This is an excellent and needed work of contextualization. Ten years after, looking back at how the Snowden Revelations impacted the internet and the work done by the IETF. It also shows there is plenty more to do...

It's clearly way too reliable. This needs explicit hardening.

This browser is really an horrible data harvesting platform for Microsoft's benefit. They never learn...

A few months old but a good piece to put things in perspective after the recent craze around large language models in general and GPT in particular. Noteworthy is the "wishful mnemonics" phrase mentioned and how it impacts the debate. Let's have less talks about AIs and more about SALAMIs please?

The most addictive and also tracking you everywhere it can (unsurprisingly). Toxicity at its highest.

We all know you shouldn't use Google Analytics. Now we also know that if you're in Europe and you're using it, it's probably illegal.

As if we still need people to be convinced... apparently we do. So just in case we need a well built argument about it, this post does it.

The obvious problem with VS Code, you just cannot have any trust into it.

The "Apple is better at privacy" argument was looking really like a fallacy to me. And indeed, it's getting clearer that it was greatly exaggerated...

Very interesting and insightful point of view... I think this hits the nail on the head: "we talk about conspiracy theories in order to avoid talking about conspiracy practices, which are often too daunting, too threatening, too total".

Seeing the bad practices of Amazon with its Android AppStore, it really feels like another supply chain mess in the making with Windows 11 Android support...

If you still wonder how ads work on the web and on mobile, this thread summarizes it well. They just farm us.

Google came with another crap idea and not everyone has to adjust their web servers...

That shows one of the issues of the kind of centralization IoT as currently done pushes for. Breach in one company? Plenty more people impacted...

Best part of the article is probably the stated motives:
"Kottmann said their reasons for hacking are “lots of curiosity, fighting for freedom of information and against intellectual property, a huge dose of anti-capitalism, a hint of anarchism -- and it’s also just too much fun not to do it.”"

So talking about the devil being in the details... That confirms profiling is still very much in the picture (unsurprisingly) but more disturbing:

• this has implications which creates new venues for easier fingerprinting (so extra risks!)
• this is in fact not that hard to cross-reference cohort and user identity (oops, wasn't it main initial motive to prevent this?)
• thus, this will help with monitoring behavior changes over time

And of course that's to be added to the fact that targeted advertising is very much not going away. FLoC or third party cookies... pick your poison I guess?

EN: Or why our world is more and more looking like a bad dystopian sci-fi movie... EU now funding drone swarms for border control...

FR: Ou pourquoi notre monde ressemble de plus en plus à un mauvais film de science-fiction dystopique... L'Union Européenne finance maintenant des essaims de drones pour contrôler les frontières...

Some more example of surveillance capitalism as a mean to social control. Are we surprised? Not really... still they all need to be documented and known to the public.