While I agree for most applications, I'm actually having a problem with this behavior on my Samsung phone. I use an always-on VPN which will often lose connection and then not reconnect because the system has stopped/suspended the VPN application. There are options for disabling the Samsung "battery saver" functions for certain applications but even after doing that, it still happens (although not as often).
In the top right corner is a button to open a menu. In that click on "Other Settings." Chenge your settings the way you like (there's an option to get rid of that nag). Then on the right side there's a button that says "Show Bookmarklet and Settings Data." Click on that to get a URL with all your settings in it.
Have you seen their members and board of directors? Any credibility they've ever had is just a bad assumption based on their really FOSS friendly sounding name.
Check out http://www.jollyrogertelco.com...
Basically you can conference call a bot in to talk to the scammer for you. It may not stop the calls but at the very least it will waste their time (which costs them money) and it's good for some laughs. They have some pretty funny examples on their YouTube channel.
I wasn't saying this was a solution to the problem, just a suggestion for what people can do to cost the scammers some money and get a good laugh out of it in the process.
The best way to deal with them it to cost them money. And the best way to do that is to keep them on the line as long as possible. Not only is that keeping them from moving on and scamming the next person but that's also time they're paying that person to talk to you. You should look into http://www.jollyrogertelco.com...
They provide bots that will talk to the telemarketers for you and it can get pretty hilarious: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
And which "trusted organizations" would those be? And where's an implementation?
I linked to an actual usable DNSCrypt client. And there are plenty of "trusted organizations" running DNSCrypt servers: https://dnscrypt.info/public-s...
Nope, my analogy works perfectly. I didn't specify that the passenger knew. Even if the passenger unknowingly brought the bomb on the plane, the plane was still properly maintained and so that is not the cause of the crash. It's WebRTC that leaks your IP, not the VPN. The VPN has no control over what (buggy) software you use, just like it can't stop you from posting your real IP on Twitter.
Except in this "story" the plane (VPN) has had it's maintenance done... and then the passenger (user) brings a bomb (WebRTC) on the plane. If you, or the software you use, willingly sends your real IP address through your VPN, that's not the fault of the VPN.
That would be awesome but good luck getting Google on board with that. They're just as bad as Facebook when it comes to tracking and Chrome is the most used browser.
That's what uMatrix does:
https://github.com/gorhill/uMa...https://addons.mozilla.org/en-...
It would be impossible to have that on by default for normal users though. Too many sites are broken by not allowing 3rd party requests, and the average user would just switch to Chrome rather then deal with making whitelists.
"Encryption at rest" is a technically correct but intentionally misleading buzzword. It means that the hard drive your data is stored on is encrypted, but the service provider has the encryption keys. If you want your data to only be readable by you, that's called end-to-end encryption, which is not the same as encryption at rest. Goolge Drive, OneDrive, and Dropbox only provide encryption at rest and they can snoop through your data all they want. I know MEGA provides end-to-encryption but I'm sure there are others.
Don't worry! If you communicate with anyone that does use Facebook on their phone, then you're all good. They have your info and they've made a shadow profile for you:)
I totally agree. But I still have to communicate with people that don't use Signal. Which means I have no choice but to make normal unencrypted calls/SMS to people that could have have Facebook on their phone and gave it permission to access whatever. So yeah, they're exploiting user stupidity, but they're also exploiting anyone that communicates with those stupid users.
The issue here is that this also effects people that have NOT allowed those permissions. If you have any friends or family that use Facebook on their phone, it's collecting data about your communications with them even if you don't have a Facebook account yourself.
I already did, 8 years ago. I even used the somewhat hidden delete option instead of just deactivate. Although I'm sure Facebook still kept my data anyway. But saying "nobody forced you" is silly because even if you never had an account, Facebook is still building a profile of you through your friends without your consent.
I don't even have a Facebook account but plenty of my friends do and I'm sure some of them use Facebook on their phone. So how do non-users get their info removed? This is non-public information that I never agreed to share with Facebook.
Honestly there's nothing these days that doesn't fall into at least the "important" category. Even something as simple as a photo will probably get put into a facial recognition database if uploaded unencrypted.
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While I agree for most applications, I'm actually having a problem with this behavior on my Samsung phone. I use an always-on VPN which will often lose connection and then not reconnect because the system has stopped/suspended the VPN application. There are options for disabling the Samsung "battery saver" functions for certain applications but even after doing that, it still happens (although not as often).
