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How to check if Tor Onion Service is alive?
How can I check to see if a given Onion Service is still in-use? ... read full post
How can I check to see if a given Onion Service is still in-use? ... read full post
I use a Google Pixel and I can't use GrapheneOS since my phone is carrier locked. ... read full post
Nanogram is made for the privacy conscious enthusiast who wants total control of their data. Create a small scale private social media platform for family and friends. ... read full post
I wonder how many people using discord have this enabled by default. Pretty sure Krisp records everything you say and uses your voice to train ai models. Not that it's a big deal since everything on discord is completely insecure and not private at all. ... read full post
And no i do not have the privilege of running a local model. I have heard of a AI called Maple and tried it out, it was pretty limited to the point that it was a deal breaker (25 messages per week cap). I would like to know more services
Just curious what laws people would like to see passed where they live related to privacy. Can be an existing law in another country you'd like to see in your own, something new entirely, or repealing an existing privacy-invading law
TL&DR; there's a local win but it's not over yet. We need to push so that even "voluntary" surveillance is not allowed. Full post below. ... read full post
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/56810574 ... read full post
In October 2023, Jabber.ru, “the largest Russian XMPP messaging service”, discovered that both Hetzner and Linode had been targeting them with Machine-In-The-Middle (MITM) attacks for up to 6 months. MITM attacks are when an unauthorised third party intercepts traffic intended for someone else. At the point of interception, the attacker can inspect and even modify that traffic. TLS was created to mitigate this; all communication between the two parties is encrypted, so the third party sees nothing but gibberish (ciphertext). ... read full post
Hey, folks! Please, tell me what you think about Tornet + VPN combination. To be exact in-browser VPN extention. If you connect to TOR proxy first and then connect to VPN you don't expose your real IP to a VPN-provider and conceal the fact you're using TOR (to prevent captchas on sites etc ). This way you could use any VPN (even free tear propriety) Am i right?
I see more and more apps and services requiring a selfie to proceed.
What are our privacy minded people doing when they want to use a service but not provide the selfie?
Edit: Based on the article: Facebook has recently gotten an Ex-Meta Member into the Data Protection Agency of Ireland near end of 2024. They were sued for 250 million euro. They are back now actively trying to push for lower data protections in the EU publicly saying "It will hurt Meta" ... read full post
Dears, ... read full post
I mean with the stupid names, could you not?! carving out interest in this crowded space is a challenge onto itself, you don't hafta shoot yourself in the foot from the get-go!
that aside, anyone got experience with the thing?
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/52101456
Someone recently managed to get on a Microsoft Teams call with representatives from phone hacking company Cellebrite, and then leaked a screenshot of the company’s capabilities against many Google Pixel phones, according to a forum post about the leak and 404 Media’s review of the material. ... read full post
Differential privacy keeps that data private. It’s a mathematical framework whereby a statistical output can’t be used to determine any individual’s data in a dataset, and the bureau’s algorithm for differential privacy is called TopDown. It injects “noise” into the data starting at the highest level (national), moving progressively downward. There are certain constraints placed around the kind of noise that can be introduced—for instance, the total number of people in a state or census block has to remain the same. But other demographic characteristics, like race or gender, are randomly reassigned to individual records within a set tranche of data. This way, the overall number of people with a certain characteristic remains constant, while the characteristics associated with any one record don’t describe an individual person. In other words, you’ll know how many women or Hispanic people are in a census block, just not exactly where. ... read full post
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/54288281
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/android/addon/cblock-origin/
I found this addon on firefox addon store. Its named like cblock origin. Is this genuine ?
I am on GrapheneOS, but this concerns Android as a whole. From the options of Fdroid and GitHub (Obtainium) which is the safest way to install an app? ... read full post
It's really sad to see SimpleX goes the shitcoin route to try and fund their project, Ethereum is not ethical as I briefly explained in this post
Now is a perfect opportunity to fork the project with I2P and add Monero as the payment option both for people to transact and fund the developers and I2P operators
Hello all! ... read full post
Many people argue you have to trade convenience in order to get privacy when it comes to cell phones in the technological world. But can we take a moment to appreciate just how much convenience you can obtain with a privacy-focused ROM I mean think about it, what makes a smartphone? The ability to make phone calls the ability to text message somehow, some way, as well as the ability to access the internet and properly GPS If your phone can do those things, it is absolutely a smart phone by all conceivable metrics. ... read full post
