Michel Salim @michel_slm@social.privacytools.io

@kravietz ah, I remember this job ad that advertises that the company provides equal pay for men and women. It got classified as a political ad and thus require additional documentation 😶

@darylsun curious to see which you pick and the rationale! The free software side of me is a bit sad that NC is such a popular option, but then again text and visual arts are different from software and disallowing making money from derived works is probably less Balkanizing

@Wetrix apart from iptables, nothing much. I use privacy extensions on my browsers (PrivacyBadger etc) too.

ClamAV is quite good if you run a mail server, more to protect your users by scanning attachments though.

#Facebook is building tech to read your mind. The ethical implications are staggering.

#braincomputerinterface
#privacy
#research
https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2019/8/5/20750259/facebook-ai-mind-reading-brain-computer-interface

@farhan interesting. Lisp dialects use that too (and coincidentally Ruby - I wonder if it borrows that feature from Lisp too).

@adbenitez huh, interesting. Somehow I heard about Delta Chat without hearing about COI but seems the projects are collaborating

https://confluence-public.open-xchange.com/display/CoiW/FAQ

@srv get one of the YubiKey that does NFC - really handy. Not sure I'd trust a Chinese brand phone for 2FA - are you running the stock ROM or flashed something else like Lineage?

@Wetrix I've not seen the other F&Fs but Hobbs & Shaw did look worthwhile to watch.

Thanks for the heads up. Traveling this month so maybe I can catch it for free on the plane instead of paying at the cinema.

@jj @hhardy01 and naturally, as discussed on this instance before, regardless of whether Facebook plans to add client-side filtering or required to implement some "ghost protocol" (technically feasible, despite industry protestations, unless someone looks at the source or decompile it well enough), the best recourse is to use services that are fully open sourced and has reproducible builds. Closed source but audited would work too.

@jj @hhardy01 note, when I said non-tech journalist I'm referring to the Forbes article that started this speculation.

Agreed that the WhatsApp defaults are bad for truly secure usage. Not just the backup option but also notifications of fingerprint changes defaulting to off.

Use Signal if you really want to be secure. They make tradeoffs in favor of security, nit convenience - eg not allowing backup on iOS because Apple doesn't allow local backups

So much for the purported #WhatsApp #backdoor -- moral of the story, non-tech journalists are not necessarily the best source for technical speculations. Via Bruce Schneier

#e2e

More on Backdooring (or Not) WhatsApp https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2019/08/more_on_backdoo.html

@greyor the Unholy Alliance? (with a nod to the reactionary alliance after the Napoleonic War led by, ahem, the Russian czar)

@Wetrix I'd trust Apple a bit more on privacy (but refuse to use it for classic monopolistic practices) - but it's hard to tell with Apple since everything is proprietary (both the protocols and the implementations). Maybe they win on intention but they've had their share of security vulnerabilities too (not to mention, they have a data center in China so using iMessage with someone based there is probably unsafe too)