US border forces are seizing Americans' phone data and storing it for 15 years
Link: https://www.engadget.com/us-border-forces-traveler-data-15-years-085106938.html
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32864997
At Tor, we are very concerned about Google's plan to retire Manifest v2 and introduce Manifest v3.
This will not only affect privacy overall but also the ability for volunteers to support censored users around the world with Snowflake extension on Chrome.
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/12/googles-manifest-v3-still-hurts-privacy-security-innovation
"This is a limit on any American who wishes to use her own money and a freely available software tool to maintain her own privacy—including for otherwise entirely legal and personal reasons."
"...an American who is sent money through the Tornado.cash address is not even able to reject the transaction, and yet may be, at that moment, technically in violation of OFAC rules."
NSA, NIST, and post-quantum crypto: my second lawsuit against the US government
Link: http://blog.cr.yp.to/20220805-nsa.html
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32360533
Glassdoor not so anonymous
Link: https://www.webworm.co/p/glassdoor
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32146082
FCC: TikTok is unacceptable security risk and should be removed from app stores
Link: https://blog.malwarebytes.com/privacy-2/2022/07/tiktok-is-unacceptable-security-risk-and-should-be-removed-from-app-stores-says-fcc/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32148218
New documents reveal scale of US Government’s cell phone location data tracking
Link: https://www.aclu.org/news/privacy-technology/new-records-detail-dhs-purchase-and-use-of-vast-quantities-of-cell-phone-location-data
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32143256
Pirate Library Mirror: Preserving 7TB of books (that are not in Libgen)
Link: http://pilimi.org/blog-introducing.html
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31970805
Detecting unauthorized physical access with beans, lentils and colored rice (2021)
Link: https://dys2p.com/en/2021-12-tamper-evident-protection.html
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31897530
We're live now at http://noagendastream.com/ with No Agenda episode 1458 #@pocketnoagenda http://l.curry.com/fzb
📢 Exit relay operators, we need you to upgrade to Tor 0.4.7.7 as soon as possible! This is the first stable Tor release with support for congestion control, which will result in significant performance improvements for users. Upgrade to 0.4.7.7 now.
Do you authenticate to various websites with your Github, Google or Facebook account? Be careful, if you get blocked by these companies, there's virtually no recourse and you might have a serious problem!
https://nextcloud.com/blog/big-tech-accountability/
Virginia police routinely use secret GPS pings to track people’s cell phones
Link: https://www.insidenova.com/headlines/virginia-police-routinely-use-secret-gps-pings-to-track-people-s-cell-phones/article_e9c5e028-bbd4-11ec-8934-ab3eea0e9aa5.html
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31054432
The Impervious Browser: Your Portal to the P2P Internet
Link: https://newsletter.impervious.ai/impervious-browser-functionality-overview/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30968715
The Next Google
Link: https://dkb.io/post/the-next-google
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30921628
Apple Neglects to Patch Two Zero-Day, Wild Vulnerabilities for Big Sur, Catalina
Link: https://www.intego.com/mac-security-blog/apple-neglects-to-patch-zero-day-wild-vulnerabilities-for-macos-big-sur-catalina/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30920648
YouTube cancelled my Nextcloud installation how-to
Link: https://mccormick.cx/news/entries/youtube-cancelled-my-nextcloud-how-to-video
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30886834