In the top right corner is a button to open a menu. In that click on "Other Settings." Chenge your settings the way you like (there's an option to get rid of that nag). Then on the right side there's a button that says "Show Bookmarklet and Settings Data." Click on that to get a URL with all your settings in it.
Have you seen their members and board of directors? Any credibility they've ever had is just a bad assumption based on their really FOSS friendly sounding name.
https://www.linuxfoundation.or...
Check out http://www.jollyrogertelco.com... Basically you can conference call a bot in to talk to the scammer for you. It may not stop the calls but at the very least it will waste their time (which costs them money) and it's good for some laughs. They have some pretty funny examples on their YouTube channel.
I wasn't saying this was a solution to the problem, just a suggestion for what people can do to cost the scammers some money and get a good laugh out of it in the process.
Have a bot talk to them: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
The best way to deal with them it to cost them money. And the best way to do that is to keep them on the line as long as possible. Not only is that keeping them from moving on and scamming the next person but that's also time they're paying that person to talk to you. You should look into http://www.jollyrogertelco.com... They provide bots that will talk to the telemarketers for you and it can get pretty hilarious: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
And which "trusted organizations" would those be? And where's an implementation? I linked to an actual usable DNSCrypt client. And there are plenty of "trusted organizations" running DNSCrypt servers: https://dnscrypt.info/public-s...
The good news is that encrypted DNS already exists and there are plenty of servers to choose from even. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... https://github.com/jedisct1/dn...
Nope, my analogy works perfectly. I didn't specify that the passenger knew. Even if the passenger unknowingly brought the bomb on the plane, the plane was still properly maintained and so that is not the cause of the crash. It's WebRTC that leaks your IP, not the VPN. The VPN has no control over what (buggy) software you use, just like it can't stop you from posting your real IP on Twitter.
Except in this "story" the plane (VPN) has had it's maintenance done... and then the passenger (user) brings a bomb (WebRTC) on the plane. If you, or the software you use, willingly sends your real IP address through your VPN, that's not the fault of the VPN.
That would be awesome but good luck getting Google on board with that. They're just as bad as Facebook when it comes to tracking and Chrome is the most used browser.
That's what uMatrix does: https://github.com/gorhill/uMa... https://addons.mozilla.org/en-... It would be impossible to have that on by default for normal users though. Too many sites are broken by not allowing 3rd party requests, and the average user would just switch to Chrome rather then deal with making whitelists.
"Encryption at rest" is a technically correct but intentionally misleading buzzword. It means that the hard drive your data is stored on is encrypted, but the service provider has the encryption keys. If you want your data to only be readable by you, that's called end-to-end encryption, which is not the same as encryption at rest. Goolge Drive, OneDrive, and Dropbox only provide encryption at rest and they can snoop through your data all they want. I know MEGA provides end-to-encryption but I'm sure there are others.
Don't worry! If you communicate with anyone that does use Facebook on their phone, then you're all good. They have your info and they've made a shadow profile for you :)
I totally agree. But I still have to communicate with people that don't use Signal. Which means I have no choice but to make normal unencrypted calls/SMS to people that could have have Facebook on their phone and gave it permission to access whatever. So yeah, they're exploiting user stupidity, but they're also exploiting anyone that communicates with those stupid users.
The issue here is that this also effects people that have NOT allowed those permissions. If you have any friends or family that use Facebook on their phone, it's collecting data about your communications with them even if you don't have a Facebook account yourself.
I know. It was a rhetorical question.
I already did, 8 years ago. I even used the somewhat hidden delete option instead of just deactivate. Although I'm sure Facebook still kept my data anyway. But saying "nobody forced you" is silly because even if you never had an account, Facebook is still building a profile of you through your friends without your consent.
I don't even have a Facebook account but plenty of my friends do and I'm sure some of them use Facebook on their phone. So how do non-users get their info removed? This is non-public information that I never agreed to share with Facebook.
Do you have friends that use Facebook and do they have your contact info in their phone? If so, I have some bad news for you....
Honestly there's nothing these days that doesn't fall into at least the "important" category. Even something as simple as a photo will probably get put into a facial recognition database if uploaded unencrypted.
Most consumer desktop video cards have a both an open source driver and a proprietary driver available for Linux.
DRM in this context is "Direct Rendering Manager" not "Digital rights management" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...