Collaborate Disseminate
Recently, Iran’s government has launched a sort of new censorship system that manipulates bandwidth as I will describe below.
When a user connects to a VPN server and does an Ookla speed test, the download speed is good, but the upload sp… Continue reading Bandwidth limitation in the censorship systems
By Habiba Rashid
The new feature is specifically meant to help people maintain access to WhatsApp even if they are living in a repressive regime where internet shutdowns are common.
This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: WhatsApp Subv… Continue reading WhatsApp Subverts Censorship with New Proxy Feature
By Habiba Rashid
Elon Musk’s Twitter is on a suspension spree.
This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Mastodon Account Suspended from Twitter Following Ban on Server Links
Continue reading Mastodon Account Suspended from Twitter Following Ban on Server Links
Both my Laptop and phone are compromised, a spyware was installed by someone who was close to me.
Now I am not able to browse the internet fully. Search results on both Google and onion engines are not showing results which I have already … Continue reading I have a spyware installed on my laptop and it is filtering my internet usage in real time. How can i bypass the spyware and search the internet [duplicate]
Tails, based on Debian GNU/Linux, is a portable operating system that protects against surveillance and censorship, and version 5.5 is now available for download. When composing an email, you can now see whether it will be encrypted or not. You can shu… Continue reading Secure portable operating system Tails 5.5 released
Can the internet be censored from the ISP itself? And what to do if the internet is censored by my ISP?
Even TOR is not showing me the results I want: I had previously searched for the same keywords and got results but now I don’t get anyt… Continue reading Can my ISP censor my internet?
VideoLAN, the developer and operator of popular media player VLC, has filed a legal notice to India’s IT and Telecom ministries, alleging that the Indian bodies failed to notify the software developer prior to blocking the website and did not afford it… Continue reading VLC-Developer VideoLAN Sends Legal Notice To Indian Ministries Over Ban
Depending on where you are when you download your Android apps, it might collect more or less data about you.
The apps we downloaded from Google Play also showed differences based on country in their security and privacy capabilities. One hundred twenty-seven apps varied in what the apps were allowed to access on users’ mobile phones, 49 of which had additional permissions deemed “dangerous” by Google. Apps in Bahrain, Tunisia and Canada requested the most additional dangerous permissions.
Three VPN apps enable clear text communication in some countries, which allows unauthorized access to users’ communications. One hundred and eighteen apps varied in the number of ad trackers included in an app in some countries, with the categories Games, Entertainment and Social, with Iran and Ukraine having the most increases in the number of ad trackers compared to the baseline number common to all countries…
Continue reading Differences in App Security/Privacy Based on Country
In an interview with Bloomberg, Microsoft President Brad Smith said the company won’t label social media posts that appear to be false in order to avoid the appearance that the company is trying to censor speech online. From the report: “I don’t think … Continue reading Microsoft Won’t Label Fake News As False In An Attempt To Avoid ‘Censorship’ Cries
The short answers are “yes” and “no.” America’s Constitution prohibits government intervention into public expression, reports the business-news radio show Marketplace, “protecting free speech and expression “through, for example…. writing, protestin… Continue reading Do America’s Free-Speech Protections Protect Code – and Prevent Cryptocurrency Regulation?