3D-Printed USB Dead Man Switch (Prototype Demo) (www.buskill.in)
Today we’re ecstatic to publish our first demo showing a homemade BusKill Cable (in the prototype 3D-printed case) triggering a lockscreen....
A Monster Allowed to Grow Up (thememoryhole.substack.com)
The Roots of the Surveillance State
Automattic buys Beeper for $125MM, launches closed-source "privacy" app (techcrunch.com)
Curious how none of the coverage of this purchase mention that the app isn’t open-source, which makes all of their claims of “end-to-end encryption” worthless...
Secure Operating Systems (Microkernels seems to be the future)
cross-posted from: sh.itjust.works/post/17506000...
Telegram’s peer-to-peer SMS login service is a privacy nightmare (techcrunch.com)
Twitter front-end Nitter dies as Musk wins war against third-party services (arstechnica.com)
Skiff is shutting down (skiff.com)
As we begin to shift focus to our shared efforts with Notion, we will be closing down Skiff’s product suite after a 6-month sunset period
Your Slack DMs aren’t as private as you think - Vox (www.vox.com)
Pocket Link
U.S., Dozens of Rogue California Police Agencies Still Sharing Driver Locations with Anti-Abortion States (www.eff.org)
The EFF and ACLU letter lists 35 specific police agencies which either have informed the civil liberties organizations that they plan to keep sharing ALPR information with out-of-state law enforcement, or have failed to confirm their compliance with the law in response to inquiries by the organizations....
FBI Overstepped Authority in Warrantless Search of Hundreds of Safe Deposit Boxes, Court Rules (theintercept.com)
Murena (the /e/ Foundation brand) introduces Murena Mobile - a privacy-focused mobile plan (murena.com)
they’re not mentioning how exactly is it privacy focused, sadly. still, perhaps worth looking into.
I am just curious how zero-width unicode is displayed on Lemmy posts. ("stenography")
Curtains forcing their will against the wind, children sleep,...
Riot Games Now Requires Kernel-Level Anti-Cheat Software for League of Legends, Following Valorant's Implementation (tuta.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/10958052...
Maker Naomi Wu is Silenced by Chinese Authorities (And Why I Blame Elon Musk) (skepchick.org)
FTC bans X-Mode from selling phone location data, and orders firm to delete collected data (techcrunch.com)
LAPD wants to remotely access 10,000 public and private security cameras (boingboing.net)
Google settles $5 billion privacy lawsuit over tracking people using 'incognito mode' (apnews.com)
A year of surveillance in France: a short satirical tale by La Quadrature du Net (video.lqdn.fr)
Fighting against surveillance has never been easy. But in the past year it has been specially tough in France. This talk is about shedding light on the many situations where the French State used surveillance to increase repression, mainly against activists, during the last months. Not to despair of this, but willing to provide...
Indian journalists targeted by Israeli spyware again: What do we know? (www.aljazeera.com)
This looks like a honeypot, doesn't it? (archive.is)
A Palestinian student deleted her social media. Israel revoked her permit (www.972mag.com)
Unblocking User Freedom: the right to use adblockers - FSFE (fsfe.org)
Trump Allies Are Giddy About House Intelligence Committee's Surveillance Bill (theintercept.com)
Activists are voicing concerns over Atlanta’s proposed ski-mask ban (itsgoingdown.org)
Olvid - Secure Messaging (olvid.io)
