Interesting story from Wired. What can we all learn from it: 2FA is only as strong as you original method, practicing good password hygiene is the only way to protect your account. Even if it is personal, change your passwords often at least 90 days, use software to keep track of all passwords and creation dates and never rely solely on 2FA even if it is physical key. https://www.wired.com/story/the-full-story-of-the-stunning-rsa-hack-can-finally-be-told/
Onion routing turns 25 this month. 🎂
You’re invited to celebrate this moment with us to talk about the beginnings of onion routing & how this idea became Tor.
🗓️ Mark your calendar: Wed., May 26, 18:00 UTC / 14:00 Eastern / 11:00 Pacific
📺 https://youtu.be/-wbivkG8TcU
Glue sticks will never be excluded from school supplies, while kids might work less with papers, those are still useful for 3D printers, cheap glue still can help ensure that your 3D models will stick to your glass bed. Simple solution. #3dprint
@kyle given track record of all smart things, there is only one way to approach smart anything, making it local(only on the network you own) or offline, but then they loose their hyper profitable business and will quickly lose interest in doing anything with it.
Credit agencies should be banned from doing business on U.S. soil: they collect a lot of sensetive information about every person for the profit, without person's consent, then when such sensetive information getting leaked to bad actors through their negligence in cyber security, somehow it's on person to deal with all aftermath of ID theft and they at best obliged to sell same person a new service ... win win for them.
Librem 14 Begins Shipping
"We set out on a multi-year journey to build our dream laptop—the Librem 14—and today that dream is reality and is shipping."
The Tor Project is hiring a Junior Systems Administrator! Please retweet and share this opportunity with your networks.
https://www.torproject.org/about/jobs/junior-system-administrator/
History repeats itself, today I came across the term of programmable money, with feature of expiration date, to push consumers to spend it. I got a flashback from 1991 when on post USSR area expiration date has been posted on soviet money. At the end of the day this event defined fate of my professional career, but it was greatest hardship for entire population back there.
After reading stories like one below I really want to build my own search engine which won't create informational bubble around me and let me find information based on pure search terms, regardless of behavior, location and so on. I don't want personalized experience! Tell that to Google, Facebook and Twitter of the world! https://taibbi.substack.com/p/meet-the-censored-the-us-right-to
Found this really nice article, given my FB use, I think this is the journey I'll embark on next. Нашел интерестную статью, так как почти не пользуюсь фэйсбуком буду потихоньку брать все это на вооружение. https://aaronparecki.com/2020/06/14/14/how-to-leave-facebook
Snitching on Phones That Snitch On You
"Our phones are our most personal computers, and the most vulnerable to privacy abuses."
https://puri.sm/posts/snitching-on-phones-that-snitch-on-you/
@ozmik While all of that is true, Librem5 is more or less finalized product that is being sold, where PinePhone is still a prototype, as far as I recall in a beta right now without any clear plans to actually launch it as a product and it is also cost 4 times less than Librem5. I respect what both companies are doing let's cherish those efforts and investments rather than diminish other guy, otherwise we will be stuck to spying devices in our pockets.
@kev I just like the guy at the front of the screen who just runs through avoiding any conflicts :) he'll definitely stab opposing parties(pieces of the code) later on
@totoroot while I have not used WordPress lately(in last 5 years) I have heard few good things about Yoast plugin. They use "freemium" model so some features are free, others paid.
I had previously posted about my new #opensource project, yesterday I sat down to write an article with detailed explanation as to why it was important for me to create this piece of software, let me know if that article resonates with you and of course ping me if you have any issues with MyNewsGenerator project :). Here is blog article to read https://sergeysh.com/2021/03/11/Why-did-I-create-news-generator/
After Fox had an extensive coverage of royal family from UK, with big pharma ads on full display, Brits started asking same question I've been asking for years: "Why would you tell your doc about drugs, who is trained professional in healthcare in such dialogue?" Big pharma became a money making machine rather than business that suppose to take care of people by developing new medicine. Now with COVID vaccine same companies made a vaccine and making billions selling it. Can we really trust them?
Opt-in vs Opt-out debate. Today you are the actual product of all of the services you signed up for, they collect whatever they can and then share it with advertisers, you order a pizza from a chain guess what they'll sell such information it's their part of the deal to use ordering system for free ... privacy is a right every data collection must be opt-in https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/06/opinion/data-tech-privacy-opt-in.html
After a cleanup I just open sourced project that periodically generates mobi file based on list of RSS feeds. In other words that is daily news generator for kindle device. All you need is just to move file to your kindle. There is going to be a simpler way in future versions. https://github.com/sergshk/mykindlenews
Experienced technology entrepreneur on the quest for ethics and privacy. Follow #punkprivacy tag to get regular privacy tips. You can also follow @ethiork account to get information about progress of Ethiork project that enables people to own their data and protect their privacy.