#encrypted data

[geekanoids]

iStorage DISKASHUR 3 SSD Review - Hardware Encrypted - PIN Protected DATA

[tofueatingwokerati]

The UK no longer has end to end encryption thanks to Keir Starmer’s Labour government reanimating the zombie policy that is the Snoopers Charter, first peddled by Theresa May’s Tory government and rejected by the public.

Apple withdrawing end-to-end encrypted backups from the UK "creates a dangerous precedent which authoritarian countries will surely follow".

UK now likened to authoritarian regimes and why Starmer won’t challenge Trump since he is in lock step with US policies, openly goes after sick, disabled, pensioners and poorest, increasing their hardship rather than tax the mega rich. US policy is UK policy.

So what does this mean for Apple users in the UK?

All your data in the cloud is no longer secure in comparison to having ADP enabled and can be accessed by the government upon request. The GDPR is all but dead in the UK, there are now so many government policies that snoop on us by the back door with even news outlets online now charging us for access without *cookies enabled (data farming you whilst you read with no option to opt out unless you pay)

I checked with the ICO myself and it is a fully approved policy despite its contradiction to the rights of consent, removed in the process.

If you want a workaround here are my suggestions

Cancel your iCloud storage, your data will stay on the cloud until the renewal date, use that time to back it up locally or on a flash drive.

Change your iMessage settings to delete audio messages after 2 minutes and permanently delete messages after 30 days.

Alternatively, use a third party messaging app with a delete on read feature and disable Apple iMessage altogether.

If you are tech savvy you can set up a USB drive or flash drive directly into your router hub (you should have at least one USB slot, some have two) and use FTP to back up over wifi, you can do this on any device, you don’t need a desktop.

Use a VPN service or set one up. If you’re really technical you can use a Raspberry Pi to do this, but you will need to hard code it. Think Mr Robot.

This change does not impact sensitive data like medical details which remain end to end encrypted.

If you want to learn more on the sweeping bills being pushed through government and any action your can take visit Big Brother Watch: https://bigbrotherwatch.org.uk

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[notbecauseofvictories]

cute thing I have learned during this conference: a couple different players are working in the quantum computing space, and specifically working on encryption protection algorithms to defend against attacks---these algorithms are called "kyber" and "dilithium" respectively.

nerds.

[aeolianblues]

Any chinese-owned technology is automatically assumed to come with backdoors for the Chinese govt to spy on foreign citizens, but when the UK explicitly asks Apple to allow access to global users' encrypted information stored in the cloud, then it's just okay and it's Europe standing up to big tech and doing the routine rounds of anti terrorism just tells me most media outlets don't really care about privacy, it's just editorial policy to portray China as evil. Anyone as long as they're not from an advanced, smart and civilised European country, right? If you think European exceptionalism isn't a thing, look again.

[wuggen]

Kinda wanna write a kernel module or something that monitors network traffic and reinterprets it as audio samples in real time, to hear the modern version of the dial-up screech

[gothteddiesdotcom]

not to brag about being good at my job but I’ve now developed two separate tools for debugging entirely on my own within my company entirely from scratch without help and A. it makes my job so much fucking easier and B. my boss is thinks im incredible just because im too lazy to want to write the same bits of code over and over just for debugging purposes

[impishtubist]

It's just so phenomenally stupid to be sitting here trying to do everyday shit and planning for the work week ahead when it doesn't even matter anymore. Laundry groceries meal prep cleaning who the fuck cares. The lucky ones with the means to do so will get to escape the country and the rest get to deal with everything becoming too exorbitantly expensive to be able to live and also having no healthcare. Plus vaccines being outlawed (it just happened in Idaho!) and a brewing H5N1 pandemic everyone is going to ignore oh yeah and also Trump executing everyone who doesn't agree with him. Why the fuck am I having to do emails and spreadsheets at a time like this??

[nando161mando]

Chrome/Google is blocking HSTS encrypted content sites like Wikipedia because this encryption blocks their plagiarist data/info crawler.

Google is NOT protecting "your" security.

[tumorhead]

PLEASE don't rely on Signal to keep you safe. Please please please please please don't trust any technology to be perfectly private and secure. TL:DR- Signal's developers, funders, board members, and workers are a rotating cast of Silicon Valley technocrats (Google & Amazon guys etc) and US State Department regime change freaks. While messages are encrypted, there is still metadata they collect, and they have given data to the state department before (!!!!). Even if they only have your phone number, that can be used with data from other sources to find out a LOT of info. TOR, VPNs, and crypto (duh) are all similarly too slimy to trust. I don't have a good alternative. we should use messenger pigeons or some shit idk.

[black-in-kansas]

Our Privacy Is In Serious Danger By The Government Right Now...

[tiralja]

Motherfucking meta force feeding it's AI on my phone through whatsapp tha I cannot just stop using because my relatives use that app so now it's just there. Just one click away. And you can't fuckin remove it.

Fuckin burn the whole company to the ground.

[salmoncult]

its crazy to me that ppl will fuck with the window open in an apt complex where ppl are on top of each other like thee whole neighborhood is getting an earful rn

[bob3160]

DeepSeek App - Privacy concerns

[transrikuu]

I just reinstalled KH3 on my pc to record some cutscenes and. apparently when you uninstall the game it deletes all your save data

[tap-tap-tap-im-in]

It feels like profit motives have pushed out the old unix philosophy of doing one thing well and predictably, and doing complex things by combining multiple programs that each manage one thing each.

Sure, it's great that your app does *everything* in the stack, but when your VC funding runs out I can't just replace the part you're responsible for because you decided a half baked turnkey solution would be more appealing than a venerable cornerstone library like curl.

[newcodesociety]

Cheat Sheet for Managing Sensitive Data