[-] [email protected] 33 points 5 months ago

Yep, thats the blogpost from the owner of haveibeenpwnd regarding the email OP received.

OP, it seems like you have or had malware on one or more of your devices that has been logging all of your credentials to any services you signed into on the infected devices with the email address provided in the screenshot you shared.

we're talking about the logs created by malware running on infected machines. You know that game cheat you downloaded? Or that crack for the pirated software product? Or the video of your colleague doing something that sounded crazy but you thought you'd better download and run that executable program showing it just to be sure? That's just a few different ways you end up with malware on your machine that then watches what you're doing and logs it.

These logs all came from the same person and each time the poor bloke visited a website and logged in, the malware snared the URL, his email address and his password.

I would suggest running a malware scan on devices you use to log in with that email.

On a secure device, you should change the passwords for each service that you use that email with.

If 2FA is already enabled on any of these accounts, then it should be safe and I would ensure the device is not infected before changing the passwords or else the passwords will be stolen again when you sign in on the infected device.

It is likely any other accounts that were signed into on the infected device have had their credentials stolen too, you may not have those email addresses set up to receive this notification. Also you should notify anyone else who has used the infected device that their credentials were likely stolen too.

You can check if other emails have been comprised using https://haveibeenpwned.com/ and you can also check if passwords have been comprised there too.

[-] [email protected] 29 points 6 months ago

Lol I spent a week going back and forth with Revolut support in august. I could sign into the app but it would always ask me for a "selfie" verification and every time support would say its a super dark selfie.

Eventually I decided to try a stock ROM and it just worked and I realised what was happening so I transferred all of my money out and deleted my account.

Most local banks here are terrible at making apps, some even require a separate device that looks like a calculator to use online banking, so hopefully they wont follow suit anytime soon

[-] [email protected] 32 points 7 months ago

I'm pretty biased since I have been using KDE for a few years and only switched to Gnome this week to properly try it out so maybe I'll change my mind but I doubt I will.

IMO KDE has better theming and is more uniform across a wider variety of apps. It has support for community themes out of the box and it feels like the components are modular so you can have a different colour title bar compared to the app window etc

  • Dolphin > Nautilus
  • Kate > Gedit
  • Konsole > Terminal

These are the 3 main default apps I use on both DEs. Dolphin has way more customisability and looks better but Nautilus has a fantastic multi-file rename with the option for find and replace built in.

For me, Kate is like the vlc of documents. It will open anything and everything whereas I've had a couple of "could not open" errors from gedit this week. I also prefer Kate to Vscode.

Konsole by default switches tabs with ctrl tab but Terminal doesn't and thats basically my only issue with it.

Gnome seems to still require you to install a browser extension to use Shell Extensions.

KDE widgets are fantastic, I love having system monitors in a hidden panel at the top of my screen so I can really easily check system resource usage. I haven't found anything similar on Gnome yet.

KDE Connect is such a brilliant app, it wouldn't launch for me on Gnome but there is GSConnect for Gnome but its a 3rd party app

By default on KDE, if you shake your mouse the cursor gets bigger and there doesn't seem to be a size limit which is so fun to do lol

Going from Plasma 5 to 6 was a nightmare for me but its probably because I was using EndeavourOS so the updates were sooner and more frequent.

Overall I think Gnome looks and feels a bit outdated and clunky and KDE looks and feels more modern with better integration across apps but that might just be QT vs GTK

I do plan on continuing to use Gnome for at least another 2 months to give it a fair try but I will almost always recommended KDE because I prefer the look and feel

[-] [email protected] 23 points 8 months ago

Use uBlock Origin, you're being redirected by ads. I tested downloading Icarus just now and this is where the links led to. gamebounty -> filecrypt -> datanodes. Datanodes started the download, ~30GiB 7zip file. I didn't get any ads or redirects using Ublock Origin and a Firefox based browser.

I would suggest reading the very top of the megathread, the part that says" Not so fast sailor! Do this first"

[-] [email protected] 31 points 10 months ago

Yeah, sometimes there just isn't another option. I have a 60GiB Win11 VM for things I use every few months for a couple of minutes at a time

I'd recommend https://www.qemu.org/ for virtualisation

https://virt-manager.org/ for a gui to manage VMs, you can easily add or remove cores, memory, internet, directories etc really easily.

https://github.com/winfsp/winfsp lets you add a directory from your host to the VM to easily share files

https://github.com/virtio-win/virtio-win-guest-tools-installer makes the cursor seamlessly move between the VM and host instead of pressing ctrl alt g to escape.

