Notices by Em :official_verified: (em0nm4stodon@infosec.exchange)

If a lot of people are trying to immigrate in your country, it's not an invasion,
it's a compliment.

I absolutely love it when I read an amazing article from a fantastic journalist, then wonder if they are on Mastodon, and find their account to follow here!

This is the place to be! :mastodon: 🎉

#Mastodon #Journalism

Resistance takes many forms.

Sometimes it's going to a protest,
Sometimes it's canceling an account, Sometimes it's moving away from Big Tech,
And sometimes it's helping a neighbor.

Only you can decide what you can afford to do. But you should know that even the little actions matter.

You have power to make things better.
Use it!

#Resist #USpol

We don't have to endure all the abuse from Big Tech. There are alternatives. Use them!

ALERT for Bluesky Bridge Users 🚨 🦋

If you are using a Bluesky bridge on Mastodon, DO NOT TAG Mastodon accounts in your posts without prior informed consent from this person.

This could end up showing a preview of this person's profile picture and bio on Bluesky without their consent.

Additionally, be careful about how the upcoming Quote Post feature could behave with Bluesky bridges.

Some of us don't want our information shared with commercial platforms like Bluesky, and have not consented to this bridge.

This practice can even endanger some Fediverse users.

If you have chosen to share your
own data with commercial platforms, make sure you leave the same choice to others.

This is important.

#Privacy #Mastodon #Bluesky #BlueskyBridge #Fediverse #Consent

If you are enabling an AI feature scanning all your emails, consider this will also scan the emails people have sent you. This information could include personal or otherwise legally protected information.

If this data leaks later (as it regularly happens with these systems), this could mean severe legal consequences for you down the road.

YOU are responsible for protecting the data of others under your custody.

This includes the messages and emails others send to you.

#NoAI #AI #Privacy

New Privacy Guides article :mastodon: 🔒
by me:

While most social media rely on commercial models harvesting users' data to sell to advertisers,

Mastodon offers a human-centric alternative that doesn't seek profits from your data and attention.

This means better social connections, better controls, and better privacy!

The first part of this article discusses privacy and security on Mastodon.

The second part is a tutorial to guide you in making the most of Mastodon's security and privacy related features.

This tutorial includes how to:

• Enable multifactor authentication 🔑🔑

• Adjust privacy vs discovery 👀

• Select post visibility and access :neocat_box:

• Verify yourself :blobcatverified:

• Delete and back up your data :nes_fire:

• Block users and instances ⛔

• Opt out with hashtags #️⃣

• Move from one instance to another 🚀

I hope this helps you making the most of what Mastodon has to offers! :awesome:

https://www.privacyguides.org/articles/2025/07/15/mastodon-privacy-and-security/

#PrivacyGuides #Mastodon #Fediverse #Privacy #Security #Tutorial #TheFutureIsFederated #TinyMastodonTip

No-AI and solid end-to-end encryption is the new tech hype.

If you don't invest heavily in solid end-to-end encryption, privacy-protective and No-AI features, you will be left behind. People might even laugh at you.

Tell everyone.

#NoAI #Encryption #RootForE2EE #Privacy #Tech

Share in reply the products and companies you know that have taken a public stand against the AI hype,

And have promised not to integrate any AI in their products and services.
Add a source if possible 👀👇

#NoAI

New[ish] Privacy Guides article 🪪🚫
by me:

Age verification laws have been multiplying in recent years. This is extremely bad news for your privacy rights.

While framed as a measure to
protect the children, collecting more data on every users of the internet endangers *everyone*, including the children.

This isn't a protective measure,
this is authoritarian policies normalizing mass surveillance and silencing dissidents.

It could very much become
the end of pseudonymity online,
if we do not push back against it.

https://www.privacyguides.org/articles/2025/05/06/age-verification-wants-your-face/

#PrivacyGuides #Privacy #AgeVerification #GDPR #Biometrics #MassSurveillance

I must say, I'm impressed with the new features added in Mastodon 4.4. I quite like this pinned posts carousel and featured hashtags. Many other fantastic improvements.

Thank you and well done @MastodonEngineering Team! :mastodon: :blobcatheart:

#Mastodon

Tiny Mastodon Tip About Quote Posts :mastodon: 📢

If your instance is already running the newly released version Mastodon 4.4,

Know that in preparation for the full implementation, the team has included a consent setting for the upcoming Quote Post feature.

While quoting a post will not
be available as a native feature until Mastodon 4.5 later this year, it's wonderful that you can adjust if you want in or not before it even arrives! :awesome:

HOW TO❓

1. From the web interface, go to "Preferences" on the right-side menu. Then click on "Other" under the "Preferences" section :blocky_white_cursor:

2. If your instance was newly updated, you should now see an option in "Posting Defaults" for "Who can quote" (see image below) 👇

Note: If the option isn't there, your instance has not updated to the version including it yet. Be patient, it will likely be added in the weeks to come.

