Freddy @freddyym@social.privacytools.io

We will have something exciting to share soon!
@torproject #Mastodon #mastodonsocial #privacy

Prioritizing simplicity delivers on performance and reliability

https://sourcehut.org/blog/2020-04-20-prioritizing-simplitity/

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Our ProtonMail Android app is now open source! Starting today, every app you use to access Proton services are open source and have passed an independent security audit. You can find all the details here. https://protonmail.com/blog/android-open-source/

What Social Distancing Looked Like in 1666 https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/29/opinion/covid-plague-samuel-pepys.html?smtyp=cur&smid=tw-nytopinion

I've reached a milestone with my course, #DigitalPrivacyEssentials. The course theme is complete and I'm giving it back to the #Adapt community under a GPLv3 licence: https://gitlab.com/5am/adapt-freelearning #FOSS #GNU #elearning #git #dev #privacy #education

I reverse engineered and deobfuscated a malicious Excel document that came in a phishing email. Here's the write-up https://tech.firstlook.media/reverse-engineering-obfuscated-excel-4-macro-malware

Mixed messages from Patreon!

Laid off 13% of its workforce
Seen an uptick in creators on the platform
Average income for creators was 60% up in March
Patrons exiting the platform more than usual

😕

https://techcrunch.com/2020/04/21/patreon-lays-off-13-of-workforce/

Think Stripe is better for your user's privacy? Think again: https://mtlynch.io/stripe-recording-its-customers/

How to Pick a Video Conferencing Platform https://tech.firstlook.media/how-to-pick-a-video-conferencing-platform

#clownflare is malicious
Now adds #surveillance cruft to URLs, e.g. "?__cf_chl_jschl_tk__=...."

#cloudflare #boycottcloudflare #imperialism #internet

If you write a lot, I recommend you give the GhostWriter app a chance.

It's beautiful, distraction-free, lightweight, open-source and just works.

Has a dark theme, a focus mode and a Hemingway mode which disables the delete key so you cannot edit 😀

https://wereturtle.github.io/ghostwriter/

NordVPN says they don't do any logging, which may be true.

But their Mac client pings Google about every 20-25 seconds, to firebaseio. It also uses the Google APIs including firebase logging.

Probably nothing to worry about right???? Naaahhh... #privacy #vpn

If you run a website that uses reCAPTCHA to distinguish between humans and robots, you're sending your users' data to Google.

Respect their privacy and look for an alternative.

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/technology/cloudflare-drops-googles-recaptcha-due-to-privacy-concerns/

Original tweet : https://twitter.com/DuckDuckGo/status/1252232304816078849

Germany’s #CoronoApp as described by @PeppPt@twitter.com seems to have quite an Orwellian feel. I’m not only disappointed. I’m quite shocked. https://github.com/DP-3T/documents/blob/master/Security%20analysis/PEPP-PT_%20Data%20Protection%20Architechture%20-%20Security%20and%20privacy%20analysis.pdf

How one blog post can change the traction of a startup.

Since publishing "Why you should stop using Google Analytics", Plausible Analytics has had a huge week:

https://plausible.io/blog/blog-post-changed-my-startup