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Osint and tech. I occasionally get lost in a 🐰 hole and in life as well.

I wrote some words for TechCrunch about this. Because some advertising SDKs enable location data collection by default, app devs might not realize that when their users share their location with the app, it *also* gets sold on to data brokers. Bypass for ad-blockers: web.archive.org/web/20260804...

Android app developers may be unwittingly sharing their users' location data with advertisers | TechCrunch

Developers may not realize they are sharing their users' location data with advertisers, per new research.

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A small army of volunteer security experts has spent the past few years helping rural water utilities with cybersecurity. How has it gone? What have they learned? And what's next? Read my (timely!) new story about DEF CON Franklin: www.cybersecuritydive.com/news/water-c...

How volunteer cyber experts are helping protect rural water systems

A first-in-the-nation program is seeing promising results as it charts a path for supporting the U.S.’s most vulnerable infrastructure.

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Ukraine’s air defence faces a crisis with Russia’s missile and drone production outstripping Ukraine’s ability to shoot them down. Europe can help now by providing fighter cover, or delivering more offensive weapons.

Ukraine needs help against Russian missiles now. What more can allies do?

Recent air defence pledges won’t deliver interceptors for years. Europe could help now by providing fighter cover, or by delivering more offensive weapons. Will it act?

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What can you get in Central London for £8? Cinema ticket? No. Coffee & sandwich? Just about. Tonight you could have heard 105 musicians of the BBC Philharmonic playing Betsy Jolas, Sibelius & Strauss at the BBC Proms. Some of world’s finest players are there every night until Sept 12. For £8. Go!

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Chat Control 2.0 is the biggest threat for end-to-end encrypted communication providers like us which is why we continue to say no to #ChatControl ✊🏻❤️🔒

We are pleased to be joining Bluesky today with this new account! 🦋 We are Lockdown Systems, a worker-owned collective building freedom and privacy technologies to inform the public, fight surveillance, and empower people to take back control of their own data. 1/3