When we use at&t’s phone lines or Microsoft’s operating system, we are implicitly relying on them to be secure.

But they’re not. Patch Tuesday exists for a reason. And it’s already, what, 20 years old?

I expect the FBI to take every reasonable precaution to protect investigations and yes that includes developing software.

What kinda chip you got in there, a Dorito?

At this time, Meta’s Head of Public Policy was Joel Kaplan, a man whose previous work involved working as George W. Bush’s Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy, as well as handling public policy and affairs for Energy Future Holdings, which involved three private equity firms buying Texas power company TXU for $45 billion and immediately steering it into bankruptcy due to the $38.7 billion in debt Energy Future Holdings was forced to take on as a means of acquiring TXU.

Jeff Horwitz reports in his book Broken Code that Kaplan personally intervened when Facebook’s health team attempted to remove COVID conspiracy movie Plandemic from its recommendation engine, and Facebook only did so once Roose reported that it was the most-engaged link in a 24 hour period.

Naturally, Meta’s choice wasn’t to “fix things” or “improve” or “take responsibility.” By the end of 2021, Meta had disbanded the team that ran CrowdTangle, and in early 2022, the company had stopped registering new users. In early 2024 — months before the 2024 elections — CrowdTangle was officially shut down, though Facebook Top 10 had stopped working in the middle of 2023.

Meta hasn’t “made a right-wing turn.”  It’s been an active arm of the right wing media for nearly a decade

RedNote’s Chinese name, Xiaohongshu, literally translates to “Little Red Book,” which seems like a direct reference to a book of quotes from Chinese communist leader Mao Tse-tung. But The Washington Post reported that the app is designed to be apolitical and its co-founder, Mao, maintains that the name instead pays “homage to the colors of his college,” Stanford Business School, and his former employer, Bain Capital.

Geeeeeeeeeeeeeeetthefuckouttahere!

But what happens when they end up stealing it from Waze, or Tile, or Apple. What happens when google just sells it to people?

Indeed.

To stop this from being a thing, it needs to be done from the ground up with a privacy respecting OS run by a privacy respecting company, serviced by a privacy respecting server.

Same as it ever was.

Jan 16 (Reuters) - FBI leaders have warned that hackers who breached AT&T’s (T.N) system last year likely stole months of agents’ call and text logs, prompting an urgent effort to safeguard confidential informants’ identities, Bloomberg News reported on Thursday.

Jesus upjumping Christ the FBI is relying on AT&T & Microsoft for security. Well. There it is.

This data is harvested from apps rather than the phones themselves, as EFF explains, “each time you see a targeted ad, your personal information is exposed to thousands of advertisers and data brokers through a process called real-time bidding’ (RTB). This process does more than deliver ads—it fuels government surveillance, poses national security risks, and gives data brokers easy access to your online activity. RTB might be the most privacy-invasive surveillance system that you’ve never heard of.”

Our phones know where we are and they know where we have been—the problem is they have a nasty habit of sharing that information with others.

What. The. Fuck. Do you think you’re doing?? A “nasty habit”??? You know good and goddamned well they’re designed specifically to do that, and that location data is among the most prized of all personal information.

What sort of mindfuck juice are you chugging to write an inconcievably idiotic sentence like “phones do the cutest thing - they leak your location data! OMG! Squeeee”

IT’S JUST THE ADVERTISING ID. NOT THE LOCATE PHONE PART.

Brought to you buy jerks who haven’t had their coffee yet and read TFA.

shhhhh! They’ll hear you!

And not a single bit of this would matter at all if YOU PEOPLE* would just know a damned thing!

*present company excepted, of course.

What is the Streisand effect?

Cool.

Cool cool cool.

Been hoping for something like this. Hello waiting ebooks!

*sigh*. What now, Columbo? Y’know I’ve tried to be very helpful you know, with all of your questions, but now it’s becoming very annoying! I’m very busy you know with all my, uh, hacking, as you can plainly see!

Remember that good thing Meta did?

Yeah me neither

😱

Yeah I quit caring.

Don’t care. Quit. It’s inexcusable.

Thanks leaded gasoline!

Discovery process, you say?