kravietz 🦇 @kravietz@social.privacytools.io
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Polish expat into UK. Information security engineer. Caver & cave rescuer (thus the bat). NHS volunteer & blood donor.
Joined May 2019
"Только на "Бук" надеяться". Что известно из новых разговоров подозреваемых в гибели MH17
Bears some resemblance to Polish "Janusz" and "kuce" subcultures, known for their support for JKM 🤔
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Emergent behaviour of agents in early text adventure games (The Hobbit, released 1982): https://if50.substack.com/p/1982-the-hobbit
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Great alternatives to #Signal that check all the boxes (#decentralization, #privacy, #opensource, #anonymous, #cryptocurrency-free):
- #Briar: https://briarproject.org
- #DeltaChat: https://delta.chat
- #Matrix: https://matrix.org
- #XMPP / #Jabber: https://xmpp.org (It aged very well, supports signal-like encyption and battery-efficient mobile apps now. If you dismissed it in the past, I encourage you to give it another try.)
Ha, I played Hobbit on Amstrad CPC464 😁
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Today, the #FSB raided the apartment of Roman Anin, a Russian investigative journalist whom I had the pleasure and privilege of working with:
https://nitter.eu/OCCRP/status/1380552019425992704
This guy has balls of steel, and did some absolutely astonishing investigative reporting (worth checking out the linked thread).
I believe currently there is no contact with him, nor confirmation that he's been arrested. This is worrisome, to say the least.
I will share any updates if/when I get them.
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Roman Anin has been released, but has to appear for questioning on Monday. His electronic devices have been confiscated.
This is a good reminder to encrypt your phone memory, and use full disk encryption on your laptop and external storage, especially if you're working in journalism.
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Roman Anin's apartment being raided by the #FSB today is most probably in connection with this story (from 2016):
https://www.occrp.org/en/investigations/5523-the-secret-of-the-st-princess-olga
The least we can do now is read and spread it. Clearly there is a reason why Russian authorities would like to stifle this kind of reporting.
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Some comrades might be confused by the "BUR" appearing in certain anarchist and leftists texts from Eastern Europe. Wrote a bit of clarification of the term and how it appeared. #Belarus #Ukraine #Anarchism
https://brokenboat.noblogs.org/post/2021/04/10/understanding-what-bur-is/
By the way, there is (was?) something called "close border traffic" agreements between Poland, Belarus and Kaliningrad, which allowed residents of 50 km zone to visit without visas. Not sure about current status, but it almost certainly operated post-Schengen.
Very interesting, seems to be mostly high-middle class sponsoring these movements.
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Upcoming Instagram changes warn users to accept activity tracking to "Help keep Instagram free of charge" 🙄 #deleteInstagram
Ja tak zasiadałem na balkonie cały weekend tydzień temu, teraz zaś wali śniegiem. Kwiecień 😁
On the other hand, it's good that at least someone is stashing useful stuff so that it can be taken from them when needed.
Many organisations by principle only apply product updates that are explicitly marked as security fixes. I argue why this policy is not sufficient with examples on how general updates also have impact on #security
https://krvtz.net/posts/why-only-security-updates-approach-is-not-sufficient.html
That probably depends on specific legal situation regarding execution of debts in each country. In the UK you need to prove everything from scratch to each employer, bank, rental agency etc.
The hell of EU id cards: present an id card at bank or rental agency, get a loan or rent a flat.
UK freedom and privacy: print a pile of bank statements and utility bills revealing all your deepest financial secrets to a dozen of obscure companies.
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https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/politics/snp-vaccine-passport-plans-national-23867975
I don't think it was as easy as using the search engine, because you would not even know the BTC addresses of both parties. I suppose what they did was a combination of regular police job (=ask crypto exchanges for BTC addresses) and blockchain analysis.
"Europol carried out an urgent, complex crypto-analysis to enable the tracing and identification of the provider from which the suspect purchased the cryptocurrencies"
https://www.europol.europa.eu/newsroom/news/dark-web-hitman-identified-through-crypto-analysis
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- @kravietz:krvtz.net
Polish expat into UK. Information security engineer. Caver & cave rescuer (thus the bat). NHS volunteer & blood donor.
Joined May 2019
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