Alexandru @codrut@social.privacytools.io

It's like my entire life prepared me for this... 🤔

French police restraint techniques criticised after Paris arrest death https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jan/09/french-police-restraint-techniques-criticised-after-paris-arrest-death #Guardian #news #Worldnews #France #Europe #Paris

An animal rescue in Montluçon, France is using PeerTube to host videos of the animals available for adoption 😎

https://peertube.mastodon.host/videos/watch/9e3abf81-ccc6-467c-92ef-e8879cfb786b

Private Internet Access was just purchased by a former adware vendor https://torrentfreak.com/private-internet-access-to-be-acquired-by-kape/

Bad news: 'Unblockable' web trackers emerge. Good news: Firefox with uBlock Origin can stop it. Chrome, not so much • The Register - https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/11/21/ublock_origin_firefox_unblockable_tracker/

Russia Will Ban Smartphones Without Pre-Installed Russian Software
https://fossbytes.com/russia-ban-smartphones-without-pre-installed-russian-software/
#privaatsus #turvalisus

Julian Assange and visitors were spied on by security firm for US intelligence - https://www.repubblica.it/esteri/2019/11/18/news/a_massive_scandal_how_assange_his_doctors_lawyers_and_visitors_were_all_spied_on_for_the_u_s_-241314527

Interpol plans to condemn encryption spread, citing predators - https://www.reuters.com/article/us-interpol-encryption-exclusive/exclusive-interpol-plans-to-condemn-encryption-spread-citing-predators-sources-say-idUSKBN1XR0S7

Google employees are accusing the company’s leadership of developing an internal surveillance tool that they believe will be used to monitor workers’ attempts to organize protests and discuss labor rights.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-10-23/google-accused-of-creating-spy-tool-to-squelch-worker-dissent?utm_source=twitter&cmpid=socialflow-twitter-business&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=socialflow-organic&utm_content=business

PSA: Mobile app support is disabled on some instances due to an auth flow bug.

It's possible to bypass two factor authentication using the OAuth APIs. While the login attempts are rate-limited, we are working to fix the bug so instances can re-enable mobile app support!

#pixelfed

Seems pretty bad #NordVPN #VPN #privacy https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2019/10/hackers-steal-secret-crypto-keys-for-nordvpn-heres-what-we-know-so-far/

EU contracts with Microsoft raising ‘serious’ data concerns, says watchdog https://techcrunch.com/2019/10/21/eu-contracts-with-microsoft-raising-serious-data-concerns-says-watchdog/

We create online accounts all the time, but how many do we ever delete? 🔓

Since each new account leaves us vulnerable to #hacking, here’s @somenerdliam’s simple #security advice for cleaning up your online footprint (via @lornagoulden)

http://d3e.co/od

NordVPN breach was worse than I thought.

'TechCrunch took NordVPN to task on the somewhat dismissive tone of its breach disclosure, noting that the company suffered a significant breach that went undetected for more than a year.

Kenneth White, director of the Open Crypto Audit Project, said on Twitter that based on the dumped Pastebin logs detailing the extent of the intrusion, “the attacker had full remote admin on their Finland node containers.” '

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2019/10/avast-nordvpn-breaches-tied-to-phantom-user-accounts/