TL;DR: Facebook collects data about you in hundreds of ways, across numerous channels. It’s very hard to opt out, but by reading about what they collect, you can understand the risks of the platform and choose to be more restrictive with your Facebook usage.

Tweets metadata scraper & activity analyzer

"As any other social media website Twitter know a lot of things about you, thanks [to] metadata," a French security researcher known as X0rz wrote in a recent blog post. "Indeed, for a 140 characters message you will get A LOT of metadata—more than 20 times the size of the initial content you typed in! And guess what? Almost all of this metadata is accessible through the open Twitter API." To demonstrate that, X0rz wrote a Python script called tweets_analyzer, a command-line tool to tap into some of Twitter's vast metadata that may not be accessible from the standard client.

Tristan Nitot déclare le lancement de la salle Décentralisation d’Internet nous parle des enjeux de la protection de la vie privée, en nous expliquant l’impact de la surveillance sur les citoyens, qui peuvent s’autocensurer de façon volontaire ou non.

LibreOffice 5.3 was released a few days ago, and it has several new nice features. The LibreOffice project provides a tarball for Ubuntu with the new version, that can be downloaded, extracted and …

Do It Yourself Open Source Haredware and Software Hacker's friendly Modular Laptop

We are proud to announce that our TERES I laptop is complete. We have assembled units and now working on the software. The building instructions are uploaded here and you can see that it’s pr…

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By default, Windows sends a lot of your information to their servers sometimes without asking you to opt-in. Follow this guide to fix Windows 10 and restore your privacy.

Over time more and more users published instructions on how to break Microsoft's habit of spying on their users, including for private users whose computers are not part of a company or enterprise domain. I was annoyed that this leads to manually clicking checkmarks on a graphical user interface or running confusing PowerShell scripts and merge several single rule-sets. With the webpage https://fix10.isleaked.com/ I had the idea to build a tool, which is easily extendable and configurable and can automate the process of reaching an adequate level of privacy on the press of a button.

Qwant est le petit moteur de recherche qui monte. Made in Europe, il se démarque en protégeant la vie privée de ses utilisateurs. La Caisse des dépôts entre à son capital ce jeudi.

"Smart" devices using BTLE, a mobile phone and the Internet are becoming more and more popular. We will be using mechanical and electronic hardware attacks, TLS MitM, BTLE sniffing and App decompilation to show why those devices and their manufacturers aren't always that smart after all. And that even AES128 on top of the BTLE layer doesn't have to mean "unbreakable". Our main target will be electronic locks, but the methods shown apply to many other smart devices as well...

Call the frontdoor to install your backdoors

How private companies leak your personal data into the public domain, and how you can buy it.