Josh

@sideofburritos.com

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I was testing a temporary number service for WhatsApp when I received the popup below. Temporary numbers can be useful for disposable accounts that do not contain private data. You should not use one for an account you plan to keep long-term or that contains sensitive information. #privacy #security

I got this email this morning, and I guess this is now a marketing point? Whether the FCC labels you a “trusted consumer router”? I wonder what requirements they met, or more likely, how much that cost them. For context, I don’t use NETGEAR. Just an old account email. #netgear #security #privacy

An email from NETGEAR explaining that the FCC (Federal Communications Commission) has listed NETGEAR as a trusted consumer router company.

It doesn't stop there. It would require keeping data for auditing and providing a token for connecting age verification checks by apps and websites to the data. The law is a privacy disaster and exposes minors to being exploited by leaking their age bracket to apps and websites.

Brazil's authoritarian age verification law became active this month. It won't be implemented by GrapheneOS. Complying would require integrating a mandatory process for each user where a third party service checks government identification and confirms a match using the camera.

re @anthropic.com: I've identified industrial-scale copyright violations on my content by Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, X, and more. These companies created thousands of crawlers incorporating the text of all my blog posts, open source code, and books into their paid AI models to profit exorbitantly.

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The inter-financial/promotional capitalistic circle jerk by vendors promoting substandard privacy and security products in this space appalls me. It's the worst kind of human centipedal behaviour as they voluntarily swallow and regurgitate claims for each other to build SEO etc