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By entering cyber incident space insurance industry gave a rise of new beast, it's called ransomware, as in many cases it's cheaper for companies to pay ransom that to maintain resilient recovery processes. But here is the twist, not everyone get's their data back. Insurance is not replacement for recovery. Here is new initiative by CISA. forbes.com/sites/forbestechcou

DorkGPT

Describe what you want to find in human language and get a Google query using advanced search operators. Suitable for "juicy info" and vulnerable sites, as well as for any other search tasks.

dorkgpt.com/

Creator twitter.com/PredictaLabOff

Need to know whether a piece of hardware is supported by free software? #hNode has you covered! Its search engine will help you verify #freesoftware compatibility. u.fsf.org/3ui

Twitter Blue what a strange proposition it is: you pay $8/mo and then they got to mine your data and manipulate you, show you ads, so on and so forth. However $8/mo you can probably rent instance and run Mastodon yourself and you'll never see an ad or be manipulated by a single company into buying something, you got to interact with users on other instances, even beyond Mastodon, essentially anything that supports ActivityPub. So which one would you choose? Well it's up to you ... 

World has gone crazy, it feels like there is a coordinated assault on freedom of speech, RESTRICT act, Online Safety Bill, they are all targeting freedom of private communication in the name of crime prevention. Our task is to oppose those motions as we seems them as alternative would be living in authoritarian regime. forbes.com/sites/emmawoollacot

The chassis of the #PineTab-V (the first @risc_v tablet) will be black to differentiate it from from the #Arm-based #PineTab2 available in silver-gray.
Hope you like it :)

The RESTRICT act (S. 686 - The “TikTok ban”) is a hot mess and I cannot support it in any fashion. Trojan horse with a dramatic impact on privacy and freedom of speech. 100% not good. Go read it. #RESTRICTAct #privacy #FreeSpeech #surveillance #tiktok #vpn #crypto

US politics 

Call your representatives to oppose the RESTRICT Act. While it's described as a ban on #TikTok, the bill actually gives the U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security authority to execute blanket bans on software and hardware. And using a #VPN to circumvent the ban could bring a fine of $1 million or 20 years in prison.

msn.com/en-US/news/scienceandt
#RestrictAct

"Self-Hosting Is the Ultimate Privacy Power Move"

When you use a third-party service for your needs, whatever those needs may be, you’re always taking on a certain degree of privacy risk.

howtogeek.com/846979/heres-why

Europe is often seen as a champion of privacy laws that supposedly protect people, and it's a good thing. However that also makes courts more open to an idea of censorship requests, especially German courts. Here is one example, where DNS provider can not and should not be liable for unlawful content stored on somebody's servers. DNS providers are phonebooks of 21-st century. torrentfreak.com/dns-resolver-

How good is 2FA if vendor uses it for advertising purposes. Twitter was fined by FTC and here is the story ftc.gov/business-guidance/blog but how can you trust other vendors that they would not use your PII for purposes other than 2FA. Best way is to avoid vendors who want PII for 2FA authentication, and use apps that generate time based code.

My latest at WIRED: Today the FBI admitted to buying cellphone location data that US companies claimed was gathered to personalize online ads -- data the bureau would've otherwise required a warrant to obtain

Dir. Wray says it was purchased for a classified pilot program "some time" ago

wired.com/story/fbi-purchase-l

Smartphones were a very significant innovation, however there is a dark side to all of that, with all of the apps where developers are fighting for your attention they also a curse, especially for kids and teens, who does not necessarily possess stamina to thwart negativity they could bring.noahpinion.substack.com/p/hone

Now that finally make sense, I was wondering how, and had some of the ideas and was astonished by complexity of systems advertisers built, but apparently truth is way more simpler. To show you an extent of how things are being tracked, once I started searching and reading articles regarding astrophotography, one of the computers in my house with OS from MS all of the sudden displayed one of the pics on subject. thenextweb.com/news/duckduckgo

Today we've released a new update to our iOS app! It brings an improved sign-up flow, home screen widgets, and many accessibility improvements.

apps.apple.com/us/app/mastodon

Here is interesting thought, let's imagine you already know that there is going to be downfall in demand because who would take mortgage at 7%, how could you keep prices high. Simple you just decrease supply by pulling out from a mortgage market selling bs story that people are not interested in buying and rather would rent, simultaneously buying houses which you can rent out, to those who "prefer" to rent. Simple capitalism of 21th century.

Non-compete clauses are damaging economy! Trade secrets and other types of proprietary information that some one could comes around during professional career are already protected through other agreements and laws, leaving only purpose for non-compete agreements is to hold employees hostage. Competition has always been a force that drives innovation forward, prohibiting it will lead to stagnation. Take action, leave comment now. regulations.gov/document/FTC-2

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