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"Since January 2020, a threat actor has been inserting thousands of malicious servers into the Tor network to identify traffic heading to cryptocurrency mixing websites and perform an SSL stripping attack, which is when traffic is downgraded from an encrypted HTTPS connection to plaintext HTTP. The belief is that the attacker has been downgrading traffic to HTTP in order to replace cryptocurrency addresses with their own and hijack transactions for their own profit." - https://therecord.media/thousands-of-tor-exit-nodes-attacked-cryptocurrency-users-over-the-past-year/ "One of the more comprehensive fixes we're exploring from the user side is to disable plain HTTP in Tor Browser." - https://blog.torproject.org/bad-exit-relays-may-june-2020
reclaimthenet.org
“the Four R’s of Responsibility:” “remove, raise, reduce, reward.”
"Through the lens of advanced data analytics, gaze patterns can reveal much more information than a user wishes and expects to give away. (…) eye tracking data may implicitly contain information about a user’s biometric identity, gender, age, ethnicity, body weight, personality traits, drug consumption habits, emotional state, skills and abilities, fears, interests, and sexual preferences. Certain eye tracking measures may even reveal specific cognitive processes and can be used to diagnose various physical and mental health conditions.”
So they made Android mostly free software. The thing is that at some point they ended up having the biggest market share with operating systems connected to the Internet. So the idea was at this point to make Android non free. But it was already free software, so how do you do that? People can also fork. You do it through the control of google play. They stopped developing many applications in Android and continued developing them in Google Play edit: a relevant 2018 article - https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/07/googles-iron-grip-on-android-controlling-open-source-by-any-means-necessary/
Having a 100% secure system (nobody can break-in), but no privacy/anonymity, is like: "Hey man, I protect you. You can trust me!", says the man with an MP and 1500 bullets.
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https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2021/01/jared-mauch-didnt-have-good-broadband-so-he-built-his-own-fiber-isp/
Source: https://twitter.com/schorselysees/status/1344136636951498753
"(...) Platforms like Amazon, Facebook or Alibaba incorporate more and more financial services into their ecosystems, enabling the rise of new specialized providers that compete with banks in payments, asset management, and financial information provision." - https://blogs.imf.org/2020/12/17/what-is-really-new-in-fintech/ "(...) imagine the kind of intimate history that Facebook could have with a borrower and suddenly its digital cash initiative starts to make more sense. But how would all this data be incorporated into credit ratings? Machine learning, of course." - https://gizmodo.com/your-credit-score-should-be-based-on-your-web-history-1845912592
My last post had the word smart*watch. It repeatedly gave me the error "slur filter - t*w*a*t".
""AIR-FI: Generating Covert WiFi Signals from Air-Gapped Computers," Guri shows that perfectly timed read-write operations to a computer's RAM card can make the card's memory bus emit electromagnetic waves consistent with a weak Wi-Fi signal. This signal can then be picked up by anything with a Wi-Fi antenna in the proximity of an air-gapped system, such as smartphones, laptops, IoT devices, smart watches*, and more." - https://www.zdnet.com/article/academics-turn-ram-into-wifi-cards-to-steal-data-from-air-gapped-systems/ Demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vhNnc0ln63c Paper: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2012.06884.pdf *misspelled due to lemmy's [slur filter](https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/1224) facepalm
He is seen, but he does not see, he is the object of information, never a subject in communication. Visibility is a trap. Surveillance is permanent in its effects, even if it is discontinuous in its action. The perfection of power should tend to render its actual exercise unnecessary. So it is not necessary to use force to constrain the convict to good behavior, there were no more bars, no more chains, no more heavy locks. The efficiency of power, its constraining force have, in a sense, passed over to the other side - to the side of its surface of application.
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PT1 Before the Web: The 1980s Dream of a Free and Borderless Virtual World PT2 Cryptography vs. Big Brother: How Math Became a Weapon Against Tyranny PT3 When Encryption Was a Crime: The 1990s Battle for Free Speech in Software PT4 Bitcoin and the End of History
www.eff.org
"For the first time outside authoritarian regimes, Europe would be declaring which Internet communication programs are lawful, and which are not." - https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/10/orders-top-eus-timetable-dismantling-end-end-encryption
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Amazon Empire: The Rise and Reign of Jeff Bezos (full film) | FRONTLINE
"Germany’s leading credit bureau, SCHUFA, has immense power over people’s lives. A low SCHUFA score means landlords will refuse to rent you an apartment, banks will reject your credit card application and network providers will say ‘no’ to a new contract. But what if your SCHUFA score is low because there are mistakes in your credit history? Or if the score is calculated by a mathematical model that is biased? The scoring procedure of the private company SCHUFA is highly intransparent and not accessible to the public." - https://openschufa.de/ "[SCHUFA] is a German private credit bureau supported by creditors. It has its headquarters in Wiesbaden, the capital of Hessen, Germany. (...) Schufa has 943 million records on 67.7 million natural persons, and 6 million companies. Schufa processes more than 165 million credit checks each year. Of those, 2.5 million are self-checks by citizens. (...) At the beginning of the 20th century, the Berlin city electric company (BEWAG) offered household appliances for sale on installment plans. At the time, the financing was compared with electric bills and only regularly paying customers would be supplied with appliances.[5] This started a system for assessing payment behavior." - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schufa
