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LinuxReviews has started building a list of files and their contents from the Intel Leak! Make sure to contribute there if you dig into the leak!

https://linuxreviews.org/The_Massive_Intel_Leak:_The_Files_It_Contains_And_Their_Content
How Security Research Can Get You Arrested

When they were hired by the government to test the physical security of public buildings, Justin Wynn and Gary Demercurio didn't expect another branch of government to put them in jail.

In security parlance, a red team is a group assigned the task of breaking into a system’s security. Not to steal anything, mind you, but to reveal security weaknesses before actual malefactors can take advantage of them. In some exercises there’s also a blue team tasked with defeating whatever chicanery the red team attempts.

https://sea.pcmag.com/encryption-products/38510/how-security-research-can-get-you-arrested
Big Tech’s Morality Police Are Going After Adult Content

“We got no warning, no violation warning or anything like that. It just was gone the next day.”

An online decency campaign has discreetly swept the internet over the past two years: Tumblr dropped porn, Reddit removed certain threads, and Facebook effectively banned sexually suggestive content, including some emojis. Hundreds of adult performers and erotica artists have also been targeted by the online morality police — and suddenly lost their lucrative accounts.

Artist, model and photographer Kate “Kato” Lambert said she got absolutely no warning before Instagram took down her popular Instagram account featuring a wide range of steampunk-infused erotica. It was just hours after she’d posted a photo that showed a scantily clad woman. “We got no warning, no violation warning or anything like that. It just was gone the next day.” Lambert also says she’s lost around $80,000 in revenue as a result of her account being removed for two months.

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/y3zqq7/big-techs-morality-police-are-going-after-adult-content

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59: The Courthouse
Darknetdiaries - Ep 59: The Courthouse

In this episode we hear from Gary and Justin. Two seasoned penetration testers who tell us a story about the time when they tried to break into a courthouse but it went all wrong.

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🎧 👉🏼 Darknetdiaries - Ep 59: The Courthouse
https://darknetdiaries.com/episode/59/

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As Trump bans WeChat, some in China turn to encrypted messaging app Signal

Signal isn't blocked by the Great Firewall, unlike other encrypted messaging apps including WhatsApp and Telegram.

President Donald Trump's executive order banning American use of WeChat, the most popular app in China, takes effect next month, but some in China are already turning to an American app renowned for its privacy protections.

Downloads for Signal, an encrypted chat app that privacy advocates generally regard as best-in-class for everyday use, are spiking in China, a spokesperson for the app said Friday.

https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/security/trump-bans-wechat-some-china-turn-encrypted-messaging-app-signal-n1236184

#us #china #wechat #signal #messaging
How the NSA Says You Can Limit Location Data Exposure

The mitigations are designed for government officials, but the advice itself can be useful for many more people.

Location data can be one of the most valuable pieces of information for an attacker, and also arguably one of the hardest to protect. Smartphones are constantly providing such data through apps, the phone's operating system itself, or in virtue of just using telecommunications networks or being near other devices.

With that in mind, the National Security Agency (NSA) on Tuesday published its own guidelines for limiting the exposure of location data. The guidelines are geared more for government officials, but the advice itself can be useful for those hoping to stop sending so much location data to tech companies, ad firms, or apps that may then expose it later.

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/v7gxv3/nsa-location-data-privacy

#us #NSA #privacy #location #data
The Filthy Hypocrisy of America’s “Clean” China-Free Internet

The Trump administration wants to keep other countries from weaponizing technology the way the U.S. and its allies already have.

The State Department has a new vision for a “clean” internet, by which it means a China-free internet. This new ethno-exclusive network “is the Trump Administration’s comprehensive approach to guarding our citizens’ privacy and our companies’ most sensitive information,” by ensuring that China won’t be able to do a litany of subversive and violative things with technology that the U.S. and its allies have engaged in for years. As a policy document it’s nonsensical, but as a moral document, a piece of codified hypocrisy, it’s crystal clear: If there’s going to be a world-spanning surveillance state, it better be made in the USA.

https://theintercept.com/2020/08/06/the-filthy-hypocrisy-of-americas-clean-china-free-internet/

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If you’re not terrified about Facebook, you haven’t been paying attention

Facebook and America are now indivisible, says the Observer journalist who broke the Cambridge Analytica scandal – and the world is a sicker place for it

In 2016, we didn’t know. We were innocent. We still believed social media connected us and that connections were good. That technology equalled progress. And progress equalled better.

