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kbal, in The Irish government wants to pass a law that could see you or your loved ones jailed for possession of memes, cartoons or any content that could be deemed "hateful".
@kbal@fedia.io avatar

It's too bad you couldn't find a link to somewhere other than x.com. Just going by the headline though, this could lead to great new career opportunities for Irish black market contraband meme dealers.

SheeEttin,
MNByChoice, in New Advertisement and Internet connection permissions for Simple SMS Messenger on Google Play Store...

Not really the focus here, but Google could really improve those listings by providing some guidance as to what permissions are actually required for certain tasks.

I am not certain I would know if am SMS program needs full Internet access or not.

(I get in this instance everything added is bad.)

merde,

strangely, you need “internet” for mms so, yes, sms app needs full internet access

TxzK, in New Advertisement and Internet connection permissions for Simple SMS Messenger on Google Play Store...

Simple Contacts and SMS were the only simple apps I’ve been using. Fortunately I’ve found Connect You, which does both. So goodbye simple

CalicoJack,

The Fossify forks of simple apps should be coming soon too, if you want to stick with something familiar. They’ve already released their calendar, gallery, and file manager, the rest should be ready pretty soon.

Tatar_Nobility, in New Advertisement and Internet connection permissions for Simple SMS Messenger on Google Play Store...

Throwback to when they announced releasing a simple phone. Fun times.

Cheradenine,

That was amazing. Someone linked to alibaba where you could buy the same 4? Year old phone for something like $120USD. Someone else dredged up a weird eastern European connection for the ‘FOSS’ OS. And they promised support, which ended when you bought the pos.

Vexz, in I learned about startpage recently.

Startpage was bought by an advertising company. I suggest to not bother with that search engine anymore.

Zerush,
@Zerush@lemmy.ml avatar

Nothing new, but it’s still a privacy centred search engine, but, same as Google search, whose engine does it use, puts advertisings, related to the search at the beginning of the results. It’s annoying but not put in risk your privacy. You can check it by yourself, with Webkoll, UrlVoid, Blacklight, etc. There are no cookies, trackers, logs or other profiling crap in Startpage. Anyway there are a lot of other search engines out there which you can use, Whoogle, Andisearch, AstianGo (default search engine from the Midori browser, a FF fork, but better, FOSS), Mojeek, Qwant, MetaGer, DDG, if you have little children, the 100% family save Swisscows, if you want planting trees or support social projects, use Ecosia or Good search. All of these protect your privacy and don’t log your searches, nor track you. Sponsor ads, or context based, like Startpage has, instead on surveilling or profiling, to create incommings, are not a privacy or security issue, server costs money. If you want to avoid it, you must use a selfhosted solucion or trust a public instance (Whoogle, SearX) or use a search engine which recieve a commision when you buy something online (Andisearch) or similar methodes that do not compromise your data.

To avoid are Google, Bing, Yahoo, etc, which make money with surveillance advertising, logging your search and profiling you to sell your data to advertising companies, this is a risk and lack of privacy, not the other

Shamot, in Accept cookie banners with third-party cookies rejected
@Shamot@jlai.lu avatar

When I see this, the only viable option I see is to close the site and boycott it. Any other choice would encourage more companies to do this blackmail.

Cheradenine,

While I agree, and I use TOR or Orbot for everything( which means quite a few things are blocked for me), this doesn’t answer OP’s question.

Agility0971,
@Agility0971@lemmy.world avatar

In duckduckgo search results there is a link to block this domain. I always block shitty domains that farm clicks

rinze, (edited )
@rinze@infosec.pub avatar

Where’s that? I just ran a test search but I can’t see it :-?

Agility0971,
@Agility0971@lemmy.world avatar

Hmm… I cannot see it anymore either. They appeared under each search entry as hyperlink.

moreeni, (edited ) in I'm getting doxxed by a troll

Delete all data from the previous account and make a new one. Report the troll to moderators. Consider never visiting that place again if the mods won’t help you with the harassment.

