Nice. How to leave #X / #Twitter and #Instagram? In the edition of tomorrow‘s newspaper Augsburger Allgemeine offers valuable tips and highlights alternatives in the #Fediverse, such as #Mastodon and #Pixelfed. A must-read especially for @Gargron from @Mastodon and @dansup from @PixelFed and of course @helpers / @admins

📖 Read more here in german language: augsburger-allgemeine.de/geld-…

#SocialMedia #Privacy #Alternatives #Mastodon #Pixelfed #Fediverse

On this Data Privacy Day, choose a search engine that puts you first. No ads. No tracking. No compromise. Just the results you want, on your terms.

(Illustration by Chaz Hutton for Kagi)

#Kagi #Search #DataPrivacyDay #DataPrivacyWeek #Privacy #AdFree

Let's say China manages to get just a little bit of data about people from just a few of these ... 😑

"China's overlapping tech-industrial ecosystems"

high-capacity.com/p/chinas-ove…

#cybersec #cybersecurity #infosec #itsec #china #privacy #gdpr #dataprotection #dataskydd

China's overlapping tech-industrial ecosystems

EVs, batteries, lidar, drones, robotics, smartphones, AI. China's progress across a range of overlapping industries creates a mutually reinforcing feedback loop.

^{Kyle Chan (High Capacity)}

Earlier today, Google rejected a feature request asking for the option to use DNS-over-HTTPS servers other than Google’s and Cloudflare’s in Android: issuetracker.google.com/issues…

According to Google’s own testing, DoH is more private, secure, and performant than DoT on Android. There is no reason whatsoever to limit it to a handful of Google-approved servers.

Just like with Manifest V3 in Chrome, this arbitrary restriction on what DNS servers can use the most modern technologies in Android is a clear example of Google abusing their position to campaign against blocking invasive trackers. One of the clearest uses for custom DNS servers is the ability to block privacy-invasive services like Google’s at the DNS level.

Further details & discussion on our forum: discuss.privacyguides.net/t/go…

#android #google #privacy #dns

Google rejects feature request for arbitrary DNS-over-HTTPS server support

https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/331250145?pli=1#comment7 Some background, since 2022 Android has used DNS-over-HTTP/3 instead of DNS-over-TLS for its Private DNS setting, but only for two predefined servers (Google and Cloudflare).

^{Privacy Guides Community}

Die Signatur-Problematik bei F-Droid ist offenbar noch immer nicht gelöst: "We find it concerning that F-Droid constantly chooses to move the goalposts and continues to rely on a fundamentally broken approach for certificate pinning, merely patching [15] known vulnerabilities without ever addressing the underlying cause." 😵👇

github.com/obfusk/fdroid-fakes…

#fdroid #security #privacy #certpinning #signature

GitHub - obfusk/fdroid-fakesigner-poc: F-Droid Fake Signer PoC

F-Droid Fake Signer PoC. Contribute to obfusk/fdroid-fakesigner-poc development by creating an account on GitHub.

^GitHub

Microsoft Office 2016 and Office 2019 will no longer receive software updates, technical support, or bug and security fixes after 14.10.2025.

Consider migrating to LibreOffice.

LibreOffice is free to use.
LibreOffice supports Office file formats.

Install LibreOffice and compare it with your version of Office.

Website: libreoffice.org
Mastodon: @libreoffice

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#Microsoft #Office2016 #Office2019 #Office #LibreOffice #CyberSecurity #Privacy #InfoSec #FreeSoftware #OpenSource #FOSS

👋 hi
We heard you moved away from a toxic social media platform?
Congrats! now do Google Docs!

cryptpad.org

#privacy #collaboration #office-suite #googledocs #office365

CryptPad.org

End-to-end encrypted collaborative office suite

^cryptpad.org

This #NewYearsResolution should be about increasing your #privacy. Share now!

❤️ ❤️ ❤️

Looks like #Microsoft appointed the new Data Protection Supervisor of the #EU.

This happened because the “left-liberal camp” did not agree on which candidate to support, if I am reading the news correctly.

I saw outgoing EDPS Wojciech Wiewiórowski at more than one @fnf meeting, and I doubt that his successor will turn up at this grassroots #privacy barcamp.

heise.de/en/news/Too-critical-…

#Wiewiorowski #EDPS

Too critical? MEPs vote out Data Protection Commissioner Wiewiórowski

EU Parliament's Committee on Home Affairs has chosen Bruno Gencarelli as its preferred candidate for the role of EU Data Protection Supervisor.

^{Stefan Krempl (heise online)}

#Google Starts Tracking All Your Devices In 6 Weeks—Forget Chrome And #Android

Long story short is that Google has made updates to its advertising ecosystem essentially _permitting_ the fingerprinting of devices for use in targeted advertising. In their words they are going to be “less prescriptive with partners in how they target and measure ads.”

Doesn’t mean fingerprinting wasn’t happening before, just that Google is giving the green signal to the rest of the ecosystem to do so… and will likely use this to maybe replace third-party cookies.

