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Why privacy matters

Glenn Greenwald was one of the first reporters to see -- and write about -- the Edward Snowden files, with their revelations about the United States' extensive surveillance of private citizens. In this searing talk, Greenwald makes the case for why you need to care about privacy, even if you're "not doing anything you need to hide."

https://www.ted.com/talks/glenn_greenwald_why_privacy_matters/up-next

Popular Period Tracking Apps Share Your Sexual Health Data With Facebook #hackers http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TheHackersNews/~3/aDIIfWwG3pE/facebook-period-tracker-privacy.html

If you're interested in alternative social networks, you might want to check out Manyverse:

https://www.manyver.se

You can follow it at:

@manyver_se

It has no servers. Instead, connections happen peer-to-peer with user data stored on the user's own device.

It's still early days and tricky to use, but it's had lots of updates.

If server-based networks become compromised due to bad tech or bad laws, this could be an important "lifeboat".

#Manyverse #Scuttlebutt #Alternatives

New SIM Card Flaw Lets Hackers Hijack Any Phone Just By Sending SMS

"As a potential victim, it appears, there is nothing much a mobile device user can do if they are using a SIM card with S@T Browser technology deployed on it, except requesting for a replacement of their SIM that has proprietary security mechanisms in place."

https://thehackernews.com/2019/09/simjacker-mobile-hacking.html

That's a good definition...

2007 - The first fediverse project

2018 - Hello Pixelfed

12 years later, Canada is still pushing the fediverse forward 😉

#pixelfed #Laconica #fediverse #proudlyCanadian

RT @ItalyPaleAle@twitter.com

Richard Stallman is giving a talk at Microsoft campus.

If the world ends today, you know why.

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/ItalyPaleAle/status/1169354916281778176

Here we go again. :)

"A huge database of Facebook users’ phone numbers found online"

https://techcrunch.com/2019/09/04/facebook-phone-numbers-exposed/

#Facebook #Privacy

PinePhone begins shipping to developers this month ($150 Linux smartphone)
http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/127775#new

Want to view your browser fingerprint? Go and see how anonymous your browser is to online snooping.

https://amiunique.org

What *NIX camp are you in? Hopefully this will be big so please boost so we can get as many votes as possible