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- The Yandex Leak: How a Russian Search Giant Uses Consumer Datawww.confiant.com The Yandex Leak: How a Russian Search Giant Uses Consumer Data
In late January 2023, almost 45 GB of source code from the Russian search giant Yandex was leaked on BreachForums by a former Yandex employee.
I feel it's relevant, because of it confirming the possibility of "big tech" spying and cooperating with 3-letter agencies.
- The Loophole That Lets Police Do Warrantless Spyingodysee.com The Loophole That Lets Police Do Warrantless Spying
In this video I discuss how data brokers are are assembling large data sets on people coming from social media, credit card companies, and public data sources and then selling them to law enforcement,...
- [Meta] Crosspost, crosspost, crosspost!
To further expand the community, we should band together and cross post future posts to relevant communities. The recent video about removable batteries is not only interesting but also relevant to a greater discussion of laws on technology, and could in that sense also belong on communities like
technology. - Millions of Military Emails Could Leak to the Mali Governmentodysee.com Millions of Military Emails Could Leak to the Mali Government
In this video I discuss how a simple typo has leaked millions of emails meant for people with military and DOD email addresses (.mil) to the country of Mali (tld .ml) and how this could be used to gat...
- All Smartphones Will Soon Have Removable Batteriesodysee.com All Smartphones Will Soon Have Removable Batteries
In this video I discuss how the EU has recently passed legislation that will require smart phone manufacturers to build phones with user removeable batteries that a regular user could remove without a...
- Fresh Feed For My Feathered Friendsodysee.com Fresh Feed For My Feathered Friends
moving the chickens to fresh grass with fresh feed and fresh water.
- How the Reddit Blackout is Hurting Big Techodysee.com How the Reddit Blackout is Hurting Big Tech
In this video I explain how the Reddit blackout is hurting Google by causing their users to end up on "blacked out" Reddit communities from their searches.
- Social Media Scammers Get 5 Years in Prisonodysee.com Social Media Scammers Get 5 Years in Prison
In this video I discuss how the social media scammers that ran Mediamuv (Jose Teran and Webster Batista) aswell as the twitter hacker PlugwalkJoe (Joseph James O'connor) were recently sentenced to a f...
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- Lemmy - The FOSS & Federated Reddit Alternativeodysee.com Lemmy - The FOSS & Federated Reddit Alternative
In this video I show off some different Lemmy instances and discuss why the lemmyverse and even some individual Lemmy instances can become a better alternative to Reddit.
New video from Mental Outlaw covering Lemmy as a decentralized federated Reddit alternative.
- [META] Welcome to this Mental Outlaw community!
Currently no rules except that posts should have something to do with Mental Outlaw. Technology posts about previously covered topics like Tor/I2P/LBRY are also allowed. Suggestions are welcome. Edit: Add "[META]" to title
