yawnbox @yawnbox@disobey.net

My ebooks and audiobooks (from @torbooks, @HoZ_Books, @mcsweeneys, and others) are for sale all over the net, but I sell 'em too, and when you buy 'em from me, I earn twice as much and you get books with no DRM and no license "agreements."

https://craphound.com/shop/

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I profiled security researcher and WireGuardVPN creator Jason A. Donenfeld for Business Insider. https://s3.amazonaws.com/external_clips/3677850/How_Jason_A._Donenfeld_created_secure_VPN_WireGuard__included_in_Linux_-_Business_Insider.pdf

I'm looking for articles about uploading contact list in apps. I'm especially interested privacy violations and what such uploads reveal about your contacts.

Nice, @ooni’s Probe app recently added a test to validate connectivity to @riseup’s VPN.

- https://ooni.org/nettest/riseupvpn

#Privacy

Shit like this in legitimate news sites is why fake news is so prevalent - it's easier to access.

nyaa.si, a popular anime-focused torrent tracker, has had its source code removed from GitHub after the MPA filed a DMCA takedown request.

Read their lunacy here if you'd like: https://github.com/github/dmca/blob/master/2021/01/2021-01-14-mpa.md

All communication in #signal goes through these tech giants: Amazon, Google, Microsoft and Cloudflare
Just texting goes through Amazon.
Group chat will also go through Google.
...
#GAFAM is toxic to free software, supports mass surveillance and a lot other very bad things. Supporting such companies means also supporting their culture and their dominance. It's never just about the privacy of a single person.

There are already over 20 Tor relay operators (>200 relays, > 10% exit capacity) that make use of the
tor ContactInfo information sharing specification (CIISS) to get some group wide graphs generated for their relays:
https://nusenu.github.io/OrNetStats/index.html#verified-operator-domains

Bellow is shown a sample graph by one of them:

Would you use Briar more often, if you could easily use it with @tails?

I'm curious to know how people feel about the new Thunderbird/GPG

Asking because after having trained hundreds of people to use email encryption, the constant need to fix settings and deal with error notices makes me want to crawl under a blanket and give up on encrypting emails

It's hella cool, hurts no one, you get free shit, and it's the most ethical way to consume media. I can't recommend it enough 🙂