The EU is set to declare war on encryption - yipee!
https://tech.newstatesman.com/security/the-eu-is-set-to-declare-war-on-encryption
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New Blog Post: Back to the Basics
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House sponsor of #EARNIT Act openly admits itâs #SESTA/#FOSTA all over again. This bill doesnât help kids, it just threatens #privacy and human rights
https://www.fightforthefuture.org/news/2020-10-01-house-sponsor-of-earn-it-act-openly-admits-its/
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This one is bad for speech and bad for security. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/10/urgent-earn-it-act-introduced-house-representatives
@Decentralize_today interesting.
As much as I completely understand the need for funding, I just hope it doesn't get in the way of, what is, such a good site!
@andreas I'm just confused...
If you haven't already, please go check out r/Privacy's 1 Million AMA!
https://www.reddit.com/r/privacy/comments/j444u4/how_to_destroy_surveillance_capitalism_an_ama/
@andreas gotta love the name!
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TIL about DuckDuckGo's "I'm Feeling Ducky" feature. Add a "!" after your search to redirect to a random page/first result related to that term.
@darylsun I've been a team memeber for over a month now, with moderation powers in the Matrix since the start. I've also got GitHub adim powers too lol
You best beware đż
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@mike ahhh. Well fair enough. As a moderator of my instance (we have 2.1k users so not as much as you mike) I completely understand the issues of spam. We've had a lot of issues with registration recently, and it's a real pain.
I hadn't looked into the situation, so presumed it was just a glitch. I'm glad all has been resolved now!
Update: Hacktoberfest is Now Opt-In Only
@Mayana unless you run your own instance, then the same applies to were you are now!
I've been a team memeber for over a month now, with moderation powers in the Matrix since the start. I've also got GitHub adim powers too lol
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I wrote for Infosecurity Magazine about why it's time (and well beyond time!) for the US to pardon Snowden.
https://www.infosecurity-magazine.com/blogs/pardon-edward-snowden/
@Decentralize_today @fosstodon I doubt that it was the fine folks of @fosstodon
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Useful site by the people behind CleanBrowsing DNS for checking if a site is blocked or not across popular DNS resolvers. Also thinking this will be valuable for easily comparing how effective security-focused resolvers are at blocking malware/phishing sites.
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After randomly browsing the internet, I've discovered these 2 cool looking open-source emoji projects:
Privacy advocate, amongst other things.
https://pronoun.is/he
email/matrix: freddy [at] privacytools [dot] io