blacklight447 
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As people seems to have enjoyed the last picture, here is another one, shot on my pixel 3a Running Graphene OS with the OpenCamera app from the F-droid store.
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Historic win for privacy.
Today, the High Court of South Africa in Pretoria declared that bulk interception by the South African National Communications Centre is unlawful and invalid. #surveillance
https://privacyinternational.org/news-analysis/3212/bulk-surveillance-unlawful-says-high-court-south-africa
.onion: https://privacyintyqcroe.onion/news-analysis/3212/bulk-surveillance-unlawful-says-high-court-south-africa
Captured some good looking weather on the road today
@sheogorath how can they declare "the end" if your the admin, lol.
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Maybe you didn't know, but I run an IRC network called MadIRC.
It seems like it got quite famous among Tor users since we allow completely anonymous access via onion addresses.
Today I had to rework the channel ranks of the main darknet channel "#elite" after quite some abuse of power. Of course, the abusers are unhappy with this situation and declared it the end of the channel.
Feel free to prove them wrong:
Website: https://madirc.net
Tor direct tor web access: https://tor.madirc.net
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10 years ago I started using ad blockers because I thought ads were annoying. Now I think that's the _least_ important reason to use them.
I think we should call them "browser firewalls." That more accurately describes their purpose.
@kev maybe add a grub entry manually?
@switchingsocial@mastodon.at @greenfediverse @tuxdevices @tuxedocomputers @LimeSurvey @MicroSFF no @privacytools :( ?
@newmaker changing your search engine is fine, as this isn't a part of your fingerprint
@nwallace @switchingsocial@mastodon.at I recommend aegis authenticator.
@sheogorath maybe signal will finally ship rpm's
@Outernaut we are actually considering removing panopticlick , and making our own test. This is mostly because these test often are biased towards people already interested fingerprinting, and people will often rerun the test to see if the fingerprint improved. Its a good tool to see what your fingerprint looks like, but you should take the "entropy" part with a big grain of salt. Soon we shall update this section to clarify this. :)
@Mayana could you open a quick issue about this on our github :)?
@Mayana I assume you mean so tools for blind people can read them out loud?
@aral to be fair, with the money they get from google they can keep up and keep Firefox competitive, if they wouldn't accept googles money, Firefox would disappear into nothingness and then we have a chromium only browser landscape. So I consider it currently a necessary evil.
@Outernaut fingerprinting is a form of tracking where sites look at your browser and see how unique it is (reported screen size, supported fonts, plugins installed, operating system used etc etc) we talk about it below the browser recommendations. But as I said above we will soon give this an update as well so everything is explained better. :)
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The surveillance state is growing.
A new project by @eff and the University of Nevada allows you to explore a map of where known cell-site simulators, smart street lights, and mobile biometric technology have been deployed.
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/xwewjj/this-interactive-map-tracks-our-growing-surveillance-state
@manyver_se @switchingsocial@mastodon.at yh I was just wondering, as most people think p2p is automatically good for privacy, but they don't realise the normal peer to peer makes it trivial to watch your activities. Using tor would help a ton with this. Do you guys use it over tor? Or inside tor with .onion services?
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Localization co-leader Qubes OS project
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