@adamconover Your voice, especially at this time, is greatly appreciated. Keep on keeping on.

"EFF’s founding case over 30 years ago, Steve Jackson Games v. Secret Service, was in part a story about the overbroad seizures of equipment in the offices of Steve Jackson Games in Texas, based upon unfounded claims about illegal behavior in a 1990s version of a chat room."

Does EFF have a take on the kolektiva seizure and the future of the fediverse? You bet.

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/07/fbi-seizure-mastodon-server-wakeup-call-fediverse-users-and-hosts-protect-their

I did write up of this, complete with a logo - behold #MobileIrony, a term coined by @Newk #threatintel
https://doublepulsar.com/mobileirony-backdoor-allows-complete-takeover-of-mobile-security-product-and-endpoints-559733d612e1?sk=4915c0011cfce52e58d3ab81d9bb2373

elon is not mad ok

“threads is going to win”

sure man, whatever you say man

✨ Better onboarding

Pretty soon you'll be able to sign up with your Mastodon account, or use it to sign in on @pixelfed

Calckey and other platforms will launch later!

#WireGuard becomes the first VPN app on #FDroid to be built reproducibly! This means that WireGuard on F-Droid is now guaranteed to be 100% (bit-by-bit) equal to the WireGuard the developer builds.

If you're using WireGuard from F-Droid, please export your tunnels and re-install to switch to the developer's signature and continue receiving updates.

More details in the official WireGuard announcement: https://lists.zx2c4.com/pipermail/wireguard/2023-April/008045.html

New to reproducible builds? Check out https://f-droid.org/en/2023/01/15/towards-a-reproducible-fdroid.html

F-Droid Basic just got released for the first time. Built from the same code as regular @fdroidorg, it comes with a reduced feature set (no nearby share and no panic feature). Also it targets Android 13 and will soon be able to do unattended updates.

@nixCraft I personally haven't seen it on mobile yet. Do they have a similar scarygram for that?

@timbray They acquired a digital fax and secure file and messaging solution from this Canadian company, Xmedius, that we use at work. That same company also acquired a different digital fax product that our county uses.

Okay, Mastodon friends, I rarely ask for amplification about my day job, but I personally pushed for my employer to make a big investment in enabling the fediverse, and I'd love for everyone to show that the support is appreciated. On June 28, you can join us for a (FREE!) hands-on conversation about how the Fastly team worked to support @Mastodon while the service was under a *massive* DDOS attack. Everyone who cares about scaling the fediverse should join: https://learn.fastly.com/security-mitigating-ddos-and-traffic-surges-with-mastodon @devs

Twitter, Reddit, and the PGA Tour are three examples of things that have no value as businesses beyond the attention that we choose to give them. I spent tons of time on Twitter before I decided that I was no longer happy giving it my attention. I watched endless hours of PGA Tour golf (don't judge me!) but if the sale to Saudi Arabia goes through, this weekend marks the end of that. All they have is us and we can choose to say no.

TechCrunch has a good writeup of the Reddit CEO's astoundingly arrogant showing in an AMA about the company's astoundingly arrogant API changes, which now seem designed to put third-party apps out of business. What slimy behavior he's showing... https://techcrunch.com/2023/06/09/reddit-ceo-doubles-down-on-attack-on-apollo-developer-in-drama-filled-ama/

@nuclearfog Eh, exoplayer is better anyway, IMHO. It has a really nice playback speed control with the ability to automatically skip silence.

Barracuda has released a statement about this ongoing problem. Highlights:

Barracuda said it will be providing the replacement product to impacted customers at no cost, and that not all ESG appliances were compromised.

“No other Barracuda product, including our SaaS email solutions, were impacted by this vulnerability,” the company said. “If an ESG appliance is displaying a notification in the User Interface, the ESG appliance had indicators of compromise. If no notification is displayed, we have no reason to believe that the appliance has been compromised at this time.”

Nevertheless, the statement says that “out of an abundance of caution and in furtherance of our containment strategy, we recommend impacted customers replace their compromised appliance.”

“As of June 8, 2023, approximately 5% of active ESG appliances worldwide have shown any evidence of known indicators of compromise due to the vulnerability,” the statement continues. “Despite deployment of additional patches based on known IOCs, we continue to see evidence of ongoing malware activity on a subset of the compromised appliances. Therefore, we would like customers to replace any compromised appliance with a new unaffected device.”

PSA: We're happy to announce that the Tor Project user forum will migrate to the Tor Project's infrastructure on June 20th. New address will be: forum.torproject.org. The old address will automatically redirect. ℹ️ Find out more: https://blog.torproject.org/tor-project-forum-migration/

Threat actors have remotely wiped the infrastructure of Infotel JSC, which provides communication interconnects amongst Russian banks. They’ve been down since yesterday. A group called Cyber Anarchy Squad are claiming credit. #threatintel

A member of Congress. What would you say if you saw it in another country?

Don’t say we didn’t warn about this in #StochasticParrots, particularly section 4. https://www.vice.com/en/article/v7bdba/ai-is-tearing-wikipedia-apart

@dangillmor Just browsing F-Droid shows me TICE. They claim they can't see either party's location beacons.

https://ticeapp.com/en/