If the troll doesn’t have access to the forum’s server, then all you have to do is learn some opsec and be aware of what you share with strangers on the Internet.

If the troll does have access to the server and you absolutely need to visit the forum (which I’d advise not to in such a case), then in addition to what has been said above, use VPN with a hardened browser or Tor to access the forum.

phpinjected,
@phpinjected@lemmy.sdf.org avatar

I hardly share anything on the internet, I think mods on the forum leak my details to the troll

SheeEttin,

Also consider filing a police report for harassment. I don’t expect anything will happen from that alone, but it starts a paper trail.

workerONE, in I'm getting doxxed by a troll

For the future, maybe search your name and see if there are any results that are you. Then try name and your city, see if there is anything.

bobs_monkey, (edited ) in I'm getting doxxed by a troll

I don’t mean to be a dick, but if a troll is able to pass your information out, you need to adhere to better personal information security practices.

mathemachristian,

Helpful…

PixTupy,

Not helpful for the current predicament, but good general advice for the future.

NotJustForMe,

Well, it might be helpful in the current predicament. Going after the perp, without taking care of the vulnerabilities might make them take a real interest and get more data out. So make sure it’s all off the grid.

Make sure it’s also deleted from the Internet archive. From search engines and so on.

We got police scammed for a while because my streaming wife’s contact was in some obscure 15-year-old backup of her first website on the internet archive. Before we used a service for that stuff. It had been offline for a decade already, so nobody even thought about it.

bobs_monkey,

Shit I ain’t a saint, we all can better about it. My point is that if you wanna go in the offensive online, be sure it can’t bite you in the ass, at least in this regard.

shreddy_scientist, (edited ) in Are there alternatives to google scholar and google patents?
@shreddy_scientist@lemmy.ml avatar

I use JabRef for both finding research papers and generating bibliographies. It’s phenomenal and fully open source. Definitely worth checking out, I’m not even sure what I’d do without it these days!

nossaquesapao,

I tried it, but didn’t find a way to search for articles. it seems closer to zotero than scholar. Am I missing something?

shreddy_scientist, (edited )
@shreddy_scientist@lemmy.ml avatar

In the top left there should be a search option. In settings preferences, be sure it’s set up to search all sources. I get tons of articles when putting in pretty specific topics.

Edit: It’s in the preferences under the file tab. Here’s screenshots of my home screen, plus the preferences I use for it to search papers.

https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/96055a38-7246-4cae-bdea-b80af90625c9.jpeg

https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/16174222-a488-4f79-8578-b13049b1ff57.jpeg

nossaquesapao,

Thank you very much!

DrPen,
@DrPen@mastodon.social avatar

@shreddy_scientist @nossaquesapao I shared the academic Internet archive recently, which is pretty good. A JabRef dev commented on adding it to the JabRef search resources. I need to start using JabRef to help begin the move away from Google scholar but that's very difficult to do as an academic.

moonpiedumplings, in Are there alternatives to google scholar and google patents?

In my experience, best with science, math, and technology stuff:

arxiv.org

But I’ve found it to be very good for finding scientific articles.

FriendBesto,

It is fairly good for what it is, lots of things missing but I will certainly take it. Use it often. Recommend.

Gooey0210, (edited ) in Here's what telegram's founder say about Whatsapp's privacy

Guys, please stop using telegram if you care for your security and privacy

Telegram is not fully open source, sometimes they release the source, but the hashes of the builds don’t even match (so it’s a different source code) 🚩

Zero transparency about data handling, even when they get caught they don’t tell details 🚩 (Telegram in the recent years has got really shady reputation)

Very often ways they implement security is weird: non open source app, non open source server, leaking APIs, use of phone numbers, at some point they started asking for an email, non encrypted chats by default, never encrypted group chats… it can continue forever 🚩

Non-standard encryption is a real red flag, non-open-source 🚩

I know some people that work/worked for the police, and they can read all the messages easy peasy, i was trying to tell to the people many years ago, but everyone was so amused by the stickers. Now you can just read stories of the journalists and activists, and how they got imprisoned with the use telegram 👁️‍🗨️💀

PLEASE, STOP USING TELEGRAM IF YOU CARE FOR YOUR PRIVACY OR SECURITY

clot27, (edited )
@clot27@lemm.ee avatar

Except if you open source server, there’s no way to verify it is using same code anyways and their client is already open source so waste point.

sometimes they release the source, but the hashes of the builds don’t even match.

