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This is likely the most comprehensive article on security keys available. Secure Authentication is the security domain that I am most interested in and this piece lights me up like a Christmas tree

How to stay safe online and prevent phishing with FIDO2, WebAuthn and security keys. A look into YubiKeys, TOTP authenticator apps, passwordless and more.

paulstamatiou.com/getting-star

Goodbye LastPass, it's been a good 11 years (I've been perhaps one of the first premium users) but KeePassXC is open-source and works just as well!

NordVPN breach was worse than I thought.

'TechCrunch took NordVPN to task on the somewhat dismissive tone of its breach disclosure, noting that the company suffered a significant breach that went undetected for more than a year.

Kenneth White, director of the Open Crypto Audit Project, said on Twitter that based on the dumped Pastebin logs detailing the extent of the intrusion, β€œthe attacker had full remote admin on their Finland node containers.” '

krebsonsecurity.com/2019/10/av

Right now go to reddit preferences and untick "allow reddit to log my outbound clicks for personalization" (under privacy options)

reddit.com/r/privacy/comments/

np.reddit.com/prefs/

@ScottMortimer

Yup nothing new there. In fact 5G and other modern antenna are lower in power unlike in the past when the frequencies we used (same ones by the way) had MUCH more power pumped into them.

So in fact thats just cognitive bias. you see more devices and assume that means more exposure. But in fact its the opposite, more devices means lower power per atenna (and device) and thus overall lower exposure, not higher.

Luckily the extremely high historic exposure did give us one benefit. More than enough data to know its safe, even at higher power levels.

@nikolal

@nikolal

I understand the paranoia, I really do. But the science in this case is not hard to follow and should help address the paranoia.

I'm not suggesting you rely on anyone else, just try to understand the science as to why these frequencies dont cause cancer. The individual photons just dont have the energy to ionize electrons off of single atoms. The research confirms this, but even basic understanding of physics should make it evident why that is the case.

@ScottMortimer

@nikolal

Why would time need to tell? The frequency and power used in 5G has been in use for a long time already. You've already been bathing in 5G frequencies 25Ghz) for a long time along with the rest of society.

No need for time to tell, time already has told. 5G is a new protocol, but the frequency itself is not.

@ScottMortimer

@nikolal

Sure.

So first off no legitimate sources say "it is harmful under 150 meters".

In fact every study we have that has passed scrutnity has told us that the frequency and power involved in 5G is harmless even if you happen to be standing right in front of the tower.

There is an exception to this. I know of one study where they pumped twns of thousands times the power you would be exposed to by standing right in font of a tower into a cage of rats over extended periods of exposure. In this particular study a very small percentage of male rate showed some cancer while none of th female rates did. The numbers were so small however, even in this exagerated case, and the sample size was so small, it is hard to tell if the cancer we saw was just random or actually the result of the EM, because even at such insanely high levels it appeared that if there was an effect on cancer, that effect was very small.

So is it measurable, yes it is, but the thing is, 5G frequencies at any power level (withink reason) are well within safety margins because these frequencies simply dont cause cancer, it isnt a power issue (for the most part)

When it comes to cancer and radiation it all come sdown to frequency. Pump up the frequency high enough and even at low power it will easily cause cancer. But around the 25 ghz range you cant get cancer even if you tried, you can sleep on top of a transmitting cell antenna (they are actually very low power) and you'll be fine.

@ScottMortimer

@ScottMortimer The frequencies and power range for 5G were studied for a very long time before anyone even considered using them for cell phones.

They have been studied as well as in general use for other protocols for a very long time.

Final tally: a tiny @Raspberry_Pi Zero W, running Site.js over a WiFi connection from my desk, & exposed to the Interwebs via @ngrokapp, served over 7,000 requests (mostly dynamic Node.js) in a little experiment we just ran.

Small Technology FTW! πŸ˜ƒπŸ‘

sitejs.org

#SiteJS #RaspberryPi

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"Facebook isn't neutral turf on which good ideas will naturally prevail over bad ones, John Stuart Mill-style. It's an advertising-driven business whose design deliberately promotes its own peculiar idea of "engagement." axios.com/costs-facebook-free-

> Marketing: We clarified that 23andMe will not use your genetic and other sensitive information for targeted advertising without your explicit consent.

Genetic information for targeted advertising WTF?!

"Nuclear power, whatever its detractors might claim, is a low-carbon energy source, roughly comparable to renewables in terms of total emissions. To shut down viable nuclear capacity in the midst of a climate change emergency (now, in other words), as Germany and Japan have done, is a refined form of madness, especially when at least some of that capacity is likely to be replaced by gas or coal, whose carbon emissions are much higher." theguardian.com/commentisfree/

You can tell Google to fsck themselves with their "payment policy" by simply installing Wireguard from F-Droid which I've been doing since version 1 news.slashdot.org/story/19/10/

Also tons of other cool apps on F-Droid, all open-source, carefully checked for privacy violations and built from source.

β€œWe bring together SF authors, economists, technologists, activists and just regular people like us, to envision different economic systems. We are not interested in tweaks, one percentage point of budget deficit more or less. By β€œdifferent” we mean RADICALLY different. And these systems need to be ROCK SOLID, not some kind of delusional fantasy good for another round of electoral promises.”

In Brussels November 11th 2019. Info: preview.scifieconomicslab.net/

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