Freddy @freddyym@social.privacytools.io

buying a terabyte of RAM so i can run three electron apps at once

"Imagine if every WP site came with its own Matrix community? Imagine an excellent Matrix client available as a WordPress plugin for embedding realtime chat into your site?"

Love this partnership!

https://matrix.org/blog/2020/05/21/welcoming-automattic-to-matrix

Privacy is the power to selectively reveal oneself to the world.

did you fall from heaven? because holy shit you have like 20 eyes and 3 sets of wings Are You Okay

Remember when mobile sites weren't hostile user experiences designed to harass you into downloading an app??

NSA Prism program taps in to user data of Apple, Google and others.

The NSA access is part of a previously undisclosed program called Prism, which allows officials to collect material including search history, the content of emails, file transfers and live chats, the document says.

The time to remove these services from your life is NOW. Restore the open web, and help remove these soulless companies from the web.

#privacy #datasecurity

THE TIME TO ACT IS NOW.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jun/06/us-tech-giants-nsa-data

I must admit that every day, I'm taken aback by how untroubled so many (almost all) people are with having their entire digital lives controlled & surveilled by 5 US-based totalitarian (non-democratic) multinational corporations that throw around more financial weight than most nations and laugh at any gov't regulation attempts.

Serco apologises for sharing contact tracers' email addresses

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-52732818

A flood of coronavirus apps are tracking us. Now it’s time to keep track of them.

https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/05/07/1000961/launching-mittr-covid-tracing-tracker/

Security flaws found in NHS contact-tracing app

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-52725810

He'll come around, eventually

Fabulous thought from Neil deGrasse Tyson:

‘I dream of a world where truth shapes people's politics, rather [than] politics shaping what people think is true.’

This is good: “How to decode a data breach notice... The next time you get a data breach notification, read between the lines. By knowing the common bullshit lines to avoid, you can understand the questions you need to ask.”

- https://techcrunch.com/2020/05/19/decoding-data-breach-notice/
- https://archive.is/9JvF5

#Privacy #Security

Why you don't need a VPN

https://www.ivpn.net/blog/why-you-dont-need-a-vpn/

#Privacy

"Hacker News" does the word "hacker" shame. These people aren't hackers. They're fucking suits.