Michel Salim 
@michel_slm@social.privacytools.io
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Facebook Production Engineer by day, #privacy enthusiast by night. #Linux user since 1998, #Fedora package maintainer since 2005. @michel-slm for my cat pictures.
Joined Mar 2019
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"the explosive growth of #realtime #FacialRecognition techāand the current fascination of UK police with itāmeans that itās already a scandal and could soon become a crisisā¦The government, however, seems to not realise or concede that there is a problemā
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/jul/28/why-we-should-be-scared-by-intrusive-menace-of-facial-recognition
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Firefox Preview is my primary Android browser for ~2 weeks; never realized how often I use view-source. In case I am not alone: https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/fenix/issues/3972
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ā911, this service sponsored by Ring, whatās your emergency?ā
āI think someone broke into my house!ā
āAre you a Ring customer?ā
āNo!?ā
āIām sorry, our priority response is reserved for Ring customers.ā
@strypey there's also the low tech possibility that a participant leaked or left their phone unlocked to consider? (I'm also curious to find out how it happened, we'll probably not find out though )
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I just found out about the chat leaks that led to former Puerto Rico Governor #RicardoRossellĆ³ stepping down. Does anyone know whether these leaked messages were obtained by compromising the OS on one (or more) of the devices involved in the chat, or #Telegram itself? All the articles I've found discuss the political results of the leaks, not the tech details.
@farhan yeah, there's definitely a way to do it properly. Ideally the user should be in control of their feed, instead of Big Tech's "we'll let our AI decide what you see" where every tweak to the model has unintended consequences
@farhan Chevy Volt, you mean? (GM really needs to pick less confusing names). I have one, really sweet but sadly GM discontinued it recently. KIA and Hyundai has nice PHEV models though
@farhan agreed on search, but for trending... given the amplification problem we're seeing on Facebook and Twitter I'm actually glad it's not prominent on the Fediverse
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US residents:
Jump on the Equifax leak claim wagon. You get $125 in the settlement, automatically. ALSO, you can be compensated at the rate of $25 per hour for time spend remediating their fuckup, and only have to provide documentation if you spent more than 10 hours unfucking them. The official claim site is https://www.equifaxbreachsettlement.com/
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Our @diggity in AP: "Facebook has surveillance at the core of its business model, which is the monetization of data profiles about humans and about human social interaction.ā #privacy #SurveillanceCapitalism
The Amazon #surveillancecapitalism story just gets worse and worse.
Now it turns out they're colluding with police forces to promote these devices so we pay to get spied on
@privacyint any idea why your feed seems to be consisting of the same few toots in a loop?
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Still not sure about what 5G means for our privacy and security?
We wrote an article to help understanding this issue.
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Woah, #PaloAlto: Silently fixed a pre-authentication remote code execution vulnerability in their VPN portal a year ago, and did not notify their customer. Anyone who didn't update their PanOS during the past year is still vulnerable (CVE-2019-1579).
http://blog.orange.tw/2019/07/attacking-ssl-vpn-part-1-preauth-rce-on-palo-alto.html
Really sorry I have to fly BA again next month (the only affordable choice for my itinerary). Shamefully intransigent reaction to their #databreach from last year
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So I had the displeasure of going to the movies tonight.
Some 10 year old kid was behind me kicking my chair ALOT. I finally turned around and said "stop kicking the chair please!"
You know what he did?!? He starts kicking it harder and faster to antagonize me.
Well IT WORKED! I turned around and said "are you trying to piss me off! " Then looked right at his parents and said "CONTROL YOUR KID!"
after that... All the kicking immediately stopped.
Michel Salim has moved to @michel_slm@floss.social:
has moved to @michel_slm@floss.social:
- Keybase
- michel_slm
- Website
- https://michel-slm.name
- General toots
- @michel_slm
- Economic Justice
- @michel_slm
- Open Source
- @michel_slm
Facebook Production Engineer by day, #privacy enthusiast by night. #Linux user since 1998, #Fedora package maintainer since 2005. @michel-slm for my cat pictures.
Joined Mar 2019
