blacklight447 @blacklight447@social.privacytools.io

@blacklight447 Is Taking Over PrivacyTools Service Administration

https://blog.privacytools.io/blacklight447-taking-over/

Over the last 2 years, onion service usability has become a primary feature of Tor Browser. The security and improved usability of onion services are the reason we can run an onion adoption campaign like #MoreOnionsPorfavor.

Read our latest blog post:
https://blog.torproject.org/tor-brower-onion-services-challenges-opportunities

I'm an official team member of PrivacyTools now. :)

Whoa, is uMatrix dead? Last release was over a year ago, and looks like the repo is archived. I suspect efforts are solely focused on uBlock Origin now... 🤔

https://github.com/gorhill/uMatrix

#Privacy

Support for v2 onion services will be removed from SecureDrop in February 2021. Journalists and admins, if you see this warning when accessing your SecureDrop, it's time to migrate to v3 onion services:

https://docs.securedrop.org/en/master/v3_services.html

PrivacyTools’s PeerTube instance is online! Create an account, kick back, and enjoy some @techlore content 😆 https://tube.privacytools.io/videos/watch/playlist/f35eaa03-867d-4062-996e-1c812be87f74?videoId=cc0871d9-4e46-42d7-bce1-d13a24b077c9

We still exist and we still update the site, we just forget to update this page a lot. Oops!

Yikes, a scary email phishing attempt for this person’s GitHub credentials. Shows how using a browser web extension for your password manager can help detect this by its autofilling.

https://nitter.snopyta.org/jedisct1/status/1278353703456706567

#Phishing

PrivacyTools has updated their DNS page to the new card style!

If you are looking for a DNS providers, this page has all the resources you need:

https://www.privacytools.io/providers/dns/

Monthly review, May 2020:

https://infosec-handbook.eu/blog/2020-5-monthly-review/

– news: attacks on hardware, Permissions Policy
– tip: auto-mounting a secondary LUKS-protected disk
– internal: 2020 spring cleaning

#monthlyreview #review #infosechandbook #infosec #security #SideChannelAttacks #PermissionsPolicy #LUKS #encryption

"Normal web browsing is easy with Tor... once you're in, you can use Tor just as you would any other browser."

https://www.cnet.com/how-to/what-is-tor-a-beginners-guide-to-using-the-private-browser/

The @privacytools sub-reddit just hit 100k members!

Looks like MySudo is finally available for Android:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.anonyome.mysudo

https://mysudo.com/

#Privacy