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PrivacyDigest<p>Over 600 million <a href="https://mas.to/tags/Meta" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Meta</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/passwords" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>passwords</span></a> stored in plain text </p><p>The issue was first uncovered in 2019 when <a href="https://mas.to/tags/Facebook" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Facebook</span></a> admitted to "hundreds of millions" of passwords being stored <a href="https://mas.to/tags/unencrypted" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>unencrypted</span></a>. Facebook said that the passwords were not available outside of the company — but also admitted that around 2,000 engineers had made about 9 million queries on that user database<br><a href="https://mas.to/tags/privacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>privacy</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/security" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>security</span></a></p><p><a href="https://appleinsider.com/articles/24/09/27/meta-stored-600-million-facebook-and-instagram-passwords-in-plain-text" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">appleinsider.com/articles/24/0</span><span class="invisible">9/27/meta-stored-600-million-facebook-and-instagram-passwords-in-plain-text</span></a></p>
Kevin Karhan :verified:<p>A little personal post I should propably pin:</p><p>Don't sent me any links/invites to <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/centralized" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>centralized</span></a>, <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/SingleVendor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SingleVendor</span></a> / <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/SingleProvider" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SingleProvider</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Chat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Chat</span></a> or whatever sites/services.</p><p>I WILL IGNORE THEM!</p><p>If you want to contact me, you'll find all the info you want on my profile.</p><p>To protect against <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Spam" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Spam</span></a>, all <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/unencrypted" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>unencrypted</span></a> messages/eMails get automatically filtered as junk on server-side.</p><p>If you want a reply, add your <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Pubkey" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Pubkey</span></a> to those.</p><p>Thanks for your attention!</p>
Kevin Karhan :verified:<p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://hachyderm.io/@evacide" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>evacide</span></a></span> okay, you want it simple?</p><p>1. DONT' USE ANY <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/proprietary" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>proprietary</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/SingleVendor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SingleVendor</span></a> / <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/SingleProvider" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SingleProvider</span></a> and/or <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/unencrypted" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>unencrypted</span></a> comms at all!</p><p>2. DON'T TALK TO ANYONE WHO ISN'T LEGALLY FORCED UNDER THREAT OF JAIL AND LIFELONG UNEMPLOYABILITY TO STFU EVEN TOWARDS COPS &amp; JUDGES!</p><p>3. STFU!</p><p>4. Act plausibly deniable!</p><p>5. Don't take anything that can and thus will be used to track you - including any mobile phones - even switched off!</p><p>6. Use <span class="h-card"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@torproject" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>torproject</span></a></span> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/TorBrowser" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TorBrowser</span></a> to look up stuff!</p>
As The World Turns<p>Found out <a href="https://libranet.de/search?tag=Wire" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Wire</span></a> <a href="https://libranet.de/search?tag=Msgr" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Msgr</span></a> saves attachments you send out in a wire directory <a href="https://libranet.de/search?tag=unencrypted" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>unencrypted</span></a>. I thought everything in Wire, even attachments are encrypted. I don't know if its the same for received attachments.</p><p>Does anyone know if received attachments are saved in a wire directory unencrypted?</p><p><a href="https://libranet.de/search?tag=wireapp" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>wireapp</span></a> <a href="https://libranet.de/search?tag=privacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>privacy</span></a> <a href="https://libranet.de/search?tag=security" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>security</span></a> <a href="https://libranet.de/search?tag=data" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>data</span></a> <a href="https://libranet.de/search?tag=surveillance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>surveillance</span></a> <a href="https://libranet.de/search?tag=encryption" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>encryption</span></a> <a href="https://libranet.de/search?tag=IM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>IM</span></a> <a href="https://libranet.de/search?tag=collaboration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>collaboration</span></a> <a href="https://libranet.de/search?tag=Teams" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Teams</span></a></p>