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From October 11, 2010

https://sociable.co/web/html5-a-threat-to-privacy/

Is HTML5 a threat to privacy?

HTML5 allows website owners to create custom cookies on visitor’s machines that can store vast amount of a user’s browsing history.

Unlike previous cookies, which have limited uses and often expire after a short period of time, these HTML5 cookies can be stored on user’s machines for months, during which time they can collect more data about individual visitors. HTML 5 cookies are also capable of storing images, videos, video, text and location data.

Security firms and W3C are concerned that hackers will be able to access this personal information potentially giving them access to email and social networking data.

Concerns for users’ privacy are not just academic, in a test of the vulnerability of HTML 5 Samy Kamkar, a Californian programmer (@samykamkar), created a HTML5 cookie capable of tracking a user’s online activities. Called ‘evercookie’ Kamkar cookie can be downloaded without the users knowledge and, according to security experts is “not easily deleted.” His website is here http://samy.pl/ if you are brave enough to visit it.

While Kamkar’s cookie was developed to prove that such security holes exist there are fears that it could be used for more malicious reasons. He has made his code available to the public.

CIA Developed Marble Framework to Cover its Tracks, Capable of Faking Russian Hacking
April 5, 2017
https://sociable.co/web/cia-marble-russian-hacking/

The plot behind Marble was so intricate that the CIA could, for example, pretend that “the spoken language of the malware creator was not American English, but Chinese,” but then show “attempts to conceal the use of Chinese, drawing forensic investigators even more strongly to the wrong conclusion.”

A Marble is a specific algorithm that scrambles and unscrambles data, and the Marble Framework was designed to allow for flexible and easy-to-use obfuscation (making something obscure) when developing tools.
The Marble Framework covered over the English language text on US-produced weapons systems before giving them to insurgents secretly backed by the CIA, according to WikiLeaks.

DARPA MAGICS seeks paradigm shift in ‘predicting collective human behavior’
April 8, 2025
https://sociable.co/military-technology/darpa-predicting-collective-human-behavior-magics/

In December, DARPA announced its algorithmic “Theory of Mind” program, which was later named “Kallisti” with the goal of developing “new capabilities to enable national security decisionmakers to optimize strategies for deterring or incentivizing actions by adversaries.”
According to the Theory of Mind special notice, “The goal of an upcoming program will be to develop an algorithmic theory of mind to model adversaries’ situational awareness and predict future behavior.”
“The program will seek not only to understand an actor’s current strategy but also to find a decomposed version of the strategy into relevant basis vectors to track strategy changes under non-stationary assumptions.”

 

at Galois, a tech R&D company whose clients include DARPA, the US Intelligence Community, and NASA, and whose partners include the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.

MAGICS and Kallisti follow a long line of DARPA research programs to monitor, predict, and modify human behavior going back decades.

“The goal of the Total Information Awareness (TIA) program is to revolutionize the ability of the United States to detect, classify and identify foreign terrorists – and decipher their plans – and thereby enable the US to take timely action to successfully preempt and defeat terrorist acts”
DARPA, Total Information Awareness (TIA), July 2002

Following the attacks on September 11, 2001 DARPA announced its now-defunct (or potentially splintered) “Total Information Awareness (TIA) program in July, 2002 “to revolutionize the ability of the United States to detect, classify and identify foreign terrorists – and decipher their plans – and thereby enable the US to take timely action to successfully preempt and defeat terrorist acts.”

DARPA wants to model how ‘disinformation’ flows from fringe to mainstream platforms
May 11, 2022
https://sociable.co/social-media/darpa-model-disinformation-fringe-mainstream-platforms/

DARPA is looking to automate its understanding of how information flows from fringe to mainstream platforms with a new AI research opportunity.
On May 4, 2022, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) issued an AI research opportunity for Modeling Influence Pathways (MIP), which “seeks to connect information

Olivia

Online and local #music player for #Linux Desktop

https://github.com/keshavbhatt/olivia

Stable and Nightly Build on any snapd enabled Linux Distribution can be installed using:
snap install olivia
https://snapcraft.io/olivia

Arch Linux User's Repository
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/olivia

Features
Olivia helps you discover new music and videos like no other service do.
Smart Music recommendation, can get you songs related to any song.
Allows organise music and videos at one place.
Olivia can save track while you are streaming it, this saves your bandwidth.
Olivia never stops playing song for you with its smart playlist feature it automatically starts playing related songs for you once your playlist ends.
Watch or Download Video for any song in different audio video formats and quality.
Allows search YouTube and add result to library, sort results and all other #YouTube features like browse channels.
Plays audio only of YouTube streams (saves data bandwidth).
Support themes , Dynamic theme based on album art.
Intelligent Music Search suggestions engine integrated.
Player Mini mode a minimal player widget with always on capability and allows set transparency and make it act like a desktop widget.
Switch to Smart mode and sit back, olivia will play songs for you automatically.
Internet radio, allows play more than 25k online radio stations, list them sort them according to most played , most voted, language wise, country wise and by tags .
Olivia lets you browse new music according to your location.
Olivia lets you discover music based on their genres, moods and more.
Its easy to discover new music - singles, albums etc easily at one place.
Top music chart, allows list top 100 songs country wise.
Top albums chart, allows list top 100 albums county wise.
Beautiful Client side Decoration.
Lyrics of playing songs and separate lyrics search.
Powerful audio equalizers and audio filters.
MPRIS protocol support.
Audio export with meta tags and album art.
More features like cloud synchronisation of your Liked Music is coming soon, so you will be able to get your music back no matter where you are.

#yt #spotify

OnePlus 13s to ship globally with the new Customisable Plus Key in place of the Alert Slider.

Alert Slider ❌
Plus Key ✅

It can be customized to access the following functions
- Switch sound profiles (like Alert Slider)
- Do Not Disturb mode
- Access camera
- Use torch
- Record voice
- Launch translator
- Screenshot

#OnePlus #OnePlus13s #PlusKey

Qualcomm’s new always-on smartphone camera is a privacy nightmare : r/Android
https://www.reddit.com/r/Android/comments/r6ipvx/qualcomms_new_alwayson_smartphone_camera_is_a/

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🔥 38,000+ fake sites. Millions stolen. AI-written lures.

A stealthy phishing network ("FreeDrain") is hijacking Google results to drain crypto wallets in minutes.

👀 Seed phrases, Discord traps, fake wallet UIs... all fair game.

See how it works → https://thehackernews.com/2025/05/38000-freedrain-subdomains-found.html

Better than Security Cameras? Explore Ulefone Armor 28 Series Ultra IR Night Vision Camera
https://www.gizchina.com/2025/05/08/better-than-security-cameras-explore-ulefone-armor-28-series/

Google to Back Three New Advanced Nuclear Projects
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