Four years on, we know too much. And yet, it turns out, we understand nothing. We know social media is a bin fire and that the world is burning. But it’s like the pandemic. We understand in outline how bad things could get. But we remain hopelessly human. Relentlessly optimistic. Of course, we believe there’ll be a vaccine. Because there has to be, doesn’t there?

In Facebook’s case, the worst has already happened. We’ve just failed to acknowledge it. Failed to reckon with it. And there’s no vaccine coming to the rescue. In 2016 everything changed. As for 2020… well, we will see.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/jul/26/with-facebook-we-are-already-through-the-looking-glass

#us #facebook
China is now blocking all encrypted HTTPS traffic using TLS 1.3 and ESNI

The Chinese government is currently using the Great Firewall censorship tool to block certain types of encrypted HTTPS connections.

The block has been in place for more than a week. The reason for the ban is obvious for experts. HTTPS connections negotiated via TLS 1.3 and ESNI prevent third-party observers from detecting what website a user is attempting to access. This effectively blinds the Chinese government's Great Firewall surveillance tool from seeing what users are doing online.

https://www.zdnet.com/article/china-is-now-blocking-all-encrypted-https-traffic-using-tls-1-3-and-esni/

#China #GreatFireWall #censorship #ESNI
Lawmakers Ask California DMV How It Makes $50 Million a Year Selling Drivers' Data

Motherboard previously revealed the California DMV was making tens of millions of dollars a year by selling personal data.

A group of nearly a dozen lawmakers led by member of Congress Anna Eshoo wrote to the California Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) on Wednesday looking for answers on how and why the organization sells the personal data of residents. The letter comes after Motherboard revealed last year that the DMV was making $50 million annually from selling drivers' information.

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/jgxanx/lawmakers-california-dmv-selling-data

#us #california #DMV #privacy
Latinos rely more on social media as a coronavirus lifeline, Nielsen report finds

Latinos are 57 percent more likely to use social media platforms as a primary source of information about the coronavirus compared with non-Hispanics.

Latinos are using social media, mobile apps and other digital platforms at higher rates than the general U.S. population amid social distancing guidelines during the coronavirus pandemic, according to a report released Thursday by Nielsen.

"Our personal and physical networks are the core of how our community has grown, adapted and it's how we stay informed," Stacie de Armas, senior vice president of diverse insights, at Nielsen told NBC News. "In the absence of those, Latinos filled that sort of void very quickly by leaning into digital content consumption to a greater degree than non-Latinos."

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/latinos-rely-more-social-media-coronavirus-lifeline-nielsen-report-finds-n1235968

#us #socmed #social #media
Apple Takes Legal Action Against This Small Company’s Pear Logo

Prepear is a meal planner and grocery list app that helps people discover recipes and more. It’s a spin off from the founders of Super Healthy Kids and right now they saying its logo is under legal attack from Apple.

It’s funny what Instagram accounts you follow as a parent at some point. Yesterday, we noticed Super Healthy Kids sharing a post detailing their new legal woes with Apple.

https://www.iphoneincanada.ca/news/apple-legal-action-pear-logo/

#canada #apple
I Tried to Live Without the Tech Giants. It Was Impossible.

As lawmakers debate whether Apple, Google, Facebook, and Amazon are monopolies, a reporter recalls her attempt to avoid interacting with the companies.

The chief executives of Amazon, Facebook, Google and Apple were called before a House antitrust committee this week, ostensibly to answer questions about whether they have too much power and whether that hurts consumers.

The tech bosses, who appeared via videoconference, fended off questions about being “cyber barons,” saying they have plenty of competition and that consumers have other options for the services they offer.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/31/technology/blocking-the-tech-giants.html

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My GPT-3 Blog Got 26 Thousand Visitors in 2 Weeks

The future of online media

What does it mean when a computer can write about our problems better than we can?

People have been talking a lot about GPT-3, but more as a novelty than a tool (don’t know what GPT-3 is? look here). Some clever people have even figured out how to get it to generate code from descriptions. Yet, I think that the best use cases lie outside of tech.

I believe that GPT-3 has the potential to change the way we write. But I can’t just tell that to people, most of them won’t believe it. People need at least some proof before they begin to take these things seriously.

