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0xtero

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Glorified network janitor. Perpetual blueteam botherer. Friendly neighborhood cyberman. Constantly regressing toward the mean. Slowly regarding silent things.

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0xtero , to Technology in New Discord TOS binds you to forced arbitration - Opt-Out Now
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Only reason Discord has "a shop" in EU is for tax evasion. It's a P.O Box at Schipol airport. I really don't think they care very much.

0xtero , to Privacy in Discord to start showing ads in the coming week after resisting for almost a decade
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And thus begins the enshittification of Discord

0xtero , to Technology in New Discord TOS binds you to forced arbitration - Opt-Out Now
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I think they're only worried about U.S class action. Don't think American companies really care about the legality anywhere else

0xtero , to Privacy in Opinions on SELinux
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SELinux has been GPL for 24 years.

It's part of what was called Rainbow Books, but is known more widely these days as the Common Criteria.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Criteria

It's the "Government setting standards" sort of scenario.

0xtero , to Privacy in Meta gave Netflix and Spotify access to users private messages
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Which was a response to this

0xtero , to Privacy in Meta gave Netflix and Spotify access to users private messages
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Oh boy. Some of you people watch too many movies.

Let's get some basic stuff established:

  • This thread is about commercial platforms selling your direct message data. That's the threat model.
  • I don't live in a country where the police SWAT teams throw flashbangs without court orders
  • If the authorities want to get to me (which, again, is not the threat model of this thread). They can. Easily. They know where I live. They just have to knock on the door. It's not even locked.
  • I did, to my best knowledge, not reply to you in anywhere this thread. I'm not sure why you are replying to me.

But sure. I'll give you this: If your threat model is dodging SWAT team flashbangs, I doubt using Signal is much use to you at that point. That just wasn't what this thread was talking about.

0xtero , to Privacy in Backdoor found in widely used Linux utility breaks encrypted SSH connections | Ars Technica
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Catching this now is pretty huge, because it mainly targets distro build systems. Had this gone undetected, we'd be in shiznit creek couple of years down the line.

0xtero , (edited ) to Privacy in Meta gave Netflix and Spotify access to users private messages
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Something something Privacy vs. Anonymity.
But I invite you to try. Good luck getting into my phone!

0xtero , to Privacy in Meta gave Netflix and Spotify access to users private messages
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If you want private messaging - use Signal.
If you use any kind of messaging on commercial platforms, expect immediate loss of privacy. They call them "direct" messages for a reason.

0xtero , to Privacy in Sweden joined NATO, what does this mean for MullvadVPN?
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It doesn't mean anything at all. Swedish SIGINT agency has been working with 5-eyes for ages.

0xtero , to Technology in Bluesky is ready to open up
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That's not quite right. Mastodon does not have any privacy at all and it's not safe to treat it as privacy platform.

What makes Mastodon worth using is the federated model and lack of commercial engagement algorithms.

0xtero , to Technology in Deepfake scammer walks off with $25 million in first-of-its-kind AI heist
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I bet the CFO was in habit of joining Zoom company calls with the cat filter turned on. Therefore everyone was pretty much OK with this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lGOofzZOyl8

0xtero , to Privacy in Mozilla says Apple’s new browser rules are “as painful as possible” for Firefox
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So hear me out. What if we took $6.9M out of the CEO bonus and dropped the Mozilla AI project?
Maybe that would be enough to hire a maintainer or two for Firefox iOS port?
Maybe that could work?
I don't know, just an idea. Crazy.

0xtero , to Technology in Your next Windows PC may need at least 16GB of RAM
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My next Windows PC doesn't need any RAM, because I'm not going to need one.

0xtero , to Technology in How Threads will integrate with the Fediverse
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I thought the blog was hot garbage (my entire original comment here: https://beehaw.org/comment/2044864 so I won't repeat it).

I'd like to offer an alternative - https://erinkissane.com/untangling-threads

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