Key #evidence deleted in case against ex-military man who spied on Julian #Assange for #CIA, says expert report

A hard drive in which the Spanish #police dumped the contents of David Morales’ phones was allegedly tampered with while in the custody of the High Court. Over 17,000 email messages have disappeared

source: english.elpais.com/spain/2025-…

#spain #justice #fail #backup #scandal #problem #politics #wikileaks #spay #surveillance #humanrights #court #security #democracy #news

Key evidence deleted in case against ex-military man who spied on Julian Assange for CIA, says expert report

A hard drive in which the Spanish police dumped the contents of David Morales’ phones was allegedly tampered with while in the custody of the High Court. Over 17,000 email messages have disappeared

^{José María Irujo (Ediciones EL PAÍS S.L.)}

🚨Best News of the Year: We've stopped a backdoor law in France

Encryption backdoors must never be allowed. We at Tuta will continue to fight against mass surveillance! ✊

👉 tuta.com/blog/why-a-backdoor-i…

#privacy #encryption #surveillance #backdoors

This is the world we live in: cardinalnews.org/2025/03/28/i-…

#surveillance #video #CCTV #police #car #traffic #orwell #bigbrother #freedom #usa #Virginia #news

I drove 300 miles in rural Virginia, then asked police to send me their public surveillance footage of my car. Here’s what I learned.

Anyone might wonder how often they are caught on police cameras that operate 24/7. I spent a day driving, and over a month trying to get the answer.

^{Jeff Schwaner (Cardinal News)}

What people tend to forget about messaging services is that privacy isn't just about the content of your message. It is also about your metadata: the information about you, your message and your contacts.

axbom.com/signal-whatsapp/

#digitalethics #surveillance #signal #whatsapp

Why Signal is more secure than WhatsApp

A walkthrough of why you should choose Signal over WhatsApp, and how a focus on encrypted communication can be deceptive.

^{Per Axbom (Axbom)}

The "quantum cliff" is coming sooner than you think. State secrets, financial information, medical records, private communications—all umasked. Forever.

First accessible by states & corps, then criminals, then everyone.

@jesse & I discussed it in our book The Secret Life of Data: secretlife.cc

Now there's a good @WIRED article about it: wired.com/story/q-day-apocalyp…

#encryption #privacy #surveillance #quantum #qday

The Secret Life of Data by Aram Sinnreich, Jesse Gilbert: 9780262048811 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books

How data surveillance, digital forensics, and generative AI pose new long-term threats and opportunities—and how we can use them to make better decisio...

^{PenguinRandomhouse.com}

What do you call a warning that comes seven years too late?

#capitalism #surveillance #SiliconValley #BigTech #peopleFarming #humanRights

mastodon.ar.al/@aral/100451603…

My “not a book review” of Careless People – the book Facebook doesn’t want you to read.

With highlights on Ireland’s complicity and the lengths people farmers (as I call them) will go to to appease authoritarian regimes like China.

ar.al/2025/03/21/careless-peop…

It’s clear from this that Ireland should be stripped of the authority to enforce GDPR and, really, people farmers – and the business model of people farming in general – should be banned in the EU.

(Don’t hold your breaths.)

#carelessPeople #facebook #peopleFarming #surveillance #capitalism #surveillanceCapitalism #BigTech #SiliconValley #ventureCapital #USA #fascism #technofascism #EU #Ireland #tax #GDPR #tech #humanRights #democracy

Careless people

Notes from “Careless People: A story of where I used to work: Power. Greed. Madness.” by Sarah-Wynn Williams

^{Aral Balkan}

@wuethrich

#SurveillanceState #Surveillance #Technology #Meta

👉Which #Messenger To Replace the #DataKraken #WhatsApp with? 👈

#FightTechnofeudalism

#SimpleX

(1/2)

Wie schon immer das Häschen wusste: "Haddu Netzwerk, haddu Probleme."

Nein, das meinte ich nicht.

Was ich meinte, ist dass die Software für einen Massenrollout einfach zu neu ist und für den Einsatz in Organisationen fehlt einfach der Track Reckord.

Innovation ist bei der Software-...

@URH1 @thevril

#SurveillanceState #Surveillance #Technology #Meta

👉Which #Messenger To Replace the #DataKraken #WhatsApp with? 👈

#FightTechnofeudalism

(18/n)

...feindlichen Agenten gearbeitet haben. Oder sich mal über die falsche Person (wie z. B. Björn Höcke) öffentlich geäußert haben.

