When talking about privacy especially in the context of a social media people often resort to an argument like "What's a big deal, I meant for that picture to be public." and you are absolutely right, that picture of yours is the least important price of information. What's more important is what is called metadata. Metadata that allows provider to answer questions like what he was doing before he posted, what he was doing afterwards, how friends reacted, why he posted and so on and so forth.
Free market does not exist when market players make their purchasing decisions based on metrics that have no correlation to price or value of the product or service.
However true power comes when you can control social narratives that define those metrics and if you can bet on players acting in a particular way because of those social pressures created by metrics you have achieved ultimate power to predictably generate piles of money, hmmm ... wait this is how media-WallStreet symbiosis works.
We checkout Scrivano, a new handwritten note taking app for Linux and Windows https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2022/05/scrivano-note-handwritten-notes-app-linux
Distraction or perfection, here's how it went. I received a security key board today and was eager to get my hands on OpenSK, so I sat down to see what capabilities are. However as I looked at the board I realized that it's not really perfect to work with bare board, so I needed the case, I put 3D model into slicer, and got a connection error, damn certificates expired on the printer, I started refreshing certs, but ports are closed on network ... mmm fun wait what I wanted to do?
This article has a very catchy title, however it does not tell you why they were able to search any data in the first place. The answer is very simple, mainly because people had been using services from Big Tech where customers do not own their data and those guys have back-end access to customers data. Think about it, at the end of the day it's YOUR data! #privacy #ethiork https://www.nextgov.com/analytics-data/2022/05/fbi-ran-over-3-million-searches-americans-electronic-data/366420/
I am stunned how many organizations "misuse" cybesecurity insurance. While it make sense from a business perspective, I think that's where ethics should outweigh purely calculative approach. Any insurance is designed to restore what is broken, in a way rebuilt to it's original state. However with any data breach nothing was broken, it's unauthorized people have seen information that should not have been seen. You can not undo that, there is no way you can put genie back! #cybersecurity #ethics
It's well known that the goal of any company is to maximize shareholders return. That includes technology companies, who offer so-called "free" SaaS products. In fact the fermium model has become a favorite business model in Silicon Valley. What do you think is going to happen when implementation of security controls to protect your data outweigh the cost of cyber security insurance that will cover damages of data breach. Your data means nothing to them! Gain data sovereignty with #ethiork
Make no mistake, data is gold for any tech company that sells their customers in packages, it's just a question not much that tech company can obfuscate their data collection practices. https://thenyledger.com/tech/russian-tech-giants-data-harvesting-raises-security-concerns/ #privacy
I am starting to wonder, it looks like censorship to me, or LinkedIn deliberately hiding my post from my network. Here is the story: I've appeared on podcast and as a normal person shared it(post from podcast page) with my network. It's not an automated scheduled post, I shared it manually through LinkedIn interface. After 5 days it had low number of views. So I posted posted screenshot of my Mastodon post to LinkedIn and in 5 hours it generated more views that original post in 5 days. Weird...
I've been honored to appear on 808 Podcast and had a blast talking with Bob Clark about privacy and steps people could take to protect their it in today's world. Here you can watch an episode on their web site https://808podcast.com/808-podcasts/265-sergey-shkundaleu-iontec-software-llc/
There is only one way for creators to avoid any attempts to de-platform by some tech giants or demands of "ransom" by other tech giants - that is to assume full digital sovereignty. #ethiork https://www.theverge.com/2022/3/15/22979126/vimeo-patreon-creators-price-increase
I have been saying for a while that pixelation of the text is flawed and here is confirmation that recently emerged. https://thehackernews.com/2022/02/this-new-tool-can-retrieve-pixelated.html
We've discovered that users in Kazakhstan can circumvent internet shutdowns and censorship by using a specific Tor bridge. Follow our user guide, get a bridge, and avoid shutdowns today and tomorrow. #keepiton
Here is the link for FTC statement https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/blogs/techftc/2022/01/ftc-warns-companies-remediate-log4j-security-vulnerability
I hope by now everyone knows what Log4j is and how dangerous it could be given 10 points on CVE score. Microsoft Threat Intelligence Center published guidance where they observer toolkits being updated with exploits for Log4j. Also FTC issues statement to go after companies who failed to remediate Log4j it's getting very serious folks. https://www.microsoft.com/security/blog/2021/12/11/guidance-for-preventing-detecting-and-hunting-for-cve-2021-44228-log4j-2-exploitation/
Here we go again, another example of outright censorship. It's not even about policy, Twitter simply clearing our people they don't like. That's why I use Mastodon and highly recommend it to everyone as the one way stay free in your expression. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/02/technology/marjorie-taylor-greene-twitter.html
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.