The deepest cave in the world is now 2'400 m deep and it takes 3 days to get to the bottom. https://www.bbc.com/reel/video/p07p40y7/the-daring-journey-inside-the-world-s-deepest-cave #speleo
"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."
https://www.venafi.com/blog/does-sinaloan-cartel-bring-out-worst-encryption-encryption-digest-13
Spiders Can Fly Hundreds of Miles Using Electricity
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/07/the-electric-flight-of-spiders/564437/
Social media back in your hands. Don’t use #Twitter but #Mastodon.
I made some more: https://dev.kabi.tk/mastodon/
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
https://blog.technitium.com/2019/09/analyzing-dns-over-https-and-dns-over.html
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, #glyphosate and the OARC decision.
http://www.talkingbiotechpodcast.com/205-the-ugly-politics-of-glyphosate-litigation/
Facebook is the most popular social network for governments spreading fake news and propaganda https://www.businessinsider.com/facebook-disinformation-campaigns-new-oxford-study-2019-9?r=US&IR=T
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.
http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20190513-it-only-takes-35-of-people-to-change-the-world
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.” https://www.zdnet.com/article/the-e-google-free-pro-privacy-android-clone-is-now-available/
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 😎
https://e.foundation
Мы предлагаем свободные альтернативы популярным сервисам, сделанные людьми и для людей, а не корпорациями с целью извлечения прибыли. https://switch.phreedom.tk
"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.
https://www.zdnet.com/article/russian-state-hackers-rarely-share-code-with-one-another/
@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?
Polish expat into UK. Information security engineer. Caver & cave rescuer (thus the bat). NHS volunteer & blood donor.