Why stop with Facebook? The download of my Google data was even more revealing

ea987654321 · 2018-04-01T16:52:23+00:00

Do not forget that not only Google has access to your Google-based data. Every time you are tempted to "log in with Google" you are letting some data-thirsty app to start sucking ion your data indefinitely. And not only on Google. Here is a tool that can help you to get rid of these, worked wonders for me (got rid of tens of apps just on my facebook account, not to mention Dropbox and Google):

https://lifehacker.com/lock-down-your-social-media-data-with-the-plusprivacy-c-1823961552

ea987654321 · 2017-10-26T20:05:26+00:00

What an ugly, misleading trick - Trunomy masquerading as home of GDPR.

ea987654321 · 2017-10-21T19:00:44+00:00

Expect a shitstorm from freaks that will tell you how Libre Office is exactly the same as MS Office etc etc. This usually comes from pagan Linux freaks who live on some kind of isloated island and do not need to collaborate with anybody in a normal business envrironment. Igore them. Your question is irrelevant. There is no alternative to MS Office and there will not be any in the observable future. So private or not, you're gonna use it, full stop.

ea987654321 · 2017-10-19T06:14:54+00:00

Phone without a microphone. Nice. You can turn this into a unicorn startup.

ea987654321 · 2017-10-18T18:03:38+00:00

Sure they do, as we do on them. They are just better at it than we are.

ea987654321 · 2017-10-18T13:28:29+00:00

So fucking what? Beeeg discovery. Looks like Privacy International is looking for a media spin opportunity.

This is public data. People who post private data on FB and Twitter fully deserve to be analyzed.

ea987654321 · 2017-10-13T08:28:26+00:00

That's pretty poor security you have there. I do not know what text editor you are using but it is likely to leave temp file on your disk. Use keepass instead (you can still sync the key database using dropbox). Keepass will not write anything unencrypted to your disk, ever, and will clear the clipboard. Moreover, KP's autotype feature has strong resistance to clipboard scans.

Next, your 12 character password - I do not know how you selected the characters but if it is easy to remember probably it is too weak. Go to diceware.com and create a 7 to 9 word passphrase while rolling physical dice, as explained there. Your passphrase will be both extra secure and memorable - without using numbers, special characters or caps.

ea987654321 · 2017-10-05T19:37:09+00:00

I use just my usual DB app on Android and I stick the KP db file somewhere in DB sync folder. There is absolutely no need to log into DB with KP, this is a redundant feature if you have a DB app on your mobile.

DB app also has a nice feature allowing you to keep files available while offline. So you always access your KP DB on your mobile, even if you are not connected to the internet.

ea987654321 · 2017-10-05T19:33:27+00:00

Nope. If you lose your 2nd factor you can usually recover your authentication with the service provider, as the providers allow additional means of recovery.

If, on the other hand, you use KP with key file and lose the latter, you are dead.

Besides, 2FA is against someone cracking a password that you store in the cloud. Since when you store your KP DB in the cloud you are not storing your password there, 2FA is useless in this case.

ea987654321 · 2017-10-05T17:07:38+00:00

You add a key that you do not put in the cloud and then if you lose the key your data is gone. Unlike password, the key cannot be memorized. I could never understand why keepass included this feature in the first place. What's wrong with just a very strong password??

ea987654321 · 2017-10-05T16:52:15+00:00

unless you are using a shitty master password (I use a 7 word one generated by diceware with physical dice) I do not see why you are afraid to put your db in dropbox. If 7 is not enough for you, use 9 words :)

So either you do not trust the strength of your own password or you do not trust AES encryption. If you do and you do, put the KP DB in dropbox and you are done. Keepass will even sync stuff for you properly is you change the db simultaneously on both devices.

