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evacide

Unsurprisingly, the post I made about how Mastodon's reply culture is unique among the social media sites that I post to got a bunch of "Are you sure about that?" replies. I am sure about it. That's why I wrote it.

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Lucas

@evacide what’s unique about it? I’m kinda newbie here

C.N.

@evacide if you made a post about what you had for lunch, would they still disagree with you?

Scott Wright 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

@evacide I always look forward to reading what follows “Unsurprisingly,”. You did not disappoint.

evacide

I am not sure why Mastodon is the only platform I am on where ending a post with "I am not interested in debating this" gets dozens of replies, many of which are, in fact, trying to debate this.

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Bugspriet

@evacide Maybe a social media phenomene? For me, it got much better, since I left Xitter and use Mastodon as my main presence.

Vítor

@evacide I’m surprised there are social networks (?) where that doesn’t happen. Would you mind sharing where else you’re at? I’d welcome trying something else.

evacide

Reading through the French prosecutor's press release re: Pavel Durov and Telegram, it's still not clear what is going on, but the last three items are a big red flag.

-Providing cryptology services aiming to ensure confidentiality without certified
declaration,
- Providing a cryptology tool not solely ensuring authentication or integrity
monitoring without prior declaration,
- Importing a cryptology tool ensuring authentication or integrity monitoring
without prior declaration.
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Bill Zaumen

@evacide Would "providing a cryptology tool" mean I'd get arrested for bringing my laptop to France? It has GPG, ssh, and sshd on it, not to mention openssl. That let's me use rsync to back up some directories. I'll use GPG to encrypt a separate copy of Firefox login data.

Stuart Longland (VK4MSL)

@evacide Didn't France once ban encryption over the Internet? I expect that to work as well today as it did in the early 20C when the International Telegraph Union tried it.

evacide

My dudes, Telegram is not an e2e messaging app like Signal or WhatsApp. Telegram is more like Twitter. It is a social media app that is mostly public content that also happens to have DMs, where you can turn on e2e messaging with questionable cryptography that most people never even bother to use.

evacide

I keep writing "privacy for cats" instead of "privacy for cars" in my work calendar, which leads to a very different mental image of what my job looks like.

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nolan .

@evacide careful selection of cat appropriate containers for cat activities sounds like a great career

evacide

A lot of people who are not experts in domestic abuse think they're making a clever point by informing me that if an abuser has physical access & login credentials, the game's already over.

I am very tired and do not have the energy to explain why making spying easier for abusers is bad, actually.

coldclimate

@evacide thank you for all you do. I am sorry that reply guys even dare.

Asta [AMP]

@evacide@hachyderm.io For people that work in an industry that prides itself on how they're all experts at scaling shit and "delivering exponential value", it's "funny" how they can never be made to understand how scaling harmful things also exponentially magnifies the harms.

Mathaetaes

@evacide I assume I missed a post about how Microsoft’s new Recall feature is a potential nightmare for people who are being abused or are otherwise associated with abusive or controlling people, and this is in response to the “well actually” crowd?

evacide

"...a would-be hacker would need to gain physical access to your device, unlock it and sign in before they could access saved screenshots."

I've got some news for Microsoft about how domestic abuse works.

bbc.com/news/articles/cpwwqp6n

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Asta [AMP]

@evacide@hachyderm.io thinking about that time I watched emails disappear in real time (and later learned this was how certain email addresses were scraped)

or the time my spotify started playing a different song ("fuck you" by Lily Allen)

yep, no potential for abuse here at all.

Jax UK

@evacide

This can only have nefarious purposes. I cant imagine any practical use for the device owner at all. I have been reading the comments and thinking about all the ways these devices would still access my image or details even if I dont use a microsoft PC (I'm downloading linux TODAY - this is too far). Other microsoft devices at my bank if I call customer services, facebook friends, mastadon users reading my posts, insurance company, local council, all using microsoft devices that could potentially have access to my data and countless others.

This will make our devices the perfect spy network, and I dont believe for one second that the screenshots will not be accessed by micrsoft down the line. This is just the first step to get us comfortable with their existence.

I work from home and hope to gawd my employers dont blindly go along with this.

@evacide

This can only have nefarious purposes. I cant imagine any practical use for the device owner at all. I have been reading the comments and thinking about all the ways these devices would still access my image or details even if I dont use a microsoft PC (I'm downloading linux TODAY - this is too far). Other microsoft devices at my bank if I call customer services, facebook friends, mastadon users reading my posts, insurance company, local council, all using microsoft devices that could potentially...

Oggie

@evacide Oh they need to get physical access to the device and input passwords?

Or, and stay with me on this journey, microsoft is not a godlike being that never rolls out code with bugs. And any, ANY exploit here is going to be such a ridiculously awful fail state.

evacide

Signal has finally introduced usernames so you can use it without giving out your phone number. This is the number one feature I have seen prevent people from using Signal for many years and I’m happy it’s here!

signal.org/blog/phone-number-p

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Sibachian

@evacide the number 2 reason being it's dependency on electron/chrome.

am i the only one beyond tired of lazy and slow electron apps hogging up my system resources?

