kravietz 🦇 @kravietz@social.privacytools.io

Hi Fediverse 👋

what do you think of this new landing page design? ✨

https://pages.codeberg.org/swiso-en/index.html

Feel free to leave your feedback here 🙂

When reading source code comments...

Apparently Google Chrome includes software_reporter_tool.exe, which scans your entire hard disk for executables to analyze and it reports the results to Google

https://www.reddit.com/r/privacy/comments/elc0b9/apparently_google_chrome_includes_software/

https://www.ghacks.net/2018/01/20/how-to-block-the-chrome-software-reporter-tool-software_reporter_tool-exe/

@mike @vfrmedia @Calcifer @msh @mbybee
It starts to be well studied by the academic community, e.g. https://arxiv.org/abs/1911.03447

And these 3 papers presented by A. Narayanan (Princeton) @random_walker

When we watch TV, our TVs watch us back and track our habits. This practice has exploded recently since it hasn’t faced much public scrutiny...

🐦🔗: https://nitter.net/random_walker/status/1177570679232876544#m

For the general public to understand it and feel concerned, it will take some time 😕

#surveillance #privacy #freedom #tracking

Holy shit, Samsung Smart TVs straight up send "snippets" of things that you watch back home to "to provide you with customized Smart TV experiences".

https://www.samsung.com/us/account/privacy-policy/

Search that page for the text: "Your Smart TV transfers video snippets or TV tuner information in order to determine the programs watched."

#infosec

<orignal> ну че?
<sculptor> orignal, чё чё. ничё
<sculptor> бездельничаем балдим
<sculptor> кайфуем
<sculptor> гедонизьма и либертинизьма, как говорят в федиверсе
<sculptor> и я в этом знаю толк и далеко не лох в этом

"This Christmas approximately 568,000 people, a population equivalent to the state of Wyoming, will mark the holiday in homeless shelters, tent encampments or in the rough, all across the United States" https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/12/24/pers-d24.html

Потому что это любовь :)

@rf