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nixCraft 🐧

Ever worried about other users on your Linux server seeing what processes are running? The `hidepid` kernel feature is your friend! It makes processes invisible to anyone but the owner and root user, even in system monitoring tools like ps, top, htop, and btop. This is a great way to prevent sensitive information (like API keys or passwords used in command-line arguments) from being exposed. See how to configure it cyberciti.biz/faq/linux-hide-p for more info.

A screenshot of the btop command running on Linux as a non-root user, with all other Linux processes hidden due to security configurations.
#linux#opensource#security
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Matt Burgess

Mastodon friends, I've heard a few suggestions of companies moving from US cloud providers to those based in the EU, due to risks with the Trump administration/Cloud Act, etc.

Has anyone come across any businesses that have made the leap recently? Feel free to DM or message on Signal, mattburgess.20

#infosec#privacy#cloud
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Chuck Darwin

Since the arrival of a team from Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency,
#Social #Security is in a far more precarious place than has been widely understood,
according to #Leland #Dudek,
the acting commissioner of the Social Security Administration.

“I don’t want the system to collapse,”
Dudek said in a closed-door meeting last week, according to a recording obtained by ProPublica.

He also said that it “would be catastrophic for the people in our country”
if DOGE were to make changes at his agency that were as sweeping as those at USAID, the Treasury Department and elsewhere.

Dudek’s comments, delivered to a group of senior staff and Social Security advocates attending both in person and virtually,
offer an extraordinary window into the thinking of a top agency official in the volatile early days of the second Trump administration.

The Washington Post first reported Dudek’s acknowledgement that DOGE is calling the shots at Social Security.

But the full recording reveals that he went much further,
citing not only the actions being taken at the agency by the people he repeatedly called
“the DOGE kids,”
but also extensive input he has received from the White House itself.

When a participant in the meeting asked him why he wouldn’t more forcefully call out Donald Trump’s continued false claims about widespread Social Security fraud as “BS,”
Dudek answered, “So we published, for the record, what was actually the numbers there on our website.
This is dealing with — have you ever worked with someone who’s manic-depressive?”

Throughout the meeting, Dudek made alarming statements about the perils facing the Social Security system,
but he did so in an oddly informal, discursive manner.

It left several participants baffled as to the ultimate fate of the nation’s largest and most popular social program,
one that serves 73 million Americans.

“Are we going to break something?” Dudek asked at one point,
referring to what DOGE has been doing with Social Security data.

“I don’t know.”

propublica.org/article/recordi

ProPublica“The President Wanted It and I Did It”: Recording Reveals Head of Social Security’s Thoughts on DOGE and Trump
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Take Back Your Data - The BigTech Breakaway

@ct_Magazin

IT-Sicherheit: Reaktiv oder endlich proaktiv?

Jahrzehntelang rennen wir Sicherheitslücken hinterher, während Hacker immer neue Schwachstellen ausnutzen. Mathematisch gehärtete Architekturen & Zero-Trust-Modelle könnten die Lösung sein – aber warum setzen wir sie nicht konsequent um?

🔹 Patch-Zyklus: ewige Abwehr oder modernes Design?
🔹 Digitale Souveränität vs. Big-Tech-Abhängigkeit?
🔹 Wie können neue Security-Architekturen für IT-Systeme aussehen?

Was meint ihr? Sind wir zu sehr in veralteten Sicherheitsmodellen gefangen? 🤔

#Security#IT#Cybersecurity
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Børge

Is there any push within the EU to work on Linux and other free software alternatives to US software, to stop having the whole administration of every single European country, and the EU itself, be totally dependent on software that can spy on us all for a hostile, nazi regime?

@senficon?

#EU#security#Trump
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Em :official_verified:

New Privacy Guides video 📺✨
by @jw

If you've wondered about
the difference between:

Privacy,
Security,
and Anonymity :neocat_foxmask:

And why some privacy-focused
services are worth using even when they don't provide perfect anonymity, watch this!

It's truly an amazing short video!
Everyone should watch it 👇

privacyguides.org/videos/2025/

PeerTubeStop Confusing Privacy & Anonymity (and Security)By Privacy Guides
#PrivacyGuides#Privacy#Security
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Stefan Bohacek

If you still use one of these devices, you might want to start looking into alternatives.

"In an email sent to customers today, Amazon said that Echo users will no longer be able to set their devices to process Alexa requests locally [...] Starting on March 28, recordings of everything command spoken to the Alexa living in Echo speakers and smart displays will automatically be sent to Amazon and processed in the cloud."

arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/0

via mamot.fr/@pluralistic/11416699

In this photo illustration, Echo Dot smart speaker with working Alexa with blue light ring seen displayed.
Ars Technica · Everything you say to your Echo will be sent to Amazon starting on March 28By Scharon Harding
#news#TechNews#technology
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