When did this happen? Source?

Signal asks phone numbers, emails are universally known. If you don’t want to give them your real phone number, buy one from fragment.com (their web3 service where they sell phone number for crypto). Emails are already public and they ask them only for recovery process and its opt on so there’s no problem with that.

All chats are encrypted by default from private to group using mtproto, where there have been no breaches found yet so stop spreading misinformation.

Again telling personal experience which maybe lie, can you share source of your claims? Which journalist got arrested due to telegram?

Gooey0210,

You can go and check yourself mr. Senior Officer of FSB, i don’t want to fight for your war

clot27,
@clot27@lemm.ee avatar

I would spread misinformation on internet and tell others to find source of it 🤓

ebits21, (edited ) in ProtonMail Complied with 5,957 Data Requests in 2022 - Still Secure and Private?
@ebits21@lemmy.ca avatar

My understanding is that the email is encrypted still so… they hand over the encrypted data which might be useless.

(CEO did a podcast this week for a Linux podcast)

LWD, (edited )

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  • sqgl, (edited )

    I thought the email body is e2e encrypted nowadays by default(?). And I mean regardless of who your provider is.

    crispy_kilt, in Here's what telegram's founder say about Whatsapp's privacy

    What a load of hipocrisy. The dude uses unauthenticated DH for his apps “secret chats”, which a bored student with a laptop can MITM in seconds. Other chats use just TLS, meaning they get to read EVERYTHING.

    Use Signal, people.

    clot27,
    @clot27@lemm.ee avatar

    which a bored student with a laptop can MITM in seconds

    No, how can a bored student breach e2ee in seconds? note that no such cases have been reported by any telegram user so far.

    crispy_kilt, (edited )

    Because the DH is unauthenticated, as I already said. Users can’t report it because there is no way to tell for them.

    clot27,
    @clot27@lemm.ee avatar

    Users can’t report it because there is no way to tell for them

    Atleast the one who breached can tell? no telegram users data have been seen on dark web yet, no person/org have claimed to get any vulnerability in their system. Also if its that easy to breach why govt’s keep banning telegram for not giving them userdata? despite telegram is the biggest app where most terrorist orgs operate, hub of piracy and illegal things, you can call it “public” darkweb.

    Gooey0210,

    Check stories about russian journalists…

    I have some friends working in the police, many years they showed me how they can read messages of like anyone on telegram I was trying to tell people to stop using telegram for years, but now at least therecs some conversation is going on because of the journalists

    clot27,
    @clot27@lemm.ee avatar

    I have tried to google, most of them were assumptions or russian agencies using ISPs to login to their account in which case its not telegrams fault. Can you provide a substantial proof?

    Rose,

    The data is available. See this article - it’s a Google link.

    clot27,
    @clot27@lemm.ee avatar

    That article literally praises telegram despite being non e2ee by default, authorities can only get ip address and phone number from it (those are public info already and both of them could be avoided by using voip amd paid VPNs), that just proves how solid mtproto have become. Also they are saying one can see your telegram message when they are physically logged in your account for which the Russian authorities took the help of their ISP, in that case its not telegrams fault, set up 2fa on your account or use VoIP.

    nutomic,
    @nutomic@lemmy.ml avatar

    Signal is based in the United States, enjoy having CIA and NSA reading all your messages.

    shortwavesurfer, in ProtonMail Complied with 5,957 Data Requests in 2022 - Still Secure and Private?

    My threat model is not LE, its google, facebook, etc. If me using privacy services happens to make LE’s job harder well thats just the cherry on top.

    ReversalHatchery,

    At the same time it’s also important that the provider only complies with requests where it legally has to. I trust Proton to act this way.

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