Daniel Gray @dngray@social.privacytools.io

Heads up that since 12:30 UTC, the http://matrix.org synapse has been running 2 sharded event persister workers: the 1st time we've ever split the job of DB writing across multiple workers! CPU is reassuringly halved & solves one of the big remaining bottlenecks in Synapse.

@blacklight447 Is Taking Over PrivacyTools Service Administration

https://blog.privacytools.io/blacklight447-taking-over/

I'm an official team member of PrivacyTools now. :)

Mailto: Me Your Secrets. Three attacks on OpenPGP and S/MIME implementations:

https://www.nds.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/media/nds/veroeffentlichungen/2020/08/15/mailto-paper.pdf (PDF file)

The paper describes three attacks on OpenPGP and S/MIME implementations to replace certificates, sign arbitrary messages, or exfiltrate private keys.

#OpenPGP #SMIME #Vulnerability #InfoSec #Security

Improve accessibility ♿ of your Fediverse posts:

– Set a description for images and media.
– Capitalize the first character of each word in your hashtags.

For your websites, see the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG): https://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG22/.

There are some useful accessibility tools on https://www.w3.org/WAI/ER/tools/.

#Blog #WCAG #Accessibility #Tip #Website