Michel Salim @michel_slm@social.privacytools.io

I just found out about the chat leaks that led to former Puerto Rico Governor #RicardoRosselló 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.

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/

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.” #privacy #SurveillanceCapitalism

https://www.apnews.com/611607cf8bb249918716fca52dbcfaf7

Omg I missed quote-dunking so much wow

Still not sure about what 5G means for our privacy and security?

We wrote an article to help understanding this issue.

https://privacyinternational.org/long-read/3100/welcome-5g-privacy-and-security-hyperconnected-world-or-not

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

#infosec

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.

#Amazon’s collaborations with local police turn its Ring doorbell cameras into unofficial community #surveillance systems - https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/blog/2019/07/amazons-collaborations-with-local-police-turn-its-ring-doorbell-cameras-into-blanket-unsupervised-community-surveillance-systems/ this is an appalling development #privacy

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Remember Netizens... you are only free because you haven't threatened the right people.

Hey @MattHancock can you guarantee us that Amazon won't harness the data of those in need of health advice?

In other words, what is the real cost of this partnership? https://privacyinternational.org/news-analysis/3035/nhs-and-amazon-what-real-cost-partnership

https://twitter.com/MattHancock/status/1148833541138059264

Ugh guys this is so disheartening I'm so about ready to give up on the web. So many popular things that people use in work life, trello being an excellent example, are just so horrible from an accessibility standpoint and I just don't see it getting any better. At this point it can't be that people don't know, it must be that people don't care. I just don't get it. The same frustrations day in day out.

@DashEquals @wion Alternative option:

https://forget.codl.fr/about/

Use an app that automatically deletes your toots after a certain period of time.

Gonna take the whole "Don't scab on prime day" moment to promote one of my favourite alternatives to an amazon product.

The Movie Database is a free community-run alternative to IMDB, unlike amazon's shitty website, TMDB isn't full to bursting with ads, trackers and sluggish JavaScript, and provides an excellent platform for folk to catalogue information about their favorite films without being marketed to.

Please support it, not just on prime day, but any time you need info on a film. Keep information free.

https://www.themoviedb.org/