53MB of source code leaked from a government endpoint. 269 verification checks. biometric face databases. SAR filings to FinCEN. and the same company that verifies your ChatGPT account.

In her new book, “The Age of Surveillance Capitalism,” HBS Professor emerita Shoshana Zuboff outlines her belief that surveillance capitalism is undermining personal autonomy and eroding democracy — and the ways she says society can fight back.

Mobile Verification Toolkit (MVT) is a collection of utilities to simplify and automate the process of gathering forensic traces helpful to identify a potential compromise of Android and iOS devices.

You can not sacrifice privacy to get security, that’s like tearing down the house to build a fence. Privacy is how security looks like from within those walls, security is how privacy looks like from outside those walls, they are two sides of that same wall.

Searchable database of cases of physical surveillance devices (microphones, cameras, location trackers…) hidden by law enforcement and intelligence agencies to surveil people or groups engaged in subversive activities.

via: https://infosec.exchange/@DomainTools/115464731224174624

Wow. Crass was half wrong when they sang “Big Brother’s not watching you, you’re watching him” because it goes both ways. It’s an attention economy and a surveillance economy.

The li’l switches on some phones to disable the phone hardware entirely make more sense now. Not to victim-blame because this is and should be illegal.

No matter how paranoid you (rightly) are, they’ll get you if friends and fam are more sloppy.

Web review of Ervin

Rust tool to detect cell site simulators on an orbic mobile hotspot

Open-source tests of web browser privacy.

Opt out of global data surveillance programs like PRISM, XKeyscore and Tempora.