authors Andrew Searles, Renascence Tarafder Prapty, and Gene Tsudik argue that the service should be abandoned because it's disliked by users, costly in terms of time and datacenter resources, and vulnerable to bots – contrary to its intended purpose.
More here:
Web puzzles don't protect against bots, but humans have spent 819 million unpaid hours solving them
https://www.theregister.com/2024/07/24/googles_recaptchav2_labor/
Google promotes its reCAPTCHA service as a security mechanism for websites, but researchers affiliated with the University of California, Irvine, argue it's harvesting information while extracting human labor worth billions.…Forget security – Google's reCAPTCHA v2 is exploiting users for profit
In a paper [PDF]
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2311.10911
titled "Dazed & Confused: A Large-Scale Real-World User Study of reCAPTCHAv2,"
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#Android #AppyGeek #OpenSource
Simple password manager that is compatible with pass:
https://www.passwordstore.org/
Passwords are stored in simple text files which are encrypted with OpenPGP.
https://f-droid.org/en/packages/dev.msfjarvis.aps/
https://github.com/Android-Password-Store/Android-Password-Store/releases
https://docs.passwordstore.app/docs/users/release-channels/
Requires OpenKeychain to encrypt and decrypt passwords.
/nosanitize
https://f-droid.org/repository/browse/?fdid=org.sufficientlysecure.keychain
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.sufficientlysecure.keychain
Researchers detect deepfakes with the same tools used to survey galaxies
https://thenextweb.com/news/researchers-detect-deepfakes-tools-survey-galaxies
@BlueStateBabe he can't see anything go past him
He's saying "be carful what you wish for" cause others said that about him and his base for all the Biden should resign talk they were pushing
Like the child he is he has to make that about him 😆
@artemis 😂😂😂
"it's chunky monkey...hey...it's just a name...there's no actual monkey in it"
@Kinnison yeah from 2022
https://counter.social/@ecksmc/112832829905379963
The data might be newly released but actual dox was back in 2022
Oopsie
The Heritage Foundation this month denied that it had suffered an earlier system breach and the subsequent leaking of internal data - But the organization had to admit that cybercriminals gained access to an archive of Heritage’s affiliated media site, The Daily Signal, dating back to 2022
This is not the gay furries hack
Researchers have identified a zero-day exploit for the Telegram messaging app on Android devices that could have allowed attackers to send malicious payloads disguised as legitimate files.
https://therecord.media/telegram-zero-day-android-app-eset
report:
The best satellite phones of 2024: Expert tested and reviewed
@stueytheround 😂😂 yeah pmsl
@stueytheround Mr Peanut buddy
Mr. Peanut is the mascot for Planters, an American snack-food company. He is depicted as a peanut in a shell, wearing a top hat, monocle, white gloves, spats, and cane
@stueytheround @phase2 personally I only have my filters set for firehose... My friends and notifications columns are fair game lmao
So users I follow I see all posts anyway & for those I do & don't they can still show in my notifications using all words nothing gets filtered
I don't have a lot of filters either..... I have severe FOMO to filter to much 🤣
@stueytheround @phase2 yup that and changing certain words by removing letters and adding other characters or simply using made up terms for certain words
They know what they are doing
E = Mc2 - Energy Milk Coffee
Fáilte Abhaile 🏴 “a nod’s as guid as a wink tae a blind horse”
ta be aff yer heid helps