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My Pixel 10 warned me that there was a rogue connection made on my phone.
A concerning thing happened today while I was walking through my building. I have a #Pixel 10 Pro XL phone, which may be the first phone to give warnings when the phone connects to a rogue cellphone tower or IMSI catcher. The OS cannot block it; it can only tell you that someone read information, and it presents an alert. It says,
"Your data may be at risk. Device ID accessed. At 6:57 PM a nearby network recorded your device's unique ID (IMSI or IMEI) while using your T-Mobile SIM. This means that your location, activity, or identity has been logged."
I didn't ever get an alert before walking through the building, but this time, during a 30-minute walk through the building, I got about 8 alerts, ranging between 1 and 3 minutes apart.
Using this information from repeated connections, someone can follow my movements and location; they can identify it's me because the IMSI number is unique to my phone, so it can be an indication that someone was collecting all the cellphone information in the area, most likely law enforcement.
It can also mean that I was connecting to a rogue cell phone tower, not just an IMSI catcher, and it was an attempted Stingray attack, likely also law enforcement. If successful, they can try to see and hear what I'm doing on my phone, as my phone won't know that it's a fake cellphone tower.
Be aware that a rogue tower will try to negotiate your phone's connection down to a 2G connection, which is unencrypted, providing them with access to everything that you are doing and saying. Please go into your phone's settings and disable 2G!!
It's been believed for some time that this technology has been used by law enforcement secretly and consistently. This is creepy and unnerving.
Turning off the phone, by the way, doesn't stop an IMSI catcher. Your phone still responds. You need to keep the phone in a Faraday bag if you're really concerned.
It's a good thing that phones are now starting to inform people that they are being watched and that people will begin to see how much of an issue this is. You can assume that your local law enforcement knows where you are all the time.
#CyberSecurity #LawEnforcement #PoliceAbuse #Privacy #surveillance
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🚨 Why We Must Stop Chat Control 🚨
Read the comment by our CEO Matthias Pfau - because if the government can have privacy, so should we!
Join us in our fight for #privacy 🔒
👉 https://gnulinux.ch/warum-wir-die-chatkontrolle-stoppen-muessen at @gnulinux
🚨 Time is Running Out to Save Encryption 🔐
Ofcom is consulting on implementing message scanning powers in the UK Online Safety Act.
This would break end-to-end encryption on the messaging apps we all use!
⏰ CLOSES Monday 10 March, 5pm.
Use our tool to tell Ofcom #PracticeSafeText 💬
ACT NOW ⬇️
https://action.openrightsgroup.org/48-hours-tell-ofcom-practice-safe-text
#e2ee #encryption #OnlineSafetyAct #ukpolitics #ukpol #privacy #ofcom #security #cybersecurity #whatsapp #signal
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I just published “Generating Passphrases Like correct horse battery staple” at
https://www.ii.com/passphrase-generators/ - please post suggestions for passphrase generators as a reply to this toot and I'll include them in my article!
#InfiniteInk #Privacy #Security #Tech #Passwords #Passphrases #CorrectHorseBatteryStaple
#Words #Writing #Byℵ #ByNM
Will next week's Internet Governance Forum in Oslo be the final #igf? Some at the #UN hope so…
It would be quite a mistake to hand more power to the Member States at the expense of all the multistakeholders who have contributed so much over the years to the flying circus!
Don't miss our Tuesday lunchtime workshop: #Privacy-Preserving #Interoperability and the #Fediverse!
https://igf2025.sched.com/event/246Ho?iframe=no
Whether it works or not isn't the lede - face-scanning everyone to access social media's fuck off dystopian. Government by Black Mirror.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-06-19/teen-social-media-ban-in-doubt/105435036
If you still use one of these devices, you might want to start looking into alternatives.
"In an email sent to customers today, Amazon said that Echo users will no longer be able to set their devices to process Alexa requests locally [...] Starting on March 28, recordings of everything command spoken to the Alexa living in Echo speakers and smart displays will automatically be sent to Amazon and processed in the cloud."
via https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/114166991733057284
#news #TechNews #technology #amazon #alexa #AmazonEcho #privacy #security
Google Gemini is about to control your messages and calls, even if you say no
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it's been quite a while, so lemme write a new #intro
i'm raven, a silly #transgirl on the internet who likes to write, and create free-to-use #photography (mostly landscapes). u can find me on mastodon, and see what an overview of what i’m up to on my now page. i have so many interests and try my best to experience new things in this short life. some sort of neurospicy, tend to be overly genuine, a bit corny, over-opinionated at times
🩺 #nurse, 📸 #photographer, 👩💻 #linux nerd, 🏳️⚧️ #trans girl, 💞 #relationship anarchist, 🌱 #vegan for the animals, 🌹 #leftist, ✊ #union steward, 🧗♀️ #queer outdoor girlie, 🌠 star stuff, 🚴♀️ bikes are cool, 😽 certified girl/boy/nb-kisser, 😝 #silly adventurer
i work in the OR as a nurse and i love my job
likes: #forests, #mountains, #oregon coast, #coffee, #adventures, #movies, #computers, #transit, #bikes, #Portland OR, scrub-role in surgery, science-stuff, n95s, #sewing, #privacy and #security in tech, #philosophy, #ceramics, #sailing, #music, pineapple on pizza, #leftism, workers-rights, #silliness, #headpats, and #praise
“chaotic af, kinda scatter brained, but smart if that makes sense”
“very direct and able to be vulnerable very easily (a good thing!) and the most ethically-minded and community-focused person ive met!”
“an iceberg. you’ve got a fun, flirty, smolder of a vibe when people meet you initially. then after getting to talk with you people see that you’ve got way more going on under the surface of the water”
i upload my photography as creative commons attribution license, i don't own a car, i have a #cat named Loki who i post about under the #catsofmastodon tag, i'm #divorced after a 14 year marriage (not the outcome i wanted, but here i am), and now happily in relationships as a relationship anarchist.
i live in #pdx and want to make it a better place by organizing and creating #unions and #community
i do #rock-climbing, #bjj, #running, #swimming, #sailing, currently recovering from injuries
i love #webdesign and created a #hugo theme which i use for my website (on github)
yes, imma #puppygirl and silly af
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Signal Cloud Backups are now available to test!
"Backup your messages and media using Signal's secure, end-to-end encrypted storage service. Never lose a message when you get a new phone or reinstall Signal"
Learn more about Signal Backups and how you can help test the new feature: https://community.signalusers.org/t/public-signal-backups-testing/69984?u=salt505
Testing is currently open for Android, with staging versions coming to Desktop and iOS soon.
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A list of Digital Service Providers located outside the jurisdiction of the United States of America:
https://codeberg.org/Linux-Is-Best/Outside_Us_Jurisdiction
This is an ongoing group project — so if you have any suggestions, corrections, or new information to share, feel free to reach out!
#USJurisdiction #USA #America #UnitedStates #Privacy #Security
"Your #privacy is our priority. With that message has #WhatsApp last week sent all its users a message" (translated from Dutch from an article in De Telegraaf, a large newspaper in the Netherlands)
There is too much gossip about WhatsApp according topman Will Cathcart.
"#Signal is very cool: the number of new subscriptions in the Netherlands is this year 25 times as high as before"
WhatsApp is closed source. Do you trust #Meta? Signal is #opensource.
Pixelfed leaks private posts from other Fediverse instances... #pixelfed #fediverse #privacy
My great failure in life is that I never put myself in a position to monetise being this embarrassingly incompetent.
#auspol #australia #government #internet #censorship #children #ai #privacy #erotica #pornography https://rssfeed.media/@abcfeeds/114830436092858870
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New from Francesca D'Annunzio: Under Governor Greg Abbott's multi-billion dollar border security bonanza, Operation Lone Star, the Rio Grande no longer holds back law enforcement efforts. Today's digital border reaches across Texas and beyond. https://www.texasobserver.org/texas-dps-surveillance-arsenal-artificial-intelligence-lege/
This story is presented in partnership with the Pulitzer Center.
#surveillance #tech #SocialMedia #GregAbbott #police #border #privacy #security #USpol #politics #news
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Un gruppo #signal per la community italiana.. l'unico tema è signal, vera alternativa centralizzata alle classiche app, veramente orientata alla #privacy. Credo che potrebbe essere utile come primo approdo ai nuovi utenti signal, per poter avere una community con cui parlare e risolvere i primi dubbi 😊
https://signal.group/#CjQKIMNjJlibyeA-8S8n_RLvLSwy-7c5V6IYIuP1Bk8hu-UKEhD-x37mabdSM_uk5Fte4WXW
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Is your phone secretly listening to you? Here's an easy way to find out
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PGO's: Agema liegt dat zij barst
Nb. een PGO is een "Persoonlijke Gezondheids Omgeving" (meer hierover in https://www.pgo.nl).
Volgens https://www.security.nl/posting/883501/Minister%3A+curator+verantwoordelijk+dat+failliete+PGO-leverancier+AVG+naleeft zei minister Agema m.b.t. een failliete PGO-aanbieder:
"Je gegevens zijn van jezelf en die blijven bij de bron. Op het moment dat de app weg is, zijn de gegevens ook weg".
In https://www.security.nl/posting/883670/PGO%27s%3A+minister+Agema+liegt beargumenteer ik waarom minister Agema op maar liefts drie aspecten liegt:
1) Gegevens van/over jou zijn (juridisch gezien) niet van jou. Het verkopen van "jouw" gegevens kan een "gerechtvaardigd" belang zijn van "ondernemers". Vooral van (bijna) failliete. Wie zou je daarna aan moeten klagen?
2) Met een PGO blijven jouw medische gegevens *niet* uitsluitend bij "de bron". De kans dat de PGO-aanbieder daar een kopie van op haar (cloud) servers heeft staan, schat ik in op bijna 100%.
3) De kans dat het verwijderen van een app (op jouw smartphone of tablet) ertoe leidt dat al jouw gegevens bij een (failliet gaande) PGO-aanbieder worden verwijderd, schat ik in op ca. 0%.
Trap niet in de leugens van suf-gelobbiede (en mogelijk corrupte) -en vaak het bedrijfsleven ondersteunende- politici!
#PGO #Agema #Volksverlakkerij #Meldpunt #EHDS #AVG #GDPR #AP #AutoriteitPersoonsGegevens #Privacy #Risicos #PrivacyRisicos #KNLTB #GerechtvaardigdBelang #Datalek #Phishing
Mood: Unhackable anti-surveillance tech/stickers from @eff. https://shop.eff.org/ #privacy #security #ElectronicFrontierFoundation #EFF #NowMoreThanEver
Google is so sneaky. This prompt inside Gmail gives you three options. The two most visible options (number 1 is 'Try it now' and number 2 is 'Continue') basically mean 'Enable Gemini AI to write emails.' The third option cancels it which is hidden well. Google, you could do better than this. This is a perfect example of a dark pattern. For those who want AI to write basic emails can enable it but there is not need to do this kind of "shady" stuff.
#Whistleblower details how #DOGE may have taken sensitive #NLRB data
In the first days of March, a team of advisers from #Trump's new Department of Government Efficiency initiative arrived at the Southeast Washington, DC, headquarters of the National Labor Relations Board.
The small, independent federal agency investigates & adjudicates complaints about unfair #labor practices.
#law #InfoSec #privacy #NationalSecurity #Musk
https://www.npr.org/2025/04/15/nx-s1-5355896/doge-nlrb-elon-musk-spacex-security
The IRS Is Building a Vast System to Share Millions of Taxpayers’ Data With ICE
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ProPublica has obtained the blueprint for the Trump administration’s unprecedented plan to turn over IRS records to Homeland Security in order to speed up the agency’s mass deportation efforts.
#News #Data #Privacy #ICE #Deportation #Immigration #IRS #Tax #Trump
Not really an #introduction but here we go:
#Freelancing #Privacy and #Security #Coach & #Trainer (#Linux)
Ex #SoftwareDeveloper, #Consultant, #TeamLead, #HeadOfProductDevelopment #HeadOfIT
I care for #privacy #HumanRights #DEI #TransRightsAreHumanRights #Linux #FLOSS #DigitalSelfDefense
See bio for links & websites.