Who needs surveillance, when your local police prefers the same spa?
https://www.thelocal.se/20190331/swedish-policeman-makes-naked-sauna-arrest
The idea of the EU taking the lead on these questions will seem bizarre to many executives who view it as an entrepreneurial wasteland and the spiritual home of bureaucracy.
https://www.economist.com/leaders/2019/03/23/why-big-tech-should-fear-europe
Crypto-Apero Weaponised IoT edition 26.03.2019 18:30@Rotondes
In this edition of Crypto-Apero we'll take a look at how tech is re-purposed for unintended, often bad uses
March against #Article13 in #Luxembourg.
Not sure what they are saying but has got something to do with filters.
#CopyrightDirective
Suggested activities for today if you live in #Luxembourg:
14:00 March against #Article11 #Article13 of the #CopyrightDirective at Place de l'Europe in Kirchberg
15:30 Introduction to Python development at https://level2.lu
See you there.
Hi @Purism what is gonna be your default email client on Librem 5?
Time to update Tor Browser.
Tor Browser 8.0.7 updates Firefox to 60.6.0esr and Tor to the latest stable version, 0.3.5.8. This release also makes Tor Browser more interoperable with NoScript.
Full changelog: https://blog.torproject.org/new-release-tor-browser-807
Another subproject of Sequoia
Hagrid is a verifying OpenPGP key server. When a new key is uploaded a
token is sent to each user ID via email. This token can be used to verify the
user ID. Keys can be queried by their verified user IDs (exact match) and their
primary keys fingerprint. Keys can be deleted by clicking a link send to all
user IDs.
PI's @Bendineliot: "The fact that these websites . . . can’t comply with this basic requirement shows that the current tracking ecosystem is out of control.” We've launched a campaign to uncover this hidden ecosystem- https://privacyinternational.org/campaigns/uncovering-hidden-data-ecosystem https://www.ft.com/content/6dbacf74-471b-11e9-b168-96a37d002cd3
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.
"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
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