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Wow, Microsoft is apparently harvesting links in Outlook emails and indexing them on Bing.
scribe.rip/@ryanbadger/magic-l…
#surveillance #capitalism #microsoft #privacy #gdpr #email #bing
Microsoft's Github Copilot is disregarding Free Software licenses and will be happily selling parts of your GPL code against your will! Woo!
drewdevault.com/2022/06/23/Cop…
As the author of this article says - free software should be dependant on free software architecture - I recommend codeberg.org as an open-source alternative to Github.
Sadly Github is no longer a platform that can be trusted.
CC: @codeberg
#FOSS #Github #Copilot #Microsoft #GPL #OpenSource #FreeSoftware #Codeberg
Lots of understandable concern today as #Microsoft #GitHub announced their new #Copilot availability today. Probably worth a reminder that @conservancy has convened a working group on #ethics, #licensing, and other related issues, especially for #FreeSoftware and #OpenSource contributors.
Perhaps you or others may want to join or read more?
Boosts welcome! 
sfconservancy.org/news/2022/fe…
New Committee Will Investigate Copyleft Implications of AI-Assisted Programming
Software Freedom Conservancy announces a Committee On AI-Assisted Programming and Copyleft to develop recommendations and plans for a Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) community response to the use of machine learning tools for code generation and…Software Freedom Conservancy
Hey people!
If you use #Microsoft #Office be extra careful when opening documents or files from unknown sources. On May 31st a #vulnerability was disclosed, that allows an attacker to execute code through MS Office via maliciously prepared documents. It's best to open only stuff which comes from people you know or implement the published mitigation strategies:
🇬🇧 EN:
msrc-blog.microsoft.com/2022/0…
🇩🇪 GER:
heise.de/news/Zero-Day-Luecke-…
Currently I am not aware of a security update, so be careful.
Zero-Day-Lücke in MS Office: Microsoft gibt Empfehlungen
Microsoft gibt Handlungsempfehlungen gegen die Zero-Day-Schwachstelle in Office. Angreifer könnten diese zum Einschleusen von Schadcode missbrauchen.Dirk Knop (heise online)
For example #TPM2 can securely unlock your encrypted root linux drive without entering a password every time.
🔑 📀
skorpil.cz/en/project/42/mkini…
Mkinitcpio tpm2 encrypt
All my personal and company computers are powered by Arch Linux with encrypted storages. This setup brings an inconvenience of entering two passwords on startup. One unlocks the storage encryption, second logs me to my user account.Štěpán Škorpil
