Open Note Scanner + PDF Converter

A full FLOSS alternative to document scanner apps like CamScanner

♦ https://f-droid.org/app/com.todobom.opennotescanner
♦ https://f-droid.org/app/swati4star.createpdf

(Open Note Scanner requires you to download OpenCV manager from GitHub or Play)


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Session

A Signal protocol fork with decentralized servers and no need for a phone number

Session is a cross-platform, anonymous and decentralized messaging application. You don't need a phone number or email address to make an account.

Session uses the Loki Service Node network to route the data, for which the nodes are rewarded with $LOKI. The Loki Network itself is made up of some ~1000 community operated Service Nodes where 44% of the supply is held in the SNs - about US$7.5 million at the moment.

I love Signal, but I don't love the attached phone numbers or central servers, but I know there's a challenge in allowing an altruistic intention over a financial incentive for the node operators - Sybil resistance. By using Loki's Service Node network, the crypto-economics is designed in a way that a bad actor would drive the price exponentially up while trying to accumulate enough Loki to be able to perform any traffic analysis on the routed data.

Think of it as a Signal fork meets a Monero fork meets an incentivized TOR network.

Web: getsession.org

FAQ: getsession.org/faq

Whitepaper:
https://getsession.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Session-Whitepaper.pdf

Sources: github.com/Loki-project

Comments:
http://old.reddit.com/r/Android/comments/f4yt7z/session_a_signal_protocol_fork_with_decentralized/


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Marchers support Assange ahead of London extradition hearing.

LONDON (AP) — Hundreds of supporters of Julian Assange marched through London on Saturday to pressure the U.K. government into refusing to extradite the WikiLeaks founder to the United States to face spying charges.

Famous Britons, including Pink Floyd’s Roger Waters, Pretenders singer Chrissie Hynde and fashion designer Vivienne Westwood joined the crowd protesting the U.S. espionage charges against the founder of the secret-spilling website. An extradition hearing for Assange is due to begin in a London court on Monday.

https://apnews.com/bb8d93bb1c1510b70b0f2c71e93879ca

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Google to put a muzzle on Android apps accessing location data in the background.

Google will also update Android's location access permission prompt (again).

Google has announced this week plans to crack down on Android apps that abuse the OS permissions system and request access to user geo-location data when the app is not in use.

Starting with May, the OS maker plans to show warnings in the Play Store backend to all Android app developers about the need to update their apps.

Google plans to review its own apps as well, the company said in a blog post this week.

https://www.zdnet.com/article/google-to-put-a-muzzle-on-android-apps-accessing-location-data-in-the-background/

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UNLP + MicroG Q location fix

A rough fix for the location issue on Q has been found (thanks to tragedypoet on github) and implemented in the NoGoolag fork here.

Not been tested yet, if anybody wants to be brave, please go compile it and tell us if it worked for you.

(Also I just brought a 2-year old fork with diverging commits up to date in like 15 minutes, so there's a chance you may encounter some minor compilation errors)

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The US Military's New Tech Will Identify Faces from 1km Away

https://beebom.com/us-militarys-new-tech-identify-faces-1km-away


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Search engine alternatives

♦️ DuckDuckGo
-> https://duckduckgo.com
-> http://3g2upl4pq6kufc4m.onion
- US based (EU servers for EU, though).
- Mostly Bing, Yahoo and own crawler results
- Issues: Proprietary, some components are free
- ToS;DR: https://tosdr.org/#duckduckgo
- Criticism here
-- https://gitlab.com/prism-break/prism-break/issues/2143
-- https://redd.it/aqz3q8

♦️ SearX
-> https://searx.xyz
-> https://searx.xyz/tor.html
-> searx.space for other instances
- Instance of the open source metasearch engine
- You can choose which search engine to use for the results.
- Issues: No privacy policy, some public instances use Cloudflare, ads or may log IP addresses/searches.

♦️ Qwant
-> https://www.qwant.com
- French based
- Own crawlers and Bing results.
- Issues: "French law makes it mandatory to keep some connection data for one year"
- Privacy Policy: https://about.qwant.com/legal/privacy
- ToS;DR: https://tosdr.org/#qwant
- Criticism:
-- https://www.reddit.com/r/privacy/comments/bstxms/qwants_future_regarding_ethics
-- https://forum.vivaldi.net/topic/35097/ethics-a-heavy-suspicion-towards-the-qwant-search-engine

♦️ MetaGer
-> https://metager.org
- Open-source metasearch engine
- Based in Germany
- Stores some information temporarily: https://metager.org/datenschutz

♦️ YaCy
-> https://yacy.net
- Distributed self hosted search engine, built on P2P networks

♦️ Mojeek
-> https://www.mojeek.com
- Uses its own crawlers

♦️ Whoogle
https://github.com/benbusby/whoogle-search

Others:

♦️ List of search engines:
-> https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_search_engines

♦️ Startpage
-> startpage.com
- Startpage CEO interview
- uses Goolag search

♦️ Ecosia
-> https://www.ecosia.org
- A bing frontend
- Criticism:
-- https://info.ecosia.org/privacy#privacy-faq-item-6

♦️Gigablast
-> https://gigablast.com
- Fails SSL at Mozilla observatory
-- https://observatory.mozilla.org/analyze/www.gigablast.com

♦️ Yippy
-> yippy.com
- Uses Goolag ads

♦️ SwissCows
-> swisscows.ch

♦️ Disconnect
-> search.disconnect.me
- Connects to Amazon

♦️ Wolfram Alpha
-> www.wolframalpha.com
- Doesn't even work without JavaScript

♦️ Oscobk
-> oscobo.co.ukk

♦️ Lukol
-> www.lukol.com
- Shares data with Goolag
- Privacy policy: https://lukol.com/privacy.php


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Facebook will pay for users' voice recordings after it was caught listening to and transcribing private Messenger chats to improve its speech recognition software.

🌀 The platform will pay up to $5 via PayPal for various voice recordings

🌀 Recordings include phrases like 'Hey Portal' and first names of Facebook friends

🌀 Facebook says that it won't link the recordings to one's account

🌀 The policy follows reports from last year that it was listening to audio recordings

🌀 Facebook paid third-party contractors to analyze recordings for accuracy

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-8029495/Facebook-pay-users-voice-recordings-caught-listening-Messenger-chats.html

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Facebook will pay for users' voice recordings after it was caught listening to and transcribing private Messenger chats to improve its speech recognition software.

Post - HERE

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WhatsApp, Telegram Group Invite Links Leaked in Public Searches.

Invite links for WhatsApp and Telegram groups that may not be intended for public access are available through simple lookups on popular web search engines.

Both companies took some steps to protect the privacy of their users but more effort is necessary to make the links completely non-discoverable via public searches, thus allowing anyone to find them and join the group.

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/whatsapp-telegram-group-invite-links-leaked-in-public-searches/

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Privacy Concerns Raised Over New Google Chrome Feature.

With the release of Google Chrome 80, Google quietly slipped in a new feature that allows users to create a link directly to a specific word or phrase on a page. A Brave Browser researcher, though, sees this as a potential privacy risk and is concerned Google added it too quickly.

In February 2019, we reported about a new web feature created by Google called 'Scroll To Text Fragment' that allows users to create links to a specific word on a web page and automatically highlight it.

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/privacy-concerns-raised-over-new-google-chrome-feature/

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Google warns Huawei owners against 'sideloading' its apps.

Google has warned people not to circumvent the ban on Google apps that affects newer Huawei phones.

Recent Huawei devices cannot download the Google Play app store or hugely popular apps such as Gmail, YouTube, or Google Maps.

Android phones allow users to install apps from unverified sources, however.

But now, Google has warned this "sideloading" - manually installing app files found online - is "high risk", as the files may have been tampered with.

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-51613577

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Google denies illegally slurping data off free student Chromebooks.

New Mexico Attorney General Hector Balderas is suing Google over its alleged slurping of students’ data off of the free Chromebooks it passes out to needy schools and from its free G Suite for Education products, including Gmail, Calendar, Drive, Docs, Sheets, and other apps.

According to the complaint, which was filed in the US District Court for the District of New Mexico on Thursday, Google has marketed its suite – formerly known as Google Education – to schools, parents and children as a “free and purely educational tool”, but in actuality, it comes “at a very real cost that Google purposefully obscures.”

https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2020/02/25/google-denies-illegally-slurping-data-off-free-student-chromebooks/

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Google apologizes for recent Nest camera outage, says video history wasn't collected.

An errant server update appears to be the root cause

If you noticed your Nest camera systems were on the blink yesterday, February 24, you weren't alone. A widespread outage affected a large number of users and caused cameras to completely stop working, which is naturally very concerning for people who rely on them to help them feel secure in their homes. Thankfully, all should be back to normal by now.

https://www.androidpolice.com/2020/02/25/google-apologizes-for-recent-nest-camera-outage-says-video-history-wasnt-collected/

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Firefox for Mac and Linux to get a new security sandbox system.

Firefox's new RLBox sandbox system to ship to Linux users in Firefox 74 and Mac users in Firefox 75.

Mozilla will add a new security sandbox system to Firefox on Linux and Firefox on Mac.

The new technology, named RLBox, works by separating third-party libraries from an app's native code.

https://www.zdnet.com/article/firefox-for-mac-and-linux-to-get-a-new-security-sandbox-system/

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Warning: If you've enabled PayPal to pay with Google Pay, there are scammers exploiting a 1 year old reported bug stealing money

PayPal allows contactless payments via Google Pay. If you have set it up, you can read the card details of a virtual credit card from the mobile, if the mobiles device is enabled. No auth

Nitter.net/iblueconnection/status/1231962980964847618


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The Age of Surveillance Capitalism - The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power

The challenges to humanity posed by the digital future, the first detailed examination of the unprecedented form of power called "surveillance capitalism," and the quest by powerful corporations to predict and control our behavior.

In this masterwork of original thinking and research, Shoshana Zuboff provides startling insights into the phenomenon that she has named surveillance capitalism. The stakes could not be higher: a global architecture of behavior modification threatens human nature in the twenty-first century just as industrial capitalism disfigured the natural world in the twentieth.

👉🏼 PDF Reference Material:
https://news.1rj.ru/str/BlackBox_Archiv/808

📻 The Age of #Surveillance #Capitalism #podcast

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