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Sophie
@sophie-2tzfnuu.bsky.social
Hi All, I am a news junky and privacy advocate. I like to read, watch movies, anime. oh and i like food.

Follow for interesting things on privacy, cybersecurity.
//Privacy, Information and Security Researcher.
#privacy #cybersecurity #tech #techsky #tools
lets chat on tools and some processess.
-signal
-vivaldi, brave or firefox with
ubo, privacy badger
-prefer firefox or vivaldi
-the proton stack of tools. (email, drive, vpn)
-tor browser
-duckduckgo
October 17, 2025 at 6:56 PM
#tech #techsky #privacy #nokings #protectyourself
stay safe, to everyone.

-ensure all your phones biometrics are OFF
-ensure LONG ping or passcode
-airplane mode and faraday bag if you can.
-NO comms unless its signal,
-use VPN if you must have phone ON
October 17, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Reposted by Sophie
Trump’s purge of the federal bureaucracy was phase one of his administration. Now phase two is here, @dgraham.bsky.social writes in The Atlantic Daily.
Phase Two Will Be Worse Than DOGE
First came the chaos. Next comes the retribution.
bit.ly
April 16, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Reposted by Sophie
“The checks and balances in the U.S. Constitution look very much like those that were in place in Rome before Augustus,” writes Michelle Berenfeld. “There were none after him”: https://theatln.tc/GWcPxj7y
April 16, 2025 at 4:00 PM
#cybersecurity #privacy
Because well the US CVE may get defunded and even if it doesn't it like so much else is at risk.
The European Union Agency for Cybersecurity (ENISA) has a vulnerability database, with each vuln have an EUVD, along with a coordinated vulnerability team and multi year funding already in place. euvd.enisa.europa.eu
April 16, 2025 at 4:07 PM
#privacy #cybersecurity #tech #techsky #android #apple
imessage to androids gmessages via RCS will get cross platform rcs encryption coming soon.

apple and google got really motivated to fix this all in really very short order.
www.wired.com/story/end-to...
End-to-End Encrypted Texts Between Android and iPhone Are Coming
Plus: A nominee to lead CISA emerges, Elon Musk visits the NSA, a renowned crypto cracking firm’s secret (and problematic) cofounder is revealed, and more.
www.wired.com
March 20, 2025 at 12:42 AM
Reposted by Sophie
It's pretty wild to see what the Tesla Takedown people have built from nothing, totally organically in just two months.

actionnetwork.org/event_campai...
Join me at the TeslaTakedown
The #TeslaTakedown movement is growing! Join us for an event in our community—or find one of more than 100 events every week across the country. And if there's not one near you, it's easy to sign up t...
actionnetwork.org
March 14, 2025 at 3:54 PM
#apple #android #rcs #privacy
End to end encryption updated in rcs google and apple going to support
9to5google.com/2025/03/14/r...
RCS update adds end-to-end encryption, Google and Apple confirm support
With the Universal Profile 3.0, RCS now officially supports end-to-end encryption, and both Google and Apple will deliver updates.
9to5google.com
March 14, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Reposted by Sophie
#resist #privacy #tech #techsky #planning
the following document and processes:
1: upgrade your ID or drivers lic to realID
- add to your phone Digital wallet/app if your state supports.
-make sure you have image of front and back storage where you can get it.
February 27, 2025 at 6:53 PM
#booksky #cybersecurity #privacy
for those that want a place to hunt for more security type books, with good reviews and calling out security stuff. check out security cannon
"Institute for Cybersecurity & Digital Trust"
icdt.osu.edu
Institute for Cybersecurity & Digital Trust
Institute for Cybersecurity & Digital Trust
icdt.osu.edu
March 14, 2025 at 1:21 AM
#tech #techsky #android
google working on better desktop modes for android.
really a good thing.
www.androidauthority.com/android-desk...
Google is working on a new desktop mode for Android phones called Desktop View
Google is testing Desktop View in Android 16, a full-fledged desktop mode experience that could rival Samsung DeX.
www.androidauthority.com
March 13, 2025 at 11:55 PM
this; wired is doing some next level work.
A good time to remind people to subscribe to WIRED.
Today we're publishing a monster feature that dives deep into the initial six weeks over Elon Musk's government takeover. Our entire newsroom came together to help make this story happen. Read this culmination of our blood, sweat, and tears:
March 13, 2025 at 11:38 PM
#apple #techsky #resist
yes this, lockdown mode and ADP on apple devices are a must. also, having a clean "sync" icloud account that does nothing is also a must.
email should be via protonmail.com
March 13, 2025 at 11:25 PM
#resist #history #ussr
USSR:
restrictive system of internal passports and urban residence permits that was in existence from 1932 on

Used to control and monitor citizen.

journals.openedition.org/monderusse/8...
The passport system and state control over population flows in the ...
One of the aspects of police control in the Soviet Union that the recent opening-up of the archives has shed new light on, is the restrictive system of internal passports and urban residence permit...
journals.openedition.org
March 13, 2025 at 11:20 PM
#resist
its very important to study and learn from our history, especially when its being replayed. play by play in front of us.
March 13, 2025 at 11:16 PM
#resist #history
October 5, 1938, the Reich Ministry of the Interior invalidates all German passports held by Jews.

encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/t...
German Jews' Passports Declared Invalid
October 5, 1938. On this date, the Reich Ministry of the Interior invalidated all German Jews' passports and required them to have a "J" stamped on them.
encyclopedia.ushmm.org
March 13, 2025 at 11:15 PM
#resist
call your congressmen, tell them to resist.
March 13, 2025 at 11:12 PM
#resist #privacy #planning
make sure to get your passport while you still can. if you qualify for dual citizenship somewhere (somewhere not terrible and or worse). consider getting one there to.
March 13, 2025 at 11:10 PM
#history #privacy #resist
some early nazi/ww2 history notice, the nazi 'canceled'
passports. and forced name changes.

www.yadvashem.org/holocaust/ab...
1938 – “The Fateful Year”
The events of 1938, which a German document termed “The Fateful Year,” were part of the radicalization of the Nazis’ Jewish policy. During this year German expansionism escalated, an...
www.yadvashem.org
March 13, 2025 at 11:08 PM
#privacy #tech #techsky
your choice of tech, your choice of information sources matter. make good choices, and tell others and help them make good choices.
March 13, 2025 at 11:04 PM
#resist #privacy
Use alais's when and where you can. also make sure to use signal as much as you can.
March 13, 2025 at 10:56 PM