"The conclusion can be extended that the true purpose of reCAPTCHA v2 is a free image-labeling labor and tracking cookie farm for advertising and data profit masquerading as a security service," the paper declares.

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 #Privacy #CoSoSec

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,"

@jordicusmaximus damnnnn

Fair play to her.... Mighta done it a little sooner IMO that woulda shown more dignity than waiting till all the shit actually stuck... So to speak 😆

#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

https://www.openkeychain.org/

Researchers detect deepfakes with the same tools used to survey galaxies

#DeepFake

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"

She wouldn’t answer any questions on why or how the Doritos were eaten.

@Kinnison yeah from 2022

https://counter.social/@ecksmc/112832829905379963

The data might be newly released but actual dox was back in 2022

повече кафе викар

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

https://www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/2024/07/heritage-foundation-data-breach-containing-personal-data-is-available-online

This is not the gay furries hack

https://counter.social/@ecksmc/112768164908002661

#Telegram #Android #CoSoSec

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:

#Tech

The best satellite phones of 2024: Expert tested and reviewed

https://www.zdnet.com/article/best-satellite-phone/

@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 🤣

Its all about the peanut in a top hat and monocle

#JusSayin #Peanut

@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

@stueytheround 😂😂