Die Anwendungsfälle für den künftigen "worst case" sind fast grenzenlos, m.W. nicht einmal in einem Science Fiction (Dystopie) abgearbeitet, denn derart unbegrenzte Daten gab es bislang noch nie.//

#SurveillanceState #Surveillance #Technology #Meta

👉Which #Messenger To Replace the #DataKraken #WhatsApp with? 👈

#FightTechnofeudalism

(17/n)

...👉weltpolitischen Umfeld kann niemand wissen, was morgen verboten sein wird.

Im Gegensatz zu den 1930er Jahren wird jedoch alles über jeden praktisch unbegrenzt gespeichert, auch die Bewegungsprofile.👈

Nur als so eine weitere Idee: man könnte ja aus purem Zufall monatelang, undifferenzierbar für GPS, im Nachbarbüro eines...

#SurveillanceState #Surveillance #Technology #Meta

👉Which #Messenger To Replace the #DataKraken #WhatsApp with? 👈

#FightTechnofeudalism

(16/n)

Noch ein paar warnende Worte für alle die, die meinen, "ich habe doch nichts zu verbergen":

Eine deutsche Touristin wurde aufgrund ihres Tätowierungs-Besteckes beim Grenzübertritt aus Mexiko wochenlang unter übelsten Bedingungen durch die Einwanderungsbehörde #ICE festgehalten.

Im derzeitigen chaotischen...

#SurveillanceState #Surveillance #Technology #Meta

👉Which #Messenger To Replace the #DataKraken #WhatsApp with? 👈

#FightTechnofeudalism

👉 #SignalHack👈

(15/n)

...Clouds of #Google, #Amazon, #Microsoft & #Cloudflare. They can de-anonymise every user!

Here are all the tech details:

primal.net/e/note14hf9%E2%80%A…

Weitere Infos zum #SignalHack:

social.tchncs.de/@Optimus/1140…

fed.brid.gy/r/bsky.app/profile…

chilemasto.casa/@sebagutiem/11…

******************

....

Merle Meyerdierks

2025-03-18 11:21:45

Die verwendeten Mobilnummern stammen (möglicher Weise) von diesem Twillo Hack vor einigen Jahren. Dabei sind die Hacker an Mobilfunknummern gekommen, die die #Signal bei der Registrierung erzwingt und die über SMS verifiziert wird. tarnkappe.info/artikel/it-s...

Signal Messenger betroffen: Tw...

Signal Messenger betroffen: Twilio-Hacker erbeutet Rufnummern

Ein Angreifer konnte sich durch einen Hack auf Twilio Zugriff auf Registrierungsdaten des Signal Messengers verschaffen.

^{Marc Stöckel (TARNKAPPE.INFO)}

#SurveillanceState #Surveillance #Technology #Meta

👉Which #Messenger To Replace the #DataKraken #WhatsApp with? 👈

#FightTechnofeudalism

👉 #SignalHack👈

(14/n)

ich von meinen bisherigen Recherchen denke ich dass es vom groben Inhalt mindestens stimmt:

aus einer gebridgten Bluesky-Convo:

"The #SignalApp is not secure, as they promise to be!

#Signal collects metadata the same way that #Whatsapp does.

All of Signals traffic runs across the...

#SurveillanceState #Surveillance #Technology #Meta

👉Which #Messenger To Replace the #DataKraken #WhatsApp with? 👈

#FightTechnofeudalism

👉 #SignalHack👈

(13/n)

#Signal scheint mir aufgrund des #CloudActs und der zunehmend faschistischen US-Regierung (der illegale Datenabfluß durch #DOGE kennt wohl geschichtlich keine annäherende Parallele) als nicht mehr sicher.

Die Quelle konnte ich bislang nicht validieren, aber...

#SurveillanceState #Surveillance #Technology #Meta

👉Which #Messenger To Replace the #DataKraken #WhatsApp with? 👈

#FightTechnofeudalism

(1/n)

True, however the most important criterion is that a replacement messenger app for #WhatsApp must have any chance at replacing #WhatsApp.
As a friend of mine phrased it here on Mastodon: "I have a hard time convincing my friend and family even to switch to [the known services,] #Signal or #Threema.
As...

