Where do you see yourself in 10 years? (lemmy.ml)
In the light of Snowden's latest post: What are your FOSS-AIs?
His post: discuss.tchncs.de/post/17400082
What is the best cloud storage provider right now?
What is the best cloud storage that gives a nice balance between features and privacy? I know you can manually encrypt files to use any provider, but I would prefer an open source E2EE for the sake of convenience....
PayPal Is Planning an Ad Business Using Data on Its Millions of Shoppers (www.wsj.com)
Wall Street Journal (paywalled) The digital payments company plans to build an ad sales business around the reams of data it generates from tracking the purchases as well as the broader spending behaviors of millions of consumers who use its services, which include the more socially-enabled Venmo app....
Is Privacy Worth It? (blog.thenewoil.org)
When I announced I would be closing my communities earlier this year, a curious thing happened: a surprising number of regulars replied with some variation of “I think this is my exit.” While some were specifically talking about Matrix, claiming that mine was the only room they were really active in and therefore they saw no...
Thoughts on VPN providers?
What’s everyone’s opinion on a VPN provider? I’ve used Nord for a long time, but my subscription is up next month and I’m exploring my options. I use a vpn 24/7 on my laptop and most of the time on my phone as does much of the family....
Browse safely on corporate laptop (lemmy.ml)
I work on a corporate laptop that has an infamous root CA certicate installed, which allows the company to intercept all my browser traffic and perform a MITM attack....
RCS vs SMS/MMS?
So in the new upcoming major feature update for IOS, Apple is adding RCS support in there messaging app. What are the privacy implications of adopting RCS?...
Microsoft plans to lock down Windows DNS like never before. Here’s how. (arstechnica.com)
Quad9 censoring DNS requests?
I noticed that Quad 9 is not able to respond to the spy.pet query:...
Mozilla Monitor is shady
Onerep is a privacy monitoring service/ privacy provider that Mozilla partnered with for their Mozilla Monitor service....
I am genuinely horrified to see how much data google collected from me
I created a google takeout and in that zip file I found some files containing a ton of data about me. It has logged every single page I visited while using the google search engine and chrome browser. It even logged every single time I opened an app on my old android phone. It even has VOICE RECORDINGS of me and a log of every...
What are your thoughts on Invizible pro ? (f-droid.org)
The app seems fairly small in size compared to orbot which is really old and also invizible pro seems to do a ton of things that including firewall vpn etc . So does it connect to tor network properly and pass all your traffic through it as good as orbot and completely block internet acces to not whitelisted services as good as...
Today I got greeted on a Tor friendly website (lemmy.ml)
It was at the Securedrop website. How did I end up there ? I read something about Sequoia and encryption and then wanted to see what Securedrop entailed....
Web Devs: is there a phone-number-less AUTH that still prevents bots?
I make websites...
New Windows driver blocks software from changing default web browser (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
Best firefox build for android?
For a time it was Fennic for addon support but now that Firefox mobile has addons are there better alternatives? Those of you on android, what’s your go to?
any xmpp user ?
Started using xmpp recently because messaging apps sucks . I want to see if anyone use this thing .
Google-Amazon connection?
Today I was watching a few YouTube videos about groundwork with horses. First time I did that. Yes, I was logged in....
Signal's Meredith Whittaker scorns anti-encryption efforts as 'parochial, magical thinking' | TechCrunch (techcrunch.com)
Google is Working on a Recall Feature for ChromeOS - Thurrott.com (www.thurrott.com)
Best browser tweaks for privacy?
Hello, always wanted to know the absolute best to have the most private (and secure) browser, need tips for android and linux. I think Firefox based browser are the best choice but i’m open to recommendations!! THX
Telegram apparently censor queer groups (mastodon.social)
cross-posted from: leminal.space/post/6433881