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GadgeteerZA wrote
Reply to comment by smartypants in HOLY SHIT!!! Apple secretly constantly taking photos of face when phone held and active every 5 seconds and uses INFRARED and got caught! Apple claims its for training the AI to unlock, but now admits its to study EMOTION of user to autoselect emojis and study pupil dilation & facial expressions! by smartypants
Are there say three or four links you can give to us? I fully realise they have to permanently scan for a face to keep the screen alive, to unlock, etc but sounds like you have some evidence in links about them actually storing and using those photos elsewhere, in other words zero of it is AI present on the device?
GadgeteerZA wrote
Reply to Telegram founder Pavel Durov, who built reputation on creating unhackable app, listed in leaked Pegasus project data, selected by Israeli NSO Group client government. by Hitler_Was_Right
Many people were listed with this, but what does it actually tell us? He may have been a target, we are not even sure if his phone was actually penetrated, and whether they found Telegram's secret description key? It seems really all conjecture at this point until we know anything definate?
Telegram is supposedly not in the business of selling user data or metadata (no hint of evidence to that effect yet) and does at least allow you to hide your phone number from all contacts. Problem is mainstream users only otherwise use WhatsApp (knowingly leaks metadata inc location to Facebook whom we all know about with their dropped balls on user privacy and advertising), and Signal which requires a phone number to register, it can't be hidden, and is hosted in the USA.
Again we sit with the problem, which is the lesser of all evils that mainstream users actually 'can' use?
GadgeteerZA wrote
Reply to comment by Rambler in The Truth About Protonmail by Hitler_Was_Right
Exactly the same question I was thinking, and looking forward to the answer. I know of Tutanota but what's the point of doing a massive mail migration, only to find that Tutanota is worse than ProtonMail.
You can use your own OpenPGP key with Gmail (then Google cannot see the content) but 99% of your contacts receiving it (inc businesses etc), are clueless how to decrypt it.
RiccardoR OP wrote
Rambler wrote
Reply to a friend wrote me he is unable to register, log into Ramble and comment, add to the thread (ramble.pw/f/banned_censura_italiani) . by RiccardoR
I had registration disabled. It's enabled now.
Hitler_Was_Right OP wrote
Reply to comment by Rambler in The Truth About Protonmail by Hitler_Was_Right
I will post some links with helpful information but some of it might be flawed.
It also depends of what you want to do, some need security, others need anonymity while others need invisibility.
https://freedom.press/training/
https://epic.org/privacy/tools.html
https://www.eff.org/issues/privacy
https://choosetoencrypt.com/category/privacy/
Rambler wrote
Reply to The Truth About Protonmail by Hitler_Was_Right
The question is, then, who do you trust for secure email? Is email, by design, inherently 'bad' or 'flawed'?
What options does your average Joe have, outside of setting up his own mail server, and expecting his contacts to use PGP Encryption, which, may or may not be crackable by the big agencies.
Hitler_Was_Right OP wrote
Reply to The Truth About Protonmail by Hitler_Was_Right
Protonmail’s False Claim List
Lie: “Protonmail obeys the law”
In 2017 Protonmail seems to have used illegal cyber warfare capabilities to unlawfully break into a suspected phishing server. You can see the tweet and read about it here. They soon deleted the tweet and said: “We cannot confirm nor deny if anything happened.” In 2013 the European Union parliament voted to make hacking a crime that carried a prison sentence of 2 years. “Hacking back” is also illegal under Swiss law.
Lie : Protonmail offers “Zero Access” or “End to End Encryption”
A professor who teaches computer science and cryptography Nadim Kobeissi proved that Protonmail does not provide End to End Encryption. Protonmail has since publicly acknowledged that they can decrypt anyone’s encrypted content by obtaining their password/passphrase.
