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Holy Sh** #Microsoft has installed the simplest backdoor in your #Linux VMs without you knowing about it.

Microsoft Azure silently install management agents on your Linux VMs without an auto update mechanism, so you have to update manually but you don't know they exist because you didn't install them? 🤔

Simply remove the auth header and you are root. Remotely on all machines.🤯

https://www.wiz.io/blog/secret-agent-exposes-azure-customers-to-unauthorized-code-execution

privacytools-dot-io is now privacyguides.org 👀

Google Chrome (and Chromium!) to remove detailed cookie and site data controls. Not good to dumbify browsers even more. https://lapcatsoftware.com/articles/chrome-cookie.html #linux #chrome #chromium #cookies #adjustment #settings #removal

Remember this is a psyop

I finally found an open, #Tor-respecting alternative to the #downforeveryoneorjustme site: http://www.websitedown.info

Might be time to delete your PayPal account.

https://dissident-mag.com/2021/07/28/paypal-adl-partner-to-treat-dissidents-like-financial-criminals/
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It has come to our attention that a recent change in Chrome and its derivatives has broken CryptPad's spreadsheet export function.

We're working on a solution, but in the meantime Firefox still behaves as expected.

#Samsung Washing Machine App Requires Access to Your Contacts and Location
https://web.archive.org/web/20210709210626/https://www.vice.com/en/article/z3xqdw/samsung-washing-machine-app-requires-access-to-your-contacts-and-location

This decision is a slippery slope, and could lead to backdoors in all major encrypted messaging apps.

Whether or not you think that safety is worth the cost of being under mass surveillance, the simple fact is this: 72% of Europeans oppose these laws.

https://www.patrick-breyer.de/en/chatcontrol-european-parliament-approves-mass-surveillance-of-private-communications/

Changing a battery and other components is NOT hard... Together we can shift societal norms away from fast moving consumerism that hurts the planet.

Laptop's age-> 5+ yrs

#designedtolast #sustainability #earthday2021 #earthday #righttorepair

Considering the legal protections disabled & impaired people have in most of the developed world, why doesn't there seem to be any legal actions pushing back on CAPTCHAs? Even gov. sanctioned public services are imposing #CAPTCHA with reckless disregard.