Freddy @freddyym@social.privacytools.io

TIL how v3 onion services improve over v2:
- Better crypto (replaced SHA1/DH/RSA1024 with SHA3/ed25519/curve25519)
- Improved directory protocol, leaking much less information to directory servers.
- Improved directory protocol, with smaller surface for targeted attacks.
- Better onion address security against impersonation.
- More extensible introduction/rendezvous protocol.
- A cleaner and more modular codebase.

https://2019.www.torproject.org/docs/tor-onion-service.html.en#four

#Privacy #Tor

All eyes on Zoom:

1⃣ Zoom will “probably” strip all tracking and cookies from its website
2⃣ All meetings will require password protection
3⃣ They'll consider open-sourcing Zoom’s code

Promising words. Now hope to see some action.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/alexkonrad/2020/04/03/all-eyes-on-zoom-how-the-at-home-eras-breakout-tool-is-coping-with-surging-demand-and-scrutiny/

Friends don’t let friends use Google Analytics.

If your favorite site/blogger uses Google to track you, ask them to reconsider. There are alternatives.

If they need reasons to remove Google Analytics, see my post. Let's make the web a better place!

https://plausible.io/blog/remove-google-analytics

RT @trevortimm
Doctors and nurses who bravely alerted the public about the startling lack of protective gear in hospitals are being suspended or fired for speaking the press. It's unconscionable. https://freedom.press/news/brave-whistleblowers-saving-lives-coronavirus-covid-pandemic/

As authoritarianism spreads, as emergency laws proliferate, as we sacrifice our rights, we also sacrifice our capability to arrest the slide into a less liberal and less free world. Here's how it happens: https://www.google.com/sorry/index?continue=https://www.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3Dk5OAjnveyJo&q=EhAmADwBAAAAAPA8kf_-n18AGLv3w_QFIhkA8aeDS8gLFiTb4MmFaDfurm7P0srvFKW4MgFy

Governments around the world are exploiting the pandemic to monitor us like never before. I discuss it with @GGreenwald here on SYSTEM UPDATE: https://t.co/JlLQDQe6uA

Bitcoin’s Next Boom Has Already Begun

#Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies have returned to the spotlight in recent weeks, despite the bitcoin price crashing along with traditional markets last month.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/billybambrough/2020/04/10/bitcoins-next-boom-has-already-begun/

I like it when even Cloudflare starts to de-Google-ify.

"We recently migrated from Google's reCAPTCHA to the independent hCaptcha. It helps address a privacy concern inherent to relying on a Google service..."

https://blog.cloudflare.com/moving-from-recaptcha-to-hcaptcha/

RT from FTC (@FTC)

5 things you can do to avoid a #Coronavirus scam:
1. Ignore offers for vaccinations and home testing kits
2. Hang up on robocalls
3. Watch out for phishing emails and text messages
4. Research before you donate
5. Stay in the know -- Go to http://ftc.gov/Coronavirus for more info

Original tweet : https://twitter.com/FTC/status/1248274841788198912

This pandemic means a lot of people are now having to choose appropriate communication tools, but it's a minefield out there. Understandably the right choice is unclear for many without the patience or experience. This is why we the community, knowing everyone needs privacy and security, must help family and friends utilise those tools we all know and love, software which puts people before profit. #Privacy and #security education is essential in these strange times. #FOSS #encryption