Lie: Protonmail protects free speech
Protonmail has stated on Reddit that they are “controlled by the politics of the community that dominates the ProtonMail userbase”. So if a majority of their users wanted to ban an innocent minority group, Protonmail has stated they would “yield to community pressure” and ban all those users from their platform even if their terms of service are not broken. So Protonmail protects free speech as long as it agrees with the majority of their users. Protonmail is not safe for any minority group including Jews, activists or missionaries. If Protonmail has a majority group ask them to ban a minority group of users then Protonmail has stated explicitly that they will do it even if no terms of service are broken. Read Protonmail’s statements here.
Lie: “Protonmail is open source code.”
Their front end code is open source. Their back end code and mobile code is kept private. This can be confirmed by reviewing their open-source code here
Lie: “By default, we do not keep any IP logs”
Protonmail’s Privacy Policy States: “This includes, the sender & receivers, the IP addresses were emails originated from, message subject, messages sent & received times, storage space, total emails and login times.” Protonmail is also legally required to store all users data for 6 months in Switzerland.
Lie: ProtonMail does not require any personally identifiable information to register.
If a user tries to signup without personal information, via VPN or TOR, they detect it and require a “donation” with a credit/debit card or a confirmation with your personal phone.
Lie: “When a ProtonMail account is closed, data and emails are immediately deleted from production servers”
By Swiss law, Protonmail is required to record all data for 6 months. When a user deletes an email, the email and all meta-data must legally be retained for 6 months
Protonmail Claims to be “Independently Audited”.
There is only 1 company listed as conducting an Audit of Protonmail, Cyberkov.com. Cyberkov’s website says it’s connected to Harvard, MIT & CERN. And their team is full of Harvard and MIT grads, exactly like Protonmail. So Protonmail’s audit was probably done by Protonmail’s college friends or colleagues. Protonmail also shows a list of people who’ve audited their code, but anyone can email Protonmail to add their name to the list. Years later Professor Kobeissi did a real independent audit and proved Protonmail doesn’t provide “end to end encryption Privacy Watchdog
Hitler_Was_Right wrote
Reply to comment by Motorbreath in YouTube Enforcing “Thought Crime” Censorship by Motorbreath
It wasn't this video but that's how jewtube is censoring content for me as a viewer.
Motorbreath OP wrote
Reply to comment by Hitler_Was_Right in YouTube Enforcing “Thought Crime” Censorship by Motorbreath
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weird, i can see the video with no problem even with the tampermonley turned off.
try using a script that turns that off with the extention like tampermonkey.
Hitler_Was_Right wrote
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TallestSkil wrote
Reply to WARNING !!!!! ZERO Day exploit in fake JPGs being served to Browsers. A revealed exploit on July 21 2021 to add to long list of remote WebP exploits, and now CATBOX suddenly involved! by smartypants
HAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHHAHAHAHA imagine trusting webp, a bullshit “standard” created by Google.
dontvisitmyintentions wrote
Reply to Top U.S. Catholic church official resigns after cellphone data used to track him on Grindr and to gay bars by Rambler
- Original Pillar piece
- WP/MSN version (that linked to Pillar)
- WP follow-up where Grindr officially remained skeptical of the Pillar's data claims, presumably because they thought location data was struck or sufficiently anonymized
- Pillar's followup statement (direct image link), with no new information on what "obtained and authenticated a data set" entailed
Some Twitter replies express frustration in their being so cagey about something they claim is so easy. A few others condemn Pillar's privacy violations, but obviously those are built in to the software.
Still others question whether they contacted the right person in the RCC. I'm beginning to wonder myself whether they went more for bombast than concern. Did they show his superiors the data, or is this all a "trust me, bro" situation? We can't expect the mainstream media to care about the distinction, but this guy's organization would. I imagine they found a lot of other correlations. Was this just the first guy to resign?
I wish we had more information.
