Kyle Rankin @kyle@librem.one
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Technical author, FOSS advocate, public speaker, Linux security & infrastructure geek, author of The Best of Hack and /: Linux Admin Crash Course, Linux Hardening in Hostile Networks and many other books, ex-Linux Journal columnist.
Joined Apr 2019
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'Master Face': Researchers Say They've Found a Wildly Successful Bypass for Face Recognition Tech
https://gizmodo.com/master-face-researchers-say-theyve-found-a-wildly-succ-1847420710 #privacy #security #bigtech #purism
Every time I work with Fedora's anaconda installer, Baby Got Back goes through my head. Every. Time.
If I were still writing for Linux Journal (or had an equivalent outlet today), I'd write a long form piece on why years ago, after a successful career as a sysadmin, I pivoted my career over to security. https://s.usenix.org/acton/media/2452/lisa-community-announcement
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Thank you, @amosbatto for believing in our mission 😎
"Purism is laying the foundation for future phones that are designed to avoid planned obsolescence and the monetization of users’ personal data, plus empower people so that they control the technology rather than letting the technology control them."
https://amosbbatto.wordpress.com/2021/07/30/unboxing-the-librem-5-usa/
Amazon will pay you $10 to join their palm pilot. You really have to hand it to them... #privacy
https://techcrunch.com/2021/08/02/amazon-credit-palm-biometrics/
Sending some love out to https://covid.com in what must have been a really tough year and a half.
I wrote apps last Tuesday
For my child named Susie
Parent control for all the kids around
We started to make some money
Then they Sherlocked me it's not funny
They wrote Screen Time and then they took us down
We have to jailbreak now, we have to jailbreak now
I told Apple right to its face
We didn't like to see this place
We have to jailbreak now
He wrote a game for poker
Pinochle, Whist and Euchre
But that Fortnite was his greatest game
Now he's downtown in court
Debating about his port
The judge done said that Apple's doing fine
He has to jailbreak now, he has to jailbreak now
I told him once or twice
That those app store rules aren't fair or nice
He has to jailbreak now
(With respect and apologies to the late, great Jimmie Rodgers)
I had a friend named Developer Jess
Who used to code for iOS
He thought he was the smartest guy in town
But I found out last Monday
His app got locked out Sunday
Compete with Apple and they'll take you down
He has to jailbreak now, he has to jailbreak now
I told him once or twice
That those app store rules aren't fair or nice
He has to jailbreak now
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Tune in to our new episode! @katherined, @dsearls talk to @kyle about NSO group and Pegasus, Stingrays and cars, and surveilling priests.
Visit the following link for full episode - https://www.reality2cast.com/80
#NSO #Pegasus #MVT #Stingray #Surveillance #OpenSource #Privacy #Technology #Podcast #newEpisode
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Notifications are coming to #phosh's lockscreen. Also in progress is different haptic/led feedback depending on the set notification category. The #phosh/#feedbackd side is mostly there and it works with #libnotify but needs changes in #glib to work with #GApplication too.
I really enjoyed chatting with @saronyitbarek and @joshpuetz for the #DevNews podcast this week. We talked about phone security, Freedom Phone, app store duopoly, and why I think modern phones are more like a nursing home than a walled garden. https://dev.to/devteam/activision-blizzard-discrimination-and-harassment-suit-the-incredible-gail-com-more-on-devnews-53j0
USB-C negotiation is like meeting a friend you don't know too well, and you awkwardly try to figure out whether to hug, shake hands, or fist bump, and just end up waving at each other.
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If you're interested in GNOME Mobile development, adaptive apps, and the future of the GNOME platform join our virtual Q&A later this week!
We'll have many of the core people behind various pieces of the stack, including @agx, @KekunPlazas, @exalm, @dos, and myself.
Thursday, July 29
14:00 UTC
meet.gnome.org/ale-z3p-pjq-kkn
Razor update: this Stahly is now my favorite razor even over my vintage Fat Boy and my unbranded German travel razor. Consistently smooth shaves every time.
Imagine if you could file a digital restraining order against tech companies. If a creepy person follows you any time you leave your house, looks through your mail, and watches you from the street whenever you're at home, you can legally make them stop. Why not companies?
"The Federal Trade Commission unanimously voted Wednesday to pursue policies that will make it easier for people to repair their own things." https://www.vice.com/en/article/k78xbn/ftc-formally-adopts-right-to-repair-platform
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The Nightmare of Our Snooping Phones
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/21/technology/phones-location-data.html #privacy #security #purism #librem5
"Anonymized" location data, isn't. Catholic priest resigns after legally-obtained Grindr app data from a broker correlated location data with his and relatives' homes, his place of work, and gay bars. #privacy https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/07/catholic-priest-quits-after-anonymized-data-revealed-alleged-use-of-grindr/
I dislike when companies capitalize on incidents, so I usually publish my thoughts months later to avoid even the appearance. But folks asked us how @purism products fare against a Pegasus-like attack so I wrote about our overall spyware defense. https://puri.sm/posts/defending-against-spyware-like-pegasus/
- Personal Site
- https://kylerank.in
- Personal Bibliography
- https://kylerank.in/writing.html
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Technical author, FOSS advocate, public speaker, Linux security & infrastructure geek, author of The Best of Hack and /: Linux Admin Crash Course, Linux Hardening in Hostile Networks and many other books, ex-Linux Journal columnist.
Joined Apr 2019
