Sergey Shkundaleu @archit3ct@social.ssbx.dev

Let's talk about deepfakes, those are alteration of media files, most common videos, with the goal to alter person's identify. I recently came across a really good article summarizing state of deepfakes back in 2022, fast forward 2 years of development in AI industry and now it's even scarier how those could be used to deceive people. Rise of deepfakes poses significant threat to our personal privacy, that's why it's important to protect our #privacy https://insights.sei.cmu.edu/blog/how-easy-is-it-to-make-and-detect-a-deepfake/

Developers on GitHub, man in the middle is a serious threat, but servers are being updated regularly too. So if you received warning message telling you that remote host identification has changed when you trying to connect to GitHub, please don't just blindly follow tutorials that guiding you to delete offending host from known_hosts file, verify authenticity of that fingerprint here https://docs.github.com/en/authentication/keeping-your-account-and-data-secure/githubs-ssh-key-fingerprints

If you look at legal landscape of privacy you'll find that there is a significant misunderstanding of what privacy is and confusion of privacy with anonymity. Most privacy laws cover your personal information while do not protect tidbits of information about what you were doing online. Simple example streaming providers recommend movies based on what you watched or opened, that information might tell a lot about your interests/hobbies and won't be protected by laws on the books. #punkprivacy

Well apparently OpenAI stated that without copyrighted materials they won't be able to train their ChatGPT models, or as they say those models won't meet needs of today's citizens. Looks like a hypocrisy to me, large company with lot's of money in the bank, wants creators to forfeit their rights and then charge them for use of their models. No comments ... https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/jan/08/ai-tools-chatgpt-copyrighted-material-openai

@nixCraft You need to add "both" option.

@ics was there at least a button to decline some? I guess not.

Everyone, I'd like to share some exciting news. Since grownups don't typically have advent calendars I've tasked my team at IonTec Software LLC to create one with lot's of activities targeted to help people protect their privacy in a fight against surveillance capitalism. It's bite size chunks of activities which will open on designated day for next 12 days until Christmas, why wait take an action: https://punkprivacy.com/ Merry Christmas #privacy #punkprivacy

@protonmail Those also came on by default, when Google introduced them. So most people have them on, so take action and turn those off of you care about your privacy.

You car might be spying on you! Biggest problem with privacy laws in US is that plaintiffs have to prove damage from sale of information, that they deemed private, like SMS messages(they are not, don't make that mistake). Essentially extortion that happens 5 years down the road after some threat actor connected dots from sets of data they purchased legally or stole from tech company can't be proved as it has not happened yet. Surveillance capitalism in action. #privacy https://therecord.media/class-action-lawsuit-cars-text-messages-privacy

Hey folks, it looks like AI buzzword is back into fashion. Today Whitehouse released a fact sheet about AI executive order. I am no lawyer do not take any advice from me, and this is not a legal advice. What is interesting is approach to privacy in that EO, statements looks good from marketing standpoint, but do nothing. You can track individuals from anonymized datasets, no PII needed thus you can build model of a person without need to name them. https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2023/10/30/fact-sheet-president-biden-issues-executive-order-on-safe-secure-and-trustworthy-artificial-intelligence/

@phil looks like you are giving some advice from ISC2 Cybersecurity Congress stage, nice!

@raek Glad you were able to help your dad get rid of it, from that forum post sounds like some one looked into firmware source code and found hard coded things. Asus has quite versatile off the shelf hardware and open source community has firmware that runs on those routers OpenWRT and DD-WRT at least 2 prominent projects that rings a bell.

@raek are you sure it was that way from the factory and that model was not designed for Russian market which essentially covers all post USSR countries. UI on that screenshot is not consistent with their ZenWiFi UI where they moved Parental control, then even on old UIs Parental control designed to have web filter and time limit options, lastly DNS was always under WAN. So either old firmware got exploited or some one configured parental controls that way or it came with some service.