kravietz 🦇 @kravietz@social.privacytools.io

It seems like /e/ #android now supports the COVID-19 tracing apps using Exposure Notification API in a quite user- and privacy-friendly way - I've just tested it and it works perfectly

https://doc.e.foundation/how-tos/microg-exposure-notification-version-implementation

Swiss government admits to giving Schengen visas to potential Chinese intelligence agents, keeping their identities secret, and having no oversight over their movement.

https://safeguarddefenders.com/en/blog/switzerland-answers-some-and-dodges-other-questions-its-secret-china-deal

"we find cookie banners quite irritating, so we decided to look for a solution. After a brief search, we found one: just don’t use any non-essential cookies. Pretty simple, really."

https://github.blog/2020-12-17-no-cookie-for-you/

My colleague from Russia just was sent this story about UK secretary for education allegedly claiming that "UK elite schools are switching to Soviet education system"...

It takes around 5 minutes to find out:

1) it's from 2018
2) it was published by Pravda-TV and then reposted in Georgian media
3) there's no such BBC interview
4) which is not surprising as the original source of the story is a satirical Russian site Panorama, which explicitly states it's fake

http://www.mythdetector.ge/en/myth/disinformation-great-britain-allegedly-moving-soviet-education-system

Today 🇵🇱 Green Party presented their renewable + fossil gas policy. Which has obviously drawn a lot of bitter comments, because logically you can't speak about decarbonisation and propose more fossil fuels. So they just... removed fossil gas from the statement, as if it's going to disappear magically from the energy mix they're proposing 😂

@neil How is that different from any other visually unique brand sign or registered geometrical shape?

@kmic Kolejny level to czujnik oraz przekaźnik pieca na LoRaWAN żeby i pomocy można było udzielić zdalnie :)

Nice:

"We provideproof-of-concept attacks via a tool that constructs AES-GCMciphertext which can be decrypted to two plaintexts validunder a wide variety of file formats, such as PDF, Windowsexecutables, and DICOM."

https://eprint.iacr.org/2020/1456.pdf

@lnx

Oh there's absolutely middle class in Russia and it's just like any other country really. Law enforcement is however very selective, and on one hand you can be jailed for merely a critical comment about church or gov if you don't have the right friends, and you can get away with anything if you do.