While @google face US lawmakers we must remember its dominance in the advertising world translates into real privacy intrusion, even if you don't have a Google account.
Our scanning of popular mental health websites found that 70% had a Google tracker.
🇬🇧 Lancaster Uni is asking to fill a social distancing survey for their research (UK only). Anonymous, took me literally 3 mins.
https://www.lancaster.ac.uk/health-and-medicine/research/coconet-study/
"Google dedicates almost half of the first page of results to its own products"
Impressive study and website! The average publisher is full of advertising, CTAs and several MBs of external scripts. This one is simple, fast to load and clean 👍
Student of mine is conducting a survey on the barriers to uptake of alternative social media platforms. Your input would be much appreciated. Please boost.
https://standrews.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_a35cj1Rjby58DxX
#fediverse #pleroma #gnusocial #diaspora #mastodon #activitypub #ostatus #pubsub #xmpp #mstdn
#indieweb #friendica #peertube #hubzilla #socialhome #pixelfed
#fedilab #nextcloud
While the CEOs of Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google are preparing to answer for their companies’ practices before U.S. Congress @HouseJudiciary tomorrow, how about they also prepare to detail their exact dealings with governments and police?
https://privacyinternational.org/news-analysis/3896/why-amazons-temporary-ban-police-use-facial-recognition-not-enough https://nitter.net/privacyint/status/1288124520117624833/photo/1
Malware Reverse Engineering Handbook from the NATO Cooperative Cyber Defence Centre of Excellence (NATO CCDCOE)
https://ccdcoe.org/library/publications/malware-reverse-engineering-handbook/
ITER nuclear fusion reactor enters its final assembly phase
O.o
Lidl owner launching its own rival to Amazon Web Services
@kravietz the story of every infosec persons life - constantly trying to convince C-level leadership about working with prevention 🙄
reCAPTCHA is one of many "free" systems that are seemingly helpful and innocent, but are actually part of the #Google data-collection ecosphere.
If you are a #website / app #developer, consider using tools & APIs that do not collect user & system information.
If you must use a particular system that integrates with reCAPTCHA or similar, please provide them feedback that you would like alternatives to Google services.
Users, choose to solicit sites that value your #privacy and user data.
#Garmin investors concerned about the recent ransomware-related price drop should be aware of the fact that it happened in the first place because in the past they were likely concerned about increase in infosec-related spending 😂
I just can't get over how great StreetComplete is. It looks fantastic, is incredibly easy to use, and actually makes it fun to contribute data about the Real World for the benefit of everyone.
If you run Android, be sure to give it a try: https://github.com/westnordost/StreetComplete#download #OpenStreetMap #StreetComplete
На новом рекордном митинге жители Хабаровска уже требовали не только справедливого суда для Сергея Фургала. Толпа скандировала “Лучшая поправка - Путина в отставку”.
https://meduza.io/feature/2020/07/25/eto-plevok-so-storony-putina?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=main
#keyoxide 0.4 has just launched! Small update but a huge increase in benefit for
users 🎉
You can now add #omemo fingerprints to your #xmpp identity proofs and if the proof is verified, you'll get a QR code which automagically trusts your OMEMO keys upon scanning with the #conversations app!
Blog post with details and an example: https://yarmo.eu/post/keyoxide-xmpp-omemo
I wrote my philosophy and privacy tools that I use everyday, finally got this done. Excuse my English and formatting.
https://lakic.one/en/PrivacySetup/
Maybe we should join toots under some hashtags?
#MyPrivacyTools
Polish expat into UK. Information security engineer. Caver & cave rescuer (thus the bat). NHS volunteer & blood donor.