Developers are using "tarpits" to combat AI scrapers that ignore robots.txt. Tools like Nepenthes and Iocaine trap crawlers in infinite loops, wasting their resources.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/01/ai-haters-build-tarpits-to-trap-and-trick-ai-scrapers-that-ignore-robots-txt/

#AI #Privacy

#disability #accessibility #ASL

And this is how it starts. Wonder when they will close the borders for women & gays and start the re-education camps for the intellectuals?

Trump allies circulate mass deportation plan calling for ‘processing camps’ and a private citizen ‘army’

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/02/25/documents-military-contractors-mass-deportations-022648

Jane Fonda Says ‘Woke Just Means You Give a Damn About Other People,’ Calls on Hollywood to Fight With Empathy in SAG Awards Speech
#Variety #News #JaneFonda #SAGAwards

https://variety.com/2025/film/news/jane-fonda-sag-awards-speech-woke-empathy-1236312986/

The system cannot.

Apple is removing iCloud end-to-encryption features from the UK after government compelled it to add backdoors https://9to5mac.com/2025/02/21/apple-removing-end-to-encryption-uk/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

It's now confirmed: Google CAPTCHA is used to spy on you.

"A 2023 study concluded CAPTCHAs are 'a tracking cookie farm for profit masquerading as a security service' that made us spend 819 million hours clicking on traffic lights to generate nearly $1 trillion for Google"

We deep-dove into this story and countless others in the latest episode of Surveillance Report. We cover weekly privacy & security news to keep you safe. Watch the latest episode now:
https://youtu.be/Svn2clXF8cw

X/Twitter time and time again proves itself to be an unfree platform, and a dangerous place to seek privacy and security advice.

Decentralized platforms like Mastodon are the most obvious path forward to avoid censorship and preserve free access to knowledge. Despite this, many continue to rely on Twitter as their exclusive means to stay up to date on the latest trends both in privacy/security and the wider world.

Due to this censorship, these folks will have increasingly large blind spots in their personal knowledge. How do we finally convince people to protect themselves against this ever-growing threat?

https://www.theverge.com/news/613997/x-blocks-signal-me-links-errors

#Signal #Twitter #X #Privacy #Security #Mastodon #Article

🚨 BREAKING 🚨

#Google just launched a new era of tracking. Digital #fingerprinting.

❌ No consent
❌ No escape

Here’s why this is a #privacy nightmare much worse than #cookies: 👇

https://tuta.com/blog/digital-fingerprinting-worse-than-cookies