GrapheneOS version 2024091900 released:

https://grapheneos.org/releases#2024091900

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

Forum discussion thread:

https://discuss.grapheneos.org/d/15853-grapheneos-version-2024091900-released

#GrapheneOS #privacy #security

With the recent allegations of monitoring of @torproject@mastodon.social entry nodes being monitored by #German agencies to identify users by "timing analyzes" (https://www.tagesschau.de/investigativ/panorama/tor-netzwerk-100.html), I've been thinking about protections against this sort of attack if it proved to be feasible. The best protections would obviously be more entry nodes and rejection of mass internet surveillance, but as a second-best/intermediate solution, would a #Tor-powered OS like @whonix@fosstodon.org or #Tails be a solution? My reasoning is that the OSes connect to the entry node independent of when the browser or other applications connect.

#Privacy #security #CyberSecurity #surveillance

GrapheneOS version 2024091700 released:

https://grapheneos.org/releases#2024091700

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

Forum discussion thread:

https://discuss.grapheneos.org/d/15819-grapheneos-version-2024091700-released

#GrapheneOS #privacy #security

Vanadium version 129.0.6668.54.0 released:

https://github.com/GrapheneOS/Vanadium/releases/tag/129.0.6668.54.0

See the linked release notes for a summary of the improvements over the previous release and a link to the full changelog.

Forum discussion thread:

https://discuss.grapheneos.org/d/15803-vanadium-version-12906668540-released

#GrapheneOS #privacy #security #browser

El representant de Meta a Austràlia admet que Facebook usa totes les fotos i textos dels usuaris d'aquell país i que no hi ha possibilitat de evitar-ho.

A més, diu que a la UE no han fet perquè les lleis no els són favorables.

#Facebook #Meta #Privacy

Facebook admits to scraping every Australian adult user's public photos and posts to train AI, with no opt-out option

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-09-11/facebook-scraping-photos-data-no-opt-out/104336170

cross-posted from: https://links.hackliberty.org/post/2667522

Apparently some company I do business with shared my data with another corp without me knowing, then that corp who I did not know had my data was breached.

WTF?

Then the breached corp who could not competently secure the data in the first place offers victims a gratis credit monitoring services (read: offers to let yet another dodgy corp also have people’s sensitive info thus creating yet another breach point). Then the service they hired as a “benefit” to victims outsources to another corp and breach point: Cloudflare.

WTF?

So to be clear, the biggest privacy abuser on the web is being used to MitM a sensitive channel between a breach victim and a credit monitoring service who uses a configuration that blocks tor (thus neglecting data minimization and forcing data breach victims to reveal even more sensitive info to two more corporate actors, one of whom has proven to be untrustworthy with private info).

Cannot make this shit up. I am now waiting for someone to tell me it’s a prank.. “you’ve been punk’d!”.

(update)
Then the lawyers representing data breach victims want you to give them your e-mail address so they can put Microsoft Outlook in the loop. WTF? The shit show of incompetence has no limit.

Nach 6 Wochen iOS-Nutzung kann ich sagen: Für datenschutzbewusste Nutzer, die die Kontrolle behalten wollen, ist iOS aus meiner Sicht leider nicht geeignet. Zu viel Kontrolle von Apple über das System, eingeschränkte Anpassungsmöglichkeiten und mangelnde Transparenz bei der Datenverarbeitung machen es schwer, die Souveränität über das eigene Gerät und die persönlichen Daten zu behalten.

#ios #apple #datenschutz #sicherheit #privacy #security