So, in a group I'm in, someone shared a campaign call calling on #Google to stop supporting the #Israel government and end its complicity in war crimes in #Gaza
The platform they're using to share these messages? #GoogleGroups of course. The email account the initial person sent the notice from? #Gmail of course.
Should I call them out and say - shouldn't we stop using a genocide-supporting #platforms?
Would you use a self-hosted tool that ingests the mbox (gmail) file from google takeout, indexes all emails and let you search through it? The idea is that it would be an email archive. I feel like it would be useful for people who want to de-google. Being able to search through your emails without having to import them to your new provider is something that I would appreciate. I don't like clutter, and I barely have to pull old emails. Let me know your thoughts! #gmail #selfhost #homelab
Would you use a self-hosted tool that ingests the mbox (gmail) file from google takeout, indexes all emails and let you search through it? The idea is that it would be an email archive. I feel like it would be useful for people who want to de-google. Being able to search through your emails without having to import them to your new provider is something that I would appreciate. I don't like clutter, and I barely have to pull old emails. Let me know your thoughts! #gmail #selfhost #homelab
Well? Should they? Let’s ask Ian Betteridge.
Four weeks ago, #Google admitted it was hacked by #ShinyHunters and/or #ScatteredSpider—via #vishing. Sadly, this sparked a journalistic game of Telephone: Over the space of four weeks, “This #Salesforce instance got vished,” quickly became, “2.5 billion #Gmail users hacked!!1!”
Sigh. “This is entirely false,” complains Google. In #SBBlogwatch, we bait for clicks during dog days.
@TheFuturumGroup @TechstrongGroup @SecurityBlvd: https://securityboulevard.com/2025/09/gmail-hack-telephone-richixbw/?utm_source=richisoc&utm_medium=social&utm_content=richisoc&utm_campaign=richisoc
Well? Should they? Let’s ask Ian Betteridge.
Four weeks ago, #Google admitted it was hacked by #ShinyHunters and/or #ScatteredSpider—via #vishing. Sadly, this sparked a journalistic game of Telephone: Over the space of four weeks, “This #Salesforce instance got vished,” quickly became, “2.5 billion #Gmail users hacked!!1!”
Sigh. “This is entirely false,” complains Google. In #SBBlogwatch, we bait for clicks during dog days.
@TheFuturumGroup @TechstrongGroup @SecurityBlvd: https://securityboulevard.com/2025/09/gmail-hack-telephone-richixbw/?utm_source=richisoc&utm_medium=social&utm_content=richisoc&utm_campaign=richisoc
Vos données sur Gmail ne sont pas à l’abri : les lois américaines permettent d’y accéder partout dans le monde.
👉 Découvrez 10 raisons de quitter Gmail dès maintenant.
https://blog.mailo.com/blog/10-raisons-de-quitter-gmail.htm
#ViePrivée#SouverainetéNumérique#Gmail
Vos données sur Gmail ne sont pas à l’abri : les lois américaines permettent d’y accéder partout dans le monde.
👉 Découvrez 10 raisons de quitter Gmail dès maintenant.
https://blog.mailo.com/blog/10-raisons-de-quitter-gmail.htm
#ViePrivée#SouverainetéNumérique#Gmail
🤖 Gemini’s Gmail summaries were just caught parroting phishing scams. A security researcher embedded hidden prompts in email text (w/ white font, zero size) to make Gemini falsely claim the user's Gmail password was compromised and suggest calling a fake Google number. It's patched now, but the bigger issue remains: AI tools that interpret or summarize content can be manipulated just like humans. Attackers know this and will keep probing for prompt injection weaknesses.