Use an adblocker. Seriously.

#privacy #ads #privacymatters #useadblockers

forbes.com/sites/zakdoffman/20…

Google Starts Tracking All Your Devices In 6 Weeks—Forget Chrome And Android

Say hello to 2025—the way you're tracked has suddenly changed. Here's what you need to know.

^{Zak Doffman (Forbes)}

just discovered some very cool new projects:
git.deuxfleurs.fr/Deuxfleurs/b…
aerogramme.deuxfleurs.fr/

aerogramme is a proxy for imap and caldav that offers encryption and some security guarantees

bagage is webdav with an s3 backend

this is all based on garage which works great on commodity hardware. you could rent a $5/mo/tb vps from hosthatch and have decently good secure, open source, cloud storage of all the above

#privacy #openSource #security #s3 #garage

bagage

Bagage is the bridge between our users and garage, it enables them to synchronize files that matter for them from their computer to garage through WebDAV

^{Gitea: git with a cup of coffee}

Google: Device Fingerprinting ist okay
heise.de/news/Google-Device-Fi…

Ist ja auch für die Werbeindustrie ganz dolle wichtig...

#privacy

Google: Device Fingerprinting ist okay

Google lässt ab Februar das Tracking von Verbrauchern per Device Fingerprinting für Werbezwecke zu – eine fundamentale Abkehr von seiner bisherigen Position.

^{Jo Bager (heise online)}

❤️ Privacy matters - so does doing good. We donate Tuta to #opensource projects! ❤️

Ready to turn on #privacy?

👉 tuta.com/blog/tutanota-for-ope…

#foss #givingback #encryption #security

We fight for your right to #privacy with #encryption! 🔒

Check out our new scrolling animation: tuta.com/ 💪

GrapheneOS version 2025010700 released:

grapheneos.org/releases#202501…

See the linked release notes for a summary of the improvements over the previous release.

Forum discussion thread:

discuss.grapheneos.org/d/18831…

#GrapheneOS #privacy #security

GrapheneOS version 2025010700 released - GrapheneOS Discussion Forum

GrapheneOS discussion forum

^{GrapheneOS Discussion Forum}

If you're surprised Tesla takes and keeps recordings from their cars after seeing the news about the Cybertruck in Vegas, you shouldn't be. This is not something new. Tesla has been taking and storing media for many years, claiming it's used to train their AI capabilities. You can't opt out either.

And Tesla employees do access it, make fun of you, make memes, and share the content internally, without any legitimate reason to access the content.

arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20…

While this is about Tesla, this is a growing problem across this and other industries.

#Tesla #Surveillance #Privacy

Tesla workers shared images from car cameras, including “scenes of intimacy”

Ex-staffers tell Reuters about internal image sharing: “We could see their kids.”…

^{Jon Brodkin (Ars Technica)}

We are heading towards completion of another milestone 😃

Thanks to @VishnuSanal, #Prav is on Google Play Store now. It requires a 2-week testing period before being open to public downloads. Right now, only authorized testers can test it.

If you are interested in testing, please share your Gmail address with us.

On the other hand, the app is free to download from #Fdroid. Please remember that the service is still in public beta.

Stay tuned!

#XMPP #privacy #FreeSoftware #OpenSource

Ready for #NewYear? Time to make up a #NewYearResolution 💪

Why not choose #privacy over Big Tech⁉️

Here are some ideas. 👇 Which is on your list for #2025❓

And more tips to #deGoogle your life: tuta.com/blog/how-to-leave-goo…

The #38C3 presentation about the massive #Volkswagen data leak is over and the leak was as bad as it sounded. 100,000s of cars could be located down to cm precision. Also a lot of metadata that is NOT supposed to be public. Disturbing.

The main takeaway was that the real problem here wasn't the leak itself, but that this data was collected in the first place.

I agree. It's not a good idea to create mountains of very personal data and then pray it never leaks.

#privacy #fail #leak #breach #vw

Looking for a last minute present? 🎁

Give #privacy!

Tuta gift cards are available in seconds under Settings - Gift cards within your Tuta account. ❤️ 🔒 🎄

I know that Tuta has been planning it for years. But that wasn't my question.

Apparently #Tuta still hasn't set a concrete, near term date for the availability of the *option to export all emails in one go*.

So: Customers can easily import their emails to #Tutamail, but they have to manually select and export all of their emails if they want to migrate away from Tuta to a different #email provider.

To me, that looks like a vendor lock-in.

