Featured” badge that is more likely to be awarded to malicious extensions than to legitimate ones. And how user reviews aren’t allowing informed decisions either because Google will allow even the most obvious fakes to remain.
I’ve also decided to publish a guest post by a researcher who wanted to remain anonymous: https://palant.info/2025/01/13/biscience-collecting-browsing-history-under-false-pretenses/
This post provides more details on BIScience Ltd., another company selling browsing data of extension users. @tuckner and I wrote a bit about that one recently, but this has been going on since at least 2019 apparently. Google allows it as long as extension authors claim (not very convincingly) that this data collection is necessary for the extension’s functionality. It’s not that Google doesn’t have policies that would prohibit it, yet Google chooses not to enforce those.
Google abandons its promise to block third-party cookies in Chrome, leaving billions vulnerable to online surveillance. We need strong privacy legislation to fight back. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/08/google-breaks-promise-block-third-party-cookies
#chrome #privacy
🏁 #TikTok no longer accessible on 🇺🇸 American phones.🎉 🎈
#Why? BECAUSE #ELON_MUSK and the 🇺🇸 #USA GOVERNMENT ARE THE ONLY ONES ALLOWED TO #VIOLATE #USA_CITIZENS PERSONAL #PRIVACY and #PROTECTION OF #PERSONS #RIGHTS by #DUMB-PHONE_TRIANGULATION of #T_MOBILE and AT&T cell phone #TOWERS
... CHINA NOT ALLOWED!? 🚔
You see it would appear that "What is Good for the Goose IS NEVER GOOD for the Gander?"
and we wonder why we have a #GENDER_IDENTITY PROBLEM?? UGH!
DRINK SOME MORE OIL >> THAT MAY HELP? 🛢️
🔥 #ELON_MUSK IS A #THREAT TO 🇺🇸 #NATIONAL_SECURITY.
The #Supreme_Court upheld the law #banning the app in a 9-0 opinion.
DAVIDV SAYS .. BIG KUDOS 🏆 TO THE SUPREME COURT! you saw it clearly this time ..I hope..?? You are just confusing yourselves.. stop ready between the lines. The Constitution is literal.
ALERT! #HOUSTON WE GOT #BIGGER_PROBLEMS!!??
#NASA AND #ELON_MUSK (remember ELON MUSK DADDY MADE >> EMERALD MINE IN AFRICA) NEEDS (aka GREED) to rob the #indigenous_natives of their lands.. aka VALUABLE #LITHIUM.... USED TO BUILD CHEAP SATELLITES AND CAR BATTERIES..
THEY ARE SITTING ON THE MOTHER LOAD!?? ..frothing at the mouth like the dirty dogs they are for an opportunity to #RAPE AND #PILLAGE THAT LAND?
To Build More #Satellites to track and trace YOU AND YOUR FAMILY.. bc THEY ARE ALL COWARDS.
Why are they all cowards..bc THEY ALL JUST GOT CAUGHT WITH MURDEROUS FINGERS IN THE PIE ;) by TastingTraffic LLC.
Yes the African Slave trader ELON MUSK following DADDY EMERALD MINE footsteps of perversion, murder, rape, pillaging and #APARTHEID.
He needs an Emerald Mine just like #DADDY_INCEST!?
#ELON_MUSK IS #NOT A 🧠 GENIUS! HE IS #IN-FACT A #THREAT TO OUR 🇺🇸 #NATIONAL_SECURITY!
Remove from our Government ASAP without prejudice!
#VIDEO 1: 🏁 #TikTok no longer accessible on 🇺🇸 American phones.🎉 🎈
#VIDEO 2: #Lithium mine pits electric cars against sacred #Indigenous land
https://youtu.be/sv9iHH7g6xk?si=rIQybRzq4ifDrdp2si=CZvI5D0bEwSIBHuu
#VIDEO 3: THE #CASE #AGAINST #NASA (MINDSHOCK PODCAST CLIPS)
Taking a look at the case against #NASA. Would more good be done by #defunding the #space_agency?
📛 DISCLAIMER: We Cover the 'Way' the #News is #COVERED_UP! 👿
WELCOME TO #DECENTRALIZED_GLOBALIZATION 🌐 #GLOBALIZATION is NOT Dead! It's just the Beginning!..
The NEW DIGITAL GLOBAL ORDER | NO NATIONALITY LEFT BEHIND | COMING SOON! 🌏 🌍 🌎
🔴 The #Next #Global_Superpower Isn't Who You #Think 🧠 WHO is TastingTraffic.com?
🧠 https://youtu.be/uiUPD-z9DTg
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"Stopping a company you distrust from profiting off your personal data shouldn’t require tinkering with hidden settings and installing browser extensions. Instead, your data should be private by default. That’s why we need strong federal privacy legislation that puts you—not Meta—in control of your information.
Without strong privacy legislation, Meta will keep finding ways to bypass your privacy protections and monetize your personal data. Privacy is about more than safeguarding your sensitive information—it’s about having the power to prevent companies like Meta from exploiting your personal data for profit."
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/01/mad-meta-dont-let-them-collect-and-monetize-your-personal-data
#SocialMedia #Meta #Facebook #Instagram #Privacy #Surveillance #DataProtection
Hi, I'm new to Mastodon. Interested in privacy and security, US Healthcare reform and SciFi. Cheers.
