Notices by Etienne / Tek (tek@todon.eu), page 2

One things that is really interesting and scary in the US Telecom hack by a Chinese threat actor is how much internet surveillance is putting all of us at risk of such attack.
Here is what Verizon says "While pursuing the small number of targets, the threat actor also accessed a small percentage of mobile internet access records and mobile call records for other Verizon wireless customers. The mobile internet access records included the mobile telephone number, device hardware identifier known as an IMSI, time and date of the internet session, internet destination known as a destination IP address, and cell tower location."
It means that Verizon is keeping track of every IP contacted by a customer over Internet, and some of that was accessed by a foreign threat actor. #infosec
https://www.verizon.com/about/salt-typhoon-matter-update

Meta kills DEI programs https://www.axios.com/2025/01/10/meta-dei-programs-employees-trump

I am trying to catch up on #38C3 talks and I have to acknowledge that there are way too many of them that looks good. Any recommendations of talks that one shouldn't miss? (on all topics and preferably English but I can do with translation)

I love #Mastodon for all the amazing features there are, that make life so much better. Especially these one:
-Edit
-Follow only in some languages
-Follow but hide boosts
-Content Warnings

US House votes to sanction International Criminal Court over Israel https://www.reuters.com/world/us-house-votes-sanction-international-criminal-court-over-israel-2025-01-09/ #ICC #USA #Israel

Amnesty is doing an other round of Digital Forensics Fellowship, they are looking for 5 to 7 human rights defenders, journalists or technologists working with civil society organizations to receive training on digital forensics and digital threats. Expected work time is 10/12 hours a month from April to July 2025 and there is a stipend. It is a great opportunity for people supporting activists and journalists with tech to build forensics skills, apply here https://careers.amnesty.org/jobs/vacancy/digital-forensic-fellowship-4051/4079/description

We have #Telegram transparency data on 29 countries already for all 2024 \o/ https://te-k.github.io/telegram-transparency/
If you have a telegram account in a country not mentioned here, please contact the transparency bot and send me a screenshot here

Meta Now Lets Users Say Gay and Trans People Have ‘Mental Illness’ | WIRED https://www.wired.com/story/meta-immigration-gender-policies-change/ #meta #socialnetwork

I am tired of hearing AI BS all the time, I need better AI memes. Mastodon, what do you have?

I start

Some more information there : Meta’s Fact-Checking Partners Say They Were ‘Blindsided’ by Decision to Axe Them

https://www.wired.com/story/metas-fact-checking-partners-blindsided/

Zuckerberg, inspired by Musk, ditches fact checking for Community Notes - The Verge https://www.theverge.com/2025/1/7/24338062/facebook-instagram-threads-meta-abandon-fact-checking #socialnetwork #facebook

It is wild to see such a shift of all companies toward Trump and Musk far right values, Mark Zuckerberg's speech is really scary https://about.fb.com/news/2025/01/meta-more-speech-fewer-mistakes/

You can now see detailed number for a specific country at the bottom of the page

First basic website to see the data https://te-k.github.io/telegram-transparency/

It is time to get the latest Telegram number, so Mastodon, I need your help! If you have Telegram, please contact the Telegram transparency bot https://t.me/transparency and get data for your country. Please share a screenshot here or as an issue there https://github.com/Te-k/telegram-transparency
Please retoot!

#Telegram Hands U.S. Authorities Data on Thousands of Users
https://www.404media.co/telegram-hands-u-s-authorities-data-on-thousands-of-users/

Great talk by @Mer__edith at #38C3 : "Feelings are Facts: Love, Privacy, and the Politics of Intellectual Shame"
It is so refreshing to hear these perspectives on tech, it is connecting a lot of questions I didn't realize I needed to connect.
https://media.ccc.de/v/38c3-feelings-are-facts-love-privacy-and-the-politics-of-intellectual-shame

Pornhub Is Now Blocked In Almost All of the U.S. South #censorship
https://www.404media.co/pornhub-is-now-blocked-in-almost-all-of-the-u-s-south/

Brazil Bans X from Using Children to Power Its AI
https://www.hrw.org/news/2024/12/20/brazil-bans-x-using-children-power-its-ai