#vendorlockin
#hotelcalifornia
#privacy

#AI vs #privacy ? 🤔

Our users for sure say so:

✅ 29% want TutaDrive 🔒

❌ Only 3% want an AI Copilot 👀

tuta.com/blog/tuta-survey-2024

Big thanks for the @eff for these recommendations to the #EU:

✅ Protect users’ rights to #secure, #encrypted, and #private communication

✅ Adopt a #privacy-first approach to fighting online harms like #targeted #ads

✅ User-centric approach to regulate big tech platforms (Digital Markets Act)

✅ Create conditions of fair digital markets that foster choice innovation and fundamental rights

We at Tuta couldn't agree more! 👏 👏 👏

mastodon.social/@eff/113640698…

So a crazy thing happened. In a crime thriller film called Les chambres rouges (Red Rooms, 2023) there is a scene where the hacker protagonist is attempting to purchase a snuff film in online auction. The auction happens via IRC or IRC-like chatting environment and to my surprise there's actually me @rolle and my wife @mustikkasoppa who are one of the bidders.

1) The nickname of my wife is mistakenly written as "mustikasoppa" (with one k) but if I recall correctly she has used a mistakenly written nickname in the past
2) We are both operators and on the same IRC channel as we've been for the past 17 years

This is not a coincidence. One nickname can be made up by accident but not two with these features and definitely not in a French movie. My wife's nick "mustikkasoppa" is Finnish and means "blueberry soup".

Our IRC logs are more or less public because of open source and statistics so I presume the scene has been made with chatgpt which has scraped our nicks from the Internet so that they ended up in the movie. We still chat via IRC every day together.

The era of AI... Do your background check, folks. I'm glad this wasn't a dramatized documentary film but a complete fiction. However my wife and I are real. Mixed feelings.

#OpenAI #Privacy #Movies #IRC #GenerativeAI #ChatGPT

Naughty or nice? Santa doesn’t need to know. 🎅❌

Tuta’s encrypted calendar keeps your events so private, even Santa stays in the dark. 🔒🗓️

#Privacy #Encryption #PostQuantum

→ U.S. officials urge Americans to use encrypted apps amid unprecedented cyberattack
nbcnews.com/tech/security/us-o…

“The hacking campaign, nicknamed SaltTyphoon by Microsoft, is one of the largest intelligence compromises in US history, and it has not yet been fully remediated.”

“Privacy advocates have long advocated using end-to-end encrypted E2EE apps.” *sigh*

👇

#Americans #encrypted #cyberattack #hacking #SaltTyphoon #US #Privacy #E2EE

U.S. officials urge Americans to use encrypted apps amid cyberattack

Amid an unprecedented cyberattack on telecommunications companies such as AT&T and Verizon, U.S. officials have recommended that Americans use encrypted messaging apps to ensure their communications stay hidden from foreign hackers.

^{Kevin Collier (NBC News)}

🚨 Biggest US Hack in History! 🚨

If China can breach US telcos, what’s stopping them from exploiting encryption backdoors? Nothing.

Backdoors don’t make us safer - they put everyone at risk.

Demand #PrivacyFirst: Say NO to backdoors! 🔒

Read more here: tuta.com/blog/china-salt-typho…

#Cybersecurity #Encryption #Privacy #StopBackdoors

Worst US hack in history: Chinese can monitor all your calls and emails. | Tuta

Salt Typhoon has infiltrated major telecom networks, proving backdoors to encryption are a catastrophic risk.

^Tuta

Repeat offenders drive bulk of tech support scams via #Google #Ads

"Search engines, and Google’s in particular, are our gateway to the web. Yet, that door sometimes opens up to unsavory places thanks to sponsored search results, AKA ads."

This is part of the reason I recommend using an #adblocker (whether in browser, on device, or network-based.)

#cybersecurity #scams #security #privacy

malwarebytes.com/blog/scams/20…

Repeat offenders drive bulk of tech support scams via Google Ads | Malwarebytes

Consumers are getting caught in a web of scams facilitated by online ads often originating from the same perpetrators.

^{Jérôme Segura (Malwarebytes)}

Thunderbird is jarig (20) en afhankelijk van donaties. Ik gebruik het al (bijna al die) jaren en dacht, ik doe een donatie....

He, @thunderbird Waarom willen jullie weten waar ik woon?????? #privacy #Thunderbird

Gmail and Outlook are popular but not necessarily the best - especially when it comes to #privacy and #security.

In this in-depth guide we review #Gmail vs #Outlook and fill you in on the best email provider that's ad-free, private, and secure. 😉

👉 Read more: tuta.com/blog/outlook-vs-gmail

Here it is: the Finnish Parliament has sided against #ChatControl !

I am overjoyed that in their statement, they have outlined exactly what this proposal would entail: mass surveillance in Europe.

From their statement (translation by me):

"..the suggested model would, in fact, lead to the mass surveillance of communication and would weaken the integrity of communication in the EU."

eduskunta.fi/FI/vaski/Lausunto…

#privacy #encryption #Finland #Europe #EU #surveillance

I'm hitting many bugs in @Tutanota these days. Typically, just this morning when I opened the Mail Android app, I got "Error message: You forgot to migrate your databases! sys.version should be >= 114 but in db it is 112", and a "404 Not Found" on a calendar event. For this last one, it's probably because I deleted the event from the Tuta Calendar app, but it didn't stop it from displaying a reminder for the deleted event... And the unread email counter is constantly wrong 😫

#InfoSec #Privacy