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inkybo retweeted
Happy anniversary you stupid piece of shit it’s all fucking pointless (on this date in 1859)
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DO YOU HAVE A MINUTE TO TALK ABOUT OUR LORD AND SAVIOR DATAHOARDING
PBS broadcaster loses access to 50TB of data comprising 70 years of TV history after contracted cloud storage vendor goes defunct — public TV channel sues Iron Mountain data center, which hosts archival materials, to ensure preservation tomshardware.com/software/cl…
inkybo retweeted
"Parents should be able to control their kid's online experiences!"
THEY ALREADY CAN!! THEY ALREADY FREAKING CAN!! THEY CAN DO THIS RIGHT THE FRICK NOW!!
WE DON'T NEED TO VIOLATE OUR 1ST AND 4TH TO ACHIEVE CHILD SAFETY!! PARENTS JUST NEED TO DO THEIR JOBBBBBB!!!!!
inkybo retweeted
This is why claims that the KIDS Act and the House version of KOSA are dead on arrival should not be listened to.
If a major Senator who pushed this bill in the first place supports it, who's to say others don't?
Use badinternetbills.com to fight back NOW!
inkybo retweeted
Meta is dropping its "opposition" to KOSA if it includes app store level ID verification. There's no moral reason they opposed it, and anyone acting like this is good in any capacity because KOSA is "good for kids" is fooling you. This is Mark Zuckerberg we are talking about.
inkybo retweeted
turns out going randomly paranoid about all the bloat and random connections going in and out of my smart tv a few years ago ending up downloading the samsung smart tv devkit in order to yank all the shit i didn’t recognize or need out and keep it out was not a bad idea
now i just have my new smart tv completely disconnected from the internet and use a separate local network with an isolated and monitored box to stream stuff lol
❗️🚨 An Israeli company has backdoored hundreds of millions of households through countless Smart TV apps, and they're quietly turning Samsung and LG TVs into exit nodes for AI web-scraping. Your TV is relaying strangers' web traffic from your home IP, your bandwidth, your address attached to whatever those scraping jobs touch.
Roku, Fire TV and Google TV banned the practice. Samsung and LG didn't. The culprit is Bright Data's proxy SDK, which rides inside Tizen and webOS apps, 200+ on webOS alone. Datacenter IPs get blocked, home IPs don't.
Include Security reverse-engineered the SDK and found its relay protocol has no message signing, authentication, or device attestation. Their words: less secure than typical malware command-and-control.
To make things worse, they found that in iOS the relay tunnel binds straight to the physical network interface, so it routes around any VPN the user is running.
Bright Data's config also ships per-country tiers. Devices in Uzbekistan and Oman are cleared to relay down to 1% battery, with data caps up to 60x the worldwide default.
Before the BaCkDoOrEd replies land: technically you agreed. In practice you were enrolled into a global proxy network you were never given the information to refuse. And these exit nodes drag down your IP's reputation, potentially leaving you with blocks from providers.
inkybo retweeted
They're legitimately going to ban whatever the frick you can think up in the name of "protecting the kids" it's literally happening as we speak.
🚨 NEWS: UK Government set to force tech companies to restrict phones “for the children”.
It’s likely to mean:
🔴 ID requirement for all devices (or child-locked phone without one)
🔴 government spyware in your pocket (aka client side scanning)
😱
thetimes.com/article/0ab6794…
inkybo retweeted
And its quickly becoming more and more important that more people start speaking up against this tyranny NOW!
Your Computer May Soon Require an Age Check. And It Might Not Take ‘No’ for an Answer
Age verification laws are moving beyond porn sites and social media. Soon, your operating system could be required to know how old you are.
Age verification laws are no longer limited to porn sites. After more than two dozen US states passed laws targeting adult websites like PornHub—and Utah moved against VPN use—the next battleground is your operating system.
Starting in 2027, California's Digital Age Assurance Act will require operating systems, including Windows, macOS, Android, ChromeOS, and Linux distributions, to ask users for their age during device setup and share an age range with apps. Depending on how future laws evolve, that process could eventually involve government IDs, credit cards, or biometric verification.
Aaron Mackey, deputy legal director at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, warns the effects won't stop at California’s borders. Because tech companies rarely build separate operating systems for different states, he says these systems will likely be rolled out "for everyone who uses [operating systems], including the billions of folks outside of California."
Read more: pcmag.com/explainers/your-co…
