kravietz 🦇 @kravietz@social.privacytools.io

#facebook asked people for their mobile numbers "only for #authentication purposes", then used them for profiling, and then leaked on the web... https://techcrunch.com/2019/09/04/facebook-phone-numbers-exposed/ #privacy

I like how authors use physical safeguards as an example to model cybersecurity: "perhaps you have hardened glass that takes 20 seconds to break". How long does it take to breach say #exim in September 2019, and how long it took before July 2019? https://jon.sprig.gs/blog/post/1220

Just uploaded my "Authenticity and Usability" presentation from IDM 2018 to #peertube https://scitech.video/videos/watch/a79b23b6-70f2-43b2-955b-1c5298ab5321

Also available over #dat protocol.

Cryptographic design analysis of my favourite #ssb #securescuttlebutt protocol https://github.com/olapiha/scuttlebutt with formal verifier files for verifpal, cryptoverif, proverif #cryptography

@bjarni Any VPN triggers extra protections on the server side due to the fact that VPN connection is terminated in server subnets rather than consumer subnets.

@alsalahad there's one reason preventing me from using such stuff: they do leak tons of very personal details to undisclosed 3rd parties and sometimes get hacked

An interesting research project (!) for #cryptography secret sharing https://www.churp.io/ Another a bit more mature is #ssb based Dark Crystal https://darkcrystal.pw/ The idea is simple: rather than backing up your keys on paper, split them among your friends/relatives

The whole #chlorinatedchickens shitstorm in #brexit #uk is not about toxicity of chlorine but about low efficiency of US standards for food safety. 23'000 people end up in hospital in US due to salmonella food poisoning vs 1800 in EU