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RE: techhub.social/@Techmeme/11660…
Remember this whenever you hear claims that your data is secure on some system or other that you do not own and control.
Like all that additional data governments want to gather via the slippery slope of “age verification” in the EU.
The only data that is actually secure on a third party is data you haven’t shared with the third party.
Hence: data minimisation.
Had I mentioned GDMR yet today? Because I feel I might have. But hey, here it is again:
ar.al/2018/11/29/gdmr-this-one…
#data #security #privacy #GDMR #microsoft #github #hack
GDMR: this one simple regulation could end surveillance capitalism in the EU
GDMR: The regulation EU citizens deserve. No, you didn’t misread it and, no, it’s not a typo. GDMR – the General Data Minimisation Regulation – can end surveillance capitalism in the EU. The problem is that no such regulation exists.Aral Balkan
GitHub confirms breach of ~3,800 repositories after one of its employees installed a malicious VS Code extension; TeamPCP claimed responsibility for the hack (Sergiu Gatlan/BleepingComputer)bleepingcomputer.com/news/secu…
techmeme.com/260520/p14#a26052…GitHub confirms breach of ~3,800 internal repositories after one of its employees installed a malicious VS Code extension; TeamPCP claimed responsibility
By Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer. View the full context on Techmeme.Techmeme
info on the github breach appears to only be available on xitter 🙄 , I fished it out for you.
🚨 GitHub is investigating unauthorized access to their internal repositories
xcancel.com/github/status/2056…
GitHub (@github)
We are investigating unauthorized access to GitHub’s internal repositories. While we currently have no evidence of impact to customer information stored outside of GitHub’s internal repositories (such as our customers’ enterprises, organizations, and…Nitter
twitter.com/github/status/2056… #GitHub #InternetSafety #DataBreach #HackerNews #ngated
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GitHub recently announced that starting with v2.91.0 GitHub CLI will start sending pseudonymized telemetry data back to GitHub.
github.blog/changelog/2026-04-…
Since this is an opt-out feature, most users will have it activated without knowing it. This is unacceptable in my opinion. So I took the liberty of turning this into an opt-in, disabled by default for nixpkgs.
github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/…
#GitHub #nixos #nixpkgs #privacy
GitHub CLI: Opt-out usage telemetry - The GitHub Blog
With the release of v2.91.0, GitHub CLI sends pseudonymous usage telemetry to help us improve the product. We want you to understand what we send and why. Why we collect…Allison (The GitHub Blog)
hey "haha github uptime lol" and all that but this is serious: some pull request merges were completely mangled yesterday and the repo may not be in the state that its maintainers expect. If your project processed any updates yesterday, please double-check githubstatus.com/incidents/zsg…
