Walter S. @walter@programist.ro

This is not a sustainable model for handling security:
https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/oof29b/windows_defender_july_update_will_delete/

https://twitter.com/XMPPwocky/status/1420527243172868097

Security is a never ending story...

https://dolosgroup.io/blog/2021/7/9/from-stolen-laptop-to-inside-the-company-network

#tpm #vpn #physicalAccessMeansYouArePowned

Next time somebody complains about how HTTPS is "useless" or some such, send them this:
https://www.occrp.org/en/the-pegasus-project/how-does-pegasus-work#network-injection

"""
A target’s web browsing can leave them open to attack without the need for them to click on a specifically-designed malicious link. This approach involves waiting for the target to visit a website that is not fully secured during their normal online activity. Once they click on a link to an unprotected site, NSO Group’s software can access the phone and trigger an infection.
"""

#InfoSec

Crazy: @chbmeyer says he asked #Renault what kind of personal data his car collects & shares with the company. #GDPR

Here you go, dystopian shit:

- Charging history
- Temperature
- Unique car & battery IDs
- Kilometres driven (battery)
- Operational state of engine
- Driving & parking history
- Data on speed, acceleration & deceleration
- Number of times ABS has been activated
- When airbags are deactivated
- Name, first name & email of owner
- Other electric vehicles in vicinity
- Geolocation

Does this tool exist (ideally as FOSS):

- you upload a series of slides / add content
- viewers access a web page
- as you advance the slides/content, the content on the webpage changes automatically

?

So you can present, without the bandwidth of video / screen sharing.

If you want to know why there is so much resentment towards Canonical and Ubuntu in the rest of the Linux world, this is a good example. https://www.happyassassin.net/posts/2016/06/16/on-snappy-and-flatpak-business-as-usual-in-the-canonical-propaganda-department/

Weird - writing a Paypal scams article for a client (how to avoid them, not how to do them) and using Google docs because that’s what the client uses, when suddenly…

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Which is odd.

I’m guessing Google scans the documents for known spammy /scammy phrases?

Yet another reason I don’t use Google unless I have to…

Herzlich willkommen auf Mastodon @unihohenheim @Umweltministerium

Gutes Zeichen für eine datenschutzkonforme digitale Kommunikation: Die ersten beiden öffentlichen Stellen in #bawü haben bei uns einen Account eingerichtet.

Wir öffnen nach und nach die Instanz, andere öffentliche Stellen können es dem Umweltministerium BaWü und der Uni Hohenheim nachmachen!

#Datenschutz und #Digitalisierung gehören zusammen - und funktionieren zusammen 👍

A thought-provoking article by a person that ditched his social media and even smartphone. He found a lot of happiness in it. https://alvarez.gumroad.com/l/living-like-it-s-99

The #PinePhone modem (yes, the modem) can now run Linux kernel 5.10 ( @postmarketOS )... we're sure many of you know where this is heading :)
Massive thanks to biktorgj, konradybcio and others.