Notices by Micah Lee 🔑 (micahflee@mastodon.social), page 6

This stupid Keurig coffee machine has DRM

@criptos I don't have a method right now but I'll happily accept donations. I'll send you a DM

@charlag unfortunately it wouldn't be trivial to port OnionShare to be a Tor Browser add-on because it uses an entirely different tech stack. OnionShare is written in python3 with Qt5 for the GUI

@charlag ahh, I see. Yeah that would be pretty cool, if OnionShare were a Tor Browser add-on

@charlag who would host the web app? The magic of OnionShare is that it's peer-to-peer, you don't have to trust any third party to host anything for you. You host it yourself on your own computer

Do you want to contribute to the next major version of OnionShare? Try out OnionShare 2.0.dev2, report bugs, and help translate it into your language https://micahflee.com/2018/12/do-you-want-to-contribute-to-the-next-major-version-of-onionshare/

This is pretty cool. Privacy Badger Rolls Out New Ways to Fight Facebook Tracking https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/05/privacy-badger-rolls-out-new-ways-fight-facebook-tracking

The Arctic Ocean has lost 95 percent of its oldest ice — a startling sign of what’s to come https://www.washingtonpost.com/energy-environment/2018/12/11/arctic-is-even-worse-shape-than-you-realize/

@_trojka I was using uBlock Origin, but so far in my testing using Firefoz's built-in adblocker seems just as good

@bob I did

I'm liking Firefox more and more these days. I stopped using adblock add-ons and now I only use the built-in Content Blocking, and it's great

The Stratfor hack wouldn't have been possible without help from FBI informant Hector "Sabu" Monsegur, who at the direction of the FBI, first told Jeremy about Stratfor, found the initial vuln, and provided an FBI-controlled server to exfiltrate data to https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2012/mar/06/lulzsec-court-papers-sabu-anonymous

Jeremy has been taking college classes through a prison education system, and was on track to getting an Associate's Degree in General Studies next semester. Since he's been in solitary, he's been forced to miss classes, can't turn in assignments, is missing finals.

Classes are his favorite thing about this prison, and if he gets transferred to another prison he almost certainly won't get to continue his education https://twitter.com/FreeJeremyNet/status/1037697465145810946

A disciplinary hearing last week (Jeremy wasn't allowed to attend in person) upheld the charge against him, and recommended he gets transferred to a medium-security prison. If he gets transferred, he'll probably not get to finish his college degree.

Because it's a disciplinary, not criminal, charge, he wasn't entitled to a lawyer, and doesn't know what evidence was presented against him, if any. He'll probably stay in solitary until the charge against him is resolved, however long that takes.

LulzSec hacktivist Jeremy Hammond, who hacked Stratfor and leaked docs to WikiLeaks in 2012, is beginning his third week in solitary confinement. A guard accused him of "minor assault" for bumping him with a door.

UN's torture expert says solitary confinement "can amount to torture or cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment" and called for an absolute prohibition of >15 days (about how long Jeremy's been there so far) cuz it can lead to lasting mental damage https://theintercept.com/2018/12/04/jeremy-hammond-stratfor-hack-solitary-confinment/

Reality Winner battles an eating disorder behind bars https://theintercept.com/2018/11/24/reality-winner-prison-eating-disorder/

Julian Assange has been charged, prosecutors reveal in inadvertent court filing https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/julian-assange-has-been-charged-prosecutors-reveal-in-inadvertent-court-filing/2018/11/15/9902e6ba-98bd-48df-b447-3e2a4638f05a_story.html