Nov 2, 2021
Chatcontrol Explained — Video of Pirate Party MEP Patrick Breyer raising his voice against automated citizen surveillance in the EU. This will be voted in December 2021, you guessed it, with the excuse of "protecting the children" (via)
#privacy #europe
Sep 20, 2021
Canarytokens — Discover if your information has been breached by tracking for file reads, database queries, process executions, patterns in log files, Bitcoin transactions or even Linkedin Profile views.
#privacy #security
Aug 24, 2021
Twitter starts to require login to view tweets — Twitter following the Instagram route. Mixed news. People will eventually stop using Twitter as their public blog and online homepage, and treat it as another closed social network. However, a pretty good kinda open public discussion forum will die.
#internet #privacy
Aug 6, 2021
Apple's Plan to "Think Different" About Encryption Opens a Backdoor to Your Private Life — Apple will install a back door to Messages and will scan your photos on-device against an inscrutable and unauditable database. Extremely bad news. Others will follow (or are silently doing it already) and there is still no good alternative to Apple/Google’s ecosystems.
#privacy #apple
May 19, 2021
Using AirTags to detect stationary iPhones · Łukasz's website! — We're moving towards a world where we will need to constantly "scan" for listening or tracking devices in our surroundings. Is this the future we wanted? Worth a thought. (via)
#privacy #apple
May 18, 2021
Prosecutors admit they can't prove a deepfake is actually a deepfake — First one on a long list of cases to come (via)
#ai #privacy #law
May 5, 2021
The Instagram ads Facebook won't show you — Very smart campaign from Signal to make people aware of how targeted ads work and how their data is being used. (via)
#privacy
Apr 22, 2021
Moxie Marlinspike on Twitter: "A few months ago Cellebrite announced that they would begin parsing data from Signal in their extraction tools. It seems they're not doing that very carefully. Exploiting vulnerabilities in Cellebrite's software, from an app's perspective: https://t.co/9ar6ypnPe2" / Twitter — Moxie finds RCE vulnerabilities in Cellebrite, triggered just by placing a carefully crafted file on any app, which render the software useless. This is hacking at its best and purest.
#genius #privacy #hardware
Mar 6, 2021
Zero Data App — Confusingly named compilation of webapps that store your data in localstorage, so you are always in control of it. Interesting how we are de-cloudifying back. (via)
#internet #privacy
Feb 23, 2021
Clubhouse Chats Are Breached, Raising Concerns Over Security — Regular reminder that you should assume that all the content you share on the internet may be downloaded and rehosted somewhere else. The part about using Agora for the backend is truly worrying though. (via)
#privacy
Jan 24, 2021
The PGP Problem — In college I was taught PGP and RSA as the golden standard of cryptography. Nowadays they're terrible choices. Excellent read (and the via) to learn why. (via)
#privacy #crypto
Jan 12, 2021
‘Your Cock Is Mine Now:’ Hacker Locks Internet-Connected Chastity Cage, Demands Ransom — WHY?!? Stop connecting random devices to the internet! If you need an app to control your sex toy, do it via bluetooth. (via)
#privacy #iot #hardware
Jan 8, 2021
WhatsApp whitepaper removed sentence about never having access to private keys — Next installment in the Whatsapp ToS change: now they don't promise they don't read your messages (via)
#privacy #facebook
Jan 7, 2021
WhatsApp gives users an ultimatum: Share data with Facebook or stop using the app — Facebook continues the war against their own users. Unfortunately, in some regions, it is just impossible to stop using whatsapp. You may as well stop carrying a cellphone. As much as I will whine about this, there is no recourse. (via)
#privacy #facebook
Dec 19, 2020
Federal prosecutors accuse Zoom of working with Chinese government to surveil users and suppress calls — Please don’t use Zoom and please don’t make me use it to talk to you. Xinjiang Jin monitored Zoom for discussions of political and religious topics [...] and he gave government officials the names, email addresses and other sensitive information of users, even those outside China. (via)
#privacy #china
Dec 17, 2020
No cookie for you — GitHub removes cookie banners with some good willed PR move: “After a brief search, we found one: just don’t use any non-essential cookies. Pretty simple, really.” (via)
#privacy #internet
Dec 7, 2020
Court forces mail provider Tutanota to insert a backdoor — "A ruling by the Cologne Regional Court is now forcing [Tutanota] to incorporate a function with which investigators can monitor individual mailboxes and read emails in plain text."
#privacy #europe #email
Nov 16, 2020
Safely open apps on your Mac - Apple Support — In 2021, Apple will encrypt OCSP traffic and introduce a way to opt-out of these checks. This is the right thing to do. (via)
#apple #privacy
Nov 15, 2020
Bypassing Firewalls in macOS Big Sur — The more I read about this feature the more I'm convinced that Apple slipped big on its design. Just imagine if this had happened to Microsoft instead. Apple deserves more flak for it. (via)
#apple #privacy
Nov 14, 2020
macOS unable to open any non-Apple application — The more I think about this, the worse it seems to me. I'd rather Apple ran everything sandboxed by default, with an option to disable it, than having libc phone home. (via)
#apple #privacy
Oct 12, 2020
Self-Hosting Part 5: Finale — Good series of articles, extensive and functional, on how to self-host as an alternative to using iCloud. Same route I'm taking.
#privacy #apple
Oct 10, 2020
Apple Tells Secure Messaging App Telegram to Take Down Protestor Channels in Belarus — Couldn't find a better source, so take this with a grain of salt. If true, this is a scandalous overreach of Apple's power. Policing user-generated content is not acceptable. (via)
#privacy #apple
Sep 23, 2020
A look at /e/OS on the FairPhone 3 - a FOSS OS for phones — Yes, please. The world needs a serious, de-googlified mobile phone. (via)
#video #privacy #android
Aug 12, 2020
Unacceptable, where is my privacy? — Smart speaker assistants are triggered regularly by accidentally uttering words similar to their wake words, like "unacceptable / Alexa", "a city / Siri" and "ok, cool / ok, Google". You already have your phone's microphone constantly listening to you, please don't sign up for extra surveillance. (via)
#privacy
Aug 4, 2020
Replacing YouTube & Invidious — "Subscribing" to Youtube channels via youtube-dl. This is very close to my setup and I'm very happy with it. (via)
#internet #privacy
Jul 14, 2020
I Know What You Download on BitTorrent — A reminder that your IP is broadcasted in p2p services to anybody who is listening (via)
#privacy #internet
Jul 11, 2020
Don't close your MacBook, MacBook Air, or MacBook Pro with a cover over the camera — Apple is on the wrong. Camera covers have a different function that indicator lights. I don't want to be notified when a rogue or buggy app takes a picture of me, I want to *avoid* it! (via)
#privacy #hardware
Jun 11, 2020
Report: Facebook Helped the FBI Exploit Vulnerability in a Secure Linux [...] — Fascinating story with tons of technical and ethical implications. (via)
#privacy #crime