moved (Chris Vogel) @chrichri@librem.one

Anfrage an unser #Einwohnermeldeamt wg. "fristgerechte Anmeldung #AuPair"

Sehr geehrte Damen und Herren,

laut BMG §17 Abs.1 ist unser Au-Pair verpflichtet sich innerhalb von zwei Wochen anzumelden.

Darüberhinaus benötigen wir für die Eröffnung eines Kontos für unser Au-Pair eine #Meldebestätigung.

In Ihrer Terminvergabe ist der früheste freie Termin derzeit Mitte August.

Wir können so die #Frist für die Anmeldung nicht einhalten.

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We don’t talk about it a lot, but VPNs are entirely based on trust. As a consumer, you have no idea which company will best protect your privacy.

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2021/06/vpns-and-trust.html

The code these services people upload to could change without their knowing any moment.

There is just no incentive for these services to remove other exif tags reliably.

For someone who offers an app that is supposed to remove exif tags as its only function the incentive to reach this goal is high.

#imagepipe #exiftool

"Spahn betonte: Klimaschutz sei Gesundheitsschutz. In seinem Ressort gehe es aber primär um die Anpassung an den Klimawandel."

Ohne Worte.

https://www.tagesschau.de/inland/spahn-hitze-sommer-101.html

It dodges the central issue, namely ‘Who determines “need-to-know” and how?’

Second, it mixes statements at different levels (organizational approval of a policy should logically not be part of the policy itself).

Third, there is a mechanism but it’s implied rather than explicit: ‘staff shall obey

(Ross Anderson, "#SecurityEngineering — Third Edition", PDF-Preview 2020-05-16)

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Megacorp Inc security policy 1. This policy is approved by Management.
2. All staff shall obey this security policy.
3. Data shall be available only to those with a “need-to-know”.
4. All breaches of this policy shall be reported at once to [Security. Figure 9.1 – typical corporate policy language]

This sort of language is common, but useless – at least to the security engineer.

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All that smart meters have achieved in Britain is to put a few tens of thousands of meter readers out of work, at a cost to the bill payer of £20 billion. Ontario was the same, but with one less trailing zero (Ross Anderson, "#SecurityEngineering — Third Edition", PDF-Preview 2020-05-16)

Started to support #noyb.eu, because I visited https://www.sueddeutsche.de/. I darely wish that the website is one of the first 500 to get mail from noyb concerning their #cookie banner.

#CookieBannerTerror or #WeComply ?

https://noyb.eu/en/noyb-aims-end-cookie-banner-terror-and-issues-more-500-gdpr-complaints
https://wecomply.noyb.eu/de/app/faq

"...notoriously insecure Zoom videoconferencing system..."

(Ross Anderson, "#SecurityEngineering — Third Edition", PDF-Preview 2020-05-16)

"Face-to-face trust establishment is an ancient part of being human; replacing it with overarching surveillance may be convenient for taxi drivers (whose profession was historically one of the most dangerous) but can cause deep collateral damage. The less we evaluate others, the less good we may become at it."

https://www.lightbluetouchpaper.org/2021/06/03/security-and-human-behaviour-2021/

#trust #technocracy

"The asymmetries of knowledge get worse; even in medieval times the priest, who knew people’s sins and secret desires, was visible and in a single place."

https://www.lightbluetouchpaper.org/2021/06/03/security-and-human-behaviour-2021/

#privacy #surveillance

When you think about it, this is political #language. A #politician’s job is to resolve the tensions in society, and this often requires vague language on which different factions can project their own wishes (Ross Anderson, "#SecurityEngineering — Third Edition", PDF-Preview 2020-05-16)

In the case of drivers, people adjust their #driving behaviour to keep their #risk exposure at the level with which they’re comfortable. This also explains why mandatory seat-belt laws tend not to save lives overall, merely to move fatalities from vehicle occupants to #pedestrians and #cyclists (Ross Anderson, "#SecurityEngineering — Third Edition", PDF-Preview 2020-05-16)

Gut einen Monat später hat die Pumpe der Maschine entgültig ihren Dienst versagt. Brummt noch, aber kein Druck mehr.

Die neue Pumpe lag schon in der Schublade und nach dem Einbau läuft die Maschine deutlich leiser und es gibt wieder #Espresso :).