Category: Privacy / convenience vs surveillance / Orwell

all those surveillance and “in app trying to sell something”  make it way slower than Win 7… which is not good for a company that want’s to be productive (security, reliability, speed, speed, speed) get a bit of free tuning […]

what is great about books vs blogs? (+) paper books don’t need electricity and hightech to function. energy grid and tcp networks (up to now) have worked pretty reliably, but at any given day, a massive solar flare or a […]

criminals abusing tor for malicous behavior should be blocked, right? “50% of the attacks are leveraging the Tor anonymity service to mask their true origins” https://thehackernews.com/2021/12/new-local-attack-vector-expands-attack.html this could destroy the “honest” part of the network that truly exists, because it […]

the positive vision (always start with something positive) if big data about every keystroke every step we make (the police: every step you make) algorithms determine how mankind will live and thus: technology is “neutral” until it is used for […]

app only? no browser support? not exactly click here: any tag topic can be seen in browser via: https://social.librem.one/tags/librem5 so it seeeems like these service are aimed at selling and be used mostly by app with the pretty expensive Librem […]

in short: humans per default, without an education might just be “better” apes. Some parts of mankind behave very primitive and clearly show no signs of higher intelligence or education. The troubles start, when the tools become more and more […]

every user want’s a fast & responsive internet. BIND and DNS – the Phonebook of the internet – Berkeley Internet Name Domain – how to benchmark dns servers (find fastest) – LibreDNS There is nothing more anoying than slow loading […]

harddisk encryption is important from critical data to get physically stolen (can’t do much about data that get’s stolen while DEcrypted) (except: to not have any physical network connection while the data is in DEcrypted state?) hostnamectl; # tested on […]

Apple wants to become the new Google: BigBadBoldBigDataMothership as a once proud Apple user… (yes GNU Linux Debian 10 actually runs pretty well on the Intel-Macbook-Pros) yes they are beautiful spies… Pure Beauty & Nostalgia: Apple Macbook Pro 9,2 (A1278) […]

why are those data leaks problematic? because scammers and spammers will use this data to even better scam (social engineer) the affected users that is why it is essential to give those platforms (if the user needs them) as little […]

computers are no way perfect: the rise of the machines: who is scared of killer robots? who is scared of doctors, judges and police blindly trusting in AI and computer output? “we are driving in (heavy) rain right now with […]

most users probably don’t care X-D twitter was updated and now, even viewing hashtags is impossible without JavaScript turned on (there used to be a functional version without javascript). JavaScript has developed from “it’s so great, the first true cross-platform […]

v1.2 v1   especially in those lock down corona pandemic isolation times… users want to share family pictures to stay in touch. but how to share them in a non-privacy intrusive way? probably it would be best (of course) to […]

meta infos in picture.jpg picture.tiff picture.gif (according to Wiki not, but scroll down for an example) but also movie.avi and movie.mp4 … can contain quiet a lot of sensitive data: what date the picture was taken with what camera/phone (Samsung […]

Update: 2021-05: https://www.golem.de/news/irland-erste-patientendaten-im-netz-aufgetaucht-2105-156599.html Drei Krankheiten: erfolgreich kaputt gespart: schlechte Bezahlung: im Vergleich mit anderen EU-Ländern und auch USA steht Deutschland schlecht da was die Entlohnung von Ärzte an geht auch schlechter als Japan und gar Italien (!) das ist vermutlich […]

BeyondCorp Google’s new Approach to Security – we need to know EVERYTHING about the user – in order to trust the user – The Age of Surveillance Capitalism   first of… the good about JavaScript is (always say something positive […]

this age of mass surveillance… … who is observing “the observers”? if the user wants to know who or what is lurking behind the house…  the user needs to view live streams of surveillance cams on GNU Linux. vlc player […]

  “Better Than Nothing” Starlink-Beta started across the US & Canada Starlink: amazing but and also a bit “crazy” “On 15 October 2019, the United States Federal Communications Commission submitted filings to the International Telecommunication Union on SpaceX’s behalf to […]

contains advertisement. to be honest, it is hard to keep up the speed at which cyber incidents are reported. here is the latest take on “Russian IT Sec Updates”. have phun!   SecurityLab, [28.09.20 08:20] Last month, TikTok developers rolled […]

data google tries to collect from users: BeyondCorp Google’s new Approach to Security – we need to know EVERYTHING about the user – in order to trust the user – The Age of Surveillance Capitalism (it is probably only the […]

SecurityLab, [14.07.20 15:35] The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has unveiled a new database demonstrating how and where us law enforcement agencies use tracking technologies. A map of the use of tracking technologies in the United States is presented (https://www.securitylab.ru/news/510018.php) SecurityLab, […]

All SmartPhones are spies! that’s why Merkel keeps the Nokia from 1995 (even if that device is spied on as well, because it can not end2end encrypt sms or phone calls (*FAIL*! X-D)) Putin does not have a mobile phone […]

what to do to improve online privacy? use a privacy respecting DNS server by https://www.opennic.org/ for example: 195.10.195.195 (not google’s (8.8.8.8)) use Freifunk use a VPN such as: mullvad VPN https://mullvad.net/en/help/pricing-discounts/ https://mullvad.net/en/check/ Mozilla launched it’s own VPN service https://vpn.mozilla.org/ use tor […]

The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: “be careful what you reveal to your friend” (the internet) https://irlpodcast.org/season4/episode5/ “where it has gone from defending America to controlling it” data google tries to collect from users: (it is probably only the tip of […]

Worldwide mass surveillance by Germany’s intelligence (BND) service declared unconstitutional in landmark ruling on press freedom in the digital age “The ruling, the most far-reaching in this field in the past 20 years, sends an important signal for the protection […]

this age of mass surveillance… … who is observing “the observers”? Orwell left one final warning: 1984: “don’t let it happen” (alternative version) this is a “backup of the backup” that archive.org has taken from theorwellreader.com (offline since 2019) src: […]

this age of mass surveillance… … who is observing “the observers”? guess with it-security and internet-security (internet = roads, cars = computers that users use every day) it is like with real-life-security – there is no 100% security. all users […]

Tor is easier to use than ever superb usability! Tor is now super easy to use! (thanks all involved!) just get the tor bundle – it is tor bundled with firefox https://www.torproject.org/download/ Tor visualized: criminals using tor should be bocked […]

git was initially written by Linus Torvalds on the idea: how to create source code management system that does not suck. source code management is very useful when the developer team is x > 1 developer. it allows fast syncing […]

scroll down and behave! (slaves of digital dictatorships) this age of mass surveillance… … who is observing “the observers”? probably THE most important film, that every school kid (of the age of 16) should have seen (highly recommend to cut […]