Category: Privacy
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Mastodon > Twitter
Mastodon is a decentralized social media platform that is gaining popularity as an alternative to Twitter. Here are a few reasons why someone might choose to use Mastodon over Twitter: Decentralization: Mastodon is built on a decentralized network, meaning that there is no central authority controlling the platform. Instead, it is made up of a […]
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Proton (Mail, Calendar, Drive, VPN)
https://proton.me/ ProtonMail is a secure email service that is designed to protect the privacy of your communications. It uses end-to-end encryption to secure your emails, which means that they are encrypted from the moment you send them until they are received by the intended recipient. This helps to prevent unauthorized parties from intercepting and reading […]
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Everyone should use encrypted messaging
Encrypted messaging systems, such as Signal and Matrix, even to a somewhat lesser extent, iMessage – are important to all people because they help to protect the privacy and security of your communications. When you use an encrypted messaging app, your messages are transformed into a secure, encrypted code that can only be read by […]
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The NSA phone surveillance program was illegal and expensive: And it did not stop a single terrorist attack.
The National Security Agency (NSA) is a U.S. intelligence agency responsible for the collection and analysis of foreign communications and foreign signals intelligence, as well as protecting U.S. government communications and information systems. In the course of its work, the NSA has been known to conduct surveillance on U.S. citizens, both inside and outside the […]
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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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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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Encrypt all the things!
Encrypting our communications is a good step, but we need to do more.