coffeeClean

cross-posted from: https://infosec.pub/post/9382315

I have had no problem using VOIP over #protonVPN until recently. Connections happen but there is no audio. Anyone notice this?

I wondered if maybe they decided to make VOIP a non-free feature, but their premium plans do not list VOIP as an extra feature.

cross-posted from: https://infosec.pub/post/9382315

I have had no problem using VOIP over #protonVPN until recently. Connections happen but there is no audio. Anyone notice this?

I wondered if maybe they decided to make VOIP a non-free feature, but their premium plans do not list VOIP as an extra feature.

I have had no problem using VOIP over #protonVPN until recently. Connections happen but there is no audio. Anyone notice this?

I wondered if maybe they decided to make VOIP a non-free feature, but their premium plans do not list VOIP as an extra feature.

This may be an instance-specific problem because I’ve had no problem editing posts on other instances. When I try to exit the title and body of this post, I click save (or whatever) and without error it behaves as if my change was accepted.

Most instances take a minute or two to re-render the screen to show my updates. If the wait is long, I sometimes do a hard refresh to make sure the change got accepted (and if I don’t do that and I do another update, the old content populates the form and causes the recent edit to be lost).

Anyway, with infosec.pub my edits on the above-mentioned post just take no effect, confirmed by a hard-refresh showing no change.

What happens if an app uses UDP instead of TCP (or both UDP and TCP), and you use the torsocks wrapper script? Would the UDP connections all leak without the Tor user knowing?

cross-posted from: https://infosec.pub/post/9048075

I simply make a GDPR request. Write to a Tor-hostile data controller making an Article 15 request for a copy of all your data. Also ask for a list of all entities your data is shared with.

The idea is that if a website blocks Tor (or worse, uses Cloudflare to also share all traffic with a privacy offender), then they don’t give a shit about privacy. So you punish them with some busy work and that busy work might lead to interesting discoveries about data abuses.

Of course this only works in the EU and also only works with entities that have collected your personal data non-anonymously. After getting your data it generally makes sense to also file an Article 17 request to erase it and boycott that company.

I simply make a GDPR request. Write to a Tor-hostile data controller making an Article 15 request for a copy of all your data. Also ask for a list of all entities your data is shared with.

The idea is that if a website blocks Tor (or worse, uses Cloudflare to also share all traffic with a privacy offender), then they don’t give a shit about privacy. So you punish them with some busy work and that busy work might lead to interesting discoveries about data abuses.

Of course this only works in the EU and also only works with entities that have collected your personal data non-anonymously.

tested from tor. Also reported down by downinspector.com.

BTW, downinspector.com is the only Cloudflare-free service of its kind, but it’s notable that noscript reports XSS scripting attempts via Google.

(edit) it came back online yesterday.

Language is important. The corporate propagandists are winning the language branding battle. In fact there is no battle because the pushover public just accepts their terms. We need to organize and define their garbage with our terms. E.g.

• (smart → dependent) Homes and appliances dependent on a corporation and contract are perversely called smart. So we should refer to them as “contract-dependent” or simply “dependent”. It’s not a smart dryer or doorbell, it’s a dependent dryer or doorbell. Probably makes no progress to mess with “smartphone”, but anything that has an avoidable and needless dependency needs renaming. (smartphone is debatable.. maybe a degoogled or Postmarket OS phone is a smartphone while a stock Android is a dependent phone, but let’s not get too carried away). Initially it’s not effective to just start saying “dependent washer” because readers won’t understand. Say “‘smart’ (read: dependent) washer”. Credit for this terminology goes to @dannym@lemmy.escapebigtech.info for this post, which gives a bit more detail.

• (Meta→Facebook) Meta hi-jacks a common English word to benefit a surveillance advertiser. We can’t allow this. IMO Facebook is understood and clear enough, but note that it’s not technically accurate because Meta is a parent company which has Facebook and Threads as subsidiaries IIUC (just like Alphabet owns Google).

• (Threads→fbThreads™/®?) Since Threads is the original name of Facebook’s forum, there is no unambiguous past name to cling to. We must invent something here. Fuck those egocentric self-centered asshole fucks for hi-jacking a generic common word to describe their service. There are already confusing conversations where it’s unclear from context if someone means FB’s Threads or a generic forum (threads). It’s not just a confusion problem.. when you refer to a thread in the generic sense and it is understood, there is still a subconcious tie to that shitty company.. their brand benefits from conversation that does not even involve their brand.

• (X→Twitter) This is an easy one. Just keep with the old term.

• (Cloudflare→CF walled garden) I’ve not encountered a replacement term for Cloudflare that’s not overly hyperbolic. But we can often incorporate “walled garden” and “centralized” to stress the issues. Instead of just saying “it’s a Cloudflare site”, say some variant of “the site is jailed in Cloudflare’s exclusive centralized access-restricted discriminatory walled garden contrary to netneutrality principles of access equality”.

It’s worth nothing that hyperbole doesn’t help. E.g. we might want:

• Meta/Facebook→Fakebook
• Microsoft Windows→Microsnot Winblows

The problem is these terms are only accepted by fully committed digital rights folks. That’s not the crowd that needs to be swayed. Hyperbole does not catch on with moderates - the masses where it’s most important for rebranding to take hold. Good rebranding doesn’t deviate too much from neutrality.

• (user→pawn) Exceptionally, I refer to “users” of surveillance capitalists as “pawns”. It’s probably too edgy to catch on, but it is what it is. Users is neutral and understood so it can’t easily be rebranded anyway. I will just say pawns to stress the point: who is using who?

Anyway, this is just the start of a crowd-sourcing effort. Please contribute more rebrandings in this thread as well as improved alternatives to my effort above.

update

Google has hi-jacked the term #Gemini to name its AI chatbot. What was previously a protocol to free people from the madness of documents becoming apps (javascript) and to build a web alternative like gopher without the bullshit -- it has been snuffed out by Google.

Suppose you’re fed up with being video surveilled in public and you object to your neighbor placing your home under 24/7 video surveillance which is fed to a surveillance advertiser (#Amazon). Or you want to kill the video surveillance in vending machines.

laser

Is it practical and affordable to buy laser that can reach across the street and still have enough focus and power to burn a CCD? Can it be done from different angles without the CCD capturing the source before the damage manifests? There is some chatter here on power levels.

Of course it must be precisely controllable as well; obviously no one wants to inadvertently hit an eyeball and blind someone. Which I suppose implies that the laser either needs a well calibrated scope or it needs to be in the visible spectrum so you can see where it lands.

I would really love it if someone would rig up a drone to do this, which could then go down the street and knock out many Amazon Rings.

cyber attack

(Amazon Ring only) A simple cyber attack: if you can find out (social engineer?) the username of the Ring pawn¹, you can deliberately submit wrong passwords until the acct locks. When an Amazon account is suspended, the doorbell no longer functions. Funnily enough. So people with smart homes must constantly obey Amazon’s wishes if they want their home to continue to function. Would love to see that backfire. But it’s unclear if an account locked due to failed passwords goes into the same state of suspension that breaks the doorbell. I just recall a story where someone’s Amazon account was suspended due to some dispute or misunderstanding with Amazon which then broke their doorbell and probably other “smart” (read: dependent) appliances to go out of service.

1. I don’t say “user” because they are being used by Amazon. That means they are a “pawn”.

I bought a Silicondust HD Homerun back before they put their website on Cloudflare. I love the design of having a tuner with a cat5 port, so the tuner can work with laptops and is not dependent on being installed into a PC.

But now that Silicondust is part of Cloudflare, I will no longer buy their products. I do not patronize Cloudflare patrons.

I would love to have a satellite tuner in a separate external box that:

• tunes into free-to-air content
• has a cat5 connection
• is MythTV compatible

Any hardware suggestions other than #Silicondust?

#AskFedi

cross-posted from: https://infosec.pub/post/8863199

This post was composed with a link to a Wired article:

https://lemmy.ohaa.xyz/post/1939209

Then in a separate step, the article was edited and an image was uploaded. The URL of the local image unexpectedly replaced the URL of the article. Luckily I noticed the problem before losing track of the article URL.