Shahrzaad Parekh

The Invisible Wire: How ₹1 Travels Across India in 0.3 Seconds A masterclass in distributed systems, hidden in plain sight. Every day, Over 500 million Indians perform a ritual that has become as natural as breathing. We open an app, scan a black-and-white...

📰 The Invisible Wire: How ₹1 Travels Across India in 0.3 Seconds

A masterclass in distributed systems, hidden in plain sight. Every day, Over 500 million Indians perform a ritual that has become as natural as breathing. We open an app, scan a black-and-white...

End-to-end Encryption How We Stopped Trusting Clouds and Started Encrypting our Data

What a brilliantly written and well-explained post by @vas3k.bsky.social . A great read for those interested in #encryption, #privacy and #security.

vas3k.com/blog/end_to_...

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...

Meet Rayhunter: A New Open Source Tool from @eff.org to Detect Cellular Spying -
www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...

#security #privacy

Yet another case of "Do what I say; don't say what I do."

No need for a backdoor when you can stroll through the front.

Download all your Kindle books before Feb 26, 2025 Download all your Kindle books before Feb 26, 2025 - userscript.js

Thanks for this! I ended up forking it into a Tampermonkey userscript that auto-navigates to other pages to download everything so you don't need to click on each page 😁: gist.github.com/lfhbento/338...

No, Privacy is Not Dead: Beware the All-or-Nothing Mindset - via @privacyguides.org
Celebrate and cheer loudly each little #privacy win. This is how we all win.

www.privacyguides.org/articles/202...

X is blocking links to Signal User handles can still be posted as a workaround.

X is blocking links to @signal.org | Users attempting to add their Signal.me URL to posts, DMs, and bio descriptions are being met with error messages. All in all, an excellent endorsement.

via The Verge www.theverge.com/news/613997/... #privacy

It is called #AndroidSystemSafetyCore and does exactly the same - scan all images on your device as well as all incoming ones (via messaging). The new spin is that it does so "to protect your #privacy".

You can uninstall this app safely via System -> Apps.

Via mastodon.sdf.org/@jack/113952...

If you have an #Android #phone, a new app that doesn't appear in your menu has been automatically and silently installed (or soon will be) by #Google.

Commodore 64 PC with attached floppy disc drive and joystick

Talk to me when you have a Commodore 64 in the pic. 64KB RAM was a marvel as was the floppy disc drive that gave a 7 year old nerd cred.

Also called policy nudging.

From the india community on Reddit: The contrast between being in opposition and in power is striking. Explore this post and more from the india community

I question the decision behind terming the movement of under 1% to be called a "crash". A touch too click-baity for me.

Meanwhile - v.redd.it/nklwts0tfcce1

They're the best and most pertinent examples of coding by the lowest bidder. There are no real consequences to speak of, so why bother?

Security, privacy, user experience - these are all terms that have been and remain non-existent in their vocabulary.

he doesn’t even know how traceroute works 😬

Rival to SpaceX's Starlink Goes Dark After Failing to Account for Leap Year OneWeb managed to restore its services after a 48-hour outage.

Rival to SpaceX's Starlink Goes Dark After Failing to Account for Leap Year. French satellite operator Eutelsat failed to account for last year’s leap year, leading to an embarrassing service outage that lasted for 48 hours. Whoops ! #space

gizmodo.com/rival-to-spa...

Happy New Year everyone ! #2025

Gentleman; Statesman; Scholar; Patriot. 🇮🇳

“The Forest Survey of India (FSI) defines “forest cover” as land with tree canopy density exceeding 10% and covering at least one hectare. Thus “forest” in ISFR includes plantations”

If we use our powers of imagination we have 100% green cover!

I prefer this one.

A Note from our Executive Director This letter was originally published in our 2024 Annual Report. The past year at ISRG has been a great one and I couldn’t be more proud of our staff, community, funders, and other partners that made i...

So Let's Encrypt - one of the largest CA and cert issuers says they're going to start issuing short lived certs with a six day lifespan.

Good in some respects, but will add a burden on both client and issuer. 90 day certs aren't going away any time soon. #security

letsencrypt.org/2024/12/11/e...

The Simple Math Behind Public Key Cryptography The security system that underlies the internet makes use of a curious fact: You can broadcast part of your encryption to make your information much more secure.

The Simple Maths Behind Public Key Cryptography | via @wired.com #infosec #cryptography #security
www.wired.com/story/how-pu...

And thus the evolution from walled gardens to echo chambers. A place where the "sunk cost fallacy" continues to grow and be absorbed by more and more people.

Should have at the very least been a mini-series. Isabella Rosellini too got screen time that was entirely undeserving of her incredible talent.

Microsoft Recall screenshots credit cards and Social Security numbers, even with the "sensitive information" filter enabled Despite promising to filter personal data out, Recall still captures it.

This is what malware info stealers are known to do. MS just can't be trusted with what they say, what they show and what they actually do.

Microsoft Recall screenshots credit cards & Social Security numbers, even with the "sensitive information" filter enabled | www.tomshardware.com/software/win...

CONGRATULATIONS TO GUKESH, THE NEW WORLD CHAMPION 🏆

The 18-year-old Indian star has defeated the reigning champion, Ding Liren, to become the youngest-ever undisputed classical chess world champion. Wow! 🇮🇳

I'm still waiting on the great idea that was decentralization. Most cryptos thinks that they are. Except they aren't.

Game launchers are just advertising displays nowadays.

Losing weight is tough, but keeping it off can feel impossible.

New research shows that fat cells retain a “memory” of past obesity making it easier to regain weight.

That’s the focus of my science column this week for Hindustan Times👇🏽

www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/s...

India takes out giant nationwide subscription to 13,000 journals Deal allows scholars to read paywalled articles for free and will cover open-access fees

India takes out giant nationwide subscription to 13,000 journals. Deal allows scholars to read paywalled articles for free and will cover open-access fees #Science

www.science.org/content/arti...