A Practical opsec guide – looking for feedback & suggestions
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/25679666
I recently put together a detailed opsec guide that covers practical steps for reducing your digital footprint, securing communications, and avoiding common pitfalls people make when trying to stay private online.
The goal was to create something that's actually useful and not just the usual "use a vpn and tor" advice. I tried to break down realistic methods that can help both beginners and people already familiar with opsec.
Id love to get some feedback from the community - what's missing, what could be improved, and if there's anything you disagree with.
The Google Pixel 4a battery update, which made many devices unusable, hides even more than we thought — and we know everything.
With an invisible selfie camera cutout and terrific hardware, the Z70 Ultra manages to stand out in a crowded category.
We want to draw attention to one of the executive orders that directly impacts the freedom tools that people around the world rely on to safeguard their security, privacy, and anonymity. EFF understands how critical these tools are – protecting the ability to make and share anticensorship, privacy a...
Just copied it
From @AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works
Thanks for the great work!
Point to consider - you might want to stop mass banning people from dubvee if you're hosting the main tesseract comm there? I'm not sure why a few comments about supporting Luigi have any relevance to me not being able to provide feedback or engage in discussion there.
Anyway, just noting a bug I've been seeing the last couple days (so presumably this release since I'm using the dubvee frontend). When scrolling to the end of existing content and loading new content, the feed occasionally 'jumps' forward multiple screens. If I scroll back up far enough I can find where I was when it loaded and jumped. It's inconsistent, but I suspect it has something to do with browsing on 'All' and blocking comms. I'd open another github issue, but I'm on mobile right now which makes that a hassle.
Edit: Just realised that seeing as he instance-banned me from dubvee, he's probably never going to see this comment. Oh well, c'est la vie. 🤷♂️
The EFF's Guide to Attending a Protest
For quick reference, we've created a handy guide designed to be printed, folded, and carried in your pocket (PDF download). Now, more than ever, citizens must be able to hold those in power accountable and inspire others through the act of protest. Protecting your electronic devices and digital as...
If there's something I might never upgrade, it's GRUB.
Too many memories of messing it up and having to look up on another computer how to restore it
I posted this one too, just deleted it
F-Droid Awarded Open Technology Fund’s FOSS Sustainability Grant
We are excited to announce that F-Droid has been awarded $396,044 from theOpen Technology Fund’s FOSS SustainabilityFund.This grant is specifically designed ...
cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/54632389
We are excited to announce that F-Droid has been awarded $396,044 from the Open Technology Fund’s FOSS Sustainability Fund. This grant is specifically designed to support free and open-source software (FOSS) projects in addressing long-term sustainability challenges, and we are honored to be among the recipients.
Ask Mozilla: Bring back Do Not Track
cross-posted from: https://mander.xyz/post/24524978
https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/advertisers-and-publishers-adopt-and-implement-do-not-track/ Mozilla introduced the Do Not Track feature in January 2011 and other major web browsers soon did the same. With the Do Not Track preference enabled, when a user attempts to connect to a website, a Do Not Track signal is sent as a part of the header which is sent during the connection attempt. A website which obeys Do Not Track requests is able to act on the user's choice before loading a webpage.
A website which obeys a Do Not Track signal value of "true" can use this setting positively in multiple ways.
a) https://lemmy.world/post/22974927 More than 15 analytics tools can be conveniently configured by a website operator to obey Do Not Track signals.
b) https://filippovicentini.com/notes/2019-04-22/ https://medium.com/@fixitblog/solved-how-to-make-google-analytics-respond-to-quot-do-not-track-quot-7f9785385371 Multiple
The company removed tracking tools from its teen-focused websites in New York, Seattle, and Baltimore after parents complained.
Xubuntu left Twitter/X
Good news
Nice to see you here!
Ah yes I didn't even notice
It's not really sublte, but other phones like the Pixel 9 don't really have cameras you can miss either
Xiaomi 15 Ultra launch date leaked - 26 February
The device also appeared in a brief hands-on video. We’ve been seeing rumors about the Xiaomi 15 Ultra’s launch for a while now, and the consensus is that...
People-search sites represent an immense privacy risk to the majority of Americans. EasyOptOuts is a low-cost online service which automates opt-out requests on your behalf.
Ahead of its launch in March, Nothing is teasing a dedicated camera button for its next smartphone, the Nothing Phone...
There is also !privacy@lemmy.dbzer0.com where you can crosspost
!opensource@programming.dev if you want an alternative
Interesting, thanks for sharing
Feel free to crosspost to !privacy@lemmy.dbzer0.com as well
PSA: Your Headphones May Be Spying on You and Selling Your Data Without You Knowing
There's also a render created based on all the teasers. Nothing has been teasing something for the past few days, and it's even announced a launch event...
Last year, the teams responsible for Pixel and Android were merged into one division, and Google today announced a “voluntary exit program.”
Thank you for the update as always!
Therefore I am looking at the possibility of having new accounts have some “default blocks”, i.e. blocking hexbear and lemmygrad (as two suggestions) upon account creation. All new accounts should receive a PM from ZippyBot upon creation with some information on how to use the site, and so a section on removing these blocks (which can be done in the account settings like a normal instance block) would be added to that PM and I’d probably create a post with specifics on how to do this on the various front-ends too.
That would be great!
SAN FRANCISCO (KRON) — Ever feel like your phone is listening to you? Like when you talk about something aloud, and suddenly your web browser serves you ads for what you were talking about? Well, a lawsuit filed Wednesday against Amazon alleges the e-commerce giant has been using consumers phones to...
UK trying to pass law to let AI take anything on internet unless you opt out.
It’s hard to say why Google is doing this instead of a recall.
There was a recent post on !privacy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
Tried already: https://reddit.com/comments/1iarxev/comment/m9f5zmq
As stated at the beginning of the post, it's not mine, feel free to share your concerns on the author's Github: https://github.com/osbytes/crypt.fyi/issues !
Yes, lessons learned. Just sold it back to the place I purchased it.