Facebook Messenger's Rollout of End-to-End Encryption Leaves Metadata Questions Unanswered (spectrum.ieee.org)
Excerpts from the article and another article by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) :...
BusKill Warrant Canary #007 🕵️ (www.buskill.in)
This post contains a canary message that’s cryptographically signed by the official BusKill PGP release key...
Is there a search engine that filters out cookie wall and paywall pages ?
Companies Make it Too Easy for Thieves to Impersonate Police and Steal Our Data (www.eff.org)
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/10984512...
the encryption keys, why can't the government just sneak on them?
disclaimer: I’m just asking to get understanding of the theory behind network traffic encryption, I know this doesn’t happen irl most likely....
How bad is Idea of .Zip as password manager?
Any explanation of Why to not store passwords in plaintext and encrypt folder in zip archive (I guess U cant break pass?) Pls don’t be agressive!!
Privacy Concerns on Lemmy: A Call for More User Control (github.com)
I’ve been grappling with a concern that I believe many of us share: the lack of privacy controls on Lemmy. As it stands, our profiles are public, and all our posts and comments are visible to anyone who cares to look. I don’t even care about privacy all that much, but this level of transparency feels to me akin to sharing my...
Riot Games Now Requires Kernel-Level Anti-Cheat Software for League of Legends, Following Valorant's Implementation (tuta.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/10958052...
Mozilla's Platform Tilt: Tracking technical issues which disadvantage Firefox relative to the first-party browser within major software platforms (mozilla.github.io)
About Platform Tilt:...
Your Tablet's Light Sensor Can Spy On You (spectrum.ieee.org)
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/10921294...
In Search of Anonymity: How to Ensure Freedom of Expression Online (www.thecanary.co)
AdGuard Temp Mail: new temporary email service launched - gHacks Tech News (www.ghacks.net)
AdGuard Temp Mail’s addresses are temporary and aren’t stored long by design:...
FTC bans one more data broker from selling your location info (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
“The InMarket Apps have been downloaded onto over 30 million unique devices since 2017,” reads the FTC complaint against InMarket Media....
Haier hits Home Assistant plugin dev with takedown notice (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
cross-posted from: poptalk.scrubbles.tech/post/567593...
Inside Biden’s secret surveillance court (www.politico.com)
A deep dive into the Data Protection Review Court by Alfred Ng and John Sakellariadis, including some great perspectives from Max Schrems of noyb.eu
Securing Bluetooth Headphones
I have a pair of Bluetooth headphones, which I have been using since 2022. Today, I was sitting on the bus when some random person connected to them and started playing Free Bird....
Google lists improvements that only users from the EU will get - gHacks Tech News (www.ghacks.net)
Google collects and shares data between its own services by default. Search, advertising, YouTube and several others exchange user data. Users in the EU have to give consent to this form of sharing. By default, data will no longer be exchanged between services. EU users may already manage the Google Services that may or may not...
Have I Been Pwned adds 71 million emails from Naz.API stolen account list (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
The Naz.API dataset is a massive collection of 1 billion credentials compiled using credential stuffing lists and data stolen by information-stealing malware....
Android and iOS settings for better security and privacy (thenewoil.org)
The article lists settings to change on Android 14 and iOS 17....
Active combat against surveillance instead of passive defense
Examples of passive defenses against surveillance:...
There’s a Multibillion-Dollar Market for Your Phone’s Location Data – The Markup (themarkup.org)
Location firm Near describes itself as “The World’s Largest Dataset of People’s Behavior in the Real-World,” with data representing “1.6B people across 44 countries.” Mobilewalla boasts “40+ Countries, 1.9B+ Devices, 50B Mobile Signals Daily, 5+ Years of Data.” X-Mode’s website claims its data covers “25%+ of...
Common misconceptions about privacy and security (www.privacyguides.org)
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/10833312...
Each Facebook User is Monitored by Thousands of Companies – The Markup (themarkup.org)
Using a panel of 709 volunteers who shared archives of their Facebook data, Consumer Reports found that a total of 186,892 companies sent data about them to the social network. On average, each participant in the study had their data sent to Facebook by 2,230 companies. That number varied significantly, with some panelists’...
PSA: Anyone can tell if you are using WhatsApp on your computer (techcrunch.com)
