Notices by evacide (evacide@hachyderm.io)

Buying a new car in 2024 is a goddamn privacy nightmare, part 3591 of an endless series: https://sherwood.news/tech/how-to-opt-out-of-the-privacy-nightmare-that-comes-factory-installed-in-new/

I will be at the Computer History Museum on May 16th, talking about digital privacy, security, and Big Data with the folks from PBS' NOVA.

https://computerhistory.org/events/nova-secrets-in-your-data

As we wrap up 2023, it's time to starting thinking about what industries and practices we would like to kill in 2024.

"Still punk rock," I whisper as I lower myself gingerly into a hot bath full of epsom salts.

From a data privacy perspective, cars are just cell phones on wheels now and I hate it so much.

You may be wondering why I'm salty about data privacy in cars all of the sudden:

https://therecord.media/class-action-lawsuit-cars-text-messages-privacy

"Three years ago, Apple introduced a privacy-enhancing feature that hid the Wi-Fi address of iPhones and iPads when they joined a network. On Wednesday, the world learned that the feature has never worked as advertised."

https://arstechnica.com/security/2023/10/iphone-privacy-feature-hiding-wi-fi-macs-has-failed-to-work-for-3-years/

If you're mad at EFF for making it possible to use Chrome with less tracking instead of yelling at people to use a different browser, then I assume you have never heard of harm reduction. Giving people digital privacy and security advice means meeting people where they're at. Otherwise, you're just running your mouth to make yourself feel smart.

Everybody go update your iPhones.

The new 0-click vuln exploited by NSO Group is sent via a malicious image in iMessage.

https://citizenlab.ca/2023/09/blastpass-nso-group-iphone-zero-click-zero-day-exploit-captured-in-the-wild/