Michel Salim @michel_slm@social.privacytools.io

"Privacy Basics" will be our first downloadable guide.

One of the issues we identified with #privacy is that many home and #business users simply do not do basic things to protect themselves.

This can be because of perceived complexity or not having a perception of the depth by which people are #tracked. Sometimes, this is summed up as "There is nothing I can do" or "It doesn't matter", but there is and it does.

We believe that, over time, we can course-correct our ways when we act together.

#Parents, when managing your #children's devices, consider not utilizing apps that pervasively track their whereabouts 24/7.

Apps that give #location tracking and audio\video feedback can be taken advantage of to harm your children.

Teaching kids about online and in-person safety would make them more independent and safe than this.

These systems are also used for spying on significant others by proxy, especially in situations with mental and physical abuse.

I have some INCREDIBLY exciting news. I’m going to be working full time on free software!

Specifically, I have been awarded an EU grant to work on https://spectrum-os.org, a security-through-compartmentalization-based operating system in the style of Qubes, powered and managed by Nix.

https://alyssa.is/leaving-freeagent/

Spot the two computers :)

Spoiler: Raspberry Pi 4 rear-left, feeding the 4K monitor. Raspberry Pi 3 with touchscreen in foreground.)

Co-sign on every bit of this. #privacy #data

Anti-Piracy Efforts Are Unlikely to Beat @Sci_Hub - https://torrentfreak.com/anti-piracy-efforts-are-unlikely-to-beat-sci-hub/ why would any sane person want to "beat" a service to humanity?

Congrats to the FastMail folks for helping modernize and secure email comms for the 21st century.

We’re making email more modern with JMAP

The specifications for JMAP Email have been published by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), marking a big victory for email tools now and in the future.

https://fastmail.blog/2019/08/16/jmap-new-email-open-standard/

#introductions My main interests are #chess and #privacy. I will toot about the #chess events that I follow.

From my short time on this instance, I’ve already met loads of great people to interact with about #privacy. Hope to get to know many more of you!

Pixelfed.de is 14 months old, but today is the first day it supports full federation! You can follow profiles from other instances, and from mastodon/pleroma among others.

Just paste the full profile URL into the search and you'll get the follow link in the results. 😀

Our new blog is officially here. Come read about why we left Medium and how we built a crazy fast, privacy-respecting blog just for you.

https://blog.elementary.io/welcome-to-the-new-blog/

I keep seeing people who don't know about it, so

reminder that Blokada is an app that exists for Android that uses Android's built-in VPN system (which does not require root) to perform adblocking, tracker blocking, etc, and it can also redirect all DNS queries to a server of your choosing

the disadvantage is it counts as a VPN and so it can't run in parallel with any other VPN software

F-Droid: https://f-droid.org/packages/org.blokada.alarm/
APK: https://blokada.org/#download
Play Store: [not allowed]

https://gizmodo.com/this-map-shows-if-your-towns-police-are-tapped-into-rin-1837079976

"This Map Shows If Your Town's Police Are Tapped Into Ring's Surveillance Network"

"Ring, the smart doorbell home security system Amazon bought for over $1 billion last year, is involved in some fairly unnerving arrangements with local law enforcement agencies. Wouldn’t you like to know if the cops in your town are among them?"

Thread on recommendations for p2p communications for Hong Kong protestors.

Nice to see @manyver_se@twitter.com show up. Might be the only one meeting all requirements too!

https://www.reddit.com/r/privacytoolsIO/comments/cpfpqf/what_p2pmeshmultihop_messaging_apps_are_available/

If you ever wondered why most Matrix large group chats don't have E2E enabled - here's a good discussion of the problem and existing solutions https://blog.trailofbits.com/2019/08/06/better-encrypted-group-chat/ #cryptography

We have some exciting news!

Our next experiment involves improving federated privacy and security in Pixelfed.

We will be testing ActivityPub + OCAP for the Stories feature which will be released later this month.

This will only effect Pixelfed instances, we plan to support other ActivityPub implementations in the future.

#pixelfed #pixelfedLabs

There's a nice #linux tool:

systemd-analyze security SERVICE

It looks at #security and confinement features used by systemd services as documented here https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/systemd.exec.html

An example for my radvd.service

Today Linux Journal shut its doors for good. All staff were laid off and the company is left with no operating funds to continue in any capacity... https://www.linuxjournal.com/content/linux-journal-ceases-publication-awkward-goodbye