“Most humans can tell the difference most of the time, but if they are tired, or stressed, or in a rush, or have any number of other common obstacles to computer use, there’s a good chance they won’t notice the difference, will type their password into the wrong site, and will have their account taken over by bad guys.” Jacob Hoffman-Andrews identifies password managers as the average human’s best defence against phishing attacks.
jacob.hoffman-andrews.com
Tag: apps
Conversations
“Welcome to this introduction to Conversations. It is gonna be a great introduction. It’s gonna be fabulous. Other instant messengers have fought Conversations for many years, but they couldn’t beat it. Just couldn’t do it. Total loosers. They’re all dead now. All the other messengers have failed. Forget WhatsApp, okay? Signal …total desaster. Threema is so bad, it’s not even a real messenger. It’s fake. Threema is a fake messenger. Converstations has got to be the best messenger in the world. It’s huge. OMEMO. You’ll love it. Best protocol. Tremendous. Absolutely fantastic. Nobody has messengers better than Conversations. This messenger is so big, you can even see it from the moon. And I am going to make you pay for it. It’s true. Important people tell me that Conversations is so great, it’s unbelievable. So great, it’s beautiful. Conversations is the best instant messenger that God ever created.”
conversations.im
WhatsApp backdoor allows snooping on encrypted messages
​“(Tobias) Boelter reported the backdoor vulnerability to Facebook in April 2016, but was told that Facebook was aware of the issue, that it was ‘expected behaviour’ and wasn’t being actively worked on.”
www.theguardian.com”
Earlier, I posted two messages for my friends on Facebook. One with my Threema address, the other with the above quote and link to the article critical of Facebook’s conduct. Within hours, the latter had mysteriously disappeared from view. I don’t routinely use Facebook and now I know why: on this evidence, nobody gets to see much of what I post there, anyway…
“Corporate censorship is the process by which editors in corporate media outlets intervene to disrupt the publishing of information that portrays their business or business partners in a negative light.”
wikipedia.org
PhotoScan
“Photos from the past, meet scanner from the future.” Actually does what it says on the tin. Also simplifies the task of taking pictures of documents greatly.
www.google.com
K-9 Mail
K-9 for Android is one of the best email clients available on any platform today. This open source application implements support for many different protocols and comes with a host of useful features.
k9mail.github.io
Why I won’t recommend Signal anymore
​“We need to remember that we’re fighting not only against government surveillance, but also against corporate surveillance as well. We need ways to defend against this, and using corporate solutions that create a dependency on these solutions, even if the communications themselves are not readable to them, there’s still the issue of metadata, and of course general availability of Google’s services to Signal.” Sander Venema disagrees on strategy, not cryptography.
sandervenema.ch
Business Calendar 2
“The professional and versatile app for reliable, complex calendar management. Highly customizable and in perfect sync with Google.” No doubt about it, Business Calendar 2 is a great app for Android that I would not want to be without. Which, for me at least, makes it even more disappointing that time zone management still does not meet my expectations. Will we ever see a reliable implementation of multi-time zone events?
www.businesscalendar.de
Syncronisation of your calendar and contacts with services other than Google is easy using CalDAV-Sync and CardDAV-Sync, respectively.