blacklight447 @blacklight447@social.privacytools.io

ANNOUNCEMENT: ThinkPrivacy is joining the @privacytoolsIO team! We will continue to bring you the best in privacy related software & services, now in partnership with one of the world's most respected privacy sites.

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The internet was intended to be a free and open space to share information, but tracking, surveillance, and censorship are widespread online.

Let's take back the internet. https://torproject.org/donate/donate-tbi-md #TakeBacktheInternet

@fdroidorg @fdroidorg Thanks for all the boosting, folks! This really spread. Unfortunately, noone spoke up at the linked issue and volunteered – so the project will now be marked "unmaintained".

Please do not count this as a "full stop", but rather the "start of a grace period" and "ringing of the alarm bell": Repomaker is not *yet* unpublished, so someone please step in before that happens!

(wanted 2 edit this toot but unfortunately deleted the otherone 😱 at 378 boosts & 70 fav)

#callingOut #helpWanted

Calling out to the Mastodon community again: famous @fdroidorg Repomaker is looking for a new maintainer (and contributors). Should be familiar with F-Droid, Python, Django.

Please help keeping it alive!

Volunteers go to https://gitlab.com/fdroid/repomaker/issues/234 – others please boost, as usual 😉 Thanks!

#helpWanted #callingOut

Do you know what a VPN is? We've laid it out for you: https://blog.privacytools.io/understanding-vpns/

BBC is now available as an onion service. https://bbcnewsv2vjtpsuy.onion

.onion sites are better protected against blocking and censorship, making it hard for a state to disrupt publication or to ban people from accessing a given website. #onionizetheweb #privacy #security

Ooh. Didn't see this coming. https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2019/10/alexa-and-google-home-abused-to-eavesdrop-and-phish-passwords/

Thanks, @blacklight447, for the awesome blog!:

https://write.privacytools.io/my-thoughts-on-security/
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Translated into #Russian two posts about #Tor #TheOnionRouting:

1) https://telegra.ph/Narezka-luka-CHast-1---Razrushaem-mify-Tor-10-17-2

2) https://telegra.ph/Narezka-luka-CHast-2---Recepty-prigotovleniya-luka-VPN-ne-trebuetsya-10-19
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Created a channel in #Telegram (yes, yes, I know) where I publish translations of useful articles and news about #FOSS #security #privacy etc.:

https://t.me/DrHerbertWest

I am extremely happy that @matrixdotorg@twitter.com has responded to the community's concerns and have put in a lot of effort to make Synapse and Riot a more privacy friendly place 😄 — Very glad to recommend them again for group chats on http://privacytools.io: https://github.com/privacytoolsIO/privacytools.io/issues/1389

Hi Fediverse 👋

this is for everyone interested in supporting switching.software 🙂

Here is my proposal on how to reorganize and improve the codebase of the website:

https://codeberg.org/swiso-en/website/issues/1

I would really appreciate your feedback - comment right here or on the issue 🗨️

Also, who would like to join the effort? And don't worry, we will figure out the "how" together - soon after the proposal is community-approved 😁

Hi Fediverse 👋

it's @tobias here, broadcasting via this new fediverse account representing (formerly) #switchingsocial 🎉

Please follow, dm and @ this account for everything related to the English version ... as @swisode wants to write German posts again 😁

It's been one week since the #shutdown. There hasn't been any news from the original author yet. So, I believe, it's on us to keep this project alive.

Please stay tuned as I'll ask for support here - after some more preparations. 💻

There's a new alpha release of Tor Browser out now.

Tor Browser 9.0a7 is the second alpha release based on Firefox ESR68. It includes new features and fixes you can help us test including the addition of the Snowflake pluggable transport on Windows ❄️
https://blog.torproject.org/new-release-tor-browser-90a7