Notices by Linux Socialist (linuxsocist@icosahedron.website), page 3

World: Google, you are so smart, impartial, and benevolent, please write all our protocols and standards.

Google: Oh yeah, btw, we don’t think you should be able to protect yourself from being tracked on our browser.

Google to break uBlock Origin on Chromium.

https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=896897&desc=2#c23

#SurveillanceCapitalism #Google

How sloppy OPSEC gave researchers an inside look at the exploit industry

https://www.cyberscoop.com/mobile-zero-days-lookout-shmoocon-2019-android-barracuda-ios-stonefish/

“Those government developers were testing out the WhatsApp malware on their own devices, and it was storing their discussions on the program’s servers.

The nation-state essentially had hacked itself and accidentally dumped highly sensitive information on the open internet—including details of its interactions with the secretive vendors who sell spyware to governments.”

HT @lorenzofb@twitter.com

If you ever meet a Google Policy Fellow remember that they cannot be trusted on privacy. Treat them as you would a lobbyist for a surveillance capitalist.

If you want legitimacy in privacy do not become a Google Policy Fellow.

#EFF #GooglePolicyFellow

can't believe developers are pandering to the SJWs yet again. i mean look at this, half the characters are black! and the woman is the strongest character in the game! my immersion is totally ruined, god.

Happy 203rd birthday to Ada Lovelace, the first computer scientist

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ada_Lovelace

TIL I live right across the street from an apartment block that was blown up LAST YEAR by an unexploded USA bomb here in Hanoi. Killed 6 people and damaged almost 250 homes. US imperialism will have ripple effects for decades to come around the world no matter what.

I wrote out a quick blog post about my BASH functions for mindlessly running Syncthing in a tmux session

https://sts10.github.io/2018/11/27/syncthing-and-tmux.html