I have a blog entitled: Going Digitally Green (Reducing your Digital Exhaust) – Privacy in an Age of Pervasive Surveillance.
I provide recommendations on actions you can take to reduce your digital exhaust.
I’ve deliberately limited the posts to the information required to understand my recommendations and move forward.
I have over forty years of experience designing large-scale federal systems with stringent cyber requirements. And I’m a CISSP.
I know I'm going to sound biased now,
but this is seriously an amazing article written by @jonah from @privacyguides I would have totally recommended it even 2 months ago.
If you are planning to attend any protests, but especially in the US right now,
Read This First 👇👇👇
https://www.privacyguides.org/articles/2025/01/23/activists-guide-securing-your-smartphone/
We're Privacy Guides, a non-profit project & community focused on personal data security and privacy. 👋
Much like the right to interracial marriage, woman's suffrage, freedom of speech, and many others, our right to privacy hasn't always been upheld. In several dictatorships, it still isn't. Generations before ours fought for our right to privacy. Privacy is a human right, inherent to all of us, that we are entitled to (without discrimination).
You shouldn't confuse privacy with secrecy. We know what happens in the bathroom, but you still close the door. That's because you want privacy, not secrecy. Everyone has something to protect. Privacy is something that makes us human.
We're on a mission to inform the public about the value of digital privacy, and about global government initiatives which aim to monitor your online activity.
I’ve said this before, but the fact that pretty much every fedi scraper/bot/etc. developer gets immediately shot with a gun is bad, and seriously misaligns incentives. 
A strange developer that announces their obvious scraper bot (that individuals and instances can block) is bleeding out, while the evil ones with secret bots sip their tea contentedly. People need to be okay with opt-out here, or we just functionally encourage the evil ones. 
Posts on fedi are literally public, in any case. This isn’t a private chat-room, I don’t think it’s reasonable to expect others to treat it that way. 
A list of digital service providers outside the jurisdiction of the United States of America. 😉
https://codeberg.org/Linux-Is-Best/Outside_Us_Jurisdiction
My list was getting bigger than a Fedi post could hold, so it is now hosted on Codeberg, an alternative to GitHub or GitLab, but based out of Germany. 👍
#CodeBerg #GitHub #GitLab #WebHosting #Vpn #Dns #Cdn #PasswordManager #Email #Privacy #Security #Project2025 #Fascism #UnitedStates #RuleOfLaw #Justice
On this Data Privacy Day, choose a search engine that puts you first. No ads. No tracking. No compromise. Just the results you want, on your terms.
(Illustration by @chazhutton for Kagi)
#Kagi #Search #AdFree #Privacy #DataPrivacyDay #DataPrivacyWeek
NEW REPORT: UK Political Parties' canvassing apps threaten voter privacy with security vulnerabilities and commercially owned infrastructure.
Data is driving elections, deciding how to focus efforts and target messaging. We lose in a data arms race.
Read more ⬇️
#dataprotection #GDPR #data #democracy #ukpolitics #politicalparties #labour #conservatives #libdems #privacy
New article by me ⛨✨!
CryptPad Review: Replacing Google Docs
If you have been looking for a privacy-respectful replacement to Google Docs, now is the time to move! 📦
@cryptpad offers a full office suite that is completely end-to-end encrypted and built from the ground up with data minimization in mind.
And it's free! 🎉
Why stay with Google when there is a much better option literally right there👇
https://www.privacyguides.org/articles/2025/02/07/cryptpad-review/
#LeaveGoogle #CryptPad #Privacy #E2EE #Encryption #PrivacyGuides
This week's net.wars, "The Gulf of Google" sees a new way to splinter the Internet; watches panic over a new Chinese reasoning model; thinks Silicon Valley has its cause and effect backwards; and asks, "Did Trump just screw data flows between the EU and US - again?": https://netwars.pelicancrossing.net/2025/01/31/the-gulf-of-google/ #NetWars #AI #Privacy #DataProtection
Hi, I'm Jeff! I'm a nerd living in New Hampshire with anxiety and depression. (The anxiety is why this introduction is more than a year late.)
My interests are all over the place, but I mostly talk about #Linux, #programming, and #privacy these days. Also #knitting and #crochet, when I'm channeling my inner grandmother.
Occasional random thoughts are free or your money back.
Your data. Your rules. Your digital future.
monocles launches its crowdfunding campaign on StartNext today! 🎉
monocles offers the solution for European independence from big tech. Be it the end-to-end encrypted chat, the secure email service or the privacy-friendly smartphones with our own operating system. monocles creates a decentralized, fair and ethical digital ecosystem for everyone.
Be part of it!
https://www.startnext.com/en/monocles
#privacy #sovereign #dataprotection #encryption #monocles
LiberaForms v4.0.0
After some pondering, procrastinating, planning, and development, LiberaForms now comes with End-to-end encryption built in. 😀
This means that E2EE enabled form answers are only known by the participating parties. No leaks!
This is a major milestone for LiberaForms, and represents a notable step forward to providing ethical free form software for all!
Enjoy!