Simple DNSCrypt is a simple management tool to configure dnscrypt-proxy on windows based systems. Simple DNSCrypt #DNS #encryption https://simplednscrypt.org/
More resignations are expected. https://www.telesurenglish.net/news/Another-British-Minister-Resigns-Ahead-of-New-PM-Taking-Office-20190722-0004.html
“substantially all of the volume reported on 71 out of the 81 exchanges was wash trading, a term that describes a person simultaneously selling and buying the same stock, or #bitcoin in this case, to create the appearance of activity in the market"
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/03/22/majority-of-bitcoin-trading-is-a-hoax-new-study-finds.html
An interesting history of inventing the flight recorder https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-australia-49012771
"At a moment in our history when increasing numbers of women have liberated themselves from many of the demands of unpaid domestic labor, prominent environmental thinkers are advocating a return to the very domestic labor that stubbornly remains the domain of women." https://thebreakthrough.org/journal/issue-7/on-mother-earth-and-earth-mothers
~Open Source Security Tool of the Day~
opsmg
A gpg alternative
opmsg is a replacement for gpg which can encrypt/sign/verify your mails or create/verify detached signatures of local files. Even though the opmsg output looks similar, the concept is entirely different.
"There is no amount of regulation, transparency, or oversight that will fix the dangers inherent in widespread face surveillance. Only a full ban — a federal ban, covering the use of facial recognition by government agencies, in public places, and in public contracts with private entities — can prevent our nightmares from becoming reality." https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/evangreer/dont-regulate-facial-recognition-ban-it
.onion: https://bfnews3u2ox4m4ty.onion/article/evangreer/dont-regulate-facial-recognition-ban-it
а есть что-то подобное @rf только для украинцев? 
@rf Как в русскоязычном Mastodon переводится Toot? Я его давным давно в глагольной форме перевела на украинский как "Дмухнути!" (Дунуть)
Watch out for #malware packed #telegram clone called MobonoGram 2019 #android https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/unofficial-telegram-app-with-100k-installs-pushed-malicious-sites/#.XTCXAsoCGcg.facebook
Kazakhstan started country-wide #mitm on #tls forcing users to install a state-issued X.509 cert https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1567114 #censorship
To protect online #privacy and make #search more transparent, we support #opensource projects like @Nitrokey, @delta, @cryptpad, @manyver_se, @fediversespace and many more. Want to learn more about our open calls and how they help build the #NextGenerationInternet? Join us at the #NGIForum on September 25th! @NGI4eu
Brave Rewards cannot on ungoogled phones I'm afraid due to heavy usage of Google proprietary SafetyNet https://github.com/brave/browser-android-tabs/issues/1865 #privacy #android
tiny thing to fight surveillance capitalism
urls often contain tracking information added to the end of them. when you are linking articles, stuff like the "utm_source" and "fbclid" sections allow people to track where you got the link from and how you are spreading it. this allows cops & corps to map out social groups.
while you can remove that stuff by hand, there's a firefox/chrome addon called "neat URL" that comes with an existing blocklist that automatically cleans off a lot of that stuff.
Five years ago unknown perpetrators shot a civilian airplane over Donbasd... oh, wait https://tass.com/world/741164 #mh17
The PGP Problem: https://latacora.singles/2019/07/16/the-pgp-problem.html
tl;dr - Signal instead of email, Tarsnap instead of Duplicity, Signify instead of gpg --verify #pgp #cryptography https://latacora.micro.blog/2019/07/16/the-pgp-problem.html
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