Commodore Sixty Bore
The people of Easter Island feared what they would do if left alone. Were they capable of murder, terrorism, theft, perversion?
They looked to the technology of the time and constructed giant stone heads to watch over their society. No more secrets, nothing to hide would surely equal safety and prosperity.
Today, all that remains of Easter Island is the stone heads. The people, their children, all gone.
Michael Downey 🇺🇳
TIL you don't have to install Android apps to use #Uber, #Lyft, and #Starbucks mobile services.
They're all available through mobile web clients just fine, and only get your location (only) when you're using it for what you need to do. #tracking
With Fennec (Firefox) on Android you can even install a handy icon on your launcher screen to tap.
What other #Android apps can be replaced by mobile web experiences?
Michael Downey 🇺🇳
"NBC has obtained THOUSANDS of pages of leaked internal documents show that Facebook wasn’t just spitballing about selling access to user data - the plans had buy-in among Zuck, Sandberg and were pitched to the board of directors"
Strypey
The EU's #NextGenerationInternet project has announced its latest round of funding for #FreeCode software, this time for projects working on #privacy and trust. This is a good chance to create a period of paid work for folks working on privacy-protecting software, either enhancements to existing project, or ambitious, new ones:
https://nlnet.nl/PET/
Michael Downey 🇺🇳
ICYMI: #FreeSoftware #Privacy developer Ola Bini, currently a major contributor to the OTR encrypted messaging protocol, has been detained with no or flimsy charges for 4+ days and counting in Ecuador. "Evidence" included having technical books and too many devices. They say he'll be held up to 90 days while they "develop charges" against him.
#FreeOlaBini #OpenSource #FLOSS #FOSS #surveilancecapitalism
André E. Veltstra
If you sell #spyware to governments, shouldn't you know better than to leave your #sensitive data behind without #encryption on publicly accessible cloud servers? Just to show that the spyware-aware and the #privacy-aware roam in differing circles:
"Government Spyware Vendor Left Customer, Victim Data Online for Everyone to See," by Motherboard: https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/vbka8b/wolf-intelligence-leak-customer-victim-data-online
#Wolf
rye
"The old Apple promise was that you don’t have to worry if the tech works. The new promise is you don’t have to worry if the tech is scamming you."
https://mondaynote.com/the-apple-services-misunderstanding-7af38fe1f087
rye
@hrthu Indeed, #mojeek is an interesting #privacy project to keep an eye on. They did an AMA in March, which I found to be quite informative, e.g., differences between crawler-based search engine vs. metasearch engines like #DuckDuckGo.
https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/apvfrj/were_building_mojeek_the_worlds_alternative/
Shawn Webb
Idea: #Netmap integration with #Tor for high-capacity [exit] relays, allowing Tor to bypass the kernel and talk (almost) directly with the NIC.
André E. Veltstra
To prevent phone apps from using my phone's cameras without my consent, and also to show others that I'm not filming/photographing them, I stuck some of my daughters' plastic stick-on diamonds on the camera openings. These have a metal-colored opaque base layer: no light can pass.
As a bonus, the diamonds add notches to the phone, making it easier to hold, tell which way is up, and move in my hands.
Sometimes #usability is a side effect of a #privacy policy!
Mike Gerwitz
El Acheche Anis 🇹🇳
RT @0xUID@twitter.activitypub.actor
-Be Microsoft
-Release source code of calculator on GitHub
-Paste password into calculator
-Use it as part of telemetry to collect data.
André E. Veltstra
Guide to Web #Authentication
An introduction to Web Authentication (#WebAuthn), the new API that can replace passwords with strong authentication.
Supported by most major web browsers safe 1, whose vendor claims support will follow shortly.
El Acheche Anis 🇹🇳
RT @nizarus
Les utilisés de #Failbook il est temps de se libérer... - #Privacy #GAFAM
#Facebook a volontairement planifié l'espionnage des utilisateurs, c'est ce que révèlent de nouveaux emails confidentiels de la direction
Willow
#Privacy vs "I have nothing to hide" - Kev Quirk https://kevq.uk/privacy-vs-i-have-nothing-to-hide/
Purism Computers
Our CEO, Todd Weaver testified today at the California Congressional Privacy Commission - hear his testimony- at - https://puri.sm/posts/purisms-ceo-todd-weaver-testifies-at-california-congressional-privacy-commission/ #ChooseFreedom #PrivacyNow #Privacy
Humanity
Interesting. Are you sure about that? I hadn't heard otherwise and, while I'm aware that Wikipedia isn't infallible, it states "Startpage exclusively uses results from Google, which the company pays Google for." and has a source.
...Or are you saying that they take results exclusively from Google and then filter them in some way? I'd be interested to hear more, especially if you can supply any sources.
André E. Veltstra
And if you thought: just activate #javascript and allow #cookies, lower #security and #privacy, so the site will let me download time tables?
Yeah, about that.
These #webdevs did something really sneaky. They powered their #webforms with a very old version of #ASPNet. So the forms work only in very special web browsers. If you happen to prefer #Stoutner's #PrivacyBrowser, no downloads for you!
Unless you already know this page:
http://www.academybus.com/Commuters/Timetables.aspx
André E. Veltstra
Currently I can read the #MDN and peruse its articles without activating #javascript or #cookies. It's fast and seems to work well.
Hey, #Mozilla, please don't take that ability away from us?
#Usability #Accessibility #Privacy #Security
André E. Veltstra
I just hear that #Mozilla's #DeveloperNetwork (#MDN, https://developer.mozilla.org/) is planning on migrating its website framework to #React.
From #Privacy perspective I don't like React websites because they require #javascript.
From a #Usability perspective I don't like websites that require javascript because the devs usually arrogantly refuse to tell us about that requirement, leaving us with a useless, blank, tranquil screen.
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