Notices by Yale Privacy Lab (privacylab@mastodon.social), page 6

check out "Cloud Firewall", a #BigTech blocker by Gokulakrishna Sudharsan that was inspired by Kashmir Hill's series and Dhruv Mehrotra's VPN: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/cloud-firewall/

Yochai Benkler at Yale ISP yesterday with an amazing "big ideas" lecture :D

Roger McNamee on #BigTech: "It’s bigger than Facebook. This is a problem with the entire internet platform industry... The problem with Google and Facebook is that their goal is to replace humans in many of the core activities of life..." https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/feb/16/roger-mcnamee-zucked-waking-up-to-the-facebook-catastrophe-interview

great work coming out of Defensive Lab and progress on v2 of PiRanhaLysis 🤓
https://twitter.com/MaliciaRogue/status/1101804251586670595

crowdsourced #SurveillanceCreep https://twitter.com/jeremyburge/status/1101402001907372032

*Jeremiah Foster! https://www.jeremiahfoster.com

thanks to Jeremiah Frost for the excellent talk on car privacy and security 🚗 https://law.yale.edu/yls-today/yale-law-school-events/talk-jeremiah-foster-security-and-software-defined-cars

we're looking for volunteers to seed / host the .iso file for Quillux GNU/Linux, our @debian respin with Signal, Wire, @matrix, @torproject Browser, @DuckDuckGo, and more. Please comment or DM and we'll send the file + checksum. https://goblinrefuge.com/mediagoblin/u/privacylab/m/quillux-gnu-linux-19-02-preview/

we're looking for volunteers to seed / host the .iso file for Quillux GNU/Linux, our @debian respin with @signalapp, @wire, @RiotChat, @torproject Browser, @duckduckgo, and more. Please comment or DM and we'll send the file + checksum. https://goblinrefuge.com/mediagoblin/u/privacylab/m/quillux-gnu-linux-19-02-preview/

PilferShush Jammer updated by Cityfreqs with performance tweaks 🎉 https://f-droid.org/en/packages/cityfreqs.com.pilfershushjammer/ #SurveillanceCapitalism

🦔 TOMORROW @ 2PM: "Get Secure with Quillux OS" Looking for a more secure and privacy-respecting operating system? Privacy Lab has developed Quillux GNU/Linux with you in mind. Quillux includes Signal, Wire, @torproject Browser, PGP/GPG e-mail and more. https://frama.link/quillux2019 🦔

TOMORROW @ NOON: "Security and Software Defined Cars", a talk with Jeremiah Frost: "Car companies are becoming software companies; automation and machine learning is changing not just how cars are built, but how they run... the pace of change is astonishing." https://frama.link/KpFmQ1KS

our friend and a huge help to us @U039b in Wall Street Journal: "Esther Onfroy... [showed] that at least one app... BetterMe: Weight Loss Workouts, was in its Android version also sharing users’ weights and heights with Facebook as soon as they were entered." https://www.docdroid.net/ctMeYkY/wsj2019-02-22.pdf

@Nebuchadnezzar Clementine: https://www.clementine-player.org

RebLawCon 2019 starts tomorrow! https://reblaw.yale.edu Our Laurin Weissinger and @seanodiggity will be facilitating a Digital Self-Defense workshop at noon on Saturday: https://frama.link/reblaw-2019

💕 a poignant message of love on V Day: "And that’s why I love free software! It gives you back the control over your machine. It’s something that you can trust, as there are no secrets kept from you..." 💘 https://blog.jabberhead.tk/2019/02/14/i-love-free-software-day-2019/ … #ilovefs #privacy #security @fsfe

watch how @diggity helps Kashmir Hill avoid the #BigTech giants using tools like RiseUp.net services and @torproject -powered OnionShare: https://gizmodo.com/i-cut-the-big-five-tech-giants-from-my-life-it-was-hel-1831304194