Authorized Fetch Circumvented by Alt-Right Developers (wedistribute.org)
A controversial developer circumvented one of Mastodon's primary tools for blocking bad actors, all so that his servers could connect to Threads....
Verizon Gave Her Data to a Stalker. ‘This Has Completely Changed My Life’ (www.404media.co)
“Verizon royally fucked up,” Poppy told me in a phone call. “There’s no way around it.” Verizon, she added, was “100% at fault.”...
Comcast says hackers stole data of close to 36 million Xfinity customers (techcrunch.com)
Comcast has confirmed that hackers exploiting a critical-rated security vulnerability accessed the sensitive information of almost 36 million Xfinity customers....
Without a Trace: How to Keep Your Phone Off the Grid (themarkup.org)
We answer the questions readers asked in response to our guide to anonymizing your phone...
Your Smart TV Knows What You’re Watching (themarkup.org)
These TVs can capture and identify 7,200 images per hour, or approximately two every second. The data is then used for content recommendations and ad targeting, which is a huge business; advertisers spent an estimated $18.6 billion on smart TV ads in 2022, according to market research firm eMarketer.
Debian Bug report logs: #1057843 - linux: ext4 data corruption in 6.1.64-1 (bugs.debian.org)
https://micronews.debian.org/2023/1702150551.html...
Sen. Markey Writes to 14 Car Companies with a Variety of Questions About Data Privacy Policies (www.markey.senate.gov)
ArsTechnica article on the letter. Just a short summary, with some more context on other works and investigations into the auto industry's privacy issues....
Google Researchers’ Attack Prompts ChatGPT to Reveal Its Training Data (www.404media.co)
ChatGPT is full of sensitive private information and spits out verbatim text from CNN, Goodreads, WordPress blogs, fandom wikis, Terms of Service agreements, Stack Overflow source code, Wikipedia pages, news blogs, random internet comments, and much more....
Blur tools for Signal (signal.org)
Blur tools for Signal: if you take or edit photos of crowds or strangers with Signal, you can use our face blur tool to quickly hide people's biometric face data....
