blacklight447 @blacklight447@social.privacytools.io

The Tor network team spent the last 12 months working to improve network scalability and accessibility.

They:
- Reduced module complexity and maintenance burden;
- Developed new architecture for several key Tor modules;
- Implemented better tooling;
- Improved testing for several key Tor modules; and
- Improved our documentation.

All this work couldn’t have happened without the support of many teams at Tor and anonymous volunteer cypherpunks. Thank you.

Details: https://blog.torproject.org/modularizing-key-aspects-tor-network-moss

Privacy should be the default.

Your online behavior can reveal your identity, fears, relationships, and vulnerabilities. Sharing something about yourself should be your choice.

#TakeBacktheInternet with us:
https://torproject.org/donate/donate-tbi-md

"Privacy is a fundamental human right. It has no price tag. No person should be coerced or encouraged to barter it away." https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/07/knowing-value-our-data-wont-fix-our-privacy-problems

What if we sought legislation to ban the advertised use of the word “free” if user data is sold or traded to fund that software, hardware or service?

looks like @privacytools has pushed a revamped page on "Real-Time Communication" options:

https://www.privacytools.io/software/real-time-communication/

Interestingly, they break it down into categories: Centralized, Federated, and Peer-to-Peer and explains advantages and disadvantages to each

We're in a race against censors of #internetfreedom around the world.

If you have a question about our anti-censorship work, Roger Dingledine is answering questions in the comments of this blog post featuring his recent talk at DEF CON:
https://blog.torproject.org/next-chapter-anti-censorship

I wrote today in Hackernoon about what to look for when choosing your messenger service.

https://hackernoon.com/choosing-the-right-messenger-mm3x2z47

#privacy #privacytips #privacytools #thinkprivacy

Excellent write up about choosing the right private messenger for yourself; weighing different factors against your threat model. By @danarel who runs https://thinkprivacy.io/

#Privacy

Please keep in mind that polls on ActivityPub services are not anonymous. Server admins of the instance that created the poll can see who voted for what. Don't use this to elect anything or fall for an illusion due to a missing UI.

#ActivityPub #Mastodon #Fediverse #Poll #polls #privacy

Looking for volunteers who would be interested in translating privacytools.io to any variety of different languages (via Weblate). If you're interested shoot me a DM :)

+ I'm old enough to remember the Web of the 1990s/ 2000s.
It was a maze. You followed hypertext links, stumbled into forums and early troll-caves, used Slashdot and GoTo, experimented with LiveJournal and Blogger.

It wasn't safe, it was filled with weirdness, appealed heavily to geeks and loners. Being on the web in that era was a serious trip.

But it wasn't corporate. It wasn't the tool of major governments, yet. It was defiantly decentralised, and when you were online...

... you felt free.

I'm really glad that there are so many leaks coming out of Xinjiang right now. People are risking their lives to get this information out, and I don't think China's Communist Party has ever faced leaks of classified documents of this magnitude before. Fuck fascism

This seems like a chilling conversation for Americans:

Oh this is very cool:

“#System76 Will Start Designing And Building Its Own Linux Laptops Beginning January 2020”

https://www.forbes.com/sites/jasonevangelho/2019/11/20/system76-will-start-designing-and-building-its-own-linux-laptops-beginning-january-2020/

#Privacy

The man who oversaw the Top Secret investigation into my work in exposing the NSA's unconstitutional system of mass surveillance now believes "we are in a better place" because I came forward. He disputes the methods, but admits it was net-good.

In another decade, I'll be home. https://twitter.com/shanvav/status/1197234169069408256

Affiliate marketing schemes are untrustwothy by design. There's no better example of this than VPN "review" sites. https://blog.privacytools.io/the-trouble-with-vpn-and-privacy-reviews/

@micahflee I want to buy billboards that say this. Everyone needs to understand it.