Mastodawn

slashtab Jun 2, 2025

GrapheneOS May 29, 2025

Our Contact Scopes and Storage Scopes features provide essential privacy functionality that's missing on standard Android. Scopes are a replacement for the standard contacts, storage and media permissions. We offer these as an alternative when apps request access to any of those.

slashtab May 24, 2025

Gabe Schuyler May 23, 2025

Announcing: https://justaqrcode.com.

Tired of "free" QR code generators that are full of ads and trackers, that share your data, and that want to sell you something? Me too. Here's my act of resistance: I made a one-page site that works entirely in your browser to generate a simple QR code. And that's all it does. You can download the HTML page and run it locally, even. Read the source; nothing up my sleeves. Just a QR code.

My offer to you -- I will continue to pay for the domain name and web hosting for it, myself. If you find it valuable, you can pay it back by creating your own useful thing for the world and releasing it for free. Let's take back the friendly web, one vexingly-monetized utility at a time!

#QRcode #Free #FriendlyWeb #Resistance

Just a QR Code

slashtab May 24, 2025

Have I Been Pwned May 23, 2025

New sensitive breach: The 2nd wave of Operation Endgame to disrupt criminal ransomware infrastructure has resulted in 15.4M email addresses and 43.8M passwords being provided to HIBP by law enforcement agencies. 83% were already in @haveibeenpwned. More: https://www.europol.europa.eu/media-press/newsroom/news/operation-endgame-strikes-again-ransomware-kill-chain-broken-its-source

Operation ENDGAME strikes again: the ransomware kill chain broken at its source | Europol

Cybercriminals around the world have suffered a major disruption after law enforcement and judicial authorities, coordinated by Europol and Eurojust, dismantled key infrastructure behind the malware used to launch ransomware attacks.

Europol

slashtab May 24, 2025

Framework

May 23, 2025

We’re getting close to in-stock on the Framework Laptop 13 (AMD Ryzen AI 300 Series)! We’ve fulfilled more than half of the pre-order batches, and pre-orders placed now will ship in June.

slashtab May 14, 2025

Trail of Bits May 14, 2025

Passkeys are the most important security technology of the past 10 years. You should know how they work.

Read the blog:
https://blog.trailofbits.com/2025/05/14/the-cryptography-behind-passkeys/

The cryptography behind passkeys

This post will examine the cryptography behind passkeys, the guarantees they do or do not give, and interesting cryptographic things you can do with them, such as generating cryptographic keys and storing certificates.

The Trail of Bits Blog

slashtab May 14, 2025

Zack Whittaker May 14, 2025

New: Senior White House official Russell Vought, who's also the acting head of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, has scrapped a plan that would have blocked data brokers from selling Americans' personal and financial information, including Social Security numbers.

https://techcrunch.com/2025/05/14/white-house-scraps-plan-to-block-data-brokers-from-selling-americans-sensitive-data/

White House scraps plan to block data brokers from selling Americans' sensitive data | TechCrunch

The decision to reverse course comes after an industry lobby group called for the rule change to be withdrawn.

TechCrunch

slashtab Mar 26, 2025

GrapheneOS Mar 26, 2025

GrapheneOS version 2025032500 released:

https://grapheneos.org/releases#2025032500

See the linked release notes for a summary of the improvements over the previous release.

Forum discussion thread:

https://discuss.grapheneos.org/d/21207-grapheneos-version-2025032500-released

#GrapheneOS #privacy #security

GrapheneOS releases

Official releases of GrapheneOS, a security and privacy focused mobile OS with Android app compatibility.

GrapheneOS

slashtab Jan 22, 2025

GrapheneOS Jan 22, 2025

Revolut is specifically banning GrapheneOS by checking for the build machine hostname and username being set to grapheneos. We've changed these to build-host and build-user. Combined with another change, this allow our users to log in to it again until they roll out Play Integrity API enforcement.

slashtab Jan 22, 2025

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GrapheneOS Jan 22, 2025

There's no legitimate excuse for banning using a much more private and secure operating system while permitting devices with no security patches for a decade. Meanwhile, Revolut's shoddily made app tells users they're banning GrapheneOS because they're "serious about keeping your data secure".

slashtab Jan 22, 2025

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GrapheneOS Jan 22, 2025

Revolut's app will stop working against once they start enforcing having a Play Integrity API result showing it's a Google certified device. This is not a security feature but rather anti-competitive behavior from Google deployed by apps like Revolut wanting to pretend they care about security.