Freddy @freddy@social.privacytools.io

where were you when you found out the UK's track and trace software (which cost 12 billion quid) has excel as a backing database

sadly there is a backlog of cases which were untracked because they exceeded the excel row limit

worry not, they have solved the problem and are now using two excel files to keep track of people

New Blog Post: Back to the Basics

https://write.as/thenewoil/back-to-the-basics

House sponsor of #EARNIT Act openly admits it’s #SESTA/#FOSTA all over again. This bill doesn’t 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/

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.

#Privacy

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/

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.

https://dnsblacklist.org

#Privacy #Security

Fediverse - An Amazing Project

Where's my t-shirt? /s

After randomly browsing the internet, I've discovered these 2 cool looking open-source emoji projects:

https://openmoji.org/

https://mutant.tech/

Brilliant idea about “salting” your critical passphrases.

“When you go to log in to the website, have the password manager autofill the password it has and then add the salt before pressing the login button.

If for some reason your password manager is breached the real password is not exposed.”

https://passwordbits.com/salting-passwords/

#Privacy

Tech journalism is interesting! For Cloudflare announcement, all stories just repeat the press release. No questions asked, no investigation done, no research into the current market, no comments from Google, no thoughts from GA users whether it could make them switch... 🤷‍♂️

https://fosstodon.org/@plausible/104954015619817500

👋 Cloudflare! Thanks for joining the fight against adtech!

Privacy Friendly Club Rule 1: Practice what you preach.

Your landing page for a "privacy-first" product makes calls to Google Analytics, Google Tag Manager, Google Optimize, Adroll, Marketo and a few more.

The opt-out illusion

https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/the-opt-out-illusion/