Lorenzo "Palinuro" Faletra @palinuro@librem.one

"U.S. attorney general William Barr has said consumers should accept the risks that encryption backdoors pose to their personal cybersecurity to ensure law enforcement can access encrypted communications." 🙄 https://techcrunch.com/2019/07/23/william-barr-consumers-security-risks-backdoors/

FaceApp uses AI to "age" images of users, but @michaelgrothaus says users aren't told photos are uploaded to the cloud. Even if FaceApp is doing nothing nefarious w/photos today, their privacy policy allows such in the future.

Privacy policies matter. https://www.fastcompany.com/90377895/viral-app-hit-faceapp-which-makes-users-look-old-has-privacy-concerns

I like the idea.. a processor inside a memory

Will In-Memory Processing Work?

Changes that sidestep von Neumann architecture could be key to low-power ML hardware.

https://semiengineering.com/more-than-von-neumann/

A privacy win last week as the California Senate Judiciary Committee blocked Big-Tech-backed efforts to weaken the privacy protections secured by the California Consumer Privacy Act! https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/07/californias-senate-judiciary-committee-blocks-efforts-weaken-californias-privacy

Germany has banned its #schools from using cloud-based productivity suites from Microsoft, Google, and Apple, because the companies weren't meeting the country's #privacy requirements. 
https://t.co/smlJIQ0sNA

Deeply grateful to @OSCON for recognizing Let's Encrypt with the Most Impact Award! We'd like to thank our users and sponsors for helping us to create a more secure and privacy-respecting Web!

Shrinking Linux Attack Surfaces

Often, a kernel developer will try to reduce the size of an attack surface against #Linux, even if it can't be closed entirely. It's generally a toss-up whether such a patch makes it into the kernel...
https://www.linuxjournal.com/content/shrinking-linux-attack-surfaces …

New breach: Invitations website Evite had 101M unique email addresses breached this year from a 2013 archive (most were invite recipients). Members also had names, phones, DoBs & plain text passwords exposed. 65% were already in @haveibeenpwned. Read more: https://www.evite.com/security/update?usource=lc&lctid=1800182

Goodbye Aberration: Physicist Solves 2,000-Year-Old Optical Problem

When you look through your viewfinder and things seem a little bit blurry or lacking definition, it's probably because you are using an “el cheapo” lens.

https://petapixel.com/2019/07/05/goodbye-aberration-physicist-solves-2000-year-old-optical-problem/

Runs on Librem 5, Day 19 - Sudo

https://youtu.be/ny2qfygXNkU

🚨 Foreigners crossing certain Chinese borders are being forced to install malware on their Android phones.

"The malware downloads a tourist’s text messages, calendar entries, and phone logs, as well as scans the device for over 70,000 different files." https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/7xgame/at-chinese-border-tourists-forced-to-install-a-text-stealing-piece-of-malware