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winterayars, in An article about how a priest was discovered using gay apps

“Commandment of celibacy”???

I am pretty sure that’s not a thing? Like that’s not one of the big ten. I don’t remember Jesus saying anything about commanding it, though he said to accept it if you can. I do remember stuff about rich people, though. That may be relevant considering they’re spending $4mil to go after gay priests…

captainlezbian,

Yeah celibacy is about inheritance not Jesus in Catholicism. Do they think the guy who convinced multiple men to ditch their wives and kids to wander the desert with a bunch of men was really that into celibacy and men not getting it on?

winterayars,

I think they think he’s gay and that’s the real reason.

tygerprints,

I'm willing to bet he isn't. Most priests who engage in same sex acts with underage kids (for example) are not gay and have never wanted any kind of adult gay relationship. I only point this out because people think that priests = gay. Most same-sex pedophiles aren't gay and have no desire for normal adult gay relationships at all.

Pronell,

A new monk arrived at the monastery. He was assigned to help the other monks in copying the old texts by hand. He noticed, however, that they were copying copies, not the original books. The new monk went to the head monk to ask him about this. He pointed out that if there were an error in the first copy, that error would be continued in all of the other copies.

The head monk said, ‘We have been copying from the copies for centuries, but you make a good point, my son.’ The head monk went down into the cellar with one of the copies to check it against the original.

Hours later, nobody had seen him, so one of the monks went downstairs to look for him. He heard a sobbing coming from the back of the cellar and found the old monk leaning over one of the original books, crying.

He asked what was wrong.

‘The word is ‘celebrate,’ not ‘celibate’!’ sobbed the head monk.

HawlSera, in UK porn watchers could have faces scanned

TERF Island is fucked

drwho, in UK porn watchers could have faces scanned

I’m surprised they don’t want to scan something else.

viking, in Help me choose my mobile browser
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Fennec (Firefox based), with Ghostery and uBlock origin installed.

You’ll have to set add-ons up as a private collection for them to work, but it’s easy as pie.

noodlejetski,
viking,
@viking@infosec.pub avatar

Interesting, I’ll look deeper into that. They have an adblocking engine as well though and catch a few random ones uBlock doesn’t, so I’m not totally convinced they are fully redundant.

Nyfure,

You can add lists in ublock..

viking,
@viking@infosec.pub avatar

Yes, and I do, and yet there are still some escapees. Might be a fringe case as I live in Asia, but at least for me it serves a purpose.

Nyfure, (edited )

Find the escapees, put them on the list or find a list including them for your particular use-case.
I dont have much things getting through, mostly small sites displaying things, so i just add a filter myself.

Afaik Ghostery was bought and started tracking its users.. or was that another popular extension? Happened to alot of these.. pretty sure it was Ghostery?

viking,
@viking@infosec.pub avatar

Right, I’ll look into that. Thanks!

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  • Lemongrab,
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    Just setup links to open in private browsing mode, and clear cookies on browser exit.

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  • Lemongrab, (edited )
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    Nope, you should set up site exception. Site exceptions are much better than just leaving cookies persistent. Cookies both function as a method to track and an easy way for a hacker to steal session tokens. Always prefer the native method, reducing attack surface and providing better function with browser APIs. Read the resource wiki linked from Arkenfox user.js

    itsaj26744,
    @itsaj26744@programming.dev avatar

    Hmm but On FF there are no way to see induvidual site data

    viking,
    @viking@infosec.pub avatar

    You can delete cookies and data on a per-site basis, and advanced tracking protection prevents any nefarious websites from exploiting your browser. That’s all I care for.

    itsaj26744,
    @itsaj26744@programming.dev avatar

    In firefox android, I dont see any way to delete cookie+site data per site basis. Are u talking about chromium?

    Lemongrab,
    @Lemongrab@lemmy.one avatar

    Cookies are partitioned in Firefox strict mode IIRC.

    viking,
    @viking@infosec.pub avatar

    No, I’m talking about Firefox. Fennec, that is, but the key functions are all the same.

