Mauve 👁💜 @mauve@mastodon.mauve.moe

Look, Jeff Atwood, it is difficult to take you seriously when you write authoritatively on a subject you clearly don’t understand.

GDPR doesn’t mandate cookie notices.

Cookie notices are *malicious compliance* by the surveillance-driven adtech industry.

If you’re not tracking people, you do not need a cookie notice, period.

If you’re only using first-party cookies for functional reasons, you do not need a cookie notice, period.

If you’re using third-party cookies to track people – i.e., if you’re sharing their data with others – then *you must have their consent to do so*. Because, otherwise, you are violating their privacy. Even then, the law doesn’t mandate a cookie notice.

How would you conform to EU law without a cookie notice if your aim wasn’t malicious compliance?

You would not track people by default and you would make it so they have to go your site’s settings to turn on third-party tracking if, for some inexplicable reason, they wanted that “feature”.

Boom!

No cookie notice necessary.

What’s that?

But that would destroy your business because your business is founded on the fundamental mechanic of violating people’s privacy?

Good.

Your business doesn’t deserve to exist.

Because the real bullshit here isn’t EU legislation that protects the human right to privacy, it’s the toxic Silicon Valley/Big Tech business model of farming people for data that violates everyone’s privacy and opens the door to technofascism.

https://infosec.exchange/@codinghorror/115120175033311443

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A shitpost that's been brewing in my head for a while now

HEY.

HEY YOU.

YEAH, *YOU*.

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HAVE SOME CATS.

#TimelineCleanse
#cats

Lamphone is a clever, optical, side-channel attack that can turn a simple lightbulb into a makeshift microphone. It works because the filament inside a lightbulb subtly vibrates in response to sound waves, like someone talking. These tiny vibrations change the amount of light the bulb emits. By pointing a light sensor or photodiode at the bulb from a distance, a lamphone attack can detect these variations in brightness and convert them back into audio signals, effectively “listening in” on conversations without touching the microphone or the room.

It’s a striking example of how everyday objects can be exploited for surveillance, showing that even something as mundane as a lamp can leak information if you know what to look for.

#OpticalPhreaking #SideChannelAttack #CyberSecurity #Privacy #InformationLeak

Web page loading performance tip: you’re not done optimizing until DNS and TLS are the biggest contributors to latency.

No, I am not kidding

"division is a weapon... do not play along"

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