Hans-Christoph Steiner @eighthave@librem.one
Joined Aug 2019
Another bit for the annals of #ReproducibleBuilds: the new TorServices app is reproducible across a couple machines. It uses a reproducible libtor.so binary from a Maven Central artifact, which is pinned by SHA-256 using Gradle Dependency Verification. I built TorServices on yet another box, and this time, it had diffs in the libtor.so. WTF, how is that possible? It just had to copy the libtor.so from AAR to APK. I guess it could have been a glitch in that computer, or hacked test build box.
Just finishing up the first release of a new #Tor provider app called TorServices. It is meant as a stripped down, Android-native system service. It is built on the new Android-native TorService, which can also be embedded into apps.
Get nightly builds here:
https://gitlab.com/guardianproject/torservices-nightly
The core service is available at https://gitlab.com/guardianproject/tor-android
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RT @ReclaimYourFace@twitter.com
New AI law proposal agrees with the risks and harms of biometric mass surveillance but *fails* to properly ban it.
Companies and authorities aren't prohibited from these practices and the law enforcement ban has way too many exceptions. 🤦
Our thoughts: https://reclaimyourface.eu/european-commission-proposal-new-ai-regulation-fighting-ban-biometric-mass-surveillance/
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/ReclaimYourFace/status/1384903986260725760
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15,000 call on FTC to protect the Right to Repair.
If you own it, you should be able to repair it. https://uspirg.org/news/usp/more-15000-call-ftc-action-right-repair
Looks like the UK has also exported basically zero vaccine.
It looks like there is a lot of wiggle room in these exceptions: https://developer.android.com/training/package-visibility/automatic
I just thought of a potential limitation of #Android's new QUERY_ALL_PACKAGES permission that might make it almost pointless: apps can create an Intent and query for which apps respond to that Intent.
It seems like with a small set of Intents, you could effectively query for the vast majority of the apps. Can anyone confirm this?
If so, it seems like they've created the INTERNET permission again, as in a permission that only restricts good actors, and bad actors can easily circumvent it.
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The Tor Project is hiring for two positions: a Systems Administrator and a Browser Developer. Share these opportunities with your networks:
https://www.torproject.org/about/jobs/
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Clearview AI, the facial recognition company that built a database of 3 billion+ harvested images, wouldn't exist "w/out Facebook, YouTube & Twitter."
@zittrain & @john_bowers_ on how the start-up exploited vulnerabilities & disregarded privacy: https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2020/04/14/tech-start-up-is-using-photos-id-you-big-tech-could-have-stopped-them/
Original tweet : https://twitter.com/DuckDuckGo/status/1384866264179433473
If you think the #EU #Vaccination rates are "bad", consider that the US banned vaccine exports, while the EU is exporting half of what it produces. The rest of the world matters too, even if you look at it from a point of view of self-interest.
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Big Tech is seeding watered-down “privacy” legislation in states. 14 of 20 proposed state privacy bills were built upon the same framework as a Microsoft and Amazon-supported bill in Virginia—or were even weaker, reports @toddfeathers in @themarkup https://themarkup.org/privacy/2021/04/15/big-tech-is-pushing-states-to-pass-privacy-laws-and-yes-you-should-be-suspicious
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“Once you look at the states, and you look at how they behave [in #Assange case], it’s absolutely clear: when they receive evidence for war crimes, they don’t prosecute anybody, they only prosecute the person who has given the evidence. That is not what the rule of law in constitutional democracy looks like, that is what a dictatorship looks like”
This guy is bloody fkn UN rapporteur, eminent doctor in law, not some random raving lunatic...
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RT @ReclaimYourFace@twitter.com
🎉BREAKING!
61 MEPs from different political groups just asked the EU to ban biometric mass surveillance, days before @EU_Commission@twitter.com proposes new laws on AI.
https://reclaimyourface.eu/61-meps-urge-eu-ban-biometric-mass-surveillance/
#ReclaimYourFace #BanThisBS #ArtificialIntelligence #Biometrics #MassSurveillance
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/ReclaimYourFace/status/1383024311192186880
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Own a digital device? Big Tech abuses copyright law to block you (and potential competitors and innovators) from tinkering with their products—even the ones you pay for. EFF’s @caragagliano and @mitchstoltz will testify that tech users deserve better. https://www.eff.org/press/releases/video-hearings-tuesday-and-wednesday-eff-will-tell-copyright-office-consumers-should
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Die EU-Kommission hält unbeirrt an ihren Plänen zur Abschwächung der Kryptografie (Ende-zu-Ende Verschlüsselung) fest! Nichts an diesem brandgefährlichen Plan ist zu Ende gedacht und es läuft leider auf anlasslose Massenüberwachung für alle hinaus. https://www.derstandard.at/story/2000125893583/massenueberwachung-gegen-kindesmissbrauch-eu-will-verschluesselung-aushebeln
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We need 1 million signatures to force the European Commission to listen - will yours be the next one? Join us #ReclaimYourFace
https://privacyinternational.org/call-action/4414/sign-ban-biometric-mass-surveillance
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Another day, more privacy washing from Google.
Google Play Store is labeling apps as "Teacher approved", which is meant to be read as "kid-safe", but advocacy groups have filed an FTC complaint for deceptive labeling, as some of these apps violate COPPA.
Original tweet : https://twitter.com/DuckDuckGo/status/1383416710619795459
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Don't be fooled: Google's latest announcement on third-party cookies doesn't mean it will stop tracking you. We’ve built a new site to tell you whether or not you are a test subject in Google’s latest tracking experiment: https://amifloced.org/
I should also add that food factories are not necessarily high impact on the environment, if utilized correctly. If an organic food factory replaced a much larger piece of farmland, and that land was returned to an entirely natural state, that will be beneficial. Instead, it is almost always used to grow off-season foods, like strawberries in Spring and Fall. That means it is just increasing negative impacts on the ecosystem.
After ~15 years of organizing video conferences in many contexts, I've noticed that each platform represents a specific culture. The culture is defined by how the software expects people to interact, how the various powers are granted, and how the moderation capabilities are managed. #Zoom #Webex are a corporate meeting, #Jitsi is an informal meeting space, #Skype is 1990s IM merged with desk phones, #Signal is SMS/mobile calls, #WhatsApp is 1990s IM merged with SMS/mobile calls.
Joined Aug 2019