You might as well throw your Echo and Alexa-powered devices in the trash like you should have done years ago.

arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/0…

Cory (@pluralistic) with a banger of a post:

pluralistic.net/2025/03/15/alt…

And this factoid:

"Congress hasn't passed a consumer #privacy law since 1988, when the Video Privacy Protection Act banned video store clerks from disclosing which VHS cassettes you brought home."

#Amazon #Echo #Alexa #surveillance #surveillancecapitalism

Everything you say to your Echo will be sent to Amazon starting on March 28

Amazon is killing a privacy feature to bolster Alexa+, the new subscription assistant.

^{Scharon Harding (Ars Technica)}

In Memoriam: Mark Klein, AT&T Whistleblower Who Revealed NSA Mass Spying

eff.org/deeplinks/2025/03/memoriam-mark-klein-att-whistleblower-about-nsa-mass-spying
#markklein#nsa#surveillance#spying#at&t

In Memoriam: Mark Klein, AT&T Whistleblower Who Revealed NSA Mass Spying

EFF is deeply saddened to learn of the passing of Mark Klein, a bona fide hero who risked civil liability and criminal prosecution to help expose a massive spying program that violated the rights of millions of Americans.

^{Electronic Frontier Foundation}

@404mediaco has obtained a list of sites and services monitored by an ICE contractor ShadowDragon to let government analysts search and draw connections between people.

"The long list of sites and services that ShadowDragon’s SocialNet tool accesses is a reminder of just how much data is accessible and collected from and about us to provide surveillance services to the government and others."

404media.co/the-200-sites-an-i…

#news #USNews #ICE #immigration #surveillance #technology

The 200+ Sites an ICE Surveillance Contractor is Monitoring

404 Media has obtained the list of sites and services that ICE contractor ShadowDragon pulls data from. ShadowDragon sources data from all over the web and lets government analysts easily search it and draw connections between people.

^{Joseph Cox (404 Media)}

Happy 10th anniversary to Spyware 2.0 – the video we released at the launch of Ind.ie (what is now Small Technology Foundation¹).

Have we learned any lessons in those ten years, I wonder.

vimeo.com/116656700

#spyware #SiliconValley #BigTech #technology #fascism #technoFascism #peopleFarming #surveillance #capitalism #surveillanceCapitalism

¹ small-tech.org

Home

Hello! We’re a tiny and independent two-person not-for-profit based in Ireland. We are building the Small Web. No, it’s not web3, it’s web0.

^{Small Technology Foundation}

Meet #Rayhunter: A New Open Source #Tool from #EFF to Detect #Cellular #Spying

Source: eff.org/deeplinks/2025/03/meet…

#spy #surveillance #FBI #police #mobile #smartphone #utility #OpenSource #Software #news

Meet Rayhunter: A New Open Source Tool from EFF to Detect Cellular Spying

Rayhunter is a new open source tool we’ve created that runs off an affordable mobile hotspot that we hope empowers everyone, regardless of technical skill, to help search out cell-site simulators (CSS) around the world.

^{Electronic Frontier Foundation}

Find my #hacker: How #Apple's #network can be a potential #tracking tool

Source: cec.gmu.edu/news/2025-02/find-…

#AirTag sends #Bluetooth messages to nearby Apple devices, which then anonymously relay its #location via Apple #Cloud to the owner for tracking. Their attack method can turn a device—whether it's a #desktop, #smartphone, or #IoT device—into an "AirTag" without Apple's permission, at which point the network begins tracking.

Turn of Bluetooth whenever you can! 😱

#news #technology #Software #Problem #hack #security #privacy #surveillance #spy #vulnerability

Find my hacker: How Apple's network can be a potential tracking tool

George Mason researchers discovered that Apple's "Find My" service can be used for malicious purposes.

^{College of Engineering and Computing}

Copilot exposes private GitHub pages, some removed by Microsoft

Microsoft’s Copilot AI assistant is exposing the contents of more than 20,000 private GitHub repositories from companies including Google, Intel, Huawei, PayPal, IBM, Tencent and, ironically, Microsoft.

arstechnica.com/information-te…

#microsoft #copilot #ai #privacy #surveillance #enshittification #tech #github #softwaredevelopment

Copilot exposes private GitHub pages, some removed by Microsoft

Repositories, once set to public and later to private, still accessible through Copilot.

^{Dan Goodin (Ars Technica)}