Adam @adam@librem.one

Consent Matters: When Tech Shares Your Secrets Without Your Permission

https://puri.sm/posts/consent-matters-when-tech-shares-your-secrets-without-your-permission/

I wrote a piece on the @purism blog on why consent is critical for #privacy, the tech industry's failure to get consent, and as a result how "Privacy has become the tattoo removal of the information age". https://puri.sm/posts/consent-matters-when-tech-shares-your-secrets-without-your-permission/

“@DuckDuckGo is a poster child for a future in which companies stand with their users and still make money...They counter the assumption that we’ve all been socialized to accept: that it is normal to hand over all your information." - EFF's @jenuhhveev https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/15/technology/duckduckgo-private-search.html

you can totally just tell your browser to lie about your current location!

in firefox, visit about:config and set geo.wifi.uri to a json blob containing whatever location you want to report

example: data:application/json,{"location": {"lat": 40.1234, "lng": -60.4321}, "accuracy": 27000.0}

yep. that is definitely where we live.

enjoy that delicious, definitely-not-fake data, Nosy Website!

The #Zoom vulnerability timeline took from from "everybody raves about this and I wish my company used it" to "I wouldn't touch this with a 10 foot pole" in about 5 seconds.

9 Open Source Password Managers to Secure Yourself With https://fosspost.org/lists/open-source-password-managers

Photography and Linux
Hollywood has begun to embrace open source. #FOSS photography software, like Linux itself, is quietly making in-roads in the professional photo industry. https://www.linuxjournal.com/content/photography-and-linux

#photography #photographers

This is still the most useful #css website ever written https://learnlayout.com/

Can I buy a phone that doesn’t use anything from Google or Apple? #privacy #libremone #librem5

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/askjack/2019/jul/04/can-i-buy-a-phone-that-does-not-use-anything-from-google-or-apple?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Librem_Social

If the users don't control the program, the program controls the users. Richard Stallman

#citation, #motivation, #inspiration

@nextcloud Oh good! Is there a pre-configured SD card image available to download, burn, and plug in?

Friendly reminder to send to the non-believers, in a simple to understand fashion

You can't opt-out of Google tracking your phone - Sen. Josh Hawley owns Google - PeerTube on Mastodon.host https://peertube.mastodon.host/videos/watch/f087a756-8500-4246-b863-57d00af45486

#gafam #google #privacy #tracking #surveillancecapitalism #optout #peertube

Lots of users employ password managers to protect their passwords - if you want to keep the passwords self-hosted, check out the options for #Nextcloud https://apps.nextcloud.com/?search=password+manage

Using Gmail confidential mode is neither secure nor private. As long as Google can read your emails, its privacy promises will always be disingenuous. Here’s why Gmail’s confidential mode isn’t actually confidential: https://protonmail.com/blog/gmail-confidential-mode-security-privacy/

Linux Mint vs Windows 10 Speed Test [Infographic] https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2019/06/linux-mint-vs-windows-speed-test-infographic

I’ll keep beating this drum: do *not* use smart TVs. Don’t connect them to the Internet. Use them *only* as dumb display devices for other computers. Buy an Apple TV or a Roku or a Fire if you want that kind of functionality, but *do not* use the buggy, exploitable spyware built into a “smart” TV.

Samsung tells homes to virus-check TVs https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-48664251