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Are there any admins on social.tchncs.de.? Is anonymously spreading lies about over 30 families in Gaza allowed on this instance?
This anonymous coward has been chased off of every server he’s been on and yet he’s still here, still attacking people suffering from genocide and famine.
(And yes, some folks copy posts from others. We’ve asked them not to. But they’re trying to survive genocide, not win social media awards.)
Also (see his second post) we’re not attempting to r…

Linux Is Best (@Linux@social.tchncs.de)
Attached: 2 images 1 of 2 First, let me say: what’s happening in Gaza is absolutely awful. But what’s also awful is that there are dishonest people taking advantage of others during a crisis. In one photo, from Facebook (my job, where I work), we had a woman claiming to be a 36-year-old mother of two children, ages 4 and 7. She spaced out the URL in her post, hoping it wouldn’t get flagged by spam filters (it did). The very next day, someone on the Fediverse posted the exact same messa…

Losing Nemo: In the Red Sea, clownfish vanish as anemones bleach
https://news.mongabay.com/2025/10/losing-nemo-in-the-red-sea-clownfish-vanish-as-anemones-bleach/

Why Data Anonymization Has Not Taken Off
Matthew J. Schneider, James Bailie, Dawn Iacobucci
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.10165 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.101…

Why Data Anonymization Has Not Taken Off
Companies are looking to data anonymization research $\unicode{x2013}$ including differential private and synthetic data methods $\unicode{x2013}$ for simple and straightforward compliance solutions. But data anonymization has not taken off in practice because it is anything but simple to implement. For one, it requires making complex choices which are case dependent, such as the domain of the dataset to anonymize; the units to protect; the scope where the data protection should extend to; and …

VoxATtack: A Multimodal Attack on Voice Anonymization Systems
Ahmad Aloradi, \"Unal Ege Gaznepoglu, Emanu\"el A. P. Habets, Daniel Tenbrinck
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.12081

VoxATtack: A Multimodal Attack on Voice Anonymization Systems
Voice anonymization systems aim to protect speaker privacy by obscuring vocal traits while preserving the linguistic content relevant for downstream applications. However, because these linguistic cues remain intact, they can be exploited to identify semantic speech patterns associated with specific speakers. In this work, we present VoxATtack, a novel multimodal de-anonymization model that incorporates both acoustic and textual information to attack anonymization systems. While previous resear…

»Dein Handy als Spion: Heimlich überwacht?
Unterwegs mit versteckter Kamera und falscher Identität auf einer Überwachungsmesse: Dort präsentiert ein Unternehmen Spähprogramme, mit denen Smartphones überwacht werden können.«
Dies ist sicherlich nicht die einzige Firma der Tel. und SMS Überwachung, sprich die Anonymität verstößt, ist mMn schon länger im Allgemeinen in Verdacht.
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Dein Handy als Spion: Heimlich überwacht? – Firma verkauft Überwachungssoftware
Unterwegs mit versteckter Kamera und falscher Identität auf einer Überwachungsmesse: Dort präsentiert eine Firma Software zur Mobiltelefon-Überwachung

South Sudan and Israel
are discussing a deal
to resettle Palestinians
from war-torn Gaza
in the troubled African nation,
three sources told Reuters
- a plan quickly dismissed as unacceptable by Palestinian leaders.
The sources, who have knowledge of the matter but spoke on condition of anonymity,
said no agreement had been reached but talks between South Sudan and Israel were ongoing.
The plan, if carried further,
would envisage pe…

Protecting participants or population? Comparison of k-anonymous Origin-Destination matrices
Pietro Armenante, Kai Huang, Nikhil Jha, Luca Vassio
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.12950

Protecting participants or population? Comparison of k-anonymous Origin-Destination matrices
Origin-Destination (OD) matrices are a core component of research on users' mobility and summarize how individuals move between geographical regions. These regions should be small enough to be representative of user mobility, without incurring substantial privacy risks. There are two added values of the NetMob2025 challenge dataset. Firstly, the data is extensive and contains a lot of socio-demographic information that can be used to create multiple OD matrices, based on the segments of the pop…

Ok, in BW wurden „aufgrund eines Computerfehlers“ 1440 Lehrystellen nicht besetzt.¹
Aufregung, Skandal, zahlreiche Artikel. Nur: was genau passiert ist, erklärt wieder mal niemand.
Ich kann mir das ja nicht so vorstellen, daß die Mike-Krüger-Gesamtschule plötzlich feststellt, daß heute niemand die 7b unterrichtet.
Muß ich annehmen, daß ein Rektor ohne Nachfrage im Ministerium hinnimmt, daß er dieses Schuljahr zwei Lehrkräfte weniger hat (z.B. nach Pensionierung nicht nachbe…

Peinliche Computer-Panne: Mehr als tausend Lehrerstellen 20 Jahre übersehen
Über 20 Jahre fällt niemandem auf, dass hunderte Lehrerstellen unbesetzt sind. Das Kultusministerium ist peinlich berührt, kann nun aber kräftig einstellen.

Bargeld weder anonym noch günstig
https://stohl.de/wordpress/?p=191583

How to Get Actual Privacy and Utility from Privacy Models: the k-Anonymity and Differential Privacy Families
Josep Domingo-Ferrer, David S\'anchez
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.11299

How to Get Actual Privacy and Utility from Privacy Models: the k-Anonymity and Differential Privacy Families
Privacy models were introduced in privacy-preserving data publishing and statistical disclosure control with the promise to end the need for costly empirical assessment of disclosure risk. We examine how well this promise is kept by the main privacy models. We find they may fail to provide adequate protection guarantees because of problems in their definition or incur unacceptable trade-offs between privacy protection and utility preservation. Specifically, k-anonymity may not entirely exclude …