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Hey Techlorians! I’ll be going live on Josh’s channel, All Things Secured, on March 17th to discuss the complicated nature of ‘it depends’ when it comes to privacy & security advice (something I say a lot back here!)

We pride ourselves on nuance & avoiding black/white thinking with many topics, so I’m excited to chat with Josh about how extensive different workflows can be for different people and how hard it is to offer advice for the countless situations that exist. Click that ‘notify me’ button on YouTube and catch it live 🫡 Let’s send some of our numbers over to his stream! 📈 

You Are Needed—”Open Letter to Tim Cook: Sabotaging Web Apps Is Indefensible”:  https://letter.open-web-advocacy.org/ 
Just signed the letter on behalf of myself (individual) and Techlore (Organization) Definitely add your signature if you want to be a part of this! 🙏  To learn more about what's happening in the EU, check out the recent video made about it:  https://youtu.be/up-zUEFNMww 

iOS Users ⚠️ iOS 17.3 has a new feature that nearly everyone should probably enable to keep you safe in the event of a phone theft. Be sure to get it enabled to stay current with the latest protections. 

Relaying from Mastodon 🙌 Thank you all for a great first 21 days of 2024! 
Link to post:  https://social.lol/@hen/111796358077064051 

Our new channel Surveillance Clips has broken 400 subscribers 🎉 We're trying to crack 1,000, so definitely check it out if you're interested in more current events to share with your friends/family!  https://www.youtube.com/@surveillanceclips/ 

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🚨 Techlore is Hiring: Clips Editor 📺
We're searching for a passionate candidate, a Clips Editor—to help us expand to new audiences through clipped content on Techlore Clips and Surveillance Clips. We're looking for someone passionate about our mission! To view the listing and apply visit the following link:  https://discuss.techlore.tech/pub/clipseditor 

PSA for the latest security patches!

Exciting news I wanted to share along! Apple announces that RCS support is coming to iPhone next year 🎉( https://discuss.techlore.tech/t/apple-announces-that-rcs-support-is-coming-to-iphone-next-year-9to5mac/6096 )

Some context: SMS has notoriously been a poor choice for messaging anything sensitive, and RCS adoption will dramatically raise the minimum bar for messaging. No, it won't be more secure or more private than messengers we commonly recommend, but it's hopefully a first step in ensuring more messages sent have basic security—which is a massive win!

Of course, if you want better options, we have some listed on our site:  https://www.techlore.tech/resources#messengers 

⚠️ PSA: Google-hosted malvertising leads to fake Keepass site that looks genuine ( https://discuss.techlore.tech/t/google-hosted-malvertising-leads-to-fake-keepass-site-that-looks-genuine/5846 )
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"A closer look at the link, however, shows that the site is not the genuine one. In fact, ķeepass[.]info—at least when it appears in the address bar—is just an encoded way of denoting xn–eepass-vbb[.]info, which, it turns out, is pushing a malware family tracked as FakeBat. Combining the ad on Google with a website with an almost identical URL creates a near-perfect storm of deception.

“Users are first deceived via the Google ad that looks entirely legitimate and then again via a lookalike domain,” Jérôme Segura, head of threat intelligence at security provider Malwarebytes, wrote in a post on Wednesday that revealed the scam."