Category: Privacy / convenience vs surveillance / Orwell

what if – instead of security – Google wants mass surveillance and a direct uplink to the US-Pentagon to blow all “terrorists” (basically anyone who is against Google) to hell? What if? as long as EVIL pays off (incentive) this […]

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 […]

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: https://web.archive.org/web/20180825174545/http://www.theorwellreader.com/#content unfortunately archive.org did not backup the pictures 🙁 “Hrm. Wayback […]

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 of a system are in constant potential danger of having an […]

Tor is easier to use than ever just get the tor bundle – it is tor bundled with firefox https://www.torproject.org/download/ Is Tor essentially an NSA honeypot? in other words: is the NSA running a lot of (modified to their tracking […]

git is not only good for crowds of developers having to organize and sync “status quo” of the project over various devices, users also use it for version control of documents and various other files (anything where organized cooperation between […]

1984 mass surveillance: for a better world? as people might have noticed: privacy is survival critical when a state becomes tyranny. WARNING! violent and disturbing! but highly recommend to anyone to watch it – at least once – the “middle […]

https://theintercept.com/2020/04/03/zooms-encryption-is-not-suited-for-secrets-and-has-surprising-links-to-china-researchers-discover/ hm…. let me think where one has seen this before: TELEGRAM! Zoom’s service is “not suited for secrets” “The researchers also found that Zoom protects video and audio content using a home-grown encryption scheme, that there is a vulnerability […]

this really raises the question: the mobile (complete computer) phone (number) as key to everything? is it a good idea to rely on smart phones (that are essentially a very small laptop and a cellular modem) and phone numbers to […]

either: or: Richard’s hardware: Libre booted (BIOS with Linux overwritten) Thinkpad T400s running Trisquel GNU/Linux OS. (src: https://stallman.org/stallman-computing.html) LibreBooting the BIOS? Yes! It is possible to overwrite the BIOS of some Lenovo laptops (why only some?) with a minimal version […]

“first Benchmarks of the KX-6780A. China just developed it’s own x86 CPU with the performance of a Intel Core i7 2600 (4C/8T, 1,401 points) from 2011 the eight-core CPU-Z achieves 171 points in single-core and 1,396 points in Multi-Core comparison […]

now WITH SPICY COMMENTS X-D SecurityLab, [22.12.19 12:40] A Twitter user using the alias 08Tc3wBB created tfp0-an exploit that allows you to jailbreak the latest iPhone models with IOS 13.3. The functionality of the exploit has already been confirmed by […]

very very nice actually. visit the site: https://www.wieistmeineip.de/ 1) setup an ssh server 2) make sure u can login with the given user ssh -N -D 9090 -p22 user@yourserver.com now config firefox proxy like this: click “ok” then visit the […]

SecurityLab, [25.11.19 15:44] The Creator of the world wide web Tim Berners-Lee (Tim Berners-Lee) presented an action plan to protect the network from political manipulation, fake news, privacy violations and other harmful influences. Tim Berners-Lee: “control of information is hugely […]

“NSO Group had been exploiting a vulnerability in its software that allowed them to compromise a phone simply by targeting it with a voice call that planted malware on the device capable of silently stealing a victim’s messages. Now, in […]

about MAC address(es) not every switch has an IP assigned (if it has no web management interface, it does not need to) but it will have a MAC address. MAC address are per vendor and per device unique identifiers that […]

just reinstalled (of course with LVM + encrypted partition) the giada f300 (very fine machine unfortunately “they” stopped building it). screw Realtek, what one wants is should work out of the box with recent Linux kernels on Open Source drivers […]

Warum VoIP? Viele Anbieter von LTE z.B. bieten gar keine Festnetz-Telefonie an, sondern nur Internet. (das zum Teil (nicht günstiger) aber schneller (und schnurloser via Handy-Netz) als die Telekom (4G/LTE/UMTS)). D.h. man braucht dann noch einen weiteren Anbieter der die […]

don’t be evil “Google controls about 62% of mobile browsers, 69% of desktop browsers, and the operating systems on 71% of mobile devices in the world. 92% of internet searches go through Google and 73% of American adults use YouTube. […]

My Guide to free as possible do it yourself laptop, tested an worked on two x60s: 1. get a Lenovo x60s https://duckduckgo.com/?q=ebay+Lenovo+x60s 2. a fresh battery (they still produce replacement batteries) https://duckduckgo.com/?q=ebay+Lenovo+x60s+battery 3. get Atheros ar5b95 Wireless WiFi g42 cq42 […]

ONLY BUY FROM HARDWARE VENDORS THAT SUPPORT OPEN SOURCE! (release the sources for their drivers and documentation for their hardware) had to swap the Wifi card on both LibreBooted Lenovo x60s for Atheros ar5b95 Wireless WiFi WLAN Karte für HP […]

google’s security lab “project zero“ has made itself a name. (you can subscribe to their rss feed with thunderbird.) Posted by Ben Hawkes, Project Zero (team lead) (2019-05-15) Project Zero’s team mission is to “make zero-day hard”, i.e. to make […]

“The cost to companies from malware and “malicious insider”-related cyberattacks jumped +12 percent in 2018 and accounted for one-third of all cyberattack costs, according to new research published today by Accenture and the Ponemon Institute.” src: helpnetsecurity.com logical consequence: stop […]

The “NEW” SmartPhone: now with extra little tracking X-D ( i am not saying no tracking at all… because 3x cell phone towers can track you up to a precision of 10-100m) Mrs Merkel used the 6210 Nokia. But – […]

Anonymous on Facebook & Google & BigData: This will Change How You See Everything Age of Surveillance Capitalism Anonymous on Facebook & Google & BigData: This will Change How You See Everything Age of Surveillance Capitalism from LoveIsTheAnswer on Vimeo. […]

2017 erster Testlauf, jetzt werden alle Ärzte gezwungen den direkten Zugriff der Krankenkassen auf mehr Daten zu ermöglichen. VersichertenStamm­DatenManagement erst ab 2019 Pflicht eine weitere Auflage des Gesetzgebers für Ärzte – bis dann und dann das und das umsetzen – […]

more latest news on: https://puri.sm/news/ Progress has been quick and steady, and because we only use components that respect both our ethical values and your personal privacy and freedoms, you can imagine the layers of complexity that go into delivering […]

“India is considering a sweeping law that would give authorities access to some data from the hugely popular WhatsApp messaging service within its borders, and the U.S. has signaled it has not given up on its efforts to get inside […]

looks awesome 🙂 update: how to root with Magisk and install a firewall (scroll down and behave – slave of the digital dictatorship!) “Pretty much everything you do on the phone is data-mined by Google. The mic is on listening […]

i really like virtualbox and i think it has great potential, what i do not like SOOO much is the CIA’s involvement with Oracle. also: CTRL-Right / AltGr / (US: ALT key on the right side of SPACE) will release mouse/input […]