Hans-Christoph Steiner @eighthave@librem.one
Joined Aug 2019
“As Indonesia deliberately tries to create ethnic conflict in West Papua with militia, I must stress that for West Papuans our enemy is not the Indonesian people. Our enemy is only the system of colonisation. We will not be provoked. Our peaceful struggle is for a referendum.”
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After nearly two decades, it's time to put an end to the NSA's Call Detail Records program. https://act.eff.org/action/end-the-nsa-s-call-detail-records-program-once-and-for-all
There are two semi-related questions that have been repeatedly popping up in my head for the past couple years: 1) now that we know how to do real #SecureMessaging, are we sure we want a world where wiretapping isn't possible? 2) now that we know how to privately track usage without #tracking people, are we sure we want to encourage software development based on tracking data? #privacy
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"Data is not gold.
Data is more like oil. And we know what happens when a tanker sinks: the sea all over it gets polluted. We need to be extremely careful how we handle data."
Eric Leandri, founder & CEO of Qwant
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We're very happy to be a partner of the HTC EXODUS and thus to be the default search engine on it.
It's together that we can make progress in terms of privacy. Join the movement!
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#Firefox starts blocking third-party cookies by default
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Hong Kong Police arrested protesters after accessing full details of injured protesters through Hospital Authority's "backdoor"
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Goodbye, Chrome: Google’s web browser has become spy software
Our latest privacy experiment found Chrome ushered more than 11,000 tracker cookies into our browser — in a single week. Here’s why Firefox is better.
#privacy #google #firefox #chrome #spy #encryption #tracker #cookies #surveillance
I've been researching #SecureMessaging for a decade and I've found #forensics always quite informative. as with any problem with digital media, there is software to make it easier
https://articles.forensicfocus.com/2019/07/01/case-study-extracting-and-analyzing-messenger-data-with-oxygen-forensic-detective/
#Statistics are used to gain public approval and even to manipulate us, so it is important to know how reality can be different from intuition: "An Explainer on the Base Rate Fallacy and PNR"
https://epicenter.works/content/an-explainer-on-the-base-rate-fallacy-and-pnr
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"Until appropriate safeguards are in place, we need a moratorium on biometric technology that identifies individuals" https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-02514-7
#FacialRecognition #biometrics #privacy
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A few aspects of Google’s Privacy Sandbox are good ideas. But most would be privacy disasters. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/08/dont-play-googles-privacy-sandbox-1
Reading about how #Vivaldi browser aims to remove unique IDs when counting users makes me think about how #fdroid hasn't been tracking users from the beginning, and stopped tracking downloads years ago, and seems to only have become more popular. Makes me think that #FreeSoftware developed by community motivated by doing the right thing is a better way than a #startup or being driven by #tracking. Maybe improving the #privacy of tracking is missing the point.
https://vivaldi.com/blog/how-we-count-our-users/
Don’t Let Encrypted Messaging Become a Hollow Promise | Electronic Frontier Foundation
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/07/dont-let-encrypted-messaging-become-hollow-promise
Don’t Let Encrypted Messaging Become a Hollow Promise
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/07/dont-let-encrypted-messaging-become-hollow-promise #privacy #e2e
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#HTTP #FeaturePolicy is a new way for websites to practice #LeastAuthority and build trust with users by disabling access to #browser APIs that are not used. Browsers already include it but the spec isn't final: it is missing a way to set the default to none. Join the discussion here https://github.com/w3c/webappsec-feature-policy/issues/189 #w3c
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circa 1980. "And we concluded that one excellent way to protect people was to collect less information about them."
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GitHub has added Liberapay to the funding platforms supported in the `FUNDING.yml` file: https://github.blog/changelog/2019-06-20-new-funding-platforms/
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When looking at browser #privacy, #Firefox and #TorBrowser continue to make important improvements while #Google #Chrome continues to make excuses
https://freedom-to-tinker.com/2019/08/23/deconstructing-googles-excuses-on-tracking-protection/
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Joined Aug 2019
