It makes reasonable sense to run away from any product made by a company that not only has broken people's trust, but refuses to stop breaking it to start mending it...
Mozilla has recently shut down multiple projects, so why not this one too?
CEO of Data Privacy Company Onerep.com Founded Dozens of People-Search Firms March 14, 2024
Nearly a Year Later, Mozilla is Still Promoting OneRep (February 13, 2025)
The memo...recommended use of other messaging apps, including Microsoft Corp’s Teams platform, Amazon.com’s Wickr, Signal, Apple’s iMessage, and Facetime.
lol
A few observations from others about why Delta Chat is neat but not remotely close to a replacement for Signal (or probably much else):
It hasn't achieved the bare minimum for serious encrypted messaging
"No, Delta Chat doesn’t support Perfect Forward Secrecy (PFS). This means that if your Delta Chat private decryption key is leaked, and someone has collected your prior in-transit messages, they will be able to decrypt and read them using the leaked decryption key."
https://delta.chat/en/help#pfs
It's great they're being open about the implications. But given that there's better protocols out there (Signal protocol for example), it makes no sense to use inferior apps.
Forward secrecy and metadata privacy are table stakes in any modern secure messaging design, and Delta Chat has neither.
If Keybase hasn't managed to "fix" the same base encryption Delta Chat is using, there's no reason to assume this small project will have better luck.
PGP isn’t architecturally well-equipped to provide forward secrecy. In the mean time, I think it’s borderline negligent to put this in the category of secure messaging; the world’s expectations for security baselines have moved on beyond the mid-2000s.
(My reference point here is Keybase, which built a very user-friendly and misuse-resistant encrypted chat on top of PGP in the mid-2010s. They couldn’t get to forward secrecy either with PGP as their substrate.)
Delta Chat treats encryption as optional and requires extra steps to avoid accidentally exposing more data
No forward secrecy and will automatically switch to unencrypted messages if you receive an unencrypted message from a contact.
The way to have guaranteed encryped is creating two user encrypted group chat.
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Is my client broken, or is the text just not visible after you cross posted? Here's the text from OP:
Meta: Coming after your data harder than ever
At this point it not about passive collection, corporations are going to extreme ends to get our data.
https://www.zeropartydata.es/p/localhost-tracking-explained-it-could
I am interested in what people are doing to enforce their privacy while using the web.
I have some things in place, looking to compare with the community.
(btw, I am new here, this is my first post. So uh… Hi )
It cannot be understated how absolutely deranged the orb has been from the beginning. Sam Altman is creating the problem (AI botspam) and promising he has the solution (this ungodly trash) at the same time.
Scam altman even sent a crew to Kenya to try coloniz... Uh, debankin... Oh, scanning eyeballs in exchange for a few piddly dollars. In response, Kenya booted his project out.
So he turned his sights to a country he apparently can exploit: the USA.
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Based on your descriptions of the integration between Windows 96 and Office, I did get the feeling you might run into even more issues if more software wasn't installed alongside Windows as well.
I'm all Mac and Virtual Box doesn't run on M-series hardware.
I had no idea!
And hopefully my comment didn't come across as a dig against your article - it just promises to be a potentially fascinating follow-up. Especially when, even today, Windows Explorer feels like it added previews of files as little more than an afterthought (and occasionally as a PowerToy).
BTW I enjoyed 100% of your article, I think it's a good sign when it leaves the reader wanting more!
This is a very good article, but this part peeved me on a petty level (as well as explaining why there's precious little in the way of screenshots):
While I can't find any uploads that are set to run on their website in a virtual computing session, the files are available to download if you felt like spinning up a piece of computing history.
The opportunity to do a little investigative journalism is right there, and the blog author didn't take it
TL;DR: Mozilla has shifted from the forced telemetry introduced in Firefox 138 for Firefox Labs. Hours after I posted about the Labs change, Mozilla opened bug 1972647, which describes a change to Labs to allow it to be used when telemetry or studies are disabled.
cross-posted from: https://fedia.io/m/firefox@lemmy.world/t/2320051
>Starting in Firefox 138, Mozilla started gating Firefox Labs features behind data collection. > >Mozilla had announced that some new Firefox features would be released via Firefox Labs. > >It is now a few hours since I posted, and there is reason to celebrate – Mozilla is updating Firefox Labs to let people access features without needing to enable data collection.