    It’s not in the settings however, you need to open the site in question and press the lock icon in the address bar next to the URL, the context menu there allows to delete cookies and site specific data.

    itsaj26744,
    @itsaj26744@programming.dev avatar

    Thanks a lot setup complete, Thanks to all on thread

    Pantherina,

    Addons

    itsaj26744,
    @itsaj26744@programming.dev avatar

    Hmm but I dont see anyone working the way I want. Can u explain which addon to use? And how to use them?

    Pantherina,

    Ghostery sends like every website you visit to their servers. Its opt-out and Ublock origin is better anyways. Firefox really has a problem of not marking bad addons

    GrappleHat,
    @GrappleHat@lemmy.ml avatar
    • Mull is similar to Fennec except with some privacy tweaks. Generally Mull is better.
    • You don’t need Ghostery anymore
    Lemongrab, (edited )
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    Mull works the same as Fennec, except it is hardended with patches from Tor and Arkenfox user.js. No real reason IMO to use fennec over Mull, whose developers also contribute to Fennec. Ghostery also changes your fingerprint, acting as one more data point. Mull has a whole bunch of configured flags to reduce fingerprinting, and many more to help with security (like disabling JIT).

    Check here for some comparisons:

    divestos.org/pages/browsers

    privacytests.org

    viking, (edited )
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    Following the pro-Mull comments here I’ve given it a try for a solid 48h, and just reverted back to Fennec. Mull is simply restricting the user experience too much, and I’m not willing to make the sacrifice.

    My biggest annoyances:

    1. Websites don’t get information about dark mode from my device and revert back to light mode by default.
    2. Websites don’t get information about the system time on my phone and deliver content based on GMT+0.
    3. Some websites get wrong (or none?) information about the screen resolution and are unusable.

    I’m aware that those details are suppressed to avoid fingerprinting, and while I believe that the intention is good, it makes using my phone more cumbersome, and that’s not something I’m willing to do. So my choices at this point are basically to keep using Mull and deactivate the advanced fingerprinting protection, or use Fennec as before.

    Lemongrab,
    @Lemongrab@lemmy.one avatar

    Firefox resistant fingerprinting does the first 2 things, the last one is mobile partial letterboxing. All are anti fingerprinting techniques, but i understand how they may be restrictive. Maybe just add dark reader to have dark mode forced on websites, which technically can be fingerprinted but has a large userbase so idk.

    yogthos, in Apple Confirms Governments Using Push Notifications to Surveil Users
    @yogthos@lemmy.ml avatar

    I can think of one government that definitely surveils data that goes through Google servers.

    Templa, in Signal leaked random contacts to me!

    Why did someone see that I joined Signal? People who already know your number and already have you in their contacts see that they can contact you on Signal. Nothing is sent to them by your Signal app or the Signal service. They just see a number they know is registered. If someone knows how to send you an insecure SMS, we want them to see that they can send you a Signal message instead.

    Why did I see that my contact joined Signal? You are notified when someone that is stored in your contact list is a new Signal user. If you can send an insecure SMS to a contact, we want you to know you can send a Signal message instead.

    I hate this.

    ReversalHatchery,

    So Signal does not protect against those that fill their contacts with every existing number?

    But also, this does not explain why is it only happening in the desktop app for OP

    qwerty_bastard,

    Protect against what? People knowing you have Signal? Excuse me if it’s obvious to everyone else, but I’m struggling to understand the issue here.

    aintnofilthybot,

    It confirms that your number is valid and in use.

    Redjard,
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    You can check that in the phone app too. Hit new message, enter the numer, hit "New message to… " and it’ll tell you if it isn’t known. There is rate limiting in that function, you’d need a lot of signal accounts to sweep all phone numbers.
    You could also try signing up to signal using the number you want to check.

    Neither way however you would get the signal name or profile pic of the number if I understand it correctly, that would get sent if they reply to you.

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  • Redjard,
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    It’s a necessary feature if you are using phone numbers. Signal has to tell you if your message has any chance of being received.

