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Autonomie und Solidarität

"Im Paragon-Spyware-Skandal Italiens wurden mindestens 90 Einzelpersonen, Journalisten und Aktivisten mit dem Spionageprogramm Graphite ins Visier genommen.
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Im Zentrum des Skandals steht #Paragon Solutions, das israelische Unternehmen hinter der Spionagesoftware Graphite. Die Technologie soll auch an italienische Behörden verkauft worden sein.

Über den Messenger #WhatsApp sollen die Journalisten und Mitglieder der #Zivilgesellschaft mit der Software ausspioniert worden sein...."

euractiv.de/section/innovation

#Spyware#Italia#Italy
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Meine Datenschutz und Privatsphäre Übersicht 2025, für die Allgemeinheit 🕵️‍♂️

Teilen er­be­ten ‼️ :BoostOK:

cryptpad.digitalcourage.de/fil

 #DSGVO #TDDDG ( #unplugtrump )
#Datenschutz #Privatsphäre #sicherheit #Verschlüsselung
#encryption #WEtell #SoloKey #NitroKey #Email #Cybersecurity #Pixelfed #Massenűberwachung
#Google #Metadaten #WhatsApp #Threema #Cryptpad #Signal
#Hateaid #Cyberstalking #Messenger #Browser #Youtube #NewPipe #Chatkontrolle #nichtszuverbergen #ÜberwachungsKapitalismus #Microsoft #Apple #Windows #Linux #Matrix #Mastodon #Friendica #Fediverse #Mastodir #Loops #2FA #Ransomware #Foss #VeraCrypt #HateAid #Coreboot #Volksverpetzer #Netzpolitik #Digitalisierung #FragdenStaat #Shiftphone  #OpenSource #GrapheneOS #CCC #Mail #Mullvad #PGP #GnuPG #DNS #Gaming #linuxgaming #Lutris #Protondb #eOS #Enshittification
#Bloatware #TPM #Murena  #LiberaPay #GnuTaler #Taler #PreppingforFuture
#FediLZ #BlueLZ #InstaLZ #ThreatModel
#FLOSS #UEFI #Medienkompetenz

Meine Datenschutz und Privatsphäre Übersicht März 2025, für die Allgemeinheit 🕵️‍♂️
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Strange Quark

#Meta have just won an emergency injunction against their former director of global public policy, Sarah Wynn-Williams, to stop her distributing copies of her book, Careless People. The New York Times Book Review described it as, "an ugly, detailed portrait of one of the most powerful companies in the world".

I have just ordered a copy and also sent a recommendation to the #CERN library to buy a copy.

theguardian.com/technology/202

blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/prod

The Guardian · Meta puts stop on promotion of tell-all book by former employeeBy Guardian staff reporter
#facebook#instagram#whatsapp
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PrivacyDigest

The 200+ Sites an #ICE #Surveillance Contractor is #Monitoring

The leaked list of targeted sites & services include … #Apple , #Amazon , #Meta , #Microsoft , & #TikTok. … #Discord & #WhatsApp ; activity- or hobby-focused sites like #AllTrails , #BookCrossing , Chess.com, & cigar review site #CigarDojo ; payment services like #CashApp , #BuyMeACoffee , & #PayPal ; sex worker sites #OnlyFans & #JustForFans ; & social networks #Bluesky & #Telegram
#privacy

404media.co/the-200-sites-an-i

404 Media · The 200+ Sites an ICE Surveillance Contractor is Monitoring404 Media has obtained the list of sites and services that ICE contractor ShadowDragon pulls data from. ShadowDragon sources data from all over the web and lets government analysts easily search it and draw connections between people.
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Sturmflut

"If it doesn't support #WhatsApp natively, it's going to be a failure" was one of the common criticisms during #UbuntuPhone times ten years ago.

"Does it support #Signal?" is a common question about #linuxphones.

Good reminder that we still haven't figured out messaging at all and #lockin can easily happen even with solutions that look more free and open at first glance. There are still no good alternatives to Signal's iOS/Android apps.

#linuxmobile#fossphones#mobilelinux
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Wen

Apple - censoring things? Never 🤣

I was asked by a relative to use #WhatsApp - and responded with the appropriate comments about Meta, Privacy, Security, Bastards etc. I suggested they use Signal (we do and for work as well). I then wanted to follow it up with a link (and we use #Apple desktops and laptops here backed up by a Linux farm). So I went to the appstore and searched on #Signal - this is what I was given. You need to get the link directly from Signal to find it.