Clayton

@evacide I don't know about it being a number one reason... I don't use Signal because it's yet another walled garden. For some reason people still think those turn out well long term for users (they don't.)

evacide

If you have a uterus and you live in the UK, it's time to update your threat model to include police testing you for the presence of abortion meds and requesting data from period-tracking apps: tortoisemedia.com/2023/10/30/b

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Sophia The Evil Gnome ✔

@evacide That's sad. I dreamed about visiting again and maybe even moving there, for a long time now. But the place doesn't exactly seem to change for the better. It seems, that I would like to stay away, because I am a woman.

Sophia The Evil Gnome ✔

@evacide Oh helpless me! I don't know, how to be a woman. If only I would have a man to tell me to just "use the moon" there would be no patriarchy, no sexism anymore.

Orca🌻 | 🏴🏳️‍⚧️

@evacide@hachyderm.io
Euki doesn't upload user's health information to the server, it stores health information locally.
It even includes a duress password (though it's predefined and not modifiable, which limits its usefulness).

https://eukiapp.com/

evacide

"Three years ago, Apple introduced a privacy-enhancing feature that hid the Wi-Fi address of iPhones and iPads when they joined a network. On Wednesday, the world learned that the feature has never worked as advertised."

arstechnica.com/security/2023/

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April Phoenix

@evacide oh that’s less impactful than i thought

if the feature that rotates the identifier when the device is unassociated and scanning for networks didn’t work, i’d actually be scared 🦋

The Janx Devil

@evacide Oh FFS, they were using the HW identifier in mDNS advertisements? That makes me extremely sad.

evacide

Major VC writes manifesto: "Building the Torment Nexus is Good, Actually."

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chihuamaranian

@evacide

We live in a world where I'm only 70% sure this is satire.

Siguza

@evacide could be a headline with an "OPINION:" prefix.

Funk_Funky

@evacide Manifesto Supplemental Case Study - Skynet: A Reevaluation.

evacide

If you're mad at EFF for making it possible to use Chrome with less tracking instead of yelling at people to use a different browser, then I assume you have never heard of harm reduction. Giving people digital privacy and security advice means meeting people where they're at. Otherwise, you're just running your mouth to make yourself feel smart.

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Alexander Baez Ubeira

@evacide also some people are forced by work or circumstance to use it, mitigation is perfectly valid ❤️

Nantucket E-Books

@evacide There are advocacy groups that create converts, and others that hunt heretics.

evacide

The story of why Elon Musk fired most of the election integrity team after saying he would expand it is stupider than I even imagined. The team's manager liked a tweet calling Elon a dipshit.

techdirt.com/2023/09/28/elon-f

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Casper Darling
@evacide is calling your boss a dipshit legally protected workplace speech? asking for a friend
Григорий Клюшников

The thing that surprises me more is that there was an "election integrity team" in the first place.

tallship

@evacide Oh lolz....

I just love this. Elon's the man. Either get in fricken' line with MY COMPANY's vision or GTFO!

Just ask #Bob FOSS he saw it too 😛

If any CEO didn't run their company that way they shouldn't be running their company.
#tallship #CEO #executive management #Owner #bizniz #lolz

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evacide

Everybody go update your iPhones.

The new 0-click vuln exploited by NSO Group is sent via a malicious image in iMessage.

citizenlab.ca/2023/09/blastpas

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Jimmy Hoke

@evacide can we please stop using memory-unsafe languages to gangle arbitrary input from the public.

Also, I have the iOS 17 beta, is that version safe?

evacide

Mozilla's new report on the data privacy of modern cars is nightmare fuel. Enshittification has definitely hit the car industry: foundation.mozilla.org/en/priv

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JL Johnson :veri_mast:

@evacide ALSO: I believe this is why GM is breaking up with Apple's Car Play in new models. They'd prefer that you use their built-in stuff, easier to scoop up data. I know a lot of folks are PISSED the new Blazer won't have car play.

huntingdon

@evacide

Superb articles from EFF. They need wider circulation. The car industry has been harvesting occupant data for more than two decades. It probably makes more money from it than selling the car.

As EFF points out, the range of data collected or inferred from a plethora of car sensors is invasive. Location, speed, direction, steering and pedal movements, naturally. Add heart rate, temperature, alertness level through facial and body cameras, collected and used without knowing consent.

evacide

It has come to my attention that some of you are very concerned about data brokers collecting your data, but are not familiar with the work of @yaelwrites and the Big-Ass Data Broker Opt Out List. Please enjoy:

github.com/yaelwrites/Big-Ass-

evacide

I'm just going to leave this essay on "movement narcissists" right here for people to read at their leisure.

new-archives.org/carol-zou-mov

Vicki

@evacide I got a “internal server error” page.

evacide

Thinking of Daniel Ellsberg today and the transformative power of bringing secrets to light and holding the powerful to account.

evacide

A brain implant changed a woman's life, helping her to manage to her epilepsy. Then the company that made the implant went under and the implant was removed against her will. This is the grim meathook future we were promised and I hate it.

technologyreview.com/2023/05/2

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Kristian Horwood :verified_paw:

@evacide tracks very closely to the nightmare future envisioned in so many cyberpunk stories.

Jamie

@evacide it was done because the company went bankrupt, not her, but I am still getting very Repo: The Genetic Opera vibes from this.

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