Emanuele @emanuele@m.divita.eu
Admin
Computer engineer. Dreamer. Hero.
Joined May 2020
«If you weaken encryption, people will die».
#Snowden doesn't mince his words.
«The Internet shouldn't feel so creepy and getting the #privacy you deserve online should be as simple as closing the blinds».
What Is the business model for #DuckDuckGo?
Is anybody on here actively using #LibreWolf as main #browser? I am planning to use it instead of Firefox.
For all other: LibreWolf is a fork of #Firefox focused on #privacy.
Are you still blaming #Apple for its #CSAM implementation? Did you know #CSAM is active and running every day on every content you send using #GMail?
As long as you stay with your #Google mailbox don’t expect any #privacy on your contents.
Google sends the images to #NCMEC, which sends them on to LE Task Force. The agent can open the attachment sans warrant.
Are iPhones really better for #privacy? Comparative study of #iOS and #Android apps.
A new app helps iranians hide messages in plain sight.
#Nahoft uses #encryption to turn chats into a random jumble of words, and it works even when the #internet doesn’t.
https://www.wired.com/story/nahoft-iran-messaging-encryption-app/
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.nahoft.nahoft&hl=en_US&gl=US
#Cwtch Beta 1.3 is now available for download!
Featuring the new File Sharing experiment! Share files with both contacts & groups without a centralized file server.
#privacyMatters #socialnetwork #instantMessage #FileSharing #decentralized
Do you need to use #Google even if #DuckDuckGo is out there?
Have a look at Whoogle-Search then, a self-hosted, ad-free, privacy-respecting metasearch engine.
#FTC says health apps must notify consumers about data breaches — or face fines.
Apps that fail to disclose incidents can be fined over $43,000 per violation per day.
«Recognizing People in Photos Through Private On-Device Machine Learning»
Photos (on #iOS, #iPadOS, and #macOS) uses a number of machine learning algorithms, running privately on-device, to help curate and organize images, Live #Photos, and videos.
That's the biggest difference with #GooglePhotos.
Do you want to know more how it happens?
https://machinelearning.apple.com/research/recognizing-people-photos
«Would you mind to sell your identity, forever, for 10 bucks?»
That's what #Amazon is asking users right now.
We are lucky, there is a promo.
https://www.theverge.com/2021/8/3/22607218/amazon-one-palm-print-technology-10-dollar-promo
#privacyMatters #privacy #surveillanceCapitalism #biometrics
As today, nested inside 52 groups, I am storing 748 password but my life is pretty easy.
I need to know only one of them: my master #password.
The average password lenght is 20 characters.
My favourite password manager? #Keepass.
It's for free, opensource, multi-platform. You can find multiple forks but I would suggest to focus on keepass.info and keepassxc.org
Are you with me? 🙂
«Discomfort or dissatisfaction with self and everything else is the kryptonite marketers have, telling us that we’re losers or less-than without the right car, the right watch or a full head of hair». - «The Disconnect Between “Happiness” and “More”» by George Hahn
https://georgehahn.com/the-disconnect-between-happiness-and-more/
#market #ads #advertising #userData #metadata #privacyMatters
A #privacy evaluation of the top 10 streaming apps indicate that all #streaming apps (except Apple TV+) have privacy practices that put consumers' privacy at considerable risk including selling data, sending third‐party marketing communications, displaying targeted advertisements, tracking users across other sites and services, and creating #advertising profiles for data brokers.
«Someone could be #tracking you through your headphones»
https://nrkbeta.no/2021/09/02/someone-could-be-tracking-you-through-your-headphones/
«#Apple delays rollout of #CSAM detection system and child #safety features»
https://9to5mac.com/2021/09/03/apple-delays-csam-detection-feature/
Are you really sure #Google Analytics is the best tool to #track your users?
#Privacy concerns aside the tools is widely blocked resulting in your stats to be misleading.
«58% of Hacker News, Reddit and tech-savvy audiences block Google Analytics»
https://plausible.io/blog/google-analytics-adblockers-missing-data
«My love-hate affair with #technology» by @nolan
I guess a lot of people here will find themselves in this post. Who's with me? 😃
https://nolanlawson.com/2021/08/26/my-love-hate-affair-with-technology/
«If you’re an enterprising pedophile with a basement full of #CSAM-tainted iPhones, #Apple welcomes you to entirely exempt yourself from these scans by simply flipping the “Disable #iCloud Photos” switch, a bypass which reveals that this system was never designed to protect children, as they would have you believe».