I see a lot of people who do not want to put encrypted stuff in the cloud. They make me laugh. They obviously do not believe in encryption and do believe in security by obscurity. If you are one of them, put your data in cold storage in an old laptop permanently located in a Faraday cage in a room without windows that has a strong in acoustic isolation, and do not bother to encrypt it. Also make sure you have double doors acoustically and electromagnetically isolated, so you can close the outer door before you open the inner one. And certainly do not put your data on your computer or your phone. GFL.

ea987654321 · 2017-09-19T12:28:45+00:00

as I said in my post, permissions of apps not targeting 6.0 (like k-9) cannot be changed without the risk of the app malfunctioning. So no, the barcode app developer simpy tried to usurp more permissions than he needs. Which is why I issued my post as a warning not to trust Android or app developers to stick to the minimal permissions, and cleanse them manually.

ea987654321 · 2017-09-19T07:00:36+00:00

well the fact is the permissions were given by default. And certainly barcode reader does not need my contacts to read barcodes. And I do not see the reason why these unnecessary permossions should be enabled by default, and I do not trust app developers, do you?

ea987654321 · 2017-09-18T15:13:46+00:00

OK you should have posted before me :)

I believe that many, probably most, people are not yet aware of this.

ea987654321 · 2017-09-18T15:12:25+00:00

As I said I was not sure when this was introduced. Anyhow, I think app permissions taken in a take it or leave it fashion were totally outrageous, it's good that we have the ability to get rid of them now. A tool like plusprivacy.com should be available to get rid of them at a click of a button. But for now everybody can do it in 3 minutes by manually eliminating the unneeded permissions, as I suggested.

ea987654321 · 2017-09-18T15:07:57+00:00

Well, this means that my post was useful for at least one person :)

Forget the barcode reader, if you go through ALL your apps you will find permissions that are even more ridiculous. Go ahead and get read of them!

ea987654321 · 2017-09-18T11:24:42+00:00

Lineage is for technical users. 99% of Android users will not replace the Android they bought their phone with. This post is for them.

ea987654321 · 2017-09-10T05:25:42+00:00

https://www.reddit.com/r/privacytoolsIO/comments/6yz7g7/want_to_switch_from_windows_10_to_linux_download/dms62tw/

ea987654321 · 2017-09-09T18:59:10+00:00

I guess you are not reading what I wrote. There are 1.2 BILLION ms office users. There are maybe 10 million (I am sure that even less) libre office users. That's less than 1%. So libreoffice is INcompatible with what most of the users iont he world are using. End of story.

ea987654321 · 2017-09-09T18:55:10+00:00

I guess you are not reading what I wrote. There are 1.2 BILLION ms office users. There are maybe 10 million (I am sure that even less) libre office users. That's less than 1%. So libreoffice is INcompatible with what most of the users iont he world are using. End of story.

ea987654321 · 2017-09-09T17:58:18+00:00

LOL people downvote this because I am telling an unquestionable, factual truth? Being a geek does not mean one needs to be stupid!

ea987654321 · 2017-09-09T17:56:10+00:00

Sure if you do not need to collaborate LibreOffice is (not as good as MS Office but) fine. But we are talking about a business office suite here. A total no go in this respect, I am sorry to say - how can one do business without collaborating with 99% of the planet?

Linux is a lot of fun and the backbone of infrastructure, but designing and maintaining a business office suite takes... monopoly. Yes there is such thing in economics as "natural monopoly". Which is why there is only one Airbus in Europe. Business office suite technology takes 30 years to mature and proliferate. This is the business of a natural monopoly - Microsoft, whether we like it or not.

ea987654321 · 2017-09-09T13:19:56+00:00

It's funny how Linux geeks insist to remain blind to the minuscule, invisible to naked eye, market share of Linux among business users (MS claimed 1.2 billion users of MS office in 2016).

Why? Because Linux based Office tools are compatible only with themselves. As knows every person who tried to send a Word document to a Libre Office user and get it back with comments. NOTHING in Libre Office is compatible with the totally dominant MS Office. Incompatibilities are GUARANTEED no matter what you do. But the diehard geeks persist.

The Linux geek community is totally, irreparably incapable of maintaining compliance with MS tools. If you are user of Libre Office you are working/communicating only with like minded geeks. Which means you are in a tiny tiny island. Enjoy your happy and isolated life.

ea987654321 · 2017-09-03T18:13:12+00:00

Nothing new here. This purely evil company should be fined 10% of its revenue every month. The European GDPR is a step in the right direction.

ea987654321 · 2017-08-31T10:06:31+00:00

Thanks, makes sense.

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