Apple Has No Tolerance For Webcam Covers
"When we looked into how to solve the problem of webcam security, we opted for a simple but powerful approach in the form of hardware kill switches. With hardware kill switches, you can completely remove power from the webcam and microphone just by flipping a switch."
https://puri.sm/posts/apple-has-no-tolerance-for-webcam-covers/
RT @gael_duval@twitter.com
If you want get some private information about anyone who has a Google account, you may check this little tool :
I think Google users should know this.
https://github.com/mxrch/ghunt
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/gael_duval/status/1314256017505636352
Every user of Google, Facebook, ... should absolutely watch #TheSocialDilemma
It makes people understand how those services are designed with the ultimate goal to sell your brain time at the highest price.
Show it to Children, show it to Friends!
Desktop and Phone Convergence
https://puri.sm/posts/desktop-and-phone-convergence/
"The #librem5 is more than a phone, it’s a full desktop computer in your pocket designed to be just as mobile as you are."
We pay to Steam, Netflix, Amazon prime, Spotify. But not to Wikipedia, Archive.org, Librivox, Project Gutenberg, for our favourite Linux distro.
The huge asymmetry between corporate and community has not emerged naturally. It is a product of our choices of not supporting community oriented projects.
The short conveniences vs the long-term good. We always chose the former.
In face of surveillance capitalism, we must and must change.
GPS Tuning the Librem 5 Hardware
"Society is getting pretty used to the idea that the data and applications on phones are completely controlled by large corporations. Purism is working hard to change that with the Librem 5."
“no amount of charity in spending such fortunes can compensate in any way for the misconduct in acquiring them”.
Roosevelt on #philanthropists
Without a goal, any direction is the right direction.
Makes life easier, but will it make it better?
#thoughts