Privacy brihuang95 • 10 months ago • 93%

>Proton Mail, the leading privacy-focused email service, is making its first foray into blockchain technology with Key Transparency, which will allow users to verify email addresses. From a report: In an interview with Fortune, CEO and founder Andy Yen made clear that although the new feature uses blockchain, the key technology behind crypto, Key Transparency isn't "some sketchy cryptocurrency" linked to an "exit scam." A student of cryptography, Yen added that the new feature is "blockchain in a very pure form," and it allows the platform to solve the thorny issue of ensuring that every email address actually belongs to the person who's claiming it. >Proton Mail uses end-to-end encryption, a secure form of communication that ensures only the intended recipient can read the information. Senders encrypt an email using their intended recipient's public key -- a long string of letters and numbers -- which the recipient can then decrypt with their own private key. The issue, Yen said, is ensuring that the public key actually belongs to the intended recipient. "Maybe it's the NSA that has created a fake public key linked to you, and I'm somehow tricked into encrypting data with that public key," he told Fortune. In the security space, the tactic is known as a "man-in-the-middle attack," like a postal worker opening your bank statement to get your social security number and then resealing the envelope. >Blockchains are an immutable ledger, meaning any data initially entered onto them can't be altered. Yen realized that putting users' public keys on a blockchain would create a record ensuring those keys actually belonged to them -- and would be cross-referenced whenever other users send emails. "In order for the verification to be trusted, it needs to be public, and it needs to be unchanging," Yen said. Curious if anyone here would use a feature like this? It sounds neat but I don't think I'm going to be needing a feature like this on a day-to-day basis, though I could see use cases for folks handling sensitive information.

Free and Open Source Software brihuang95 • 11 months ago • 100%

Was curious if there were FOSS solutions since I really would like to avoid using anything Google related

Technology brihuang95 • 12 months ago • 95%

www.pcgamer.com

The headline itself made this worth sharing

Technology brihuang95 • 12 months ago • 100%

www.theverge.com

According to its current privacy policy, with an account, Hue gets access to the configuration of your system to provide the right software updates to the devices. It can only use your data for marketing or share it with third parties if you provide additional consent. However, in a change to the current policy, Yianni says Hue will not collect usage information from users without additional optional consent. “So, we do not require users share anything about how they use our products,” he says. “Previously creating an account was consent for usage data processing that we are in the process of decoupling and will be decoupled before accounts become essential — that makes sure it’s possible to create an account without sharing usage data,” says Yianni. However, if you choose to use the cloud services for things like out-of-home connectivity, you will need an account, and Hue will process your data, he says. If this change to the privacy policy does happen, Home Assistant’s Schoutsen agrees that it would make the requirement for an account more palatable. “But it all depends on the exact changes,” he says.

Technology brihuang95 • 12 months ago • 97%

www.wsj.com

Oh boy, more enshittification

Gaming brihuang95 • 1 year ago • 100%

www.polygon.com

well i may have to consider picking this up.

Trees brihuang95 • 1 year ago • 58%

I recently bought some pre-rolls from [Botany Farms](https://www.botanyfarms.com/) and really liked them. I've also heard of Hemp Generation and Dr. Ganja but curious what places you all prefer?

Privacy brihuang95 • 1 year ago • 97%

thehackernews.com

"Last November, it agreed to pay $391.5 million to settle similar complaints by 40 U.S. states. Then in January 2023, it agreed to pay a total of $29.5 million to settle two different lawsuits brought by Indiana and Washington, D.C. Subsequently, in May 2023, the company settled with Washington state for $39.9 million for the same reasons. It's currently facing a location tracking lawsuit in the state of Texas." Jesus Christ...

Vinyl Records brihuang95 • 1 year ago • 100%

Been wanting to pick this up for a while. Super glad these guys had a repress of this stoner/prog legendary album.

News brihuang95 • 1 year ago • 94%

www.reuters.com

WASHINGTON, Aug 2 (Reuters) - Police found no shooter and no one injured after reports of a possible active shooter in the U.S. Capitol complex on Wednesday after a possible "bad call," Washington Metropolitan Police Department spokesman Hugh Carew said. "A call came in for an active shooter. It appears to be a bad call. No injuries and no shooter were located," Carew said. Earlier, U.S. Capitol Police urged people inside Senate office buildings to shelter in place. The U.S. Senate was in summer recess with most lawmakers not in Washington. However, congressional offices retain a skeleton staff on site. There also typically are dozens of workers staffing Senate cafeterias and coffee shops, security posts and working on building maintenance, as well as tourists in the Capitol. One Senate staffer said that while the Capitol building itself was not on the highest level of lockdown, police advised all workers there to remain in their offices. "If you are inside the Senate Buildings, everyone inside should be sheltering in place as the report was for a possible active shooter. It should be noted that we do not have any confirmed reports of gunshots," the U.S. Capitol Police said in a post on social media. Police said they responded to an emergency call. An advisory from the Capitol Police urged people to move inside their offices and take emergency equipment. It also asked them to silence their electronic equipment and remain quiet. There was a heavy police presence outside the buildings, with some staffers standing outside and tourists gathered around the perimeters of the Capitol complex. Reporting by Moira Warburton, Patricia Zengerle, Kanishka Singh and Richard Cowan; Editing by Scott Malone and Doina Chiacu

Finance brihuang95 • 1 year ago • 100%

I haven't used TurboTax recently, but I just received a check from my state's government saying that they've settled with Intuit over charging customers tax return services that should have been free. This angers me greatly at how scummy TurboTax and Intuit have become over the years. For alternatives, I've been using FreeTaxUSA but I'm sure there are others that people can recommend.

Fallout brihuang95 • 1 year ago • 100%

Fingers crossed that the show is at least worth watching...I've been wanting new Fallout content for a while that isn't tied to Fallout 76

Cryptocurrency brihuang95 • 1 year ago • 92%

cointelegraph.com

Honestly, who the hell actually thought this would be a good idea...

Free and Open Source Software brihuang95 • 1 year ago • 97%

I'm a UX designer by trade and have some very basic knowledge of Python, HTML & CSS. I wanna get more involved with helping build FOSS projects, can anyone help point a development newbie in the right direction?

Vinyl Records brihuang95 • 1 year ago • 100%

Do you guys replace your cartridge based on the amount of time it's been used or when it's necessary to do so because of a noticeable decline in audio quality? Also what are some telltale signs that a cartridge needs to go?

SpongeBob SquareMemes brihuang95 • 1 year ago • 100%

Not sure if posts like these are allowed but this made me laugh as a fan of this song