Micah Lee 🔑
PGP users,
I implemented a simple #efail exploit for Apple Mail, which is vulnerable to direct exfiltration with its default settings. The mitigation, disabling remote content, works but is brittle. So never click "Load Remote Content". (Thunderbird/Enigmail is vulnerable in a similar way, but I haven't tried that one yet.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_67Pz9zpPb0&feature=youtu.be
jim
In the UK, sex workers will be dealing with the consequences of FOSTA/SESTA, as they find themselves banned from US platforms. This outlines the results: https://medium.com/assembly-four/my-six-week-rollercoaster-ride-172eb58ba80e
jim
Observation on #HandmaidsTale: the racism of #Gilead is obscured by the TV series. In the book, black people are removed to another part of the USA, while Jewish people are apparently expelled to Israel.
I understand why this element has been omitted, but it does make the prejudice and regressive ideology run on much narrower lines, primarily being sexuality and gender. Which somewhat risks misunderstanding the novel’s point that repression tends to spill across multiple lines when let loose.
jim
Decided that #PBS could potentially get a shot of #Mastodon in the background, although I’d say they’re more interested in my laptop stickers.
Tlacaelel (thenameless) 7.7
Ireland's Nazis - Episode Two - Otto "Scarface" Skorzeny (2007)
Winner of the Globe Gold Award (Documentary section) at the Intermedia World Media Festival in Hamburg, this two part series sees RAF veteran Cathal O'Shanno...
jim
In SF for a week, meeting activists and hearing from Google about their consumer strategy. Should be interesting.
Boing Boing
It's 2018, and Google just proposed an instant messaging tool with no encryption https://boingboing.net/2018/04/24/chat-vs-spooks.html #cleartextsconsideredharmful #cryptowars #endtoend #android #crypto #google #mobile #Post
openrightsgroup
Google or UK police: who is fibbing about terror takedowns? asks @jim as Google release their first Youtube transparency report https://www.openrightsgroup.org/blog/2018/google-or-ctiru-who-is-fibbing-about-terror-takedowns … #censorship #CTIRU
jim
@SuperLeo Seems that way. As for the reach of US laws: this is unclear to me but might at least need legal establishment in different places, and I guess generally they are not as free speech-friendly as the USA … or it seemed that way …
ácrata
US domination of #tech services by a small number of giant companies has the result of imposing US internet policies on the world; #Mastodon's #Switter instance bumped from #Cloudfare over #SESTA https://boingboing.net/2018/04/19/race-to-the-bottom-2.html
jim
I’m sure others got here first—but was this ban really necessary? https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/8xk78x/switter-down-cloudflare-banned-sex-workers-sesta-fosta #switter #mastodon
lib.reviews
Hello fediverse! https://lib.reviews/ is a free/open/nonprofit alternative to proprietary review sites like #Goodreads, #Yelp, #IMDB.
It plugs into #opendata sources: #Wikidata, #OpenLibrary and #OpenStreetMap (OSM integration is very basic at this point). Still a long way to go but we have a small community and lots of reviews already. On GitHub at: https://github.com/eloquence/lib.reviews - IRC: #lib.reviews on irc.freenode.net - Matrix: https://matrix.to/#/#lib.reviews:matrix.org
❤ Bram ❤
Some picture from #EDRi's 15th anniversary. (really import association fighting for netzpolitik at the EU level that is not well known enough :/)
jim
Now at #EDRi General Assembly, hearing about its future direction and strategy
jim
@grmpyoldman I don’t think so, it was a private and informal discussion. Helpful to do tho.
Andrew (R.S Admin)
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/04/european-copyright-law-isnt-great-it-could-soon-get-lot-worse
This is *Real Bad* and I hope the folks in the EU manage to fix this before ti becomes a law.
jim
@grmpyoldman Yes, she’s chairing the second part of the discussion (now)
jim
Listening to a discussion on #dataretention strategy at the EU Parliament with the Green/EFA group
doryandgeoff
GOOGLE, FACEBOOK and AMAZON. NOT WORRIED? I KNOW I AM https://www.socialeurope.eu/the-orwellian-danger-of-facebook
jim
@noelle I don't think “we have to be able to read private toots” is really true. If it were, how come WhatsApp / Signal etc are able to do what they do, legally or ethically.
Is it a design decision, or just the result of the complexity of implementing e2e encryption? I suspect the latter.
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