.@torproject protects people facing real threats to their liberty, autonomy, and lives. All privacy-by-design technologies can be used by criminals. Arguments against Tor that merely highlight criminal activity have been levied against the Internet in general, esp. by the worst dictators.
This last week all Firefox addons were accidentally disabled due to issues in Mozilla certs. Many security measures out there require full, unrevokable trust in the vendor for them to work and this is a great example of the risks with that approach. Imagine if that ever happened with SecureBoot... #infosec
The House has voted to restore #netneutrality. Tell your Senator to vote for the Save the Internet Act (S. 682)! https://act.eff.org/action/tell-the-senate-to-restore-full-net-neutrality-protections
How We Designed the Librem 5 Dev Kit with 100% Free Software
https://puri.sm/posts/how-we-designed-the-librem-5-dev-kit-with-100-free-software/
@kyle
They call me GNU thug
I got a license to debug
On the forbidden fruit
Known as pureboot
You don’t hear the curses
If you’ve got a special purpose
The crew, T-bone n’ Kyle
Watching the code compile
Platforms must address one of the root causes behind disinformation’s spread online: the algorithm. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/05/censorship-cant-be-only-answer-disinformation-online
We produced guides that show how to minimise targeted ads on ⬇⬇
#facebook / #instagram
https://privacyinternational.org/explainer/2827/facebook
https://privacyinternational.org/explainer/2828/instagram-owned-facebook
#twitter
https://privacyinternational.org/explainer/2829/twitter
#google / #youtube
https://privacyinternational.org/explainer/2826/google-youtube
Who next? tell us: saran@privacyinternational.org https://twitter.com/privacyint/status/1123927869099364352/photo/1
@thierrycazorla1 Awesome picture of Francois! 😃
NEWS! 🤩 today we're announcing a new area of focus at PI ✨
Building on our ~30yrs fighting gov spying & corporate exploitation of data we will be further investigating the role tech plays in facilitating & hindering participation in civic society
https://privacyinternational.org/strategic-areas/democracy-and-dissent https://twitter.com/privacyint/status/1123528649305677824/photo/1
Today I chose to put my money where my mouth is and support personal freedom and privacy by joining the @purism crowd on Librem One. Thanks for the effort and let's make the world a better place!
We have some exciting news! The team at Purism are thrilled to announce the launch of Librem One https://librem.one Private and secure email, chat, social and VPN. #LibremOne
Our Primary account is now https://social.librem.one/@purism
Hi. We’d like to present Librem One.
A Complete PureBoot Demo and More Progress!
https://puri.sm/posts/complete-pureboot-demo-and-more-progress/
This is arguably even more impactful than NIST's upgraded password policy recommendations, because far too many in IT ignore modern #infosec thought on password policy (among other things) and just apply the Microsoft recs. #defaultsmatter https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2019/04/password1-password2-password-3-no-more-microsoft-drops-password-expiration-rec/
Carbon based life form with predilection for binary data. :emacs: