An anarchist-oriented Mastodon server has seen one of its admins raided by the FBI. The admin in question was working with an unencrypted backup of the Mastodon server, which was also seized.
Probably the same. This bears repeating: All your information online is and always has been available for others to collect and see, from FBI to advertisers. If you want any amount of protection, it must be with E2E encryption for which you own the keys.
We taught online safety in the 90s. Did we all just collectively forget this in the last two decades?
They stopped teaching about computers. I tutored high schoolers about 10 years ago and they didn’t know how to use computers fluently. It moved to the realm of expecting parents to teach to their kids along with taxes and career planning.
Speaking of which, I grew up in the 90s pre Internet, and started using the Internet in middle school. Definitely never got any official Internet safety lessons. Maybe I was a little too early? Idk. But by the time I was 30 schools were not teaching this at least from what I saw
The other day, I spoke to an 18 year old who didn’t know the difference between “copy and paste” and “cut and paste”. I want to know what the hell they’re doing in IT classes. Do they just assume that kids these days are good at tech because it’s so ubiquitous? Because that’s a dangerous assumption
Thing is, a lot of this was in hacker OPSEC text files as far back as '1989. The principles haven’t changed overmuch. And, for the most part, it was (and is) all common sense.
Yeah pretty much. As soon as facebook broke the ice on “never use your real name on the internet” it was over. Now we have entire generations that were introduced to the internet as one that was ruled by social media sites. They were never even taught the same online safety stuff that we grew up with.
I met some speedrunners during the Before Times. Definitely younger than me, probably about half my age. They had a hell of a time wrapping their brains around the fact that folks a) use handles, and b) answer to them. FirstnameLastnameAFewDigits was just on the edge of what they thought was normal.
This isn’t a slam on them by any means. For a lot of folks, usernames don’t actually mean anything, they’re just a barrier to entry to log into something. They still go by and use their walletnyms, and don’t connect the ideas of “usernames,” “online handles,” and “something somebody answers to.” Which, yes, we can blame Facebook for.
For real. The goal is to not say anything online that you’d regret coming out to public in a worst case scenario. Also, account switching every few months is a good habit as well.
I think a lot of people have forgotten this. Very few folks these days remember bloggers getting shut down for stuff they posted. Or stuff posted on mailing lists (like dc-stuff). Or for stuff they posted on Usenet (the Co$ was behind that one, most notably).
Seriously, folks. If you post it online, someone can get to it. It’s public in deed if not in intent.
We taught online safety in the 90s. Did we all just collectively forget this in the last two decades?
All of those people signed up for Facebook and thought their data was private because they marked their page private. While they post with their real name. With a company that will collect your data and do whatever the fuck they want with it.
Probably the same. This bears repeating: All your information online is and always has been available for others to collect and see, from FBI to advertisers. If you want any amount of protection, it must be with E2E encryption for which you own the keys.
We taught online safety in the 90s. Did we all just collectively forget this in the last two decades?
They stopped teaching about computers. I tutored high schoolers about 10 years ago and they didn’t know how to use computers fluently. It moved to the realm of expecting parents to teach to their kids along with taxes and career planning.
Speaking of which, I grew up in the 90s pre Internet, and started using the Internet in middle school. Definitely never got any official Internet safety lessons. Maybe I was a little too early? Idk. But by the time I was 30 schools were not teaching this at least from what I saw
The other day, I spoke to an 18 year old who didn’t know the difference between “copy and paste” and “cut and paste”. I want to know what the hell they’re doing in IT classes. Do they just assume that kids these days are good at tech because it’s so ubiquitous? Because that’s a dangerous assumption
I don’t know that they have classes like that
I’ve taught multiple college students how to copy and paste.
I work in Finance for a big corp. I have people who indirectly work for me that also don’t know this and they’re older than me. It’s crazy.
Thing is, a lot of this was in hacker OPSEC text files as far back as '1989. The principles haven’t changed overmuch. And, for the most part, it was (and is) all common sense.
Yeah pretty much. As soon as facebook broke the ice on “never use your real name on the internet” it was over. Now we have entire generations that were introduced to the internet as one that was ruled by social media sites. They were never even taught the same online safety stuff that we grew up with.
I met some speedrunners during the Before Times. Definitely younger than me, probably about half my age. They had a hell of a time wrapping their brains around the fact that folks a) use handles, and b) answer to them. FirstnameLastnameAFewDigits was just on the edge of what they thought was normal.
This isn’t a slam on them by any means. For a lot of folks, usernames don’t actually mean anything, they’re just a barrier to entry to log into something. They still go by and use their walletnyms, and don’t connect the ideas of “usernames,” “online handles,” and “something somebody answers to.” Which, yes, we can blame Facebook for.
For real. The goal is to not say anything online that you’d regret coming out to public in a worst case scenario. Also, account switching every few months is a good habit as well.
I think a lot of people have forgotten this. Very few folks these days remember bloggers getting shut down for stuff they posted. Or stuff posted on mailing lists (like dc-stuff). Or for stuff they posted on Usenet (the Co$ was behind that one, most notably).
Seriously, folks. If you post it online, someone can get to it. It’s public in deed if not in intent.
All of those people signed up for Facebook and thought their data was private because they marked their page private. While they post with their real name. With a company that will collect your data and do whatever the fuck they want with it.