    I don’t want to message someones number, to find out they never got my message and don’t have signal a few days later, and I don’t want to message them via whatsapp too, giving them a chance to use that when they have signal.

    Xer0,

    I mean, ever heard of a phonebook?

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  • jerkface, (edited )
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    I don’t need to understand that it’s an issue for you, but I want to understand why it’s an issue for you.

    akilou, in YSK - Siri Forces Your Web Searches thru G♾️gle

    Why are you surprised that Apple won’t let you change any default settings?

    BloodSlut, in Largest Study of its Kind Shows Outdated Password Practices are Widespread

    not even mentioning websites that have something like a 20 character limit on passwords

    floofloof,

    My favourites are the ones that let you set a 35-character password and, presumably, happily hash it and store it in the database, but then provide a login screen that requires passwords to be 20 characters or less.

    valkyre09,

    My HP printer had a hard limit of 16 characters. My password manager generated 20 characters. The login form had no issue accepting 20 characters, which were of course wrong.

    Just another reason to not buy HP I guess

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  • beetus,

    I think battle.net did this for a long time. I am probably misremembering but gosh whatever service I experienced it with was annoying

    ultratiem,
    @ultratiem@lemmy.ca avatar

    I was under the impression that even just letters (no case) would take a lifetimes to brute force if you exceeded 15 characters. And that drops to just 11 if you mix cases, numbers and special characters.

    XTL,

    That’s probably about correct, horse battery staple.

    TrickDacy,
    @TrickDacy@lemmy.world avatar

    One of the worst offenders I’ve seen was a bank I used to use. I think they limited to 16 characters and also got angry about a couple different special characters I tried to use. The problem beyond that? The form would let you submit any length and just silently chopped off characters 17+ or whatever. I had to reset my password several times to figure out what was going on. Pathetic…

    Goun,

    I’ve seen this, wtf does this people have on their heads!?

    pipariturbiini,

    Earlier this year I signed up as a member to a professional organization that also grants IT-related certifications… I couldn’t figure out why the account registration wouldn’t let me proceed, until I typed a super short password instead.

    dylanTheDeveloper, in UK porn watchers could have faces scanned
    @dylanTheDeveloper@lemmy.world avatar

    Like mid bust or before pre bust nutting?

    colourlesspony, in Matic is a $1,795 robot vacuum for people concerned about privacy

    The app is ios only and you need to buy hepa bags every week for it. Those kind of kill it for me.

    TonyTonyChopper,
    @TonyTonyChopper@mander.xyz avatar

    app

    it’ll be a paperweight when the company goes tits-up

    colourlesspony,

    I know right! I hate that so much new tech needs an app and will lose functionality/stop working if the company stop supporting it or you phone stop working with the app.

    dditty,

    The fact that it costs $1800 means it was dead on arrival for me. But I wish them the best if they can carve out a niche of privacy-focused iRobot/Roomba customers while bringing increased exposure to privacy issues

    lemann, in Police across Britain equipped with live facial recognition bodycams

    IMO this is pretty shortsighted and going to affect all the wrong people, skimasks and balaclavas are a thing!

    worldsayshi,

    Or dazzle makeup.

    AtmaJnana,

    Or just an N95 mask

    RvTV95XBeo,

    Socially acceptable, healthy, and private, win win win

    Tb0n3,

    Bring back balaclavas.

    TheOSINTguy, (edited )

    And so is a IR flashlight!

    CazRaX,

    Easy enough fix for the government, just make them illegal.

    RememberTheApollo_, in UK porn watchers could have faces scanned

    Just get a paper cutout of a PM for the camera, no?

    inson1, in Simple Mobile Tools apps

    github.com/FossifyOrg

    name was changed

    electric_nan, in Signal Facing Collapse After CIA Cuts Funding

    Wait til you hear where TOR gets its funding!

    GissaMittJobb, in UK porn watchers could have faces scanned

    Oi! You got a license for that pornography?

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