"Slide" Brombek @brombek@social.privacytools.io

New blog post: Yes, We Want Cryptographic Protection for Email https://sequoia-pgp.org/blog/2021/06/29/202106-yes-we-want-cryptographic-protection-for-email/

#infosec this won't make sense unless you know what Mitre already is -
https://d3fend.mitre.org/

Oh goody. Who's ready for gamified gig economy spying?

https://petapixel.com/2021/06/26/photo-app-turns-users-into-unwitting-spies-for-us-military/

All the risk of working for an intelligence agency without any protection whatsoever.

The Norwegian consumer council has published a new report where they suggest a ban on the surveillance based revenue model dominating the web today.

#surveillance-capitalism #advertising #human-rights

Only 1 operator(Q) left to implement in the Uxn version of Orca.

It haunts us
https://www.commitstrip.com/2021/06/22/it-haunts-us/

@Koishi UwU

This is a good list of not only #infosec competencies, but just general #sysadmin type competencies.

I've dipped into plenty of these skills in just standard day-to-day #Linux troubleshooting.

https://www.netmeister.org/blog/infosec-competencies.html

@wolf480pl there is no middle in a burning world:
https://media.ccc.de/v/30C3_-_5491_-_en_-_saal_1_-_201312272300_-_no_neutral_ground_in_a_burning_world_-_quinn_norton_-_eleanor_saitta

@IzzyOnDroid A surveillance capitalist like Google improving the privacy of their users is like a factory farm improving the welfare of its livestock.

Welcome to centralized Internet 🤷 A number of high profile websites are down right now, apparently due to a failure at Fastly (?)

Just posted an update on the Fund Us page for Small Technology Foundation. A big thank-you to our 86 patrons and to anyone who has donated. Patronage is currently paying half our rent (now we just have to find the other half) :)

https://small-tech.org/fund-us

#SmallTech #SmallWeb

The faster you unlearn OOP, the better for you and your software
https://dpc.pw/the-faster-you-unlearn-oop-the-better-for-you-and-your-software

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A user has reached to us and asked that we check if all updates on her laptop were installed correctly.

When asked, she did clarify, that a Microsoft Office update has installed itself recently, and everything continued to work fine. Which made her suspicious.