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Digital rights for all 🕵️ 📺 YouTube: https://t.co/HeRlEEMVaS 🌎 Website: https://t.co/1uhzTjUw5t 💙 Support: https://t.co/8o940PBxZ5
Joined May 2019
Welcome to Techlore 🔐 This is where you'll learn about digital rights, privacy, security, digital control, and other important topics to push the world towards a safer internet. Here's everything you need to get started 🧵
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We've never seen more attacks on digital rights than right now. We've also never had more people paying attention. That's not a coincidence. Keep pushing.
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This, while Linux seeing big surges? WHO or WHAT could be driving this 😱
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In relation to the GitHub issue here: https://t.co/C4OEmAt8gF Here's an example of an app with 3.8/4 that's marked as silver under the current system.
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🚨 Techlore needs your vote! We're tweaking Plexus app ratings & want your input. Right now, "Gold" status = 100% perfect ratings. But is that realistic? Or should we follow Amazon/Google Maps lead (4+ stars = top tier)? What's fair for Gold status?
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A New Chapter for Surveillance Report 📰 After many years of delivering you all the news, Nate will be moving on to other exciting projects. The mission, analysis, and podcast feed remain the same: empowering you with the information you need to stay protected.
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Parker University's degrees in Strength and Human Performance provide an expansive study of evidenced-based research in physiology, biomechanics, and human metabolism to enhance health, function, and physical performance.
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Great start! Break down the artificial walls 🧱
Sharing moments shouldn’t depend on the phone you have. Starting today with the Pixel 10 family, Quick Share now works with AirDrop, making secure file transfers between Android phones and iPhones more seamless. This builds on our commitment to cross-OS compatibility to bridge
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Tor Browser 15.0.2 has been released. Keep it updated for the latest improvements ✅
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Set your preferences once, and all websites must respect them. The current system is broken, people just click anything to make pop-ups disappear. Hopefully this results in better cookie preferences. Source:
theverge.com
The seven-year nightmare is nearly over
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🍪 Europe's cookie nightmare is ending! The EU proposed letting you set cookie preferences once at the browser level instead of clicking those annoying pop-ups on every single website. Seems like a solid improvement!
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It's not about being ready someday, it's about being ready every day. Train at home with your own personal VR shooting simulator.
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Potentially 1 million people ditched Windows for just ONE Linux distro. Linux usage has been on average rising each year, don't forget that.
Zorin OS 18 has amassed 1 million downloads in just over a month since its release, breaking all previous records 🎉 We’re also excited to announce that the Zorin OS 17 → 18 upgrade is now available for testing! Experience Zorin OS 18 without reinstalling and keep your setup.
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If you use WhatsApp, assume your number is already in someone's database. Source:
wired.com
By plugging tens of billions of phone numbers into WhatsApp’s contact discovery tool, researchers found “the most extensive exposure of phone numbers” ever—along with profile photos and more.
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What you can do NOW: Go to WhatsApp Settings > Privacy and set your profile photo, about info, and status to "My Contacts" or "Nobody." This won't hide your number, but it limits what strangers can see. This is recommended as well for platforms like Telegram & Signal.
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Meta's response? They thanked the researchers and called it "basic publicly available information." They fixed rate limiting in October 2024, but provided no evidence they stopped malicious actors from doing the same scraping over the years...
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We can't protect the Church without YOU! Our mission in Rome depends on reader support. Help us keep reporting the truth, defending faith, and standing for life!
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Who's at risk? Scammers of course have a goldmine. But worse: researchers found 2.3M WhatsApp numbers in China & 1.6M in Myanmar...countries where the app is banned. Governments could hunt down users. People in China have been detained just for having WhatsApp installed.
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Not only numbers were exposed. 57% of accounts had profile photos, 29% had public bio text. In India, 62% had exposed photos. In Brazil, 61% had photos exposed. Most users don't enable privacy settings (More on this soon...)
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A researcher warned WhatsApp about this exact vulnerability in 2017. Meta dismissed it, saying privacy settings were "working as designed" Fast forward 8 years later, still vulnerable until October 2024 😅
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Here's how simple it was: WhatsApp lets you check if a phone number is registered. Researchers automated this for every possible number combination at ~100 million checks per hour. Meta had ZERO effective rate limiting in place (because why would anyone want that?)
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Episode 2 in the New Leviathan Series has been released: "The Surveillance Economy: From Data Collection to Digital Control"
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🚨 MASSIVE: Researchers scraped 3.5 BILLION WhatsApp phone numbers using the app's contact discovery feature, along with profile photos and bios for millions of people. This would be "the largest data leak in history" if it hadn't been done by researchers 🧵
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The company won't say how many people were impacted. Transparency matters, especially when people's safety is on the line. Impacted users have been notified, so check your inbox. Source:
techcrunch.com
The delivery giant said “no sensitive information” was accessed, and did not specify the number of customers, delivery workers, and merchants who were affected by the breach.
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