Meine Datenschutz und Privatsphäre Übersicht 2025, für Jedermann

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 #DSGVO #TDDDG ( #unplugtrump )
#Datenschutz #Privatsphäre #sicherheit #Verschlüsselung
#encryption #WEtell #SoloKey #NitroKey #Email #Cybersecurity #Pixelfed #Massenűberwachung #Leta
#Google #Metadaten #WhatsApp #Threema #Cryptpad #Signal
#Hateaid #Cyberstalking #Messenger #Browser #Youtube #NewPipe #Chatkontrolle #nichtszuverbergen #ÜberwachungsKapitalismus #Microsoft #Apple #Windows10 #Linux #Matrix #Mastodon #Friendica #Fediverse #Mastodir #Loops #2FA #Ransomware #Foss #VeraCrypt #HateAid #Coreboot #Volksverpetzer #Netzpolitik #OpenAndroidInstaller
#Digitalisierung #FragdenStaat #Shiftphone  #OpenSource #GrapheneOS #CCC #Mail #Mullvad #PGP #GnuPG #DNS #Gaming #linuxgaming #Lutris #Protondb #eOS #Enshittification
#Bloatware #TPM #Murena  #LiberaPay #GnuTaler #Taler #PreppingforFuture
#FediLZ #BlueLZ #InstaLZ #ThreatModel
#FLOSS #UEFI #Medienkompetenz

"The point is that hiding secrets in devices that belong to your adversaries is very bad security practice. No matter how good a bank safe is, the bank keeps it in its vault – not in the bank-robber's basement workshop.

For a hiding-secrets-in-your-adversaries'-device plan to work, the manufacturer has to make zero mistakes. The adversary – a competitor, a tinkerer, a grad student – only has to find one mistake and exploit it. This is a bedrock of security theory: attackers have an inescapable advantage.

So I think that DRM doesn't work. I think DRM is a legal construct, not a technical one. I think DRM is a kind of magic Saran Wrap that manufacturers can wrap around their products, and, in so doing, make it a literal jailable offense to use those products in otherwise legal ways that their shareholders don't like. As Jay Freeman put it, using DRM creates a new law called "Felony Contempt of Business Model." It's a law that has never been passed by any legislature, but is nevertheless enforceable.

In the 25 years I've been fighting anticircumvention laws, I've spoken to many government officials from all over the world about the opportunity that repealing their anticircumvention laws represents. After all, Apple makes $100b/year by gouging app makers for 30 cents on ever dollar. Allow your domestic tech sector to sell the tools to jailbreak iPhones and install third party app stores, and you can convert Apple's $100b/year to a $100m/year business for one of your own companies, and the other $999,900,000,000 will be returned to the world's iPhone owners as a consumer surplus."

https://pluralistic.net/2025/05/14/pregnable/#checkm8

Florida bill requiring encryption backdoors for social media accounts has failed

A Florida bill, which would have required social media companies to provide an encryption backdoor for allowing police to access user accounts and private messages, has failed to pass into law.

The Social Media Use by Minors bill was “indefinitely postponed” and “withdrawn from consideration”

#socialmedia #florida #backdoor #surveillance #privacy #encryption #technology #tech #legal

https://techcrunch.com/2025/05/09/florida-bill-requiring-encryption-backdoors-for-social-media-accounts-has-failed/

https://www.europesays.com/uk/100684/ How quantum computers could break RSA encryption and cure Alzheimer’s #ArtificialIntelligence #computer #Computing #Encryption #Explainer #Quantum #QuantumComputer #QuantumComputing #Qubits #Technology #UK #UnitedKingdom

"Encrypted chat apps like Signal and WhatsApp are one of the best ways to keep your digital conversations as private as possible. But if you’re not careful with how those conversations are backed up, you can accidentally undermine your privacy.

When a conversation is properly encrypted end-to-end, it means that the contents of those messages are only viewable by the sender and the recipient. The organization that runs the messaging platform—such as Meta or Signal—does not have access to the contents of the messages. But it does have access to some metadata, like the who, where, and when of a message. Companies have different retention policies around whether they hold onto that information after the message is sent.

What happens after the messages are sent and received is entirely up to the sender and receiver. If you’re having a conversation with someone, you may choose to screenshot that conversation and save that screenshot to your computer’s desktop or phone’s camera roll. You might choose to back up your chat history, either to your personal computer or maybe even to cloud storage (services like Google Drive or iCloud, or to servers run by the application developer)."

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/05/back-it-back-it-let-us-begin-explain-encrypted-chat-backups

#Florida Fails To Pass Bill Requiring #Encryption #Backdoors For #SocialMedia Accounts - Slashdot
#privacy #security

https://yro.slashdot.org/story/25/05/09/2036224/florida-fails-to-pass-bill-requiring-encryption-backdoors-for-social-media-accounts?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed

#Tor is mainly known for the anonymity it provides, but the #onionservice is also awesome for easy networking and #encryption I just made my #yacy instance accessible via a .onion-addresse in about 10 Minutes.

@torproject is awesome! @orbiterlab

No encryption in #whatsapp group apps

One more reason to switch to #signalapp

#encryption #privacy #security #tech #meta #facebook #messenger

Origineel bericht: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:wld6fad6xsm4tz4kfkoikun2/post/3looriu3lac2r

Let the #TeleMessage #Signal clone hack be a reminder that there’s no such thing as a backdoor for the good guys. A backdoor is a backdoor is a backdoor. If there’s one, a bad guy will eventually find it.

In a group of 39 organisations and 43 experts we call on Commissioner Virkkunen for a scientific evidence-based approach to #encryption

The announcement from the European Commission about a “Technology Roadmap on encryption” has raised several questions because of plans to enable law enforcement authorities access to encrypted data

We ask for meaningful participation of experts to safeguard #cybersecurity and #Fundamental Rights.

