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Going Dark: The war on encryption is on the rise. Through a shady collaboration between the US and the EU. (web.archive.org)

[Resolved] Is anybody else having issues with DuckDuckGo and StartPage? (slrpnk.net)

screenshot of searching “test” in start page that doesn’t return any results...

The Best Secure Email Providers in 2024 (blog.thenewoil.org)

Like it or not, email is a critical part of our digital lives. It’s how we sign up for accounts, get notifications, and communicate with a wide range of entities online. Critics of email rightfully point out that email suffers from a significant number of flaws that make it less than ideal, but that doesn’t change the...

NSA ’just days from taking over the internet’ warns Edward Snowden (cointelegraph.com)

cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/14393091...

Papers please (lemm.ee)

e621, a furry image forum, will be forced to verify their users identities if this bill passes (slrpnk.net)

Here’s a link to the news. e621.net/news_updates...

Microsoft has adhered to the European Union's Digital Markets Act (DMA) by enabling Windows 11 users to uninstall Microsoft OneDrive, Microsoft Edge, and Microsoft Bing, and more. (alternativeto.net)

[Solved] Now DDG also got AI features. Is it good or bad for Privacy? (lemm.ee)

Automattic buys Beeper for $125MM, launches closed-source "privacy" app (techcrunch.com)

Curious how none of the coverage of this launch mention that the app isn’t actually open-source (though they pretend to be an open-source project), which makes all of their claims of “end-to-end encryption” worthless...

Microsoft Recall takes constant screenshots of everything you do (www.osnews.com)

‘Let yourself be monitored’: EU governments to agree on Chat Control with user “consent” [updated] (www.patrick-breyer.de)

Replacement for Firefox? (fedia.io) German

Hey there,...

Mullvad will no longer be able to accept DKK from its customers (mullvad.net)

Danish banks have implemented significant restrictions on how Danish kroner (DKK) used outside Denmark can be repatriated back into Denmark....

Louis Rossmann ripped a new one on Adobe (odysee.com)

I just love this guy when he’s riled up. Makes me feel all warm and cozy 🤣

Encrypted services Apple, Proton and Wire helped Spanish police identify activist | TechCrunch (techcrunch.com)

By the way, the earlier posted article restoreprivacy.com/protonmail-discloses-user-data… had an update starting at the paragraph with title Update: Statement from Proton and additional commentary

Speedster jailed after S’pore police tapped data from in-car system in first case here (www.straitstimes.com)

Why Apple’s iPhone Browser-Choice Option Sucks (www.wired.com)

iPhone owners say the latest iOS update is resurfacing deleted nudes (www.theverge.com)

Ukraine's GUR head believes "anonymous" Telegram channel owners should register so the Agency knows who's behind them (www.bbc.com)

Just for the context GUR is Ukraine’s Main Intelligence Agency. Practically like the CIA is in the US....

Advice on cleaning bloatware off of a new PC (www.bestbuy.com)

I helped my 77 year old mother purchase a new laptop, and I want to be sure to get all the bloatware off of it, and set her up with with some better privacy options. I am aMac guy at home so I haven’t done this kind of thing for many years. (I use Windows at work, so I’m quite familiar and capable, but obviously I have to...

Proton Mail says that the new Outlook app for Windows is Microsoft's new data collection service - gHacks Tech News (www.ghacks.net)

Backdoor found in widely used Linux utility breaks encrypted SSH connections | Ars Technica (arstechnica.com)

TL;DR there was a backdoor found in the XZ program. All major distros have been updated but it is recommended that you do a fresh install on systems that are exposed to the internet and that had the bad version of the program. Only upstream distros were affected.

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