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we live in an age of surveillance, tracking, targeted ads and the whole dystopia

and sites STILL show me temperature in Fahrenheit!

come on people, use all this data for something useful for once! I know you know who I am!

"Richmond, CAN resident Vincent Ramos was a successful CEO by all measures. He ran the cyberfirm Phantom Secure that specialized in specialty encrypted devices, for a niche clientele. The only problem was his niche. He allegedly catered to a Sinaloan organized crime gang that created a WhatsApp chat on his encrypted phones to organize the murders of hundreds of Mexican law enforcement agents."
venafi.com/blog/does-sinaloan-

A decent overview of modern, secure DNS technologies that makes some of the same problematic claims as other articles of its type. There are now a growing number of secure DNS providers, any of whom are better than relying on insecure ISP defaults.

Technitium Blog: Analyzing DNS-over-HTTPS And DNS-over-TLS Privacy and Security Claims

blog.technitium.com/2019/09/an

How science was subverted to arrange a financial payday for tort lawyers. Farmers and consumers lose. Dr. David Zaruk
discusses the ugly side of tort law, and the OARC decision.

talkingbiotechpodcast.com/205-

This is the most encouraging news I've read all year: Nonviolent protests are twice as likely to succeed as armed conflicts – and those engaging a threshold of 3.5% of the population have never failed to bring about change.

bbc.com/future/story/20190513-

Founder @gael "wanted a smartphone, which was open source, would run a wide variety of popular software, and protect your privacy. His answer was the Android-based @e_mydata
operating system and smartphones.” zdnet.com/article/the-e-google

Funny to see #Android smartphone makers compete for faster hardware, larger screen, more cameras, more pixels, foldable devices... while most of us just want a decent device with an UNGOOGLED mobile OS, and more #privacy features.
And a 5" screen 😎
e.foundation

Мы предлагаем свободные альтернативы популярным сервисам, сделанные людьми и для людей, а не корпорациями с целью извлечения прибыли. switch.phreedom.tk

Just signed up for an account with rsync.net. I will review my experiences with the service in the near future.

"Russian state hackers rarely share code with one another"

<-- kind of obvious to anyone who had seen Eastern European public administration extremely siloed and "private kingdom" culture.

zdnet.com/article/russian-stat

@rf Друзья, нужна статья которая простым языком объяснит 1) проблемы приватности ФБ и ВК, 2) что это федеративные соцсети. Надоело объяснять одно и тоже знакомым, а хочу их по больше привлечь к Мастодону. Есть такое?

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