Cypherpunk @cypherpunk@mastodon.social

"Winston's job was to rectify the original figures by making them agree with the later ones. [...] This process of continuous alteration was applied not only to newspapers, but to books, periodicals, pamphlets, posters, leaflets, films, sound-tracks, cartoons, photographs -- to every kind of literature or documentation which might conceivably hold any political or ideological significance."

https://fuckoffgoogle.de/wp-content/uploads/DontBeEvil/Fake%20News/Twiddler%20Quick%20Start%20Guide%20-%20Superroot.pdf

(leaked internal guide: how to alter search results)

#1984 #FuckOffGoogle

The Power Of #Decentralization (#TPOD). #Justhanks @cypherpunk!

Web server security – Thanks for voting: https://mastodon.at/@infosechandbook/102616778663782103

Due to the feedback, we will revise our Web server security series (https://infosec-handbook.eu/as-wss/) once again, adding more guidance for nginx users. This won't be a big deal as we are using nginx.

We will also look at Caddy since it looks very straightforward, and could be an alternative for some use cases.

#caddy #nginx #apache #infosec #security #webserversecurity #cybersecurity

The Death of SKS PGP Keyservers, and How First Look Media is Handling It https://code.firstlook.media/the-death-of-sks-pgp-keyservers-and-how-first-look-media-is-handling-it

Excellent post Micah and glad to see that your Mastodon account is not dead :)

By the way which e-mail client do FLM employees use to handle PGP encrypted e-mail? Enigmail? If so I was wondering if you did try out Autocrypt extension by the same people that created Hagrid: https://addons.thunderbird.net/en-US/thunderbird/addon/autocrypt/

#Conversations 3.0 Roadmap
#xmpp #voip

If you use Firefox or Chrome, we developed an easy way you can help people bypass censorship.

Our Snowflake extension turns your browser into a proxy that connects Tor users in censored regions to the Tor network. https://snowflake.torproject.org/

"#Google: #ArtificialIntelligence Is For A “fair & equitable” State"

Examples that show #MachineLearning Fairness in action. #FuckOffGoogle

Version 0.1908.14-beta just released as a follow-up from two days ago:

🔷 Improve how connections are scheduled
🔷 Improve the rendering and ordering in the connections tab
🔷 Reduce the size of this app by 1.6MB

https://gitlab.com/staltz/manyverse/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md#0190814-beta

Google Discloses 20-Year-Old Unpatched Flaw Affecting All Versions of Windows https://thehackernews.com/2019/08/ctfmon-windows-vulnerabilities.html

Do you want to help translate the Fediverse into your language? 🌍

Even translating one phrase helps 👍

Friendica
https://www.transifex.com/Friendica/friendica/

Funkwhale
https://docs.funkwhale.audio/translators.html

Hubzilla
https://www.transifex.com/Friendica/hubzilla/

Mastodon
https://crowdin.com/project/mastodon

PeerTube
https://github.com/Chocobozzz/PeerTube/blob/develop/support/doc/translation.md

Plume
https://docs.joinplu.me/contribute/translations/

Write Freely
https://poeditor.com/join/project/TIZ6HFRFdE

#Fediverse #Localisation #Internationalisation #l10n #i18n #FLOSS #FOSS

Local Privilege Escalation on Dell machines running Windows https://d4stiny.github.io/Local-Privilege-Escalation-on-most-Dell-computers/

Compromised speakers can be forced to play tones so loud that the speakers start to melt http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/DOdN9wqhrtA/bleeding-eardrums.html #boingboing #acoustic_hacking #infosec #malware #security #sound

My Recommended Services

Messenger: #Signal #Wire
Email: #ProtonMail #Tutanota
Search Engines: #DuckDuckGo #Qwant #Startpage
VPN: #ProtonVPN #NordVPN
Password Managers: #Bitwarden #KeePass
Browser: #Firefox #Brave #TorBrowser
SNS: #Mastodon
Cloud Storage: #Nextcloud #MEGA
Note: #StandardNotes
Encryption Software: #VeraCrypt #Cryptomator
Send File: #FirefoxSend
File Sync: #Syncthing

#Privacy #Security

Nmap 7.80 available:

https://seclists.org/nmap-announce/2019/0

– 11 new NSE (Nmap Scripting Engine) scripts
– several new libraries are in use now
– addresses several security vulnerabilities

#nmap #security #scan #infosec #cybersecurity #nse #nmap780

Government officials blocked his website, so he went over their heads https://www.cnet.com/videos/government-officials-blocked-his-website-so-he-went-over-their-heads/

Open call for #securityaudit of a skunkworks project -- think #ssh from an alternate, #postquantum universe. Written in #golang.
https://gogs.blitter.com/RLabs/hkexsh

#admin #security #kyber #newhope

Problems with systemd, part 8942nd: somehow `systemctl disable syslog.socket; systemctl daemon-reload` does not actually disable the socket.