Freddy @freddyym@social.privacytools.io

To put the “if we have nothing to hide, they should know everything we do” into a more tangible perspective:

On a basic level, imagine if we automatically got a traffic ticket every time that we exceeded the speed limit, because of GPS tracking by police.

On a deeper level, imagine a place where it is illegal to be gay. Then after police read an unencrypted email between lovers, they & those that know are arrested.

#Privacy erosion is easily abused on levels from nuisance to human rights.

apparently today's my twitter anniversary. figured it'd be a great time to quit the place—starting today my twitter will be read-only!

Hi Fediverse 👋

to break the quietness of this account, here's a quick news flash:

- We added a list with Zoom alternatives 🤙
https://swiso.org/replace/zoom/

- We replaced some entries on "Bubbling under" 🔧
https://swiso.org/list/bubbling-under/

- We added Cryptpad to the Doodle list as it has a poll feature 🗒️
https://swiso.org/replace/doodle/

- Our DRM article has images now 🙃
https://swiso.org/articles/digital-rights-management/

- We have an Audible list in the pipeline 🎧
https://codeberg.org/swiso/website/pulls/81

Thanks to @uniq for the nudge to write this! 😊👍

wow, an incredible read! 😲

The Confessions of Marcus Hutchins, the Hacker Who Saved the Internet
https://www.wired.com/story/confessions-marcus-hutchins-hacker-who-saved-the-internet/

If Coffee is not your thing, get yourself the latest @manjarolinux #Mate 😍 https://forum.manjaro.org/t/142622

Original tweet : https://twitter.com/ManjaroLinux/status/1261889305410232326

@syntax While that would be amusing, it doesn't seem to be the case lol. The IP addresses don't match up, the exit is with BuyVM, and the yellow hostname on the Tor page indicates that it's unverified. Additionally, if you throw the exit's IP address into your browser with port 80, you'll get a message saying it's an exit while http://donaldjtrump.com:80 redirects to 443 without mentioning Tor 😉

@sir Heh I just noticed that I got exactly the same email.

Scum of the Earth

General: "Get me a secure line to the President!"
Tech assistant: "Well, technically, the line cannot be considered secure, we do however use end-to-end encryption."

One day, hollywood, one day…

Apparently #Trump's site is hosted on a server which runs a #Tor exit node. You just couldn't write it... https://metrics.torproject.org/rs.html#details/23BB12BD68952BFE3D6BF4EFD010DB64D975CB02 #tor

I need your help.

I wrote a lengthy and technical blog post in which I describe an idea I have for a distributed system to verify content on websites.

TLDR: servers with cryptographically-signed hashes verify content and notify website owners if said content is changed.

https://yarmo.eu/blog/dcvs-proposal

Am I missing obvious flaws? Has this problem already been solved?

Please do let me know if this would be worth the effort.

Also #100DaysToOffload