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A Look Into Signal’s Encrypted Profiles
Signal continues to be my favorite, secure messaging app. I request it of as many of my contacts that will tolerate me. 🙂 To answer the initial question, can this feature get abused for OSINT? I’m doubtful it can. This is certainly state of the art privacy by design: showing a profile name and picture while…
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Gmail’s new ‘Confidential Mode’ won’t be completely private
This is good step in the right direction, even if only half baked. It would be better if their solution was E2E encrypted, like Protonmail provides. As already mentioned, ProtonMail (which Cambridge Analytica’s former CEO Alexander Nix claimed his company used to keep emails secret) offers self-destructing email complete with end-to-end encryption when emails are sent…
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Top Lightweight Blogging Platforms For Your Next Blog
I have used WordPress almost exclusively for years now. I have looked into Ghost in the past and it looks promising with the latest release. Source: Top Lightweight Blogging Platforms For Your Next Blog
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We Were Warned About Flaws in the Mobile Data Backbone for Years. Now 2FA Is Screwed. – Motherboard
Financially-motivated hackers are using SS7 attacks to break into bank accounts. Source: We Were Warned About Flaws in the Mobile Data Backbone for Years. Now 2FA Is Screwed. – Motherboard
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Included certificate? Yes please…
I had no idea that I had a certificate to use with my paid hosting… almost paid for one before checking to see!
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Apple: A Message to Our Customers
A Message to Our Customers Specifically, the FBI wants us to make a new version of the iPhone operating system, circumventing several important security features, and install it on an iPhone recovered during the investigation. In the wrong hands, this software — which does not exist today — would have the potential to unlock any…
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NSA Spying Relies on AT&T’s ‘Extreme Willingness to Help’ – ProPublica
The National Security Agency’s ability to capture Internet traffic on United States soil has been based on an extraordinary, decadeslong partnership with a single company: AT&T. Source: NSA Spying Relies on AT&T’s ‘Extreme Willingness to Help’ – ProPublica
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Zero for 40 at Predicting Attacks: Why Do Media Still Take FBI Terror Warnings Seriously?
A casual search reveals the FBI and DHS are a pitiful 0 for 40 warning of terror attacks—some of which were specifically about 4th of July threats, none of which materialized in any way. Source: Zero for 40 at Predicting Attacks: Why Do Media Still Take FBI Terror Warnings Seriously?
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Cory Doctorow, “Little Brother”
If you love freedom, if you think the human condition is dignified by privacy, by the right to be left alone, by the right to explore your weird ideas provided you don’t hurt others, then you have common cause with the kids whose web-browsers and cell phones are being used to lock them up and…