A screenshot from Apple’s Searched on Signal - Signal is nowhere there
#Censorship#Frit
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Linux Is Best

A perfect example of good software.

Enter email, enter password, welcome to federated encrypted chat messages. Simple.

Easy adaptation too. Invite a friend using either a friendly invite URL (referral link) or Qr Code, they enter their email address, and password, done.

This is easier to use than WhatsApp or Signal. It is called, Delta Chat, and it works with your own email.

#WhatsApp #Signal #DeltaChat #Fediverse

RE: https://social.vivaldi.net/users/NetscapeNavigator/statuses/114153731950202448

Screenahot of sending myself a message using Delta Chat using Vivaldi Webmail.
Vivaldi SocialNetscape Navigator (@NetscapeNavigator@vivaldi.net)Attached: 1 image I believe I can confirm that Vivaldi Webmail works with Delta Chat. 😇 CC: @delta@chaos.social @Vivaldi #Vivaldi #VivaldiWebMail #DeltaChat
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“The push to develop in-house chips is part of a long-term plan at #Meta to bring down its mammoth #infrastructure costs as the company places expensive bets on #AI tools to drive growth.

Meta, which also owns #Instagram and #WhatsApp, has forecast total 2025 expenses of $US114 billion ($181 billion) to $US119 billion, including up to $US65 billion in capital expenditure largely driven by spending on AI infrastructure.

…Meta’s new training chip is a dedicated accelerator, meaning it is designed to handle only #AISpecific tasks. This can make it more power-efficient than the integrated graphics processing units (GPUs) generally used for AI workloads.”

Move into chip development, to reduce costs 🤣😂☺️

#Facebook / #Zuckerberg / #TechWeenie <archive.md/2ibTc> / <afr.com/technology/meta-begins>

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Linux Is Best

I know why people do not switch to the Fediverse, or why they do not switch to secure messaging services, outside the reach of corporate and government oversight.

It is more convenient not to do so.

A lot of these free, open source developments, target geeks. Congratulation, if you're reading this, you likely have already put in more effort that it takes to sign up and use something else.

NO - Never - Get the idea out of your head, people will not give up convenience for better privacy. It is not in human nature and 30+ years of corporate and government oversight, should make that obvious. If it is not convenience, it does not matter how private and secure something is. Sorry, not sorry, those are just the facts. It is a hard pill to swallow, but swallow you must, so people can start focusing on making these many things, convenient.

I sometimes, although I cannot prove it, believe some of the developments behind better privacy and security, intentionally keep things hard, by design. That perhaps the FOSS world was infiltrated years ago, and that is why there has always been the pushback, on making things idiot-proof, graphically please, and simpler.

Mastodon and Misskey, for example, both use Activity Pub, but I should not need to copy and paste someone's username and manually search for them, to follow. It took years, for Mastodon, to make it easy for me to just stumble over a profile, and click a single button to follow.

If it is not simple, and easy, you're wasting everyone's time. Go code something else.

#Privacy #Security #InfoSec #InfomationSecurity #WhatsApp #Signal #Foss #OpenSource #Development #ActivityPub #Mastodon #Misskey

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Open Rights Group

Carpe DM 👁️‍🗨️?

End-to-end encryption = online safety. It keeps what we send on messaging apps secure from hackers and predators.

🚫 Tell Ofcom NOT to implement message scanning powers in their consultation.

⏰ You have until 5pm TODAY!

#PracticeSafeText 💬

action.openrightsgroup.org/48-

Open Rights Group48 Hours to tell Ofcom: 'Practice safe text'The vital cybersecurity tool of end-to-end encryption is under threat. Here's why: Ofcom are currently running a consultation on their framework for implementing the 'Spy Clause' section 121 of the Online Safety Act. This clause gives Ofcom the power to issue a technical notice to a provider, and require them to use a specific technology to scan everyone's messages for terrorist material or child sexual exploitation materials (CSEM). This consultation closes at 5pm on Monday 10th March. The problem is there is no safe scanning technology that exists.
#e2ee#encryption#onlinesafety
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