Notices by Tinker ☀️ (tinker@infosec.exchange), page 2

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Twitter: Your DMs can be read by the entire Twitter Corporation.

This is why I only use & support Free & Open Source Software in my personal life. This man is going to prison. Prison.

"A California man who built a sizable business out of recycling electronic waste is headed to federal prison for 15 months after a federal appeals court in Miami rejected his claim that the “restore disks” he made to extend the lives of computers had no financial value, instead ruling that he had infringed Microsoft’s products to the tune of $700,000."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/amphtml/news/true-crime/wp/2018/04/24/recycling-innovator-eric-lundgren-loses-appeal-on-computer-restore-discs-must-serve-15-month-prison-term/?noredirect=on

Good morning, Fediverse!

Hello to all the seasoned folks!
Hello to all the new folks who will become seasoned folks!
Hello to all the new folks who are just stopping by to see how things are!

Hope your day goes well!

Anyone who just recently joined Mastodon, post up an introduction about who you are, what you do, and what you like to talk about!

Hashtag it #Introductions or #Introduction ! We use hashtags a lot to follow ideas across multiple instances!

Check those Introduction hashtags to meet more new folks.

Here are two of my favorite hashtags:
- #Infosec
- #MastoArt

Other folks might have other suggestions!

Watch the documentary “Nothing to Hide” for free on the decentralized video streaming platform #Peertube.

Speakers include Thomas Drake, Stephanie Hankey, Ben Wizner, Hubertus Knabe, Isabelle Falque-Pierrotin, Claudio Agosti, Louis Pouzin, Fabrice Epelboin, Jeremie Zimmermann, Anne Roth, and others!

https://peertube.cpy.re/videos/watch/d2a5ec78-5f85-4090-8ec5-dc1102e022ea

@slipstream - A lot of #Peertube instances up right now:

The core demo servers:
- https://peertube.cpy.re
- https://peertube2.cpy.re
- https://peertube3.cpy.re

And others that I see linked:
- https://peertube.video
- https://peertube.nsa.ovh
- https://video.hispagatos.org
- https://video.tedomum.net

Bad idea! #Keeper , a password manager bundled with Windows has a security flaw. Security journalists reported on it. What did Keeper do? Sued the journalists.

Fuck Keeper.

#Hacking #InfoSec

http://www.zdnet.com/google-amp/article/security-firm-keeper-sues-news-reporter-over-vulnerability-story/