BoingBoing – Ellsworth Toohey: “Yesterday I wrote about Privacy Guide’s mobile phone privacy and security guide for protesters. Today, Randy Zar, CEO of Faraday pouch manufacturer SLNT wrote: “Just want to let you know your cell phone is tracking you regardless if you have it in airplane mode or not. It even ping’s when it’s… Continue Reading
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Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, February 8, 2025
Via LLRX – Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, February 8, 2025 – Privacy and cybersecurity issues impact every aspect of our lives – home, work, travel, education, finance, health and medical records – to name but a few. On a weekly basis Pete Weiss highlights articles and information that focus on… Continue Reading
Project 2025 Executive Action Tracker
“The Center for Progressive Reform and Governing for Impact are monitoring the Trump administration’s implementation of Project 2025, tracking the authoritarian blueprint’s executive action proposals across 20 federal agencies. The Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025 is the conservative movement’s blueprint for weakening our government and building an authoritarian presidency. To monitor the Trump administration’s regulatory and… Continue Reading
How to Use a Random Generator to Create the Best Passwords
PC Mag: You’ve heard it a million times—use a long, strong, unique password for every single one of your online accounts. But memorizing even one password like Py4″qIme%F[pGmbe is too hard for most of us. Memorizing dozens of them? Fuhgeddaboudit! You need the help of a password manager to record those gibberish strings and to… Continue Reading
DOGE Emails Went Out to Federal Judges by Mistake
As if we have not been in a lessons not learned class since noon on January 20, 2025 today Newsweek reported: “One of the people who received an email from allies of Elon Musk was a federal judge overseeing a lawsuit aimed at blocking these messages. “I, like probably every other judge in the country,… Continue Reading
Time to Delete? The Most Invasive Apps List Includes Some of Your Favorites
PC Mag: “The apps on your phone know way too much about you. I’ll tell you which apps collect the most data and offer suggestions for locking down your private information. Everyone wants your data. And why not? There’s a lot of money in selling or sharing the information apps collect about you. App companies… Continue Reading
Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, February 1, 2025
Via LLRX – Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, February 1, 2025 – Privacy and cybersecurity issues impact every aspect of our lives – home, work, travel, education, finance, health and medical records – to name but a few. On a weekly basis Pete Weiss highlights articles and information that focus on the… Continue Reading
Using Tails When Your World Doesn’t Feel Safe Anymore
Privacy Guides: “There is a growing number of people who no longer feel safe in their own home or country. Whatever the reason, many people might not feel safe to browse certain topics online. With all the information getting collected for each internet search, it is difficult to access sometime vital information without leaving a… Continue Reading
Senior U.S. official to exit after rift with Musk allies over Federal Disbursement Services
Federal Disbursement Services (FDS): The Federal Disbursement Services provides payment services for more than 250+ federal agencies. Your federal income tax refunds; Social Security benefits; Supplemental Security income; Railroad Retirement Board benefits; veteran’s pay, pension, and education benefits all come from the Federal Disbursement Services. Payments to federal workers, vendors, and grantees also come from… Continue Reading
How to remove yourself from the internet
BleepingComputer – Want to prevent people from harvesting your personal information? Keep reading to learn how to remove your data from people search sites. “Protecting your digital footprint is crucial if you want to prevent phishing, scams, and other unwanted side effects caused by online data harvesting. Every day, people around the globe suffer from… Continue Reading
Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, January 26, 2025
Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, January 26, 2025 – Privacy and cybersecurity issues impact every aspect of our lives – home, work, travel, education, finance, health and medical records – to name but a few. On a weekly basis Pete Weiss highlights articles and information that focus on the increasingly complex… Continue Reading
Developer Creates Infinite Maze That Traps AI Training Bots
404 Media – “A pseudonymous coder has created and released an open source “tar pit” to indefinitely trap AI training web crawlers in an infinitely, randomly-generating series of pages to waste their time and computing power. The program, called Nepenthes after the genus of carnivorous pitcher plants which trap and consume their prey, can be… Continue Reading
