⊥ᵒᵚ Cᵸᵎᶺᵋᶫ∸ᵒᵘ ☑️ @falken@qoto.org

The #coronation hasn't even happened yet and it's already a cringingly anachronistic, histrionic, onanistic, fever dream that's about as self-aware as Marie Antoinette responding to the news that the peasants are cold by setting fire to them.

@neil DuckDuckGo, for many years now. I find it’s much better than Google due to prioritising StackOverflow answers to programming queries (which is probably half my searches) and Wikipedia for generic stuff like ‘tell me about this drug I’ve just been prescribed’.

@Em0nM4stodon

February 2026: the UK blocks all non-UK websites in the name of “child protection”. Or “anti-terrorism”. No-one is sure, as the notes are in Dropbox, which is now blocked, and the ministerial discussion was on WhatsApp, which ministers used because it was end to end encrypted and which they blocked because it was end to end encrypted.

The UK’s official Mastodon instance is launched with the slogan “A British site for British people”, forgetting Northern Ireland.

Stop the Online Safety Bill

https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/634725

Sign the petition before they pass a law that requires all messaging providers to monitor the content of everyone's messages.

Bartender who laid out welcome mat with swastika beneath a banner saying NAZIS WELCOME HERE "concerned" that his bar could be visited by Nazis:

https://twitter.com/pookleblinky/status/1651783347759194112

You're on a very promising first date and find out that your chosen restaurant only provides menus, ordering, and payment via scanning a QR code with your phone. No cash accepted.

Your date politely says this is a discriminatory practice and a bad #privacy and #DataSecurity situation. You:

(Hey, not to boost grovel, but I'd love it if this got wide exposure.)

Wikipedia says it won’t comply with UK online safety bill requirements for age verification. Pleased to see then pushing back against Government’s attempt to control a free internet https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-65388255

Google has just updated its 2FA Authenticator app and added a much-needed feature: the ability to sync secrets across devices.

TL;DR: Don't turn it on.

The new update allows users to sign in with their Google Account and sync 2FA secrets across their iOS and Android devices.

We analyzed the network traffic when the app syncs the secrets, and it turns out the traffic is not end-to-end encrypted. As shown in the screenshots, this means that Google can see the secrets, likely even while they’re stored on their servers. There is no option to add a passphrase to protect the secrets, to make them accessible only by the user.

Why is this bad?

Every 2FA QR code contains a secret, or a seed, that’s used to generate the one-time codes. If someone else knows the secret, they can generate the same one-time codes and defeat 2FA protections. So, if there’s ever a data breach or if someone obtains access ....

#Privacy #Cybersecurity #InfoSec #2FA #Google #Security

@stux Any word on why mstdn.social blocked qoto recently.. they added the following reasaon, which makes no sense, what is going on over there:

"Objects to the fediblock process and claims that it should be put to a "democratic vote" weighted by instance size, and his just happens to be the largest."

Your mods going rogue over there or something?

@Pat @trinsec @khird