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A Country of Boiling Frogs: How India Got This Hot https://thewire.in/environment/a-country-of-boiling-frogs-how-india-got-this-hot
Real forests, the kind that cool land, hold water, shelter life, cover just over 3% of India. Official numbers say 21%. This isn't a rounding error. This is a policy decision. And it is why nobody fixed what was broken.
New post! How end-to-end encryption works in modern messengers, why transition to it is necessary for the future of private communication and where things are going with the rise of MLS standard
Today we'll go over the basics of E2EE, and in the next part we'll talk how it is used in P2P world
Meet Rayhunter: A New Open Source Tool from @eff to Detect Cellular Spying | https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/03/meet-rayhunter-new-open-source-tool-eff-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.
No, Privacy is Not Dead: Beware the All-or-Nothing Mindset - Celebrate and cheer loudly each little #privacy win. This is how we all win.
https://www.privacyguides.org/articles/2025/02/17/privacy-is-not-dead/
Privacy is only dead if we let it die. Be careful about the all-or-nothing mindset in data privacy, it can do more damage than good to the cause. While striving for improvements, do not forget to cheer and celebrate each small win.
X is blocking links to @signalapp | Users attempting to add their Signal.me URL to posts, DMs, and bio descriptions are being met with error messages. All in all, an excellent endorsement.
via @verge - https://www.theverge.com/news/613997/x-blocks-signal-me-links-errors #privacy
Via https://mastodon.sdf.org/@jack/113952225452466068
If you have an #Android #phone, a new app that doesn't appear in your menu has been automatically and silently installed (or soon will be) by #Google. It is called #AndroidSystemSafetyCore and does exactly the same - scan all images on your device as well as all incoming ones (via messaging). The new spin is that it does so "to protect your #privacy".
You can uninstall this app safely via System -> Apps.
You remember #Apple scanning all images on your #mobile device? If you have an #Android #phone, a new app that doesn't appear in your menu has been automatically and silently installed (or soon will be) by #Google. It is called #AndroidSystemSafetyCore and does exactly the same - scan all images on your device as well as all incoming ones (via messaging). The new spin is that it does so "to protect your #privacy". You can uninstall this app safely via System -> Apps. https://developers.google.com/android/binary_transparency/google1p/overview
Rival to SpaceX's Starlink Goes Dark After Failing to Account for Leap Year. French satellite operator Eutelsat failed to account for last year’s leap year, leading to an embarrassing service outage that lasted for 48 hours. Whoops ! #space
Poison in Kanpur: Report calls situation in city, surrounding districts an ‘emergency’, with chromium & mercury having entered residents’ bodies
Soil, ground water and surface water in Kanpur Nagar, Kanpur Dehat & Fatehpur found to contain heavy metals much above permissible limits
Water and soil in the industrial areas of Kanpur Nagar, Kanpur Dehat and surrounding districts are full of heavy metals. Traces of dangerous metals are being fo
This is what malware info stealers are known to do. MS just can't be trusted with what they say, what they show and what they actually do.
Microsoft Recall screenshots credit cards & Social Security numbers, even with the "sensitive information" filter enabled | https://www.tomshardware.com/software/windows/microsoft-recall-screenshots-credit-cards-and-social-security-numbers-even-with-the-sensitive-information-filter-enabled
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