Nedelne rano @nedelne_rano@mastodon.opencloud.lu

Thanks to a new Vermont law requiring companies that buy and sell third-party personal data to register with the Secretary of State, Fast Company has been able to assemble a list of 121 data brokers operating in the U.S. https://www.fastcompany.com/90310803/here-are-the-data-brokers-quietly-buying-and-selling-your-personal-information

Just a reminder that tonight from 19:00 at Level2 there will be an evening of talks dedicated to "#Disinformation: how it spreads, how to recognise it and what can be done about it"

https://www.privacysalon.lu/
@PrivacySalonLux

Evening opened also to non members of the hackerspace.

@cataspanglish @Petzlux @m8t @welfringer @manux @Kalyparker

"If you are an activist, human rights defender, journalist, or anyone else concerned about being targeted by these kinds of attacks, it is important to be alert whenever you are requested to authorize a third-party application on your accounts." https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/research/2019/03/phishing-attacks-using-third-party-applications-against-egyptian-civil-society-organizations/

“Knowledge should not be accessible only to those who can pay,” said Robert May, chair of UC’s faculty Academic Senate

https://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/press-room/uc-terminates-subscriptions-worlds-largest-scientific-publisher-push-open-access-publicly

Spies gonna spy, regardless.

https://theintercept.com/2018/02/17/gchq-belgacom-investigation-europe-hack/

We all knew it but had no official documents to prove it.

Now #Sweden has finally published a preliminary report indicating that #Cloud Office platforms, like #Office365 #GApps, aren't safe to be used in Government.

Let's see if other European Governments will ignore the report or they'' start reversing some of the silly policies they've implemented up to now.
https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/news/security-and-compliance

Debian, along with 30+ organizations, recently signed the Affirmation of the Open Source Definition. https://opensource.org/node/966 #opensource #freesoftware

@paolo

This is the sort of crap that just grinds me down and makes me want to throw in the towel on #mailpile.

Google wins, they can just own e-mail. Fuck it.*

Their guidelines actually demand I create a video demonstrating how the app works: https://support.google.com/cloud/answer/9110914#check-verification

It so happens that I've decided to get some videos made... but this is not what I had in mind. And that project will also take weeks, maybe even months. Ugh.

*) venting, not really, fuck no

OnionShare is an open source tool by Micah Lee for securely and anonymously sending and receiving files using Tor onion services.

The newest version adds anonymous dropboxes, supports new Tor addresses, and is translated into a dozen new languages.
https://micahflee.com/2019/02/onionshare-2/

Today I went for a walk in #Luxembourg City following the Alzette and went in a couple of museums/art and cultural exhibitions.
One of them was about Nazi #Propaganda and Hitler's ascent to power.... history seems to be repeating itself and nobody seems to be noticing.

~=8 Character Passwords Are Dead=~

New benchmark from the Hashcat Team shows a 2080Ti GPU passing 100 Billion password guesses per second (NTLM hash).

This means that the entire keyspace, or every possible combination of:
- Upper
- Lower
- Number
- Symbol

...of an 8 character password can be guessed in:

~2.5 hours

(8x 2080Ti GPUs against NTLM Windows hash)

#Hacking #Infosec