Read the open letter
https://edri.org/our-work/technical-experts-call-on-virkkunen-for-a-seat-on-the-table-european-commissions-technology-roadmap-on-encryption/

New Privacy Guides article
by me:

If you are not sure what Tor is,
this article is for you

If you want to tell your friends
how important Tor is,
this article is for them too

If you want to read about how fundamental Tor is not only to the privacy community, but to everyone who needs its protection,
this article is for this as well

Thank you @torproject

https://www.privacyguides.org/articles/2025/04/30/in-praise-of-tor/

What does #ProtectEU mean for digital rights in the EU? EDRi’s senior policy advisor Chloé Berthélémy @chlobemy unpacks the new internal security strategy presented by the @EUCommission and what it means for the EU’s future digital policy.
Spoiler: it’s bad news on #encryption, #DataRetention, #Europol & more.
Read it here: https://edri.org/our-work/protecteu-security-strategy-a-step-further-towards-a-digital-dystopian-future/

Decoded quantum interferometry (DQI):
#quantumcomputing #encryption #cryptography #algorithms #innovation

https://www.wired.com/story/quantum-speedup-found-for-huge-class-of-hard-problems/

Two existing @w3c specifications are published under a new level. #FPWD #timetogiveinput

- "Web Cryptography Level 2" defines a #JavaScript #API for cryptographic operations like hashing, signing, and #encryption, #authentication
https://www.w3.org/TR/webcrypto-2/

- "Subresource Integrity" specifies a way for user agents to verify that fetched resources haven’t been tampered with
https://www.w3.org/TR/sri-2/

Feedback welcome in the resp. directories: https://github.com/w3c/webcrypto/ and
https://github.com/w3c/webappsec-subresource-integrity/

The U.S., U.K. and Europe are aligning with China and Russia in their efforts to undermine the encryption tools that millions of internet users depend on. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2025/04/23/world/stop-governments-breaking-encryption/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #commentary #worldnews #encryption #us #china #russia #uk #humanrights #privacy #surveillance #tech #apps

Once again, I highly advice you to get off #Discord and use something else, prefferably a messaging platform that is end-to-end encrypted, federated, no phone number idenitfiers, and open source.

You can bet your dollars that once they officially announce their IPO plans, all bets are off in terms of #enshittification X 1000.

https://venturebeat.com/games/why-discord-founder-jason-citron-is-stepping-down-from-ceo-job-exclusive-interview/

"When asked directly about the most pressing digital threats, be it AI misuse or quantum computing, Schneier quipped. "I generally hate ranking threats, but if I had to pick candidates for 'biggest,' it would be one of these: income inequality, late-stage capitalism, or climate change," he wrote. "Compared to those, cybersecurity is a rounding error."
(...)
Asked directly about NSA reforms post-Snowden, Schneier was skeptical, responding: "Well, they haven't had any leaks of any magnitude since then, so hopefully they did learn something about OPSEC. But near as we can tell, nothing substantive has been reformed."

Schneier further clarified, "We should assume that the NSA has developed far more extensive surveillance technology since then," stressing the importance of vigilance.

He touched on the fusion of AI and democracy - a theme of his upcoming book Rewiring Democracy - noting that he didn't "think that AI as a technology will change how different types of government will operate. It's more that different types of governments will shape AI."

He is pessimistic that countries will harness AI's power to do good and help improving quality of life.

"It would be fantastic if governments prioritized these things," he said. "[This] seems unrealistic in a world where countries are imagining some sort of AI 'arms race' and where monopolistic corporations are controlling the technologies. To me, that speaks to the solutions: international cooperation and breaking the tech monopolies. And, yes, those are two things that are not going to happen.""

https://www.scworld.com/news/bruce-schneier-ai-hype-nsa-surveillance-and-cybersecuritys-real-challenges

Meine Datenschutz und Privatsphäre Übersicht 2025, für Jedermann

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 #DSGVO #TDDDG ( #unplugtrump )
#Datenschutz #Privatsphäre #sicherheit #Verschlüsselung
#encryption #WEtell #SoloKey #NitroKey #Email #Cybersecurity #Pixelfed #Massenűberwachung
#Google #Metadaten #WhatsApp #Threema #Cryptpad #Signal
#Hateaid #Cyberstalking #Messenger #Browser #Youtube #NewPipe #Chatkontrolle #nichtszuverbergen #ÜberwachungsKapitalismus #Microsoft #Apple #Windows #Linux #Matrix #Mastodon #Friendica #Fediverse #Mastodir #Loops #2FA #Ransomware #Foss #VeraCrypt #HateAid #Coreboot #Volksverpetzer #Netzpolitik #Digitalisierung #FragdenStaat #Shiftphone  #OpenSource #GrapheneOS #CCC #Mail #Mullvad #PGP #GnuPG #DNS #Gaming #linuxgaming #Lutris #Protondb #eOS #Enshittification
#Bloatware #TPM #Murena  #LiberaPay #GnuTaler #Taler #PreppingforFuture
#FediLZ #BlueLZ #InstaLZ #ThreatModel
#FLOSS #UEFI #Medienkompetenz

Florida’s new “Social Media Use by Minors” bill (SB 868/HB 743) has a chilling twist: it demands platforms create backdoors to decrypt private messages.

That means:
End-to-end encryption may be turned off
Disappearing messages could be banned
Minors lose digital privacy
All users may face weaker security

EFF warns this is a dangerous precedent that risks everyone’s online safety. Legislating away encryption doesn’t protect kids — it jeopardizes all of us.

#Cybersecurity #Privacy #Encryption #TechPolicy
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/04/floridas-new-social-media-bill-says-quiet-part-out-loud-and-demands-encryption