blacklight447 @blacklight447@social.privacytools.io

Today is the last day your donation will be earmarked to help us respond rapidly to security issues and smash the bugs ahead 👾💥

Thanks to everyone who gave to the #TorBugSmash this month 💚💜
https://donate.torproject.org

The Internet service providers of Hong Kong condemned government threats to block social media services. https://www.hkispa.org.hk/139-urgent-statement-of-hkispa-on-selective-blocking-of-internet-services.html We echo their call to keep the Internet open. Freedom of speech is a basic human right—and our service will ensure private and secure Internet access.

Thread on 2013, Tor, and opsec. https://twitter.com/Snowden/status/1165391070726950913

Co-sign on every bit of this. #privacy #data

Tails, a live operating system relying on Tor that helps you to use the internet anonymously and circumvent censorship almost anywhere you go and on any computer, turns 10 today.

Happy birthday, Tails 🎂

https://lists.torproject.org/…/tor-…/2009-August/002667.html
https://tails.boum.org #FOSS #opensource #surveillance #internetfreedom #privacy

After decades of suffering through ipchains/iptables syntax, and seeing how easy fw and ufw made common firewall workflows, it's disappointing that the best Debian's iptables replacement can do is:

nft add rule inet filter input tcp dport 22 accept

When syntax for common workflows is complicated, you increase the chance the admin will make a mistake that exposes them to attackers. See S3 bucket permissions for more examples of this. #infosec #devops

"U.S. attorney general William Barr has said consumers should accept the risks that encryption backdoors pose to their personal cybersecurity to ensure law enforcement can access encrypted communications." 🙄 https://techcrunch.com/2019/07/23/william-barr-consumers-security-risks-backdoors/

I cannot stress enough, about recommending against using additional extensions than the ones provided; for the Tor Browser.

#Firefox starts blocking third-party cookies by default

https://venturebeat.com/2019/06/04/firefox-enhanced-tracking-protection-blocks-third-party-cookies-by-default/

#privacy #cookies

Just a reminder folks, if you want to discuss privacy more long-form without signing up for privacy hostile sites like Reddit, come check out our forums! https://forum.privacytools.io/

We have a very active community and a lot of interesting discussions you'll be interested in 😄

Great Blog Series by @blacklight447. Must read for anyone has little or no idea about how tor works and pros and cons of VPNs.

https://write.privacytools.io/my-thoughts-on-security/slicing-onions-part-1-myth-busting-tor

Although I personally prefer @protonvpn when speed is my major concern. And @torproject (with Bridges) when anonymity is my concern. I have to rely on it regularly because my government 🇧🇩 reguarly censor foreign media & persecute local journalists. These solutions give me freedom.