Wahaha wrote (edited )
Reply to comment by smartypants in WARNING !!!!! ZERO Day exploit in fake JPGs being served to Browsers. A revealed exploit on July 21 2021 to add to long list of remote WebP exploits, and now CATBOX suddenly involved! by smartypants
I'm already using that one for a long time, since webp generally sucks. But it only works if there's a choice between webp and jpg, if there is no choice, I'll get to see webp.
smartypants OP wrote (edited )
Reply to comment by Wahaha in WARNING !!!!! ZERO Day exploit in fake JPGs being served to Browsers. A revealed exploit on July 21 2021 to add to long list of remote WebP exploits, and now CATBOX suddenly involved! by smartypants
no time to go through all solutions, but this plugin from 12 months ago should do the trick at a perfect brute force way, but I dont know if a bad actor can use browser fingerprint to shove it in anyway.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/dont-accept-webp/
This extension monitors and edits request headers using the onBeforeSendHeaders API
TRY THAT PLUGIN.
If it works, vile web sites like youtube should show blank white squares for video previews.
many http web development tools including free ones, can do ANYTHING with any data sent or received from firefox and have persistent scripts. "ModHeader" is one fun one.
Wahaha wrote
Reply to WARNING !!!!! ZERO Day exploit in fake JPGs being served to Browsers. A revealed exploit on July 21 2021 to add to long list of remote WebP exploits, and now CATBOX suddenly involved! by smartypants
I don't even have image.http.accept and network.http.accept.default in my about:config for FF90.
Mrwarmind wrote
Reply to Same Seiyuu #8 by Wahaha
Shinobu and fubuki have the same voice? Noice
burnerben wrote
Reply to Aphex Twin - Ageispolis by AWiggerInTime
this is draining
smartypants OP wrote
Reply to comment by BlackWinnerYoshi in HOLY SHIT!!! Apple secretly constantly taking photos of face when phone held and active every 5 seconds and uses INFRARED and got caught! Apple claims its for training the AI to unlock, but now admits its to study EMOTION of user to autoselect emojis and study pupil dilation & facial expressions! by smartypants
Apple did, often since 2017, scan faces for 30,000 data points in 3d FOR EMOTION TRACKING in Animojis in 2017 and later, but now in 2021 they do it on home screen and measure pupil and study gaze direction.
Learn and read. Lots of links support all I just typed.
Wingless wrote
Reply to NSA stores metadata of millions of web users for up to a year, secret files show by Rambler
I would eat my hat if they ever delete them. What kind of spy agency throws away information? They may move it to a subsidiary, sure ... not throw it out!
dontvisitmyintentions wrote
Reply to by !deleted846
In addition to keeping it out of sight, consider a decoy
For example, a broken safe (like a firesafe with a cracked wall or broken lock) or a heavy box that could pass for one, from a thrift store or craigslist. Make it look nice on the outside, put some low-value keepsakes, costume jewelry, or funny money, and non-sensitive copies or fakes of documents in there.
Stick it somewhere out of sight but not out of reach: under the bed, front corner of the closet, a dark shelf. Then if it's been tampered with, you know you have a problem, and it may satisfy them that it's your only hidden stash.
Wahaha wrote
Reply to Valve Announces Steam Deck Handheld Gaming PC, Launches in December 2021 - Niche Gamer by awdrifter
Button placement looks uncomfortable, though.
TallestSkil wrote
Reply to comment by Wahaha in Why we will win the war for general-purpose computing by HMTg927
Yeah, they all have hardware level backdoors that governments can access. There’s really nothing doing here.
Wahaha wrote
Wasn't the war lost nearly a decade ago, when all CPUs had hidden operating systems added to them that will grant them complete control over wireless networks?
GadgeteerZA wrote
Reply to comment by smartypants in HOLY SHIT!!! Apple secretly constantly taking photos of face when phone held and active every 5 seconds and uses INFRARED and got caught! Apple claims its for training the AI to unlock, but now admits its to study EMOTION of user to autoselect emojis and study pupil dilation & facial expressions! by smartypants
Are there say three or four links you can give to us? I fully realise they have to permanently scan for a face to keep the screen alive, to unlock, etc but sounds like you have some evidence in links about them actually storing and using those photos elsewhere, in other words zero of it is AI present on the device?