To anyone with questions about Meta's Ray-Ban glasses and how this is problematic for privacy and consent, I highly recommend reading this excellent article from Janus Rose at The Verge:

"“One way to think about it is protecting your community and the people you care about,” said Gilliard. “When you’re wearing these glasses, when you use your video doorbell, when you record everyone’s conversations, you’re not just surveilling yourself. And there’s no consistent and foolproof way to guarantee that information won’t be used against people you care about — to hurt trans and queer people, or hurt immigrant communities. I wish people would think about it in those terms instead of ‘did my package get delivered.’”

theverge.com/tech/807834/meta-…

#Privacy #Meta #RayBan #Consent #Safety

Privacy laws can’t keep up with ‘luxury surveillance’

Legal experts explain the laws and ethics of recording other people with Meta’s new smart glasses and other wearables.

^{Janus Rose (The Verge)}

I see so many people (mostly men, this isn't random) talking about how Meta's Ray-Ban glasses are "incredible" or "still not ready" yet, I don't see anyone calling it what it is: Voyeurism.

This technology will increase voyeurism and stalking aggressions in unacceptable ways. These glasses are a voyeur's dream weapon. Also a doxxer's and stalker's dream weapon.

Why are our laws and cultures not protecting us against this?

#Privacy #Safety #Meta #RayBan #Consent

At a bar and need help? Order an "Angel shot".

-"with lime" means call the police.

- "on the rocks" means you need a taxi called.

- "neat" means you need an escort to your car.

You can also ask for Angela, as in "is Angela working tonight?"

See also the "help me" hand gesture: beige.party/@amiserabilist/114…

#Safety #Signals #PSA

paul (@amiserabilist@beige.party)

Attached: 1 video i did not know about the hand signal for help me, and my stupid ass thought she was flirting.

^beige.party

Signal is a secure messenger, but there are interesting alternatives, such as @matrix , @session , @delta , @simplex or XMPP …

➡️ matrix.org

➡️ getsession.org

➡️ delta.chat

➡️ simplex.chat

➡️ xmpp.org

If you’d like to learn more about these options, have a look at the responses to this toot.

#matrix #session #signal #XMPP #messenger #decentralized #tech #technology #OpenSource #FOSS #WhatsApp #security #InfoSec #data #safety

Session | Send Messages, Not Metadata. | Private Messenger

Session is a private messenger that aims to remove any chance of metadata collection by routing all messages through an onion routing network.

^Session

In Vox, I noted that smoking a cigarette similar to driving a giant SUV or pickup: Both endanger anyone who happens to be nearby.

The narrative power of secondhand smoke galvanized the anti-tobacco movement of the 1980s. It could do the same with car bloat today.

#cars #safety

vox.com/future-perfect/391733/…

Gigantic SUVs are a public health threat. Why don’t we treat them like one?

The same policy arguments that turned the public against smoking cigarettes could help to combat “car bloat” as pedestrian deaths climb.

^{David Zipper (Vox)}

Interesting Python job on an AI Forensics team: you will work on algorithmic investigations techniques to hold social media accountable to their users and to the law.

ai-forensics.notion.site/Remot…

#GetFediHired #DataEngineering #Data #AI #Jobs #Safety

It really says something about the USA that a miniature kei car is "too dangerous" for public roads, but a lifted 8,000-lb pickup is just fine.

arstechnica.com/cars/2024/08/s…

#cars #safety #policy

As dating goes digital, concerns for online privacy are more relevant than ever. ❤️

Is it possible to meet someone and still keep your privacy intact? 🤔

💘 Let’s find out 👉 tuta.com/blog/private-dating-a…

#privacy #dating #safety #security

LLVM CFI and Cross-Language LLVM CFI Support for Rust, bughunters.google.com/blog/480….

> add LLVM CFI and cross-language LLVM CFI (and LLVM KCFI and cross-language LLVM KCFI) to the Rust compiler as part of our work in the Rust Exploit Mitigations Project Group. This is the first cross-language, fine-grained, forward-edge control flow protection implementation for mixed-language binaries that we know of.

Really interesting project.

#RustLang #llvm #security #safety #ffi

Blog: LLVM CFI and Cross-Language LLVM CFI Support for Rust

We’re pleased to share that we’ve worked with the Rust community to add LLVM CFI and cross-language LLVM CFI (and LLVM KCFI and cross-language LLVM KCFI) to the Rust compiler as part of our work in the Rust Exploit Mitigations Project Group.

^{bughunters.google.com}

Re-reading your question it looks to me that I didn't answer (get) your question @Simon John.

If you refer to user name, and hosting data I guess the answer is yes, it looks like plain text from the front end.
The password apparently at least can be protected by a general password manager.

Has there been general questioning of #FileZilla's safety?
Is there some recommendation for linux desktops?

#linux #fedihelp #safety