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Privacy focused email recommendation
Hi everyone! Since I was absolutely fucked by Skiff (thank fuck I didn’t pay for it) I’m looking for a new email provider :) I’m not sure I like how proton is transforming into a full on suit, I only need email. Any other recommendations or is proton my only choice really?
GitHub - mendel5/alternative-front-ends: Overview of alternative open source front-ends for popular internet platforms (e.g. YouTube, Twitter, etc.) (github.com)
Sendent for MS Teams: Integrating Nextcloud and Microsoft Teams - Nextcloud (nextcloud.com)
The new add-in integrates Nextcloud with Microsoft Teams, allowing users to effortlessly share files and folders stored on their private Nextcloud server directly from the Teams user interface....
Microsoft Edge's latest AI tool sends open websites to Microsoft - gHacks Tech News (www.ghacks.net)
The main idea behind it is to improve the creation of tab groups for the user. The process is automated when the feature is used, which means that you do not have to create tab groups manually anymore and put tabs into them....
750m Indian mobile subscribers’ info for sale on dark web (www.theregister.com)
Senators Demand Justice Department Halt Funding to Predictive Policing Programs – The Markup (themarkup.org)
The idea behind predictive policing is that by feeding historical crime data into a computer algorithm, it’s possible to determine where crime is most likely to occur, or who is most likely to offend. Law enforcement officials can then make proactive interventions, like conducting patrols in predicted crime locations, ideally...
Tails 5.22 Enhances File Access and Persistent Storage Repair (linuxiac.com)
Cops Used DNA to Predict a Suspect’s Face—and Tried to Run Facial Recognition on It (www.wired.com)
For facial recognition experts and privacy advocates, the East Bay detective’s request, while dystopian, was also entirely predictable. It emphasizes the ways that, without oversight, law enforcement is able to mix and match technologies in unintended ways, using untested algorithms to single out suspects based on unknowable...
Mozilla says Apple’s new browser rules are “as painful as possible” for Firefox (www.theverge.com)
Mozilla is unhappy because the use of browser engines other than WebKit will be restricted to the EU, forcing them to develop two different apps....
How private is Apple's Private Relay, really?
You're forced to use Cloudflare. Don't they track ... everything?
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Apple is bringing sideloading and alternate app stores to the iPhone (www.theverge.com)
Apple is finally allowing full versions of Chrome and Firefox to run on the iPhone (www.theverge.com)
British man Aditya Verma appears in Spanish court over plane-bomb hoax (www.bbc.com)
TL;DR...
Brave to end 'Strict' fingerprinting protection as it breaks websites (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
This is how I KNOW it works as intended (i.imgur.com)
AdGuard Temp Mail: new temporary email service launched - gHacks Tech News (www.ghacks.net)
AdGuard Temp Mail’s addresses are temporary and aren’t stored long by design:...
FTC bans one more data broker from selling your location info (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
"The InMarket Apps have been downloaded onto over 30 million unique devices since 2017," reads the FTC complaint against InMarket Media....
How was the Snowflake proxy used in 2023? (forum.torproject.org)
We can also break down users by country. The largest contingent of Snowflake users are in Iran, which has been the case since the Mahsa Amini protests in 2022 1. The graph shows also a large number of users apparently from the United States, but we believe that may be partly the result of geolocation errors, and many of them are...
Securing Bluetooth Headphones
I have a pair of Bluetooth headphones, which I have been using since 2022. Today, I was sitting on the bus when some random person connected to them and started playing Free Bird....
Google lists improvements that only users from the EU will get - gHacks Tech News (www.ghacks.net)
Google collects and shares data between its own services by default. Search, advertising, YouTube and several others exchange user data. Users in the EU have to give consent to this form of sharing. By default, data will no longer be exchanged between services. EU users may already manage the Google Services that may or may not...
Have I Been Pwned adds 71 million emails from Naz.API stolen account list (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
The Naz.API dataset is a massive collection of 1 billion credentials compiled using credential stuffing lists and data stolen by information-stealing malware....
There’s a Multibillion-Dollar Market for Your Phone’s Location Data – The Markup (themarkup.org)
Location firm Near describes itself as “The World’s Largest Dataset of People’s Behavior in the Real-World,” with data representing “1.6B people across 44 countries.” Mobilewalla boasts “40+ Countries, 1.9B+ Devices, 50B Mobile Signals Daily, 5+ Years of Data.” X-Mode’s website claims its data covers “25%+ of...
Each Facebook User is Monitored by Thousands of Companies – The Markup (themarkup.org)
Using a panel of 709 volunteers who shared archives of their Facebook data, Consumer Reports found that a total of 186,892 companies sent data about them to the social network. On average, each participant in the study had their data sent to Facebook by 2,230 companies. That number varied significantly, with some panelists’...
How to Stop Your X Account From Getting Hacked Like the SEC’s (www.wired.com)
X’s move to make people pay for a basic form of two-factor is problematic. It also created confusion because the company prompted free users to switch away from SMS two-factor, but then seemingly simply turned off the protection altogether for those who didn’t. This likely left a group of users in a situation where they...
The AirDrop flaw exploited by China, explained (blog.cryptographyengineering.com)
The news was already posted here last week, but I found this great technical explanation of the flaw....
LibRedirect - privacy-friendly Redirector (libredirect.github.io)
A web extension that redirects YouTube, Twitter, TikTok, and other websites to their alternative privacy friendly frontends...
AirDrop cracked by China, revealing phone number & email (9to5mac.com)
The Beijing institute developed the technique to crack an iPhone’s encrypted device log to identify the numbers and emails of senders who share AirDrop content, the city’s judicial bureau said in an online post. Police have identified multiple suspects via that method, the agency said, without disclosing if anyone was...