So I made proof.

Over the last two weeks, I’ve been promoting a blog written by GPT-3.

https://liamp.substack.com/p/my-gpt-3-blog-got-26-thousand-visitors

#AI #GPT3 #blog
Barclays being probed by UK privacy watchdog on accusations of spying on staff

(Reuters) - Barclays Plc (BARC.L) is being probed by the United Kingdom’s privacy watchdog, the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), over allegations that the British bank spied on its staff, the agency said on Sunday.

Earlier this year, Barclays said it was changing a system that the bank was piloting, which tracked how employees spent their time at work, after critical media reports accused the bank of spying on its staff.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-barclays-surveillance-probe-privacy-idUSKCN25500P

#europe #uk #barclays #surveillance #privacy
Facebook and Instagram Show the Most Ads, TikTok Shows the Least

Ever wonder which social media platforms flood your feed with the most ads? Facebook and Instagram are at the top on a normal day—but when you use the apps more, they give you extra ads.

Ads are a way of life on the internet. But when it comes to social media, how much is too much? According to a report from WhistleOut, Facebook and Instagram show the most ads, and peak ad saturation can get as high as 42 percent of the content on user feeds.

After analyzing over 8,750 social media posts from 175 different accounts, WhistleOut determined that Facebook's newsfeed averages 21.2 percent ads. Instagram is a close second at 20.6 percent, while LinkedIn (19.6 percent) and Twitter (14.2 percent) follow behind. Interestingly, the recently maligned TikTok has a mere 2.4 percent ad rate.

https://sea.pcmag.com/the-why-axis/38523/facebook-and-instagram-show-the-most-ads-tiktok-shows-the-least

#tiktok #facebook #instagram #ads
Is the US about to split the internet?

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo says he wants a "clean" internet.

What he means by that is he wants to remove Chinese influence, and Chinese companies, from the internet in the US.

But critics believe this will bolster a worrying movement towards the breaking up of the global internet.

The so called "splinternet" is generally used when talking about China, and more recently Russia.

The idea is that there's nothing inherent or pre-ordained about the internet being global.

For governments that want to control what people see on the internet, it makes sense to take ownership of it.

The Great Firewall of China is the best example of a nation putting up the internet equivalent of a wall around itself. You won't find a Google search engine or Facebook in China.

What people didn't expect was that the US might follow China's lead.

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-53686390

#us #internet
Internet access limited in Belarus, number of sites blocked

Residents of the capital report the low Internet speed. A number of services are down and some websites cannot be reached.

In the morning, the independent monitoring site Zubr.in became unavailable. It looks like the IP of the webpage has been blocked. The creators of the platform offer users to write reports of electoral law violations via Telegram-bot @zubr_assist_bot.

Other users report low speed of file uploads to Telegram without proxy services. Websites such as YouTube, Google, VPN services work poorly. Moreover, not only mobile Internet users but also Beltelecom broadband users have problem with Internet access. Reports of Internet interruptions come from all regions of Belarus.

https://belsat.eu/en/news/internet-access-limited-in-belarus-number-of-sites-blocked/

#europe #belarus #internet
Exclusive: India data-curb plan 'anathema', U.S. tech giants plan pushback

NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India’s plan to regulate “non-personal” data has jolted U.S. tech giants Amazon, Facebook and Google, and a group representing them is preparing to push back against the proposals, according to sources and a letter seen by Reuters.

A government-appointed panel in July recommended setting up a regulator for information that is anonymised or devoid of personal details but critical for companies to build their businesses.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-india-data-exclusive/exclusive-india-data-curb-plan-anathema-u-s-tech-giants-plan-pushback-idUSKCN2550KA

#asia #india
RaspAnd Project Now Lets You Run Android 10 on Your Raspberry Pi

Arne Exton released today a new version of his RaspAnd project that lets you run the latest Android 10 mobile operating system on your tiny Raspberry Pi computer.

For $9 USD, RaspAnd 10 promises to make it easier to install Google’s latest Android 10 mobile operating system on your Raspberry Pi computer, but let’s take a look at the new features and improvements it brings over previous versions.

https://9to5linux.com/raspand-project-now-lets-you-run-android-10-on-your-raspberry-pi

#android #RaspPi