Win11 23H2 still allows for offline set up. Just press shift f10 when you're at the internet set up and type

oobe/bypassnro

The VM will reboot and give you the option to select I don't have internet so you can just use a local account

https://github.com/Raphire/Win11Debloat/ for getting rid of the unwanted bloatware

Theres also an easy way to activate windows for free, I don't think I can link it here but its on github and MAS-sive amount of people have starred it.

[-] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago

I usually just write

Hi,

Please delete my account and all data associated with this email in accordance with Article 17 of GDPR, I'm an EU citizen

Thanks x

I just assume if they haven't made it easy to delete your account by now then they never will but these are really good points that will hopefully make companies change their policies, especially since its all things that benefit them

[-] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago

The "media network" is https://kinectivemedia.com/ and they have a link for US customers to opt out that leads to here https://uniteddigital.iad1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_88OQmAbr20oeHn8 but of course you're going to want to also read Qualtrics privacy policy before using their services https://www.qualtrics.com/privacy-statement/

Clicking https://kinectivemedia.com/ privacy policy links to https://www.united.com/en/us/fly/customer-data-privacy-policy.html

They collect the usual stuff you use for travel like name, address, payment details, biometrics, I.D etc and also

Information collected in your use of our mobile application(s) includes, but is not limited to:

  • With your consent, your pinpointed physical location information from technologies like GPS, Wi-Fi, or cell tower proximity (geo-location tracking)
  • With your consent, while at or near certain airports in the U.S., your pinpointed physical location will be tracked continuously to provide you location-based offers, services and other information. For more information, see the Location Services FAQ located on the side menu of the United App;
  • Your domain name;
  • Device ID or alternative ID where required by the platform provider;
  • Electronic data concerning operating systems and computing devices/browser, including types;
  • Features you use and links you click;
  • Amount of time spent in the application;
  • Installs and uninstalls;
  • Transaction details and history.

We may combine this information with information that we already have collected about you.

We collect information about you from third parties. If you make a reservation through a travel agent, we will obtain your travel information from that agent. We may also obtain information about you from our marketing partners, advertisers and other third parties.

We primarily use your information, including personal information, to provide our services to you and to fulfill your requests. In certain circumstances, such as for advertising purposes, we combine your information with other information that we have about you, that is publicly available and/or that we have obtained from third parties (either individually or in the aggregate)

We also use your information for the following purposes:

For marketing and advertising. United uses your information, consistent with applicable law, individually, in the aggregate, and/or combined with demographic information that we maintain or collect from third parties, for marketing and advertising purposes (via email, direct mail, telephone, web or other electronic advertising) and to send you news and newsletters. Specifically, information that we collect about you may be used to send you email, direct mail, or telephone communications about offers from United, its partners or other third parties, that might be of interest to you (please see the section on Disclosing your information below and the section on Changing your marketing preferences below). We also use your information to determine appropriate advertising channels and venues and to place ads on such channels and venues, including placing advertising on social networking sites.

I'm sure the money they make from this will subsidies flight costs that will be passed on to the end user for cheaper flight!

[-] [email protected] 29 points 1 year ago

This guy is a DRM developer and he experienced frequent crashes and instability after bypassing Denuvo so he's not going to be the next Empress unfortunately

[-] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago

The amount of battery used and data that your phone would be sending if it was constantly recording and sending the data to Google would be very obvious

Its more likely that Google and Co have just profiled you really well and or you searched for that specific topic before. Or that topic was an ad that you clicked on in the past or that you slowed down when scrolling to look at

Newer android version notify you in the top right when your microphone is active and you should also be able to see when the last time, down to the minute, that any app accessed the mic in settings

[-] [email protected] 25 points 2 years ago

ProtonMail also guaranteed that "by default" it would not store any IP addresses that could be linked to users' email accounts.

They don't store IP addresses by default but when required to by law, they don't have a choice just like any other company would.

Bad OPSEC by the activist, Protons hands were tied

[-] [email protected] 22 points 2 years ago

https://github.com/pablouser1/ProxiTok is similar to teddit and invidious, you can self host an instance or use a public one

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