The Why and How of Privacy and Security
Threat modelling case study: bicycles
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By demanding encryption backdoors, Politicians are not asking us to choose between security and privacy. They are asking us to choose no security. Here's why: https://tutanota.com/blog/posts/why-a-backdoor-is-a-security-risk
We must fight encryption backdoors around the world. πͺ #privacy #HumanRight
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STOP Privacy & Security Gatekeeping - It Hurts Everyone. (And What To Do About It) https://tube.privacytools.io/videos/watch/db238f31-25b5-4872-a30c-1125b5ba0b75
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While the #cryptowars continue, we explain why an #EncryptionBackdoor would never work. Instead, we have to fight for #privacy!
https://tutanota.com/blog/posts/why-a-backdoor-is-a-security-risk
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Seems like Medium has listened to the feedback! π
No more pop-ups, overlays, intrusive headers or other distractions
Custom domains are back
Improved distribution and discovery
https://blog.medium.com/whats-around-the-corner-for-medium-b79e8764c9cd
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"Here's a little weekend project dedicated to digital security trainers. If you are doing phishing education, you can use this resource to mimic real phishing sites from a dataset of tens of thousands, updated daily."
https://phishing.securitywithoutborders.org/
From Security Without Borders: https://nitter.snopyta.org/botherder/status/1282443186363932672
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βThis manual explains how to protect yourself from hackers, in laymanβs terms. Six professional hackers π¨βπ» helped create this guide.β
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2352. Synonym Date
title text: We need some grub to munch--I'll go slouch over to the kitchen.
(https://xkcd.com/2352)
(https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/2352
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Email (let's drop the hyphen)
We hacked 28,000 unsecured printers to raise awareness of printer security issues
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PrivacyTools has made it to the front page of HN! If you have an account, it would be nice if we could get some civil discussion going on there.
Didn't know Migadu had had a rebrand, but I love it!
Kindle Collects a Surprisingly Large Amount of Data
https://nullsweep.com/kindle-collects-a-surprisingly-large-amount-of-data/
Privacy advocate, amongst other things.
https://pronoun.is/he
email/matrix: freddy [at] privacytools [dot] io