If you have nothing to hide, you should use the bathroom in a glasshouse from now on.

#surveillance #privacy #freedom #quote

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/oct/05/smartphone-addiction-silicon-valley-dystopia

#socialMedia #freedom #health #internet #news

#Twitter takes down 300,000 #terror accounts as #AI tools improve

source: https://techcrunch.com/2017/09/19/twitter-claims-tech-wins-in-quashing-terror-tweets/

The company further emphasizes it killed a majority of the pro-terrorism accounts set up on its platform before they could post anything: “Notably, 75% of these accounts were suspended before posting their first Tweet,” it writes.

How can they kill an account before the first tweet?

First I thought they identify the terrorists, on whom they follow. But if they know, that this account is following terrorist, why didn't they kill these accounts first? I think it is impossible to kill an account before the first post. This is pure censorship from a global company, which wants too show, how cool they can handle assumed terrorism. You know nothing Twitter :( #Criticism is not terrorism.

I wish we could address this #problem with #education. If people could identify #fake, #hate and terror, Twitter wouldn't have to take it down.

#censorship #terrorism #kill #fake #news #technology #economy #microblogging

#Chocolate #industry drives #rainforest #disaster in Ivory Coast

source: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/sep/13/chocolate-industry-drives-rainforest-disaster-in-ivory-coast

According to the Guardian’s research, "cocoa is a monster that will eventually eat itself, scientists say. Farmers will miss the trees they cut and burned down for the very reason that their shade would have protected their #cocoa #plants from increasingly parched, dry seasons, driven by cutting down trees."

...

“It’s white people who eat chocolate, not us,” one says.

Is our appetite for chocolate destroying the rainforests?

#forest #environment #economy #fail #news #problem #agriculture #climate

New #NSA Data Dump: #ShadowBrokers Release #UNITEDRAKE #Malware

source: https://www.hackread.com/nsa-data-dump-shadowbrokers-expose-unitedrake-malware/

The modular malware UNITEDRAKE is compatible with systems running on Microsoft Windows XP, Vista, 7, 8 up to Windows Server 2012. UNITEDRAKE is described as a “fully extensible” data collection tool that is specifically developed for Windows machines to allow operators the chance of controlling a device completely.

#security #news #windows #microsoft #surveillance #spy #intelligence

#Solidarity without borders instead of G20!

#noG20 #border #together #Protest #Hamburg #Germany #peace #love #freedom #justice

Software libre para periodistas, hacktivistas y confidentes | victorhckinthefreeworld
https://victorhckinthefreeworld.com/2015/04/03/software-libre-para-periodistas-hacktivistas-y-confidentes/

Cada vez nuestras comunicaciones por la red son más vigiladas y rastreadas. Y más si eres periodista, hacktivista o eres un confidente con un secreto para revelar. Utiliza herramientas de software libre para mantener tu anonimato.

#IRC for the 21st Century: Introducing #Riot

source: https://opensource.com/article/17/5/introducing-riot-IRC

Riot is a free, open source, and multi-platform client based on the #Matrix protocol. To understand it better, think of Matrix as the protocol and Riot as the client. Matrix is a decentralized, secure messaging protocol. It has the benefit of using #HTTP / #JSON APIs, is capable of sending and receiving messages with full end-to-end encryption, supports #WebRTC #VoIP/video calling, and maybe most importantly, offers integration capabilities. Matrix was built to integrate with IRC servers and other #communication protocols, meaning you can use the Riot client as an IRC bouncer.

#chat #itnews #internet #opensource #software

Ready for What?

Why "Kiddie" Linux Distros are Awesome

In another Diaspora post, a user shared this #Linux #humor post, which I "liked" and am re-sharing - with a little twist:

There's an assumption in the comic that the "kids" will "grow up" to become super-duper master geeky techno-wizards with "mad programming skillz" and create a master race of sentient androids or something.

I say, in reply to this assumption, "until you are ready:"

Ready for what? Some of us are just ordinary users who surf the 'net, write letters and term papers, share e-mail, watch videos, and play games. It’s all we did on Windows or Mac, and it’s all we care to do on any OS. We run applications, not the operating system.

Ready? To do what, exactly, besides customize / personalize the #desktop, and install peripherals like printers, speakers, joysticks and stuff? The most inexperienced #novice can do all those and keep everything updated effortlessly in the “kiddie distros” as they have been called. And you can add #LinuxLite to that list - and you see what all the “kiddie” distros have in common? They are #Ubuntu-based. More than anyone else, #Canonical (Ubuntu) has brought Linux to us ordinary, non-geeky mortals and kept thousands if not millions of computers out of landfills. Others are doing similar work! #Salix, for example, is doing for #Slackware what #Ubuntu did for #Debian. And it’s crazy simple to use even though Slackware is certainly not (I just wish Gnome stuff was available in Slackware!). Even #Arch has a derivative or two that are made for simplicity and “friendliness.”

I have installed and used at least a dozen distros, from Debian and Ubuntu (and derivatives including #Mint, #ElementaryOS, #LXLE, and #LinuxLite) to Salix and even the newcomer, VoidLinux. I’m not a novice, but in the end I’m really “just a computer user” and I really only want to get my school work done, surf a little bit, blog a little bit, play a little bit, and listen to a little music. Why make it complicated?

The funny thing is, a whole lot of very gifted geeks worked very long and hard to make Linux available and useable by us "ordinary desktop users." And many of us ordinary mortals are grateful, supporting our favorite projects with translation help, monetary donations, and getting the word out.

And a whole lot of very gifted geeks use the same "kiddie distros" as we mere mortals do, either to help develop them further or just because they want to run applications instead of the OS for ordinary tasks.

-- An unashamed #kiddie-distro user

5 open source frameworks for serverless computing http://www.infoworld.com/article/3193119/open-source-tools/get-functional-5-open-source-frameworks-for-serverless-computing.html ignore the buzzword. There's still a server. #freesw

#Europe’s #youth don’t care to vote—but they’re ready to join a mass revolt

source: https://qz.com/971374/europes-youth-dont-care-to-vote-but-theyre-ready-to-join-a-mass-revolt/

#revolution #politics #news

Why are you guys so anti-dictators? Imagine if America was a dictatorship. You could let 1% of the people have all the nation's wealth. You could help your rich friends get richer by cutting their taxes. And bailing them out when they gamble and lose. You could ignore the needs of the poor for health care and education. Your media would appear free, but would secretly be controlled by one person and his family. You could wiretap phones. You could torture foreign prisoners. You could have rigged elections. You could lie about why you go to war. You could fill your prisons with one particular racial group, and no one would complain. You could use the media to scare the people into supporting policies that are against their interests.

Add-Ons to improve your #privacy and #security with #Firefox

I made a collection of 23 add-ons for Firefox: https://addons.mozilla.org/En-us/firefox/collections/Anonymiss/favorites/

Can you please check them if I've forgotten an important add-on?
I want to introduce each add-on with an article in my #blog and explain how to use it.

#surfing #internet #freedom #surveillance #tracking #monitoring #itnews

Dystopian dreams: how feminist #science #fiction predicted the #future

source: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/mar/25/dystopian-dreams-how-feminist-science-fiction-predicted-the-future

#Dystopia #book #feminism #news

#Remembering Dr. Wernher von #Braun on his #birthday. Engineer, space flight advocate, Director of @NASA_Marshall.

source: https://twitter.com/NASAhistory/status/844896520700923911

#WTF?!

AKA the guy who somehow missed the #Nuremberg trials…
source: https://twitter.com/FiLiS/status/844902347641905153

I aim for the stars, but sometimes I hit #London.
source: https://twitter.com/AnOkGeek/status/844915723956817920

#science #history #usa #space #nasa #exploration #germany #nazi #fail #omg #fail

Will World #War III start with a tweet?

#twitter #usa #president #trump #fail #hate #news #politics

Rather than debating critics directly, the Chinese government tries to derail conversation on social media it views as dangerous.

source: https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2017/01/trolling-by-distraction/514589/

#internet #china #government #media #freedom #trolls #news #science

Don't use #PayPal. They are #banksters.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/01/technology/paypal-giving-fund-lawsuit.html

#crime #justice #news #money #donation #fail

https://apnews.com/879a13dc886c458eb2a1b89bfdd2cc22

#church #crime #children #news

#UEFI / #BIOS Infection with #Ransomware – Proof of concept

source: https://www.rsaconference.com/events/us17/agenda/sessions/6829-hacking-exposed-nextgen

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLo7df2osvI

#security #fail #pc #hack #hacking