kravietz @kravietz@social.privacytools.io

Remember, one of the many benefits of speaking Welsh is that you can walk faster than non-Welsh speakers.
(Via CPS Homes on FB)

Can DuckDuckGo replace Google search while offering better privacy?

The alternative search engine markets itself on protecting users’ privacy, but is it worth using?
So is DuckDuckGo no good? Surprised you did not mention it. Murray
Following last week’s article about privacy and surveillance capitalism, several readers wrote in about the absence of DuckDuckGo, and it was mentioned a dozen times in the comments. I have suggested this privacy-oriented search engine a few times since 2012, and I think it’s worth a go. However, I’m answering Murray’s earlier query along the same lines because I can use his email verbatim rather than cobbling together a joint question from multiple sources.
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https://www.theguardian.com/world/askjack/2019/dec/05/how-do-i-protect-my-online-privacy-from-surveillance-capitalism
https://duckduckgo.com/
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/askjack/2019/dec/12/duckduckgo-google-search-engine-privacy https://friendica.hubup.pro/objects/174591b4b75511059554993802f9195c4e7d9005

I watched peer.tube and Vimeo yesterday in solidarity with the #youtubewalkout . When I first got on peer.tube there wasn't much there, but it's certainly grown. I found this fun animated vid, 'Copying is Not Theft.' https://share.tube/videos/watch/a5bcc9ab-221c-4e25-afdb-88d837741b61 . Vidcommons also posts documentaries on peer.tube. https://share.tube/accounts/documentaries@vidcommons.org/video-channels . No ads either. That's really cool! If you are a You Tube content creator, please consider backing up your channel onto peer.tube, like @ChrisWere and https://share.tube/video-channels/chrisweredigital/videos

Beyond evil: This month Facebook started to scrape sites that use 'pixel' for all kinds of information. Including personal information about the visitors. People could be identified even without cookies by name or email. This affects also non FB Users. https://developers.facebook.com/docs/facebook-pixel/advanced/advanced-matching/

(Via https://nitter.net/WolfieChristl/status/1204920699628007424)

Seems to be currently live on booking.com and airbnb.com. Here personal information like name, email and phone number is sent to facebook during registration at airbnb.

Zelenskiy sitcom lasted just one night after alluding to Putin in crude sub-language
Russian TV axes show starring Ukraine's leader after Putin joke

#Russia #Ukraine #VladimirPutin #VolodymyrZelenskiy #Worldnews #Europe #Media #Television #Culture #Television&radio

@kravietz That of course. Standard BIOS setup should include:

- BIOS update

- BIOS password for accessing settings and changing boot options,

- Changing boot order and disable not needed boot devices

- Reset TPM and change to 2.0 mode

- Enable Secureboot and reset Secureboot keys

- Disable unneeded devices

- Explore further features in BIOS/firmware (like enable temper detection, disable Intel device mangement, …)

Twitter just invented the fediverse https://twitter.com/jack/status/1204766078468911106 "Twitter is funding a small independent team of up to five open source architects, engineers, and designers to develop an open and decentralized standard for social media. The goal is for Twitter to ultimately be a client of this standard. "

@kravietz The main goal of using a grub password is preventing someone from booting, pressing e setting /bin/bash as init and use vi to write nasty little scripts around your boot partition. It rasies the bar to "I have to open the device" which that again can be made visible using nail polish:

https://mullvad.net/en/blog/2016/12/14/how-tamper-protect-laptop-nail-polish/

At least when you are paranoid enough.

Also of course you should use secureboot as you mentioned.

Boston Dynamics gets more and more terrifying every day.

@kravietz Set a grub password!

Use OpenSCAP Workbench with the proper profile for Ubuntu, Fedora or CentOS to check compliance.

Full set of instructions (one might want to select just a few, but still):

https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/8/html/security_hardening/index

I guess that should already help a lot :)