3. From the "Who can quote" drop-menu, you can choose either "Everyone", "Followers and mentioned users", or "Only mentioned users" :ablobcatnod:

4. Once the next version is released, you will be ready for Quote Posts! No matter your choices 💪

5. Enjoy the freedom of choosing the features you wish to participate in (or not)! 😌✨

For more information on Quote Posts, you can read Mastodon's announcement blog about it here: https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2025/02/bringing-quote-posts-to-mastodon/

#TinyMastodonTip #Mastodon #Fediverse #QuotePosts

Here's the announcement from Mastodon's blog for people who wants more information about this upcoming feature (Mastodon 4.5) and safeguards: https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2025/02/bringing-quote-posts-to-mastodon/

"In order to mitigate these issues, we plan to include several features in our implementation:

● You will be able to choose whether your posts can be quoted at all.

● You will be notified when someone quotes you.

● You will be able to withdraw your post from the quoted context at any time."

If you post a job opening on the Fediverse, please make sure it includes the salary range and location.

Salary ranges are mandatory by law to be shared with job posts in some jurisdictions.

Also, we're way past that bizarre game to waste everyone's time by trying to guess what each other is willing to pay and work for.

This is just silly and unprofessional.
Advertise your salary range.

#Jobs #FediHire

A lot of people seems to feel
very on edge these days. More aggressive and more angry.

And you know what, I totally get it.
I feel this way too.

Everything is on fire and we feel powerless. It sucks.

But if we eat each other, there will be nobody left to fight the oppressors.

While we fight each other,
while we drain each other,
they win.

Do not let authoritarian oppressors win by shooting at your allies.

Even if they're not allies you agree with all the time, even if they're temporarily allies for an urgent cause, focus your energy on the real danger. Do not drain allies' supplies, even if they are imperfect allies. That's what your enemy wants you to do.

We must support each other in these difficult times, if we want to even have a tiny chance to create peace, acceptance, and inclusion for the future 💚

Using the hashtag Mastodon because you *talk about* Mastodon (or anything related)? Yes! :mastodon: 👍

Using the hashtag Mastodon because you *post on* Mastodon? NO!!!! 😩👎

This is *about* Mastodon, so: #Mastodon

Magical backdoor only for "the good guys" is a complete fantasy 🔑✨

Let's say the strategy is akin to creating a MagicalKey that unlocks every door (a magical key because thinking encryption backdoors would only be used by "the good guys" is a great example of magical thinking).

Imagine only 1000 police officers have MagicalKeys.

Overtime, let's say only 1% of the police officers accidentally lose their MagicalKey. Now 10 MagicalKeys are lost in the wild and could be used by anyone else, for any purposes, including crime.

Then, let's say only 0.1% of police officers get corrupted by a crime gang. That's just one right? This corrupted "good guy" lets the gang create a double of the MagicalKey. Which crime gang wouldn't want a key that can magically open any door?

Now, the gang creates doubles of the MagicalKey they have. They use it subtly at first to avoid detection. They make sure they never leave traces behind, so victims have no idea their door got unlocked.

During this time, they steal your data, they sell it, they use it to impersonate you, they use it to harm you and your loved ones.

Then, another criminal figures out on their own how to emulate a MagicalKey without even having access to one.

The criminal creates a reproducible mold for this Emulated-MagicalKey and sells it to other criminals on the criminal market. Now, the MagicalKey™️ is available to any criminals looking for it.

Restrictions on the backdoor are off. Your personal data is up for grabs.

This is what is going to happen if backdoors are implemented in end-to-end encryption. But don't worry they say, "it's only for the good guys!".

At least, the criminals' data will also be up for grabs, right?

Nope! The criminals knew about this, so they just started using different channels that weren't impacted.

Criminals will have their privacy intact, they don't care about using illegal tools, but your legal privacy protections will be gone.

Backdoored end-to-end encryption isn't end-to-end anymore, it's just open-ended encryption. This offers pretty much no protection at all.

Extract from: https://www.privacyguides.org/articles/2025/04/11/encryption-is-not-a-crime/

#Privacy #Encryption #E2EE #RootForE2EE

Andor actor Diego Luna's speech for Jimmy Kimmel's show was SO AMAZING.
You have to watch it! 👇

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7726WoO7mTM

#USpol #DiegoLuna #Andor

Don't scan your eyeball for the World App.

Don't use the World App.

DON'T 🙅♀️👁️🗨️

https://www.privacyguides.org/articles/2025/05/10/sam-altman-wants-your-eyeball/

#Privacy #WorldApp #Orb #SamAltman #Biometrics #IrisScan #MassSurveillance #AgeVerification #IdentityVerification

Difficult to answer question:

What's the most privacy-respectful dating app you know, and why do you trust it with your most intimate data?

#Privacy #Dating #DatingApp