Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

Turned this week's rant about ongoing sloppy security at Experian into a blog post. Thanks to everyone here who helped with the research.

It's Still Easy for Anyone to Become You at Experian

In the summer of 2022, KrebsOnSecurity documented the plight of several readers who had their accounts at big-three consumer credit reporting bureau Experian hijacked after identity thieves simply re-registered the accounts using a different email address. Sixteen months later, Experian clearly has not addressed this gaping lack of security. I know that because my account at Experian was recently hijacked, and the only way I could recover access was by recreating the account.

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2023/11/its-still-easy-for-anyone-to-become-you-at-experian/

Latest comic:

#gaza #protest #war #firstamendment #israel #palestine #cartoon #comic #politics

Privacy Badger's learning just got a huge upgrade. Spoiler: it's scouring the web like a swarm of wasps, devouring more trackers than ever before. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/10/privacy-badger-learns-block-ever-more-trackers

Windows starts harvesting users' email login credentials. https://www.heise.de/news/Microsoft-lays-hands-on-login-data-Beware-of-the-new-Outlook-9358925.html

@nf3xn IIRC one of the next #Firefox releases will have this built-in.

EDIT: "Never consenting to cookie dialogs" is already in "nightly" and will be shipped in release 120:
https://blog.nightly.mozilla.org/2023/04/14/dropping-the-banner-hammer-and-more-these-weeks-in-firefox-issue-134/

@virbonus @simonzerafa @SecurityWriter

Honored and excited to be featured in last week's Dense Discovery newsletter: "the best of the internet, thoughtfully curated": https://densediscovery.com

CNN fired Brian Stelter from his media beat because he knew -- and, unlike so many others in his profession, told -- the truth about the Murdoch family's Fox "News" His new book is out and I urge everyone to read it. That company is even more evil than most people realize.

https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Network-of-Lies/Brian-Stelter/9781668046906

New resource: (en/fr) The "Lafarge" case: The investigation methods used and some lessons to be learned

About the considerable means - telephony, wiretapping, physical surveillance, spyware, facial recognition, GPS tracking - used to investigate a surprise daytime sabotage action against an armaments factory in France on December 10, 2022.

Read or download at:
https://notrace.how/resources/#affaire-lafarge-les-moyens-denquetes-utilises
http://i4pd4zpyhrojnyx5l3d2siauy4almteocqow4bp2lqxyocrfy6prycad.onion/resources/#affaire-lafarge-les-moyens-denquetes-utilises

When "ceasefire" isn't in your government's vocabulary. https://brianmcfadden.org/2023/11/02/state-department-synonyms/

For data brokers dealing with our personal information, our data can either be useful for their profit-making or truly anonymous, but not both. It is critical that user privacy is not sacrificed in favor of filling the pockets of corporations. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/11/debunking-myth-anonymous-data

Advanced #AI #Chatbots Can Now Infer Detailed Personal Attributes from General Social Media Posts - https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/blog/advanced-ai-chatbots-can-now-infer-detailed-personal-attributes-from-general-social-media-posts/ and it's only going to get worse... #privacy

Job application needs photos of passport and utility bill. That's fine. Send them. Also a Zoom call to verify the original documents. So I print the first page of the utility bill PDF that I sent them.

The 21st century has completely passed some companies by, hasn't it?

@fosdem developer rooms have been announced!
After a crammed half day of talks on #LinuxOnMobile last time, we are very happy that there will be a full Sunday dedicated to mobile topics around true Linux OSes at #fosdem2024.
We will announce a Call for Participation as soon as it is published. We will coordinate with our Friends at @postmarketOS, sailfish OS, etc to put together something interesting.
https://fosdem.org/2024/news/2023-11-08-devrooms-announced/

Our letter from November is here: https://blog.codeberg.org/letter-from-codeberg-november-2023.html

Includes news about #Forgejo, spam, our membership registration form, and code search.

Thank you for supporting our mission.

1. Read this:

“Just as GitHub was founded on Git, today we are re-founded on Copilot.”

https://github.blog/2023-11-08-universe-2023-copilot-transforms-github-into-the-ai-powered-developer-platform/

2. Go here:

https://codeberg.org/

#git #gitHub #codeberg #enshittification #BigTech #cooperative #dev

Very bad news to hear that Jezebel, the pioneering media outlet, has been shuttered by its indifferent (or hostile) owner. Another casualty of Peter Thiel's war on journalism in general and Gawker in particular.

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2023/nov/09/jezebel-news-shut-down-layoffs-go-media

I wonder if The 19th News would see the value in reopening it as a sister property.

The fact of the matter is, we all start out writing crap. That’s how we learn. I know what my writing was like when I was 16. And I know why my writing was the way it was, too—I was parroting what I was reading and watching. And you can see that in Jim’s writing. Because it’s definitely a cross between parroting Howard… and parroting what *his friends in were writing in OSFAN.*

Which brings me to point number 2: He wasn’t the only one in the OSFA writing this way. 14/

How hate sites evade the censor - https://www.lightbluetouchpaper.org/2023/11/09/how-hate-sites-evade-the-censor/ "If the bureaucrats at #Ofcom are going to do this work for a living... it could be harder work than they think."