So this has been changed in their newest release 2.0.0.25 (not sure if it's publically available), and while the credentials are no longer in plain-text there are a few things you lose the ability to do. Namely to tell if any given used is logged into a device, and secondly to sign in/out as a user on any given device. I've provided my feedback to Yealink and hope to hear back soon. Neither of the above 2 issues are deal breakers, as the bigger goal is to be able to set configuration options, screensavers, time servers etc and have the user deal with the login. Especially since the "Web Sign in" functionality is so simple, there is little reason to need the ability to sign in for a user.

There is also an "I can't even thread" that is updated regularly. Maybe it is time to add that as its own category.

http://www.tomshardware.com/news/facebook-match-patient-data-profiles,36839.html#xtor=RSS-181

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/04/facebook-now-says-87-million-people-affected-by-cambridge-analytica-breach/#p3 Could be closer to 87M users. Wow.

Hah! I was just cleaning out my email and found a survey from them. Wonder if they'll actually respond to me.

Maybe they were using 1.1.1.1 as a null route?

@mlnews said in Under Armor Security Breach Exposes 150 Million User Accounts: Under Armor's MyFitnessPal has been compromised in a breach discovered on March 25 exposing 150 million user accounts. I wonder if it is a state sponsored breach trying to obtain location data for things that are officially not there.

@jaredbusch said in Facebook Believed to be Storing Unpublished Video Data: Facial recognition anyone? @JaredBusch Including facial recognition, but not really limited to that. @scottalanmiller expressed my thought in a very clear and laconic manner: @scottalanmiller said in Facebook Believed to be Storing Unpublished Video Data: It's used for data harvesting.

Honestly, it's time for the government to be investigating treason here.

Oh wait, that's a Lenovo product. That would explain why there is spyware that can't be removed. That totally mimics everything we know about Lenovo. Honestly, FB is the least of your worries there.

That’s a bit of a click bait. The iPhone automatically requires password after two days or after power reset. So it is not an automatic get me in method. I am not sure about android device settings but I would assume it is similar.

@popester said in Facebook Caught Scraping Call and Text Data from Android Users: @scottalanmiller said in Facebook Caught Scraping Call and Text Data from Android Users: @popester said in Facebook Caught Scraping Call and Text Data from Android Users: Wow, the hits keep coming. I feel sorry for all the people that work for facebook if this gets any worse. I did find it strange that I had to remove Ireland from from our block by region firewall list. Totally shut down Facebook. I wonder if they take advantage of the low tax rate somehow by doing that. Hmmm? Facebook, like nearly all tech companies, have big offices in Dublin. Dublin is the EU's silicon valley. Maybe its for the Guinness? Good a reason as any.

@dustinb3403 said in Copperhead OS - A Security and Privacy Focused Android OS: Is Java at all included in this OS? If so you're boned. Sure, but not as bad as running Google services and getting targeted ads all the time. If you want to be 100% safe, you have to unplug completely.

@dashrender said in US DOJ Continues Its Attack on User Privacy: @scottalanmiller said in US DOJ Continues Its Attack on User Privacy: @dashrender said in US DOJ Continues Its Attack on User Privacy: @scottalanmiller said in US DOJ Continues Its Attack on User Privacy: @dustinb3403 said in US DOJ Continues Its Attack on User Privacy: Rosenstein also said "...People want to secure their houses, but they still need to get in and out. Same issue here." Not even close, those people are welcome to come and go in their damn house. You on the other hand might get shot in the face if you just walk into someone's house uninvited. People can still get in and out of their phone. I don't have to give my door key to the DoJ. Yeah - I'm trying to come up with a physical example to compare to digital security - but I'm coming up blank. Doors aren't bad. You lock your door, the DoJ is an intruder, the key company does not send copies of your keys to the DoJ. It's really not good enough. The DOJ can hack your door with lock picks or just bust it down. I suppose a better example would be a universal garage door opener that only the government is supposed to have, but of course, once the bad guys know about that, they will keep hacking the government until they steal one of those universal door openers. Secure keys for encryption would be the same. The government is as leaky as a cauldron, there's almost no chance they could keep keys like this from the hackers. Then instantly everyone would be vulnerable. Everyone that uses a mainstream OS or device that operates anywhere in the world that has any operations within the US. Yup

@hobbit666 said in GDPR galore: Yeah I've been hearing a lot on this GDPR stuff luckily I'm not involved and others in the dept are lol. But what logs would they need you to collect and store? We don't do this at the moment but if required would like to start looking at solutions. So I'm prepared for the "can you do this and get it installed" lol Bah. Here in italy they are stressing a lot the access control. And they want centralized lig inspection to check for logins (not necessarily a valid point from a tech perspective but they ask for)

@DustinB3403 No I kept them. As Scott mentioned they work just fine without the app. I just can't get the fine-tuned EQ settings from the app so I have to use the phone settings.

@scottalanmiller said in US Officially Signs Away Internet Privacy Protections: The US has a relatively uninvolved populace when it comes to politics. Even for the third world it's not very involved. Some areas of the US have single digit participation rates... that's nearly unheard of in countries outside of authoritarian dictatorships

You say potato...

I've used tor, it's functional, but removes a lot of what most people consider useful from most websites.