JA WestenbergNobody on LinkedIn has ever had a bad day. Every setback is a "growth opportunity." Every firing is a "new chapter." Every complete professional disaster is framed as "excited to announce." These people would describe the Titanic as "a bold pivot to submarine operations."
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mccCheck out this thread and realize that once Microsoft invented software (Recall) that can continuously scan a computer screen and semantically parse everything you're doing with it, it was inevitable that a government would attempt to make this technology mandatory https://mastodon.online/@mullvadnet/115747292179816100
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Once again, they use “what about the children”, this time to install state spyware that would continuously scan every action on a phone or tablet and watch everything that is shown on the screen. This will effectively ban end-to-end encrypted communication and open source operating systems like GrapheneOS and forbid that people have administrator rights on their own devices. 2/4
MastodonToday we are calling on institutions around the world to take control of their #DigitalSovereignty, including their social accounts. Governments should communicate directly with their citizens on open platforms, not through the mouthpiece of a corporation.
https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2025/12/the-world-needs-social-sovereignty/
The Tor ProjectCommunity contributions are what power Tor, tune in this Wed, Dec 10 at 1700 UTC for day 2 of our State of the Onion to hear directly from @ooni @guardianproject, @freedomofpress, @hushlineapp and more.
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State of the Onion 2025 – Community Day
Signal News & TipsGreat WhatsApp advice: Leave WhatsApp groups quietly 🤫
#WhatsApp can see everything about your group: profile photo, group description, who’s in your group, even who used to be in it (!), and much more…
Keep your #privacy top of mind. Switch to #Signal.
Download 👉 https://signal.org/install 💙
Discord invite-link hijacking revealed that cybercriminals actively exploit Discord’s invitation system to conduct phishing attacks.
Darktrace investigated “PumaBot,” a Go-based Linux botnet targeting IoT devices. It avoids internet-wide scanning, instead using a C2 server to get targets and brute-force SSH credentials. Once inside, it executes remote commands and ensures persistence.
https://www.darktrace.com/blog/pumabot-novel-botnet-targeting-iot-surveillance-devices
PumaBot: Novel Botnet Targeting IoT Surveillance Devices
Darktrace investigated “PumaBot,” a Go-based Linux botnet targeting IoT devices. It avoids internet-wide scanning, instead using a C2 server to get targets and brute-force SSH credentials. Once inside, it executes remote commands and ensures persistence.