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<![CDATA[Deveray forums - No censorship of real news by liberal billionaires here. - Betty Boop's lounge]]> https://deveray.com/ 2025-04-02T00:37:57Z MyBB crazyon]]> 2022-05-17T13:28:30Z 2022-05-17T14:16:03Z https://deveray.com/showthread.php?tid=278 <![CDATA[Personal Defense against Abusive Technology]]> |
More Phone App Tracking Revelations

Sam Biddle, Jack Poulson | April 22 2022,

More Phone App Tracking Revelations

New firm says it tracks 3 Billion smart phones at any given
time on a global scale.

In the months leading up to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, two obscure American startups met to discuss a potential surveillance partnership that would merge the ability to track the movements of billions of people via their phones with a constant stream of data purchased directly from Twitter.

According to Brendon Clark of Anomaly Six — or “A6” — the combination of its cellphone location-tracking technology with the social media surveillance provided by Zignal Labs would permit the U.S. government to effortlessly spy on Russian forces as they amassed along the Ukrainian border, or similarly track Chinese nuclear submarines. To prove that the technology worked, Clark pointed A6’s powers inward, spying on the National Security Agency and CIA, using their own cellphones against them.

All of this is powered by general ignorance of the ubiquity and invasiveness of smartphone software development kits, known as SDKs.

GPS dragnet yields between 30 to 60 location pings per device per day and 2.5 trillion locational data points annually worldwide

“Everything is agreed to and sent by the user even though they probably don’t read the 60 pages in the [end user license agreement].”

Critics say the loose trade in advertising data constitutes a loophole in the Fourth Amendment.

crazyedit: A lot of tracking data comes from apps and the
rest comes from 'FANG' owned networks...more on that
in the next report :endedit

Whole report At https://theintercept.com/2022/04/22/anom...e-cia-nsa/
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The Online Tracking Company That Knows Your Name

May 14, 2022

Most online ad tracking companies know which websites you’ve been to—based on “cookies” they place on your computer—but don’t know your actual name.

Not Facebook, though. When Facebook began placing “Like” buttons and other widgets on sites beyond Facebook, it was the first massive online advertising company that knew the name of nearly every user who stumbled across one of its widgets.

At first, Facebook said it was not collecting data from users across the web, but it eventually admitted it was. And it was even tracking users if they merely visited webpages—the user didn’t have to click on the Like button to send data to Facebook or even have a Facebook account.

Now, however, Facebook has replaced the Like button with tracking technology that’s even less visible. Meta, Facebook’s parent company, now uses technology it calls a “pixel”—a snippet of computer code that websites embed on their pages—that sends data back to Facebook.

Unlike the Like button, it is invisible to users, and so most people are unaware that their data is being collected. What’s even less clear is what data Facebook is collecting on any given site.

To get a better idea, The Markup partnered with Mozilla to conduct the first large-scale crowdsourced study of the presence of the pixel and the data it collects in real-world scenarios.

Complete report @ https://themarkup.org/newsletter/hello-w...-your-name

Next we will look at solutions &t stay tuned and post your own in this
Tech thread.
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Protection against third-parties that leak form data

Web browsers do not reveal to users if third-party scripts collect data that users input on sites, even before submitting. While most, with the notable exception of Google Chrome, include anti-tracking functionality, it appears that they are not suitable for protecting user data against this form of tracking.

The researchers ran a small test using Firefox and Safari to find out of the default anti-tracking functionality blocked data exfiltration on the sample. Both browsers failed to protect user data in the test.

Browsers with built-in ad-blocking functionality, such as Brave or Vivaldi, and ad-blocking extensions such as uBlock Origin, offer better protection against data leaking. Users on mobile devices may use browsers that support extensions or include ad-blocking functionality by default.

More can be seen @ https://www.ghacks.net/2022/05/17/tracke...ng-submit/

Crazyedit: I am an avid user of NetLimiter &t&t&t version 4.0.59.0
Version's mean a lot for different uses. It can choke a
72KB per-second live broadcast full of tracking down to 6KB per-sec.
Choking out most all the nonsense when using Ublock-origin in your browser

Also check Blackbird for windows @ https://www.getblackbird.net/documentation/ &t&t&t Disclaimer &t&t&t Do not use on a business/work computer...other than that I Really Like Blackbird on my playground
machine.

https://noscript.net/ is Wonderful

For extensive learning read &t&t&t https://www.ghacks.net/2015/08/18/a-comp...-settings/

study and read it all the before you change anything. I studied and
practiced with the ghacks guide for at least 40 Hours before making
it permanent.

Disclaimer: I am not responsible for errors :endedit
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|]]> false crazyon]]> 2022-02-04T19:10:58Z 2022-02-04T19:14:16Z https://deveray.com/showthread.php?tid=246 <![CDATA[A short story called 'The Graduate's Gift']]> |

The Graduate's Gift

An arrogant young man was getting ready to graduate from college. For many months he had admired a beautiful sports car in a dealer's showroom, and knowing his wealthy father could easily afford it, he told him that was all he wanted.

As Graduation Day approached, the young man awaited signs that his father had purchased the car. Finally, on the morning of his graduation, his father called him into his private study. His father told him how proud he was to have such a fine son, and told him how much he loved him. He handed his son a beautifully wrapped gift box. Curious, and somewhat disappointed, the young man opened the box and found a lovely, leather-bound Bible, with the young man's name embossed in gold.

Angry, he shouted at his father and said "with all your money, you give me a Bible?" and stormed out of the house.

Many years passed and the young man had become very successful in business. He had a beautiful home and wonderful family but realized his father now was getting old and thought perhaps he should go see him. He had not seen him since that graduation day. Before he could make arrangements, he received a telegram telling him his father had passed away and willed all of his possessions to his son. He needed to come home immediately and take care of things.

When he arrived at his father's house, sudden sadness and regret filled his heart. He began to search through his father's important papers and saw the still gift-wrapped Bible, just as he had left it years ago. With tears, he opened the Bible and began to turn the pages. His father had carefully underlined a verse, Matt.7:11, "And if ye, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more shall your Heavenly Father which is in Heaven, give to those who ask Him?"

As he read those words, a car key dropped from the back of the Bible. It had a tag with the dealer's name, the same dealer who had the sports car he had wanted. On the tag was the date of his graduation, and the words PAID IN FULL.
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