Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

Keytap2 - acoustic keyboard eavesdropping based on language n-gram frequencies:

https://github.com/ggerganov/kbd-audio/discussions/31

Want to take a COVID test at home? You must install an app to get the results: "Ellume’s test requires users to download an app on their smartphone to learn their test result. That app automatically sends data by Zip code to the cloud"

https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2020/12/15/covid-home-rapid-test/

Visa and Mastercard, acting together, are currently a chokepoint for online payments. This means their arbitrary policies often decide what you can read - or watch - online. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/12/visa-and-mastercard-are-trying-dictate-what-you-can-watch-pornhub

The only Christmas song that matters 🎄 🧔

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gLNqmDOa-Ww

(Probably NSFW...depending on where you work)

It's because most vendors think of customers as children that must be protected from themselves by removing as much agency and control as possible. This also makes customers completely dependent on them.

Have you noticed that a parent's default way to protect a child's security w/ tech (lock the device, tightly restrict what they can do, spy on everything) is exactly the same approach most vendors use to protect an adult customer's security?

Carbon dioxide emissions of Finland as a whole will go down by 7% and Sweden by 10% after a single steel company will introduce new technology.

Fantastic news.

https://teknologiateollisuus.fi/en/ajankohtaista/article/giant-investment-reduces-7-finlands-carbon-dioxide-emissions-fast-track

Exxon Thinks You're Stupid
https://earther.gizmodo.com/exxon-thinks-youre-stupid-1845885801 #climatechange #climatecrisis #leadonclimate

Most #ChildSexualAbuse gangs made up of white men, Home Office report says | #HomeOffice | The Guardian

There was a wave of high profile #media coverage of #SouthAsian gangs who got caught and they very much gave the impression that they were the major group guilty of the #crime

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2020/dec/15/child-sexual-abuse-gangs-white-men-home-office-report

#UK #ChildAbuse

Xinjiang: more than half a million forced to pick cotton, report suggests - https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/dec/15/xinjiang-china-more-than-half-a-million-forced-to-pick-cotton-report-finds #china's racism and slavery #uyghurgenocide

@natecull this is not entirely unrelated to the way that the entire tech industry keeps right on trucking along (after pausing to swear at one another for a bit) every time we come across something like spectre/meltdown or notice that intel has chucked an entire extra operating system backdoor in all of their hardware, instead of going "ok actually, shit, hold on it might turn out that even vaguely trustable computers are completely impossible, what are we going to do about this"

@natecull

> and still nobody in the C-suites have figured out that there is no way for cloud compute nodes to ever be secure from sufficiently centralised prying eyes

i mean, look, i think everybody who's got sort of a basic grasp of what computers are and has thought about it for ~20 minutes is aware of this, which can't rule out the *entirety* of the executive class. a good chunk of them are perfectly aware of it. what's nearly universal is the tacit agreement to pretend it doesn't matter.

You guys know I like to bash Go, but... FUCK!

"The Go security team has determined that the root causes of the vulnerabilities cannot be reliably addressed."

Ok, your language design has some serious flaw that can't be fixed, so they are basically saying "Yup, a core library is going to be vulnerable for a long time".

Also, this is going since August 2020, according to the related post. Project Zero works way fast (30 days) to disclose issues on every other project, but on a project from their own company, 4 months.

Google surely cares about the well-being of the internet, sure.

Link: https://mattermost.com/blog/coordinated-disclosure-go-xml-vulnerabilities/

I've never thought about this before, but it seems like he might have a point here...

RT @eff: Congress can't trump your right to criticize elected officials. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/12/its-not-section-230-president-trump-hates-its-first-amendment

Hey Siri, if Section 230 is a handout to Big Tech, why do Big Tech companies keep endorsing weakening it? https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/11/dont-blame-section-230-big-techs-failures-blame-big-tech

If this sounds like you, apply before 10 January 2021. ✍️

#daretocare #wearefairphone #changeisinyourhands

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We're looking for a new Software Engineer at @Fairphone@twitter.com in my team. We are working on making our phones last longer from a software perspective #makeimpact #tech4sustainability 🙌 https://fairphone.homerun.co/android-platform-engineer

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