Privacy – Paolo Redaelli https://monodes.com/predaelli A civil engineer with a longlife fondness for Software Libero Mon, 15 May 2023 17:36:45 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.2 91795679 https://monodes.com/predaelli/2023/05/15/10470/ https://monodes.com/predaelli/2023/05/15/10470/#respond Mon, 15 May 2023 17:36:45 +0000 https://monodes.com/predaelli/2023/05/15/10470/ Come dire, la tocca piano piano… https://edri.org/our-work/eu-plans-allow-big-tech-to-exploit-your-medical-records-without-permission/

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Of course, they don’t need it https://monodes.com/predaelli/2023/03/10/of-course-they-dont-need-it/ https://monodes.com/predaelli/2023/03/10/of-course-they-dont-need-it/#respond Fri, 10 Mar 2023 19:04:00 +0000 https://monodes.com/predaelli/?p=10291 WhatsApp Would Not Remove End-To-End Encryption For UK Law, Says Chief – wrote Slashdot

Of course they would not remove it, they don’t need it!

Governments have their own Meta-provided comfortable backdoor to WhatsApp.

How can I be sure? I’m not, but being WhatsApp proprietary software it is pratically impossible to ensure there are no back doors. So as we can’t be sure there are no backdoor we must held for true that there are backdoor, until proof and behave accordingly.

The proper way should be not to use WhatsApp but far too many people use it. A more feasible approach should be to use it to suggest people to leave it, using more secure alternatives (in descending order of privacy Briar, Signal, Sessio, Telegram and others. I posted a comparison here, I think it’s time to refresh it)

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Yet another https://monodes.com/predaelli/2022/12/22/yet-another/ https://monodes.com/predaelli/2022/12/22/yet-another/#respond Thu, 22 Dec 2022 20:05:00 +0000 https://monodes.com/predaelli/?p=9939 For my personal serie “yet another reason to avoid x”, today we have Roomba:

Intimate Photos By Roomba Vacuums Leaked Online

Your robot vacuums are watching you and the resulting imagery of your most private moments can, horrifically, get leaked online… iRobot … confirmed that gig workers shared intimate photos… to social media.

Source: Slashdot.org

Like most other recent proprietary appliances – phones, operative systems, robots and so on – they send a lot of data to their manufactors and inevitably, it was only a matter of time: sooner or later such data leaks occour.

Becuase we can’t truly control things running proprietary software.

As far as I know there is no competitor of iRobot that publish sources of their software and while iRobot does actually have an “hacker kit” to let people program a Roomba-like robotm it is far for easy to reflash a Roomba with your own program. Because the first change many people will want to make is to avoid uploading photo of yourself and the data of your home to someone else.

 

 

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Yet another reason → ∞ https://monodes.com/predaelli/2022/11/10/yet-another-reason-%e2%86%92-%e2%88%9e/ https://monodes.com/predaelli/2022/11/10/yet-another-reason-%e2%86%92-%e2%88%9e/#respond Thu, 10 Nov 2022 21:22:00 +0000 https://monodes.com/predaelli/?p=9816 Apple Limits iPhone File-Sharing Tool Used For Protests In China – Slashdot

Yet another reason to avoid proprietary operative systems. It would be quite difficoult to get free-as-in-freedom hardware in that country.

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Diceware – Tarin Gamberini https://monodes.com/predaelli/2022/10/15/diceware-tarin-gamberini/ https://monodes.com/predaelli/2022/10/15/diceware-tarin-gamberini/#respond Sat, 15 Oct 2022 20:38:04 +0000 https://monodes.com/predaelli/?p=9733

Diceware – Tarin Gamberini

Questa è la pagina ufficiale in lingua italiana dellaThe Diceware Passphrase Home Page,tradotta da Tarin Gamberinied …

Bellissimo, ma evidentemente non giocano di ruolo, altrimenti avrebbero usato questi:

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“WhatsApp è uno strumento di sorveglianza”: il duro attacco del fondatore di Telegram https://monodes.com/predaelli/2022/10/09/whatsapp-e-uno-strumento-di-sorveglianza-il-duro-attacco-del-fondatore-di-telegram/ https://monodes.com/predaelli/2022/10/09/whatsapp-e-uno-strumento-di-sorveglianza-il-duro-attacco-del-fondatore-di-telegram/#respond Sun, 09 Oct 2022 07:50:31 +0000 https://monodes.com/predaelli/?p=9698

“Utilizza l’app di messaggistica che più ti piace ma stai alla larga da WhatsApp, ormai da 13 anni rappresenta uno strumento di sorveglianza”.

“WhatsApp è uno strumento di sorveglianza”: il duro attacco del fondatore di Telegram | DDay.it

Anche Telegram ha le sue criticità, ma assai minori. Certo sarebbe meglio passare a Signal, Session o Briar. o XMPP che sarebbe lo standard migliore di tutti se non fosse stato volontariamente affossato da giganti della rete. Certo, richiede una rete di server, grandi e piccoli, ma questo non sarebbe un problema. Il problema è trovare amici o aziende fidate per gestirli.

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Microsoft Edge, Google Chrome Enhanced Spellcheck Feature Exposes Passwords https://monodes.com/predaelli/2022/09/20/microsoft-edge-google-chrome-enhanced-spellcheck-feature-exposes-passwords/ https://monodes.com/predaelli/2022/09/20/microsoft-edge-google-chrome-enhanced-spellcheck-feature-exposes-passwords/#respond Tue, 20 Sep 2022 05:38:23 +0000 https://monodes.com/predaelli/?p=9624 Yet anoter reason to avoid Chrome and Edge: Microsoft Edge, Google Chrome Enhanced Spellcheck Feature Exposes Passwords

Next question is: are Brave and Chromium affected?

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DuckDuckGo Insists It Didn’t ‘Purge’ Piracy https://monodes.com/predaelli/2022/04/20/duckduckgo-insists-it-didnt-purge-piracy/ https://monodes.com/predaelli/2022/04/20/duckduckgo-insists-it-didnt-purge-piracy/#respond Wed, 20 Apr 2022 16:45:00 +0000 https://monodes.com/predaelli/?p=9300 DuckDuckGo Insists It Didn’t ‘Purge’ Piracy Sites From Search Results – Slashdot

I’m sorry dudes, you have lost the trust we placed in you.

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https://monodes.com/predaelli/2022/01/08/9055/ https://monodes.com/predaelli/2022/01/08/9055/#respond Sat, 08 Jan 2022 10:31:14 +0000 https://monodes.com/predaelli/?p=9055 Blacklight da lealternative.net

Quello che fa questo sito è semplicemente spettacolare ed il suo utilizzo è estremamente semplice. Questo tool analizzerà qualsiasi sito che inserite e lo passerà… ai raggi ultravioletti! Vi dirà per filo e per segno cosa contiene quel sito e quanto tenterà di seguirvi e di tracciarvi se non userete adeguate protezioni (come una valida alternativa a Chrome, ad esempio).

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FSF Announces ‘JShelter’ Browser Privacy Extension to Block Fingerprinting, Tracking, and Malware – Slashdot https://monodes.com/predaelli/2021/10/03/fsf-announces-jshelter-browser-privacy-extension-to-block-fingerprinting-tracking-and-malware-slashdot/ https://monodes.com/predaelli/2021/10/03/fsf-announces-jshelter-browser-privacy-extension-to-block-fingerprinting-tracking-and-malware-slashdot/#respond Sun, 03 Oct 2021 18:12:21 +0000 https://monodes.com/predaelli/?p=8740 FSF Announces ‘JShelter’ Browser Privacy Extension to Block Fingerprinting, Tracking, and Malware – Slashdot ]]> https://monodes.com/predaelli/2021/10/03/fsf-announces-jshelter-browser-privacy-extension-to-block-fingerprinting-tracking-and-malware-slashdot/feed/ 0 8740