Based on the comments, this post was online for about 20 hours before being erased and locked.
Original post (removed)
The Minnesota shooter allegedly researched several “people search” sites in an attempt to target his victims, highlighting the potential dangers of widely available personal data.
cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/32339919
> > The Nectar project offers 'advanced data analysis' using a wide range of sensitive personal information > > > A controversial US spy tech firm has landed a contract with UK police to develop a surveillance network that will incorporate data about citizens’ political opinions, philosophical beliefs, health records and other sensitive personal information. > > > Documents obtained by i and Liberty Investigates show Palantir Technologies has partnered with police forces in the East of England to establish a “real-time data-sharing network” that includes the personal details of vulnerable victims, children and witnesses alongside suspects. > > > Trade union membership, sexual orientation and race are among the other types of personal information being processed. > > > The project has sparked alarm from campaigners who fear it will trample over Britons’ human rights and “facilitate dystopian predictive policing” and indiscriminate mass surveillance. > > > Numerous police forces have previously refused to confirm or deny their links with Palantir, citing risks to law enforcement and national security. However, forces in Bedfordshire and Leicestershire have recently confirmed working with the firm. > > > Liberty Investigates and i have learned that those projects involve processing data from more than a dozen UK police forces and will serve as a pilot for a potential national rollout of the tech giant’s data mining technology — which has reportedly been used by police forces in the US to predict future crimes.
A cybersecurity expert warned Telegram could become "a tool for global surveillance of messenger users."
cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/67010658
> Somewhat buried source that Newsweek is using: https://istories.media/en/stories/2025/06/10/telegram-fsb/
A cybersecurity expert warned Telegram could become "a tool for global surveillance of messenger users."
Somewhat buried source that Newsweek is using: https://istories.media/en/stories/2025/06/10/telegram-fsb/
I have an aging (2 years old now) flagship smartphone and basically want a camera that's as decent as the one I already have, but without Google servers getting pinged every time I'm traveling and want to remember where I am - apparently my phone GPS isn't enough, Google Play Services insist they must get involved.
Some ideal requirements would include:
- ~3x zoom
- Solid macro photography
- Optical image stabilization
- Functional in low light
- A sensor at least the same size as my phone's (1/1.3")
- Small enough to fit in some pocket
- GPS tagging
- A sub-$800 price tag?
I understand this is a huge ask, and that modern cell phones have a pocket dimension that somehow fits this hardware inside of them, but I figured I may as well check.
Arrest of Alejandro Theodoro Orellana comes as federal officials have been defending ICE use of face masks against mounting criticism
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/41151237
> > Arrest of Alejandro Theodoro Orellana comes as federal officials have been defending ICE use of face masks against mounting criticism
Summary Pixels are no longer supported in AOSP. No more device trees, hardware repos Kernel source is...
cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/66561434
> cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/66561410
Summary Pixels are no longer supported in AOSP. No more device trees, hardware repos Kernel source is...
cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/66561410
Summary Pixels are no longer supported in AOSP. No more device trees, hardware repos Kernel source is...
cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/66384550
> After I noticed Firefox has removed the Pocket branding but kept the Pocket stories, I also noticed the settings screen on the homepage no longer lets you disable sponsored stories or links. > > Firefox 115: > > ! > > Firefox 139: > > ! > > You can still remove these advertisements, but you have to leave the homepage and dig through the settings to find that option.
After I noticed Firefox has removed the Pocket branding but kept the Pocket stories, I also noticed the settings screen on the homepage no longer lets you disable sponsored stories or links.
Firefox 115:
Firefox 139:
You can still remove these advertisements, but you have to leave the homepage and dig through the settings to find that option.
This was removed shortly after an r/Privacy moderator with significant connections to Reddit administration posted this: Upholding our Public Content Policy
Redacting after realizing this was a karma farming bot
Phone numbers are a goldmine for SIM swappers. A researcher found how to get this precious piece of information from any Google account.
Phone numbers are a goldmine for SIM swappers. A researcher found how to get this precious piece of information from any Google account.
