marc0s @marc0s@librem.one

Israeli espionage firm hacks WhatsApp. Can install spyware with missed call.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/may/13/whatsapp-urges-users-to-upgrade-after-discovering-spyware-vulnerability

My advice: dump WhatsApp today and start using Wire (https://wire.com/en/products/personal-secure-messenger/). Tell your friends and family to do the same. (It’s a simple, free download on all app stores. Easy to use, doesn’t require your phone number, and their business model is based on charging for commercial use and for pro accounts.)

You can find more alternatives on @switchingsocial (https://switching.social/ethical-alternatives-to-whatsapp-and-skype/)

#WhatsApp

Hello, here is the new
SàT Progress Note (W19): https://www.goffi.org/b/eD5Yrz6sLpHeB3jvafusbJ/progress-note

#salutatoi #XMPP #progress_note

RT @iNPUTmice@twitter.com

For about a year now we have been doing regular XMPP Developer Meetings / Sprints / Hackathons. After a very successful one in Berlin last March the next one is going to be in Karlsruhe at the end of this month.
https://wiki.xmpp.org/web/Sprints/2019_May_Karlsruhe

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/iNPUTmice/status/1125697327245799425

every avid #emacs user probably knows this already, but i just learned the "planet emacsen" blog aggregator has moved to https://planet.emacslife.com/

ramadān mubarak!

Airports are increasingly becoming a hub of personal data collection. When opting out of these data collection programs is nearly impossible and air travel is nearly unavoidable, that's a problem. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/04/skip-surveillance-opting-out-face-recognition-airports

El artículo sobre #Glovo en @argia ahora en castellano en El Salto #kappitalismoa

Sí no puediste leerlo en euskera no te lo pierdas ahora: Tres meses infiltrado en Glovo https://www.elsaltodiario.com/glovo/tres-meses-infiltrado-glovo.gig.economy-mensajeria

I'm seeing this Firefox thing happening in Tor browser. Someone at Mozilla has fucked up bigtime and is exposing a lot of users to security problems. The fact that this is so centralized is also an architectural weakness.

pro tip: refer to any clock you own as "my time machine"

A animal with a history of abuse will often flinch when a well-meaning new owner tries to pet it. It takes a lot of time and effort to rebuild trust and security.

The emotional damage in the #FOSS community from decades of abuse by exploitative companies isn't acknowledged nearly enough, and is hard to overcome.

Google headlining “Digital Wellbeing” festival, major whitewashing of surveillance capitalism going on right now.

If you want to help me call bullshit on this on birdsite, RTs etc. welcome: https://mobile.twitter.com/aral/status/1124245429523238912

#SurveillanceCapitalism #Google #FuckGoogle #whitewashing #privacywashing #privacy #HumanRights

@Sosthene
First letter send from prison by Ola Bini, published by his girlfriend.
source: https://twitter.com/claucece/status/1121774064161492993
#FreeOlaBini

"To me, privacy is something that is absolutely necessary for human beings to be free and the rise of surveillance is threatening this to the core"
💯

According to @Washingtonpost, Oregon police are broadly using Amazon’s “Rekognition” face recognition tech—even for the lowest level crimes—but they won’t disclose it in arrest reports so suspects & defendants don’t know about it, & its use isn’t audited. https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2019/04/30/amazons-facial-recognition-technology-is-supercharging-local-police/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.c51b8f41ec9d

the four horsemen of the apocalypse
1. "actually php is not that bad"
2. "actually c memory managment is fine, you just need to be careful"
3. "memory leaks are solved by killing the worker every X requests"
4. "rewrite it in rust"