RT @yaelwrites@twitter.com
Since IMSI catchers are in the news, here's something I wrote about them for EFF. https://www.eff.org/pages/cell-site-simulatorsimsi-catchers
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/yaelwrites/status/1185266402870976512
Apple has been doing this for what, 2 years now, and Google (and other Android manufacturers I guess) still can't get a handle on secure facial identification? What a joke 🙄
RT @arstechnica@twitter.com
The Pixel 4’s face unlock works on sleeping, unconscious people http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2019/10/the-pixel-4s-face-unlock-works-on-sleeping-unconscious-people/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_source=twitter&utm_social-type=owned&utm_medium=social by @RonAmadeo@twitter.com
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/arstechnica/status/1185233082611306498
And, they'll match contributions for the next year! So if you needed a way to support privacytools.io or myself... seems like a good option, just sayin'.
Oh look, GitHub accepted me for their sponsorship program—like, 5 months later? Better late than never I guess. https://github.com/sponsors/JonahAragon
RT @fightfortheftr@twitter.com
Well would you look at the time...
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11 ^ 1
10 | 2 It's http://BanFacialRecognition.com
9 ⊙———> o clock
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🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/fightfortheftr/status/1184877712218959872
@Mayana that's not how social outreach works! 😝 We want to get NEW members.
That being said, it's more like "the privacytools.io team will be doing an AMA on the Discourse forums *at any time, forever*" because that's what it seems like!
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Apple of 2019 is the Linux of 2000 https://nibblestew.blogspot.com/2019/10/apple-of-2019-is-linux-of-2000.html
@mastodon39882 the protocol is "WebAuthn", however it does not authenticate you (i.e. it does not replace passwords), it's a two-factor mechanism like TOTP (i.e. it replaces apps like Google Authenticator or Authy). https://www.dongleauth.info/
@mastodon39882 This all really depends on your setup. The thing about Yubikeys is that they theoretically can't be duplicated, so as long as you get them back it's unlikely they can be used against you.
Unlike say your phone which is encrypted, but they can make an entire copy of the encrypted phone and brute-force that copy for your information for years after the fact if they wanted.
@nerdspar the upgrade broke iCloud in such a way that made me enable iCloud Keychain to get it working again, which seems suspect. But other than that it seems to be working fine.
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Account migration "easier than ever, and with 3.0 comes the ability to bring your followers with you like magic!" Thanks a lot! I think that's one of the most important feature for a decentralized network! https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2019/10/mastodon-3.0/ #Mastodon
@mike @switchingsoftware it was, but they not only disappeared but deleted all their accounts in the process so it was unclaimed. I figured it wouldn’t be good for some random party to register it and start advertising things or something 🤷♂️
@mike Actually I just registered that Twitter handle before someone else did and did less than helpful things with it 😬
The @switchingsoftware guy seemed legit though & was working with the original creator on the German translation so it should be good.
I am extremely happy that @matrixdotorg@twitter.com has responded to the community's concerns and have put in a lot of effort to make Synapse and Riot a more privacy friendly place 😄 — Very glad to recommend them again for group chats on http://privacytools.io: https://github.com/privacytoolsIO/privacytools.io/issues/1389
@dump_stack I think I have a T440s in a drawer somewhere...
#PrivacyTools Administrator, #OpenNIC Operator, macOS and Linux user, maybe some other stuff too?
