What's Next for Techlore in 2026: Major Changes Explained
What's Next for Techlore in 2026: Major Changes Explained
Nate Steps Down + What Happens to Surveillance Report
WhatsApp Leaked 3.5 BILLION Numbers
The latest #SurveillanceReport is up thanks to @nateb and @hen .
Writing The Privacy Dad blog has been a rewarding two-and-a-half year journey, and I hope to keep writing, albeit at a slower rate.
So #YouTube is letting third parties scrape your videos even if you mark them as unlisted.
Title: Another Leap For The Proton Suite!
Source: https://youtu.be/618GJb44mpQ
@ciaranmak
Surveillance Report discussed paywalled content on their Q&A posted on the 30th May. Might be helpful?
https://surveillancereport.tech/
@thenewoil RE: #SurveillanceReport episode "Reddit Sold You Out" on the topic that the #AT&T outage is a good reason to use #VoIP. Just a FYI (as I used to work for a major telecom) that most major telecoms use VoIP internally for both last-mile and peering call termination. So if you have a separate VoIP provider and the destination call was traversing over a downed networks, it would still fail.
As always, love the content!
I've heard #cybersecurity experts often say that passwords are more secure than #biometrics, one of the reasons being that you can change your #passwords if it ever gets leaked but you can't change your biometrics. However one of the major downsides of using a password/pin for your lockscreen is that someone could simply look over your sholder to figure out your #password. These so called over-the-shoulder attacks are more common than you may think and the presence of #surveillance cameras everywhere makes the situation worse because now you could be recorded typing in your password!
So because of all these reasons I had mixed feelings about using a password/pin and tent to use biometrics whenever possible. But my opinion about passwords changed entirely after watching this 9 year old video on YouTube showing how to use the "picture password" feature on a #BlackBerry device - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gef7kehpedA
The ingenuity of this system not only prevents over-the-shoulder attacks but is also fast & easy to use! I'm actually quite surprised that this never caught on to other devices because it really seems like a smart and easy solution to a common problem. Thanks to @sr for mentioning this on your #podcast or else I would've never known about this technique.
#PicturePassword #SurveillanceReport #Security #OverTheShoulderAttack