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Meet Rayhunter: A New Open Source Tool from EFF to Detect Cellular Spying Rayhunter is a new open source tool we’ve created that runs off an affordable mobile hotspot that we hope empowers everyone, regardless of technical skill, to help search out cell-site simulators (CSS...

RAYHUNTER: A new EFF project helping to let people know when they may being surveilled cellularly! @eff.org #infosec #activism #hactivism #privacy #opensource www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...

ARCHIVE TEAM: Help preserve and archive important public data that is vanishing. Use your own computer to lend a hand. Resist and help save the data! wiki.archiveteam.org #archiveteam #hacktivism #savethedata

My Quest for Data Freedom and Reducing My Google Footprint — Rob McBryde Join me on my quest for data freedom and reducing my Google footprint by exploring self-hosted solutions like TrueNAS and Nextcloud.

YOUR DATA: Start to look at options to keep it and use it, on your own. Interested to see where this story goes! robmcbryde.com/my-quest-for... #selfhosting #homelab #privacy

For those outside of academia, the Dept. Education thing is extraordinary interference.

I am not allowed to accept grant funding if the sponsor gets a say over what I publish. That's important. It protects me from outside pressure to tank results that are politically or financially inconvenient.

Washington Post news items: National Science Foundation halts reviews of research proposals NIH stops new research as part of health communications pause Researchers funded by Education Department told they need agency permission to publish results.

This one hour of day seven of the presidency.

Memos to Federal Employees Were Written By People With Ties to Project 2025, Metadata Shows James Sherk and Noah Peters appear as the authors of memos sent by the Office of Personnel Management.

CLOWNS. www.404media.co/opm-memos-to... #project2025 #jamessherk #noahpeters #trumpzis

One thing about me is that I will fight Nazis until I’m six feet in the ground.