#security

[reality-detective]

Secret Lock 🤔

#pay attention #educate yourselves #educate yourself #knowledge is power #reeducate yourself #reeducate yourselves #think about it #think for yourselves #think for yourself #do your homework #do some research #do your own research #ask yourself questions #question everything #hidden lock #security

[ralfmaximus]

Automakers have been selling data about the driving behavior of millions of people to the insurance industry. In the case of General Motors, affected drivers weren’t informed, and the tracking led insurance companies to charge some of them more for premiums. I’m the reporter who broke the story. I recently discovered that I’m among the drivers who was spied on.

Kashmir Hill is a technology writer who was duped into signing up for a secretive OnStar program that reported her driving habits back to GM, and then onto insurance companies. All without her knowledge or consent.

If it happened to her (a paranoid technology writer), she reasons, what chance does the average consumer have?

Unpaywalled article here.

#security #privacy #paranoia

[lorenzonuti]

Death's dance running the Net.

Now available for purchase on INPRNT

#net #netrunner #coding #malware #security #death #dance #skates #web #server #flash #sisters #output #void #lady #hoko #virtual #loop #light #drawing #illustration #digitalart #digitalartwork #digitalsketch #digitalillustration #greed #scifi #90s

[alwaysbewoke]

if someone came to your home and told you you had to get out because their parents lived there 50 years ago, you would call the police on them. you would think they are insane. you would rightly think they are out of their minds because having people who once lived in a place a hundred years ago does not give anyone today the right to take someone else's property. however, israel has been spreading the lie that somehow having people who lived on a land 3000 years ago gives them the right to take it from the indigenous population through theft, murder, gr@pe, and worse. i'm so proud of these university kids for seeing the truth.

#israel #american right #liberals #militarism #censorship #student protests #foreign policy #future #security #geopolitics #Israel-Palestine conflict #student activism #freedom of speech #political polarization #media influence #yale university #columbia university

[nyancrimew]

OUT NOW: my most in depth investigation yet

in this article we see just HOW little a company handling highly sensitive data can care about security and yes it's even worse than you think

content warning: mentions of abuse/controlling behaviour

support me on ko-fi if you like my work and want to read (non-hacking) articles early!

#FuckStalkerware #maia arson crimew #stalkerware #security #infosec #data breach #investigative journalism

[thoughtportal]

tactics

#tiktok #protests #protesters #protest #collective power #be water #collective action #online privacy #online security #security

[my-craft]

Be not afraid

#gen loss #genloss #generation loss #ranboo #wire monster #tv monster #genloss fanart #tv head #wires #my art #griff art #not holy as in the wind and chirps of nature #holy as in the whirrs and clicks of machine #security

[sreegs]

DELETE YOUR FUCKING TWITTER

DONT JUST LOG OUT, DONT JUST "NOT VISIT IT". DELETE IT.

IT'S A SECURITY RISK RIGHT NOW

This site also covers how to delete it on web:

#twitter #security #this shit is not secure anymore #YOUR DATA WILL GET STOLEN

[philosophybits]

Everywhere in these days men have, in their mockery, ceased to understand that the true security is to be found in social solidarity rather than in isolated individual effort. But this terrible individualism must inevitably have an end, and all will suddenly understand how unnaturally they are separated from one another. It will be the spirit of the time, and people will marvel that they have sat so long in darkness without seeing the light.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

#philosophy #quotes #Fyodor Dostoyevsky #The Brothers Karamazov #solidarity #security #individualism #separation #unity

[incognitopolls]

We ask your questions so you don’t have to! Submit your questions to have them posted anonymously as polls.

#polls #incognito polls #anonymous #tumblr polls #tumblr users #questions #polls about the home #submitted dec 14 #housing #security #home

[ralfmaximus]

The latest update to Windows 11 (KB5036980) comes out this week and includes ads for apps in the "recommended" section of the Start Menu, one of the most oft-used parts of the OS.

Microsoft assures us that these ads are only from their favorite uh, curated developers. Whateverthefuck that means.

Luckily you can turn it off.

Or better yet, replace the Start Menu entirely with OpenShell (free). I use OpenShell on all my Windows computers.

God I miss Windows 7.

#windows #security #privacy #paranoia

[smartvisionplus]

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[wip]

Please make it possible to hide users' posts without blocking them. Like, in cases where a person hasn't done anything wrong to be blocked, but you just don't like their posts.

Answer: Hello, @deithwen!

As it turns out, we’ve received this feature request a lot over the years. Usually, it comes in as wanting the ability to “mute” other blogs on Tumblr. While we would love to build it, we’ve balked at it a bit because of its technical and product complexity. Let us explain what that means:

In terms of technical complexity, our current blocking feature is closest to how “muting” would work. Our current blocking feature may seem simple, but it’s very complex because of how big Tumblr is. Every time we fetch a list of blogs for you or anyone on Tumblr, we have to also fetch the list of who you’re blocking, and who’s blocking you, and filter out anyone with that block relationship. This mapping of who’s-blocking-who is stored in a directional way right now, so the “cost” of loading that list gets higher the more people you’re blocking and the more people who are blocking you. If you’re blocking 1,000 blogs, we have to check that list a lot. If you’re being blocked by 1,000 blogs, that’s another big list to check against.

In technical terms, this is a “many-to-many” relationship, which is almost always incredibly difficult to manage while not degrading the experience of using a platform like Tumblr. The more people who are blocking, the harder it is to store those lists in a way that’s easy to check, but we’re working on making it smoother. The vast majority of people don’t block many others, if at all, so it’s never been a huge problem. But the outliers who block thousands of others (or are blocked by thousands of others) can degrade performance for everyone over enough time.

Adding muting would throw on top of that yet another list of blogs to check, increasing the complexity of something that’s already pretty complex. It helps that muting would be one-directional and not bi-directional (as in, it doesn’t matter who’s muting you), but, as that list of muted blogs grows, your experience may degrade further. So we’d need to solve for that, which is definitely doable. It would just take time—and lots of it.

And, as a product, Tumblr is already pretty confusing to people trying to figure out what “blocking” means already, as well as our other filtering options. Up until fairly recently, blocking was almost entirely one-directional, the opposite way you’d expect: blocking made it so the blocked person couldn’t see you, not that you couldn’t see them. We’ve been updating blocking to work both ways instead, which is more common on social media these days. Similarly, the options to filter tags versus content cause a lot of confusion because they don’t work the same way as each other.

So if we wanted to add another filtering option to that mix, “muting” blogs, we’d need to be conscious of how all of those options work together—and are confusing in context with each other. We should really clean up that experience to be more streamlined and simple, not more complex. And I didn’t even mention the oddity of how different settings apply to your primary blog versus your sideblogs if you have more than one blog!

Taken together, it is a great idea for us to clean all of this up, improve our existing options here, and add “muting” for even more control and granularity. Sadly, however, it just isn’t high enough on our list of priorities to tackle anytime soon. We don’t want to simply tack on muting for the sake of doing it—we want to do a better job than that. I hope that makes sense!

Thanks for your question. It was an important one to address. If anything should change here, you will get news through the usual channels: here at WIP, or at @changes. 

#feature #dashboard #muting #blocking #account #security #backend #your suggestions

[yoan-le-grall]

#gif #anime #old anime #neon genesis evangelion #evangelion #security breach #security #emergency #cyberpunk

[nyancrimew]

new blog post:

#maia arson crimew #blog post #kick.com #streaming #streaming news #infosec #security #cybersecurity

[nemfrog]

Tiger amulet for guarding hidden treasures. Researches into Chinese superstitions. 1926.

Internet Archive

#tiger #aumulet #charms #china #chinese #protection #security #nemfrog #1926 #1920s #1k