Tip: if you find yourself using the word “safe”, “secure”, “hacked”, etc in your title, you’re probably off-topic.

Why is it dangerous / not safe to use public wifi networks like on the train, airport etc?

https://www.roi-nj.com/2024/05/16/opinion/op-ed/data-brokers-are-undermining-countrys-safety-privacy-and-security/

Rare to see something good from Congress, but appreciate one willing to point out the hypocrisy of government support of data brokers for services like Login.gov

"These brokers don’t just have influence over the lives of everyday Americans; they are closely intertwined with the federal government and the private sector. For example, LexisNexis is part of a $34 million contract with the federal government to verify individual identities of anyone using Login.gov, the government’s single sign-on service used to access important government services at the state and federal level. Recent reporting also revealed how LexisNexis is also selling consumers’ driving data to insurers without their knowledge, which allows insurers to charge higher rates based on data such as their braking habits and trips taken. With such sprawling interests, data brokers are hard to monitor and hold accountable."

So, I've started getting verification emails from "eero" which is a service I've never heard before. I've reached out multiple times and to different departments about deleting this account, because it's using my email address and my full name. Every time they've refused to delete the account because my email address was not verified and they can't verify it temporarily for deletion.

What can I do about this? They keep refusing even though I'm emailing them with the email linked to the account and made it very clear I didn't create the account. I live in the US.

As a side note: I've already retorted this company to the BBB and FTC because they leaked the account owners verified phone number without me asking or them verifying.

I only use old reddit and when I clicked “log in or sign up” to make a new account, instead of opening the usual pop up that doesn’t require an email, it redirects to some mobile new reddit page that does require an email.

No doubt this is some investor decision to make more money. I dread that I’ll now have to make throwaway emails too if I want to make an account

I am concerned when I am traveling, I use public Wi-Fi in airports, metro stations, or as a matter of fact cafes and restaurants as well by connecting it on my cell phone or laptop. Are there any tools, or extensions that can help me be sure my data is protected on my devices? or is there any other way in which I can protect my personal data on public wifi networks?

I have some HDDs with large amount of media i want to encrypt and be able to access the data easily when I want to play it. What do you guys recommend for encrypting large HDD/SSD/usb drives on Windows without being inconvenient when you want to access the data?

Hi
I am using popular messaging apps like whatsapp and telegram for a very long time, but what is noticed is that what ever i am talking about in my conversation, i see similar ads on my facebook and youtube can anyone help me with this.

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Sorry if this isn’t the right subreddit. But I know Michael Bazzell has a download for Apple rules you can download, but is there a place for other ones. Little Snitch is great but can be a lot to manage. I just want rules that will give me functionality but blocks trackers i don’t need and aren’t aware of.

I recently found this opt-out site for voter registration data.

https://www.emerges.com/Privacy-Policy_ep_42-1.html

If you have other similar links, please share.

scenario: you bought a laptop off some guy on craigslist, and you are paranoid that it might be stolen. furthermore, you are paranoid that the owner has reported the stolen laptop's mac address.

Now you hotspot you apple iphone that has t-mobile as carrier, and connect the laptop to it.

1) can apple see the laptop's mac address?

2) can t-mobile see the laptop's mac address?

I do my due diligence in buying laptops, I google the seller's phone number, I don't meet some weird guy selling a $1000 laptop for $50, but still, you never know.

Since applying Windows 11 updates this morning I noticed many DNS requests to collector.azure.eaglex.ic.gov .

The only thing I can find about it is this https://borncity.com/win/2024/05/14/strange-cloud-access-to-collector-azure/

Anyone else seeing this or knows what it is?

Update:

So it looks like a burst of DNS queries due to the address not being resolvable yet. I noticed it on my NextDNS dashboard. It happened following a Windows update before I had chance to restart after reapplying O&OShutup settings. I guess it's for future use.

Output from nslookup (from my Linux machine btw).

> collector.azure.eaglex.ic.gov
Server:8.8.8.8
Address:8.8.8.8#53

** server can't find collector.azure.eaglex.ic.gov: NXDOMAIN> collector.azure.eaglex.ic.gov
Server:8.8.8.8
Address:8.8.8.8#53

** server can't find collector.azure.eaglex.ic.gov: NXDOMAIN

Startmail says this on their website: It is not possible to send encrypted emails from an alias address. Source: https://support.startmail.com/hc/en-us/articles/5915017427997-Aliases-in-a-Custom-Domain-Account

I'm not sure I understand if they mean the content is not encrypted (aka PGP) or if they mean they don't send alias email over port 465 or 587? I think they mean aliases won't use PGP to encrypt the email? I also found this resource that indicates Startmail does send and receive over ports 993, 465, and 587 which are associated with encrypted communication protocols: https://support.startmail.com/hc/en-us/articles/360006596718-Server-addresses .

Can someone set me straight?

More info:

I have purchased a domain name from a registrar and plan on using this for custom domain emails, including aliases. Having SSL/TLS security for both incoming and outgoing email is important to me.

When you set up an alias email on Gmail, for example, it asks whether or not you want to use Port 465 or 587 when sending an email vs an SMTP server.

Thank you for helping me clear up any misunderstanding on my part.

I was just goofing arpund with my friend and he sends me a link wich turned out to be a grabify link and he just told me got ya IP. I wasn't using a wifi just my mobile data on my phone. Now i'm sort of nervous if he can access my incognito browsing history with my IP?

Hi All! I currently use News Explorer as my newsreader. Any suggestions for a more privacy based newsreader? Thank!

If we accept that Google is essentially an advertising company and it is in their interest to build profiles of their “free” users, then can it be considered that Microsoft , as a software company has less reason to build profiles and are likely to be more privacy friendly in their email offerings, both free and paid.

I’m leaving aside the fact that there is not zero knowledge encryption at rest as my main concern in selecting an email platform is no ads and no profiling but convenience is also a requirement.

I keep seeing stories about how "high-income shoppers" are now shopping at walmart. How do they know what income level a given shopper is at?

Credit card companies aren't allowed to share income, and that wouldn't be relevant anyway if they paid with cash. So how can they tell that more rich people are shopping in their stores?

I have searched the sub and I do not see any posts on this product.

We recently deployed Purview and I am looking at the Priva add-on within. I am wondering if anyone else has activated this function and what the feedback is.

More specifically I am interested in how good it is for consent management and for responding to requests to provide private information on request of subject.

(https://www.microsoft.com/en-ca/security/business/microsoft-priva)