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• Corvid - What censorship circumvention techniques do you use or recommend if any since VPN protocols are quite recognizable? Tor is slow and not universal so are there any techniques you use or recommend?

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https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/10/reports-china-hacked-verizon-and-att-may-have-accessed-us-wiretap-systems/

https://www.cnet.com/home/internet/att-verizon-targets-of-china-linked-hack-of-internet-providers/

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/10/germany-rushes-expand-biometric-surveillance

Braxman - Non-Caveman Alternatives to iPhones and Google Androids! Find Safe Phones that don't Track You

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cl2mPi_OeJs&t=993s

Closed Network podcast Episode 38 - 

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Closed Network podcast Episode 37 -Surveillance, KYC, Data Breaches and Shennanigans

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Thomas Drake - NSA Whistleblower

Exposing the NSA’s Mass Surveillance of Americans | Cyberwar

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News:

- Federal Appeals Court Finds Geofence Warrants Are “Categorically” Unconstitutional

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/08/federal-appeals-court-finds-geofence-warrants-are-categorically-unconstitutional

Continued fallout from Snowflake hack - The biggest data breaches in 2024: 1 billion stolen records and rising

https://techcrunch.com/2024/08/12/2024-in-data-breaches-1-billion-stolen-records-and-rising/?guccounter=1

Google Breaks Promise to Block Third-Party Cookies

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/08/google-breaks-promise-block-third-party-cookies

Switching from Windows to Linux

https://ente.io/articles/switch-to-linux/

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Open source tools to boost your productivity

https://techcrunch.com/2024/08/11/a-not-quite-definitive-guide-to-open-source-alternative-software/

RockYou2024: 10 billion passwords leaked in the largest compilation of all time

https://cybernews.com/security/rockyou2024-largest-password-compilation-leak/

F*ck FireFox

https://lunduke.locals.com/post/5871895/mozilla-firefox-goes-anti-privacy-pro-advertising

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/128.0/releasenotes/

Signal under fire for storing encryption keys in plaintext

https://stackdiary.com/signal-under-fire-for-storing-encryption-keys-in-plaintext/

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/signal-downplays-encryption-key-flaw-fixes-it-after-x-drama/

GrapheneOS Duress PIN/Password

https://grapheneos.org/features#duress

ChatGPT for Mac app flaw left users' chat history exposed

https://www.bitdefender.com/blog/hotforsecurity/chatgpt-mac-app-flaw-left-users-history-exposed/

Windows Recall Remains Insecure, Researcher Says; Google Developing Similar Feature

Latest Windows Recall preview remains vulnerable to cyberattacks, researcher says; Google plans similar feature for Pixel 9 devices.

https://thecyberexpress.com/windows-recall-preview-remains-insecure/

Telecom Act Partially Notified: Govt to Get More Powers to Intercept and Stop Messages

https://thewire.in/government/telecom-act-notified-partially-govt-to-get-more-powers-to-intercept-and-stop-messages

On a brand new installation of Kali Linux, you can find the RockYou password list under: /usr/share/wordlists/rockyou.txt.gz

To extract this list: gzip -d rockyou.txt.gz

When the file is finished extracting, we should end up with: rockyou.txt

https://www.sevenlayers.com/index.php/202-pentesting-101-passwords-and-wordlists

Closed Network podcast Episode 36 - MODPOD - Moderators Interviews

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Paperless NGX - https://github.com/paperless-ngx/paperless-ngx

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AnyType - https://anytype.io/

AppFlowy - https://www.appflowy.io/

Obsidian - https://obsidian.md/

CalyxOS - https://calyxos.org/

GrapheneOS - https://grapheneos.org/

Immich Photo App - https://immich.app/

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Privacy isn't about hiding. It's about revealing what you want to whom you want on your terms.

Data Breaches:

Hackers Demand as Much as $5 Million From Snowflake Clients

As many as 10 companies are being extorted with stolen data

Scammers previously made death threats against researchers

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-06-17/hackers-demanding-as-much-as-5-million-from-snowflake-clients

Privacy News:

California Lawmakers Should Reject Mandatory Internet ID Checks

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/06/california-lawmakers-should-reject-mandatory-internet-id-checks

Chat Control Must Be Stopped – Now!

https://threema.ch/en/blog/posts/stop-chat-control

Tuta Mail Put Out A YouTube Video on "Chat Control"

Google - Massive leak of it's search algorithm documentation

https://www.theverge.com/2024/5/28/24166177/google-search-ranking-algorithm-leak-documents-link-seo

MySudo UK Numbers - KYC Required



Talking Tech:

Microsoft quietly updates controversial Windows 11 Recall feature – but not with the changes that are really needed:

https://www.techradar.com/computing/windows/microsoft-quietly-updates-controversial-windows-11-recall-feature-but-not-with-the-changes-that-are-really-needed

Apple Rolling out AI - "Apple Intelligence"

- Apple's "Trust me bro" privacy stance with AI

My privacy game plan for remaining of 2024

- Implement 2 NAS systems

- Continue to experiment with moving from MacOS to Linux for Work including Video editing

How I use personal email.

- Register a domain, setup MX records to use domain with Tuta / Proton.

- Setup simple login to use for email aliasing with your custom domain

- Use an email alias for every new account you create along with strong password

- Password manager - KeypassXC / Bitwarden