Richard Meulenbroeks 🌷

Ik ben een zogenaamde "Tooler" en perfectionist die zich sinds 1997 (behoorlijk intensief) bezighoudt met het internet en maatschappij / Pubkey 0xA1A7A7A14A5AFA8A (niet helemaal random) / Debian / N.A.H. / Communiceren is door verstandelijke beperking ontzettend uitputtend geworden / Hou van mooie dingen en ontwijk negatieve zaken waar ik toch geen grip op heb / Herboren en opnieuw opgegroeid op het Internet / Ontwaakt in een tijdperk waarin het misschien beter is dat men niet teveel opvalt…

Richard Meulenbroeks 🌷cryptrcv@mstdn.social
2025-06-10

@opensource Alle informatie tegenwoordig achter betaalmuren… Hierbij mirror zodat het zelfde artikel niet eindeloos opnieuw geïndexeerd wordt bij archive.today:: archive.today/2025.06.07-11571

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Electronic Frontier Foundationeff
2025-06-10

“Today’s legal victory sends a crystal-clear message: Americans’ private data stored with the government isn’t the personal playground of unelected billionaires,” Everett Kelley, president of EFF client AFGE, told @BloombergLaw. news.bloomberglaw.com/daily-la

Richard Meulenbroeks 🌷cryptrcv@mstdn.social
2025-06-10

@knoppix95 Or use a separate device for (and with your) WhatsApp contacts only if you cannot avoid it.

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Electronic Frontier Foundationeff
2025-06-07

AI crawlers generate so much traffic that some web sites are struggling to stay online. What can be done? eff.org/deeplinks/2025/06/keep

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It's FOSSitsfoss
2025-06-07
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Zack Whittakerzackwhittaker
2025-06-07

Supreme Court has granted Elon Musk’s DOGE access to sensitive Social Security information, including full access to personally identifiable information in the Social Security Administration database while the case proceeds on appeal.

bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Richard Meulenbroeks 🌷cryptrcv@mstdn.social
2025-06-06

@redegelde Hoi hoi, dank je wel.

Ik had er afgelopen nacht en vanmiddag al naar gekeken, dat is ook de reden waarom ik je nu volg. (normaal gesproken kijk ik eerst even de kat uit de boom)

Interessant initiatief en ben ik ook zeker van plan om dit spoedig uit te gaan proberen. 👍

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2025-06-06

AT&T's flak sent me a note that I munged the link to their new terms of service. Fixed that, but then noticed the link includes a reference to Adobe Flash Player, which Adobe stopped supporting almost five years ago.

It's a real shocker that the FBI warned last year against anyone communicating anything sensitive over the US phone networks.

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2025-06-06

I learned a lot writing this, and there is a lot more here to pick at.

Ukraine has seen nearly one-fifth of its Internet space come under Russian control or sold to Internet address brokers since February 2022, a new study finds. The analysis indicates large chunks of Ukrainian Internet address space are now in the hands of shadowy proxy and anonymity services that are nested at some of America’s largest Internet service providers (ISPs).

"...A cursory review of all Internet address blocks currently routed through AT&T — as seen in public records maintained by the Internet backbone provider Hurricane Electric — shows a preponderance of country flags other than the United States, including networks originating in Hungary, Lithuania, Moldova, Mauritius, Palestine, Seychelles, Slovenia, and Ukraine.

Asked about the apparent high incidence of proxy services routing foreign address blocks through AT&T, the telecommunications giant said it recently changed its policy about originating routes for network blocks that are not owned and managed by AT&T. That new policy, spelled out in a February 2025 update to AT&T’s terms of service, gives those customers until Sept. 1, 2025 to originate their own IP space from their own autonomous system number (ASN), a unique number assigned to each ISP (AT&T’s is AS7018).

krebsonsecurity.com/2025/06/pr

An illustration of a circle with the Ukrainian flag colors of blue on top and yellow on bottom. The circle shows many small what appear to be circuits branching out in all directions. In the background are 1s and 0s.
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CERTFR-2025-AVI-0480: Multiples vulnérabilités dans le noyau Linux de Red Hat
cert.ssi.gouv.fr/avis/CERTFR-2

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2025-06-06
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bert hubert 🇺🇦🇪🇺🇺🇦bert_hubert@eupolicy.social
2025-06-06

'Regardless of whether or not Trump actively threatens Europe with disconnection, what troubles Hubert is “the mere thought that you have to be careful… that ‘I should not antagonise the US.’” The problem, he says, is that a government’s functions are not entirely under its own control. In other words, Europe is a digital colony of the US, and is now waking up to the consequences of that fact.'
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thenewworld.co.uk/natasha-loma

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2025-06-06

AWS forms EU-based cloud unit as customers fret about tRump 2.0
theregister.com/2025/06/03/aws
Locally run, Euro-controlled, ‘legally independent,' and ready by the end of 2025

Richard Meulenbroeks 🌷cryptrcv@mstdn.social
2025-06-05

@pthane @kim_harding

(screen shot of Firefox Internet browser only, but most internet users use all kinds of separate applications)

To be completely honest, I don't know to what extent adblockers prevent the transmission of identifiable data. For me, this has been happening at the network level for years.

I think that the use of adblockers will eventually no longer be effective enough.

Edit: Removed an incorrect hashtag (ProtectYourInfo)

Richard Meulenbroeks 🌷cryptrcv@mstdn.social
2025-06-04

@kim_harding Imagine the day when advertisers use AI for tailor-made commercials to each individual internet user. I don’t think that future is that far away.

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Caesar Wirthcjwirth@mas.to
2025-06-04

uBlock Origin on Bluesky vs Mastodon

Two browser tabs open. One has Mastodon open, and uBlock Origin doesn't report blocking anything. In the other, Bluesky is open, and uBlock Origin is reporting 47 things blocked.
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Dr. Redfern Jon Barrettredfern@wandering.shop
2025-06-04

I can’t help but notice that every single time an LGBTQ+ person is killed in a high-profile hate crime, masses of people immediately rush in to explain why it could not possibly have been a hate crime, actually.

#lgbtq

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On This Day In Historyonthisday
2025-06-03

Today in 2005, 20 years ago: in the Netherlands, a referendum rejects the referendum on the European Constitution.

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2025-06-03

#GnuPG's "public testing release series" has a new version 2.5.7.

lists.gnupg.org/pipermail/gnup

Remember:

* It is for you, if you want to test the new
post-quantum cryptography (PQC) features
or the 64 Bit Windows support.

* The series features Kyber (FIPS-203) as PQC encryption algorithm.

A new Gpg4win 5 Beta is forthcoming in the next days.

Technical details: dev.gnupg.org/T7671

#LibrePGP #OpenPGPv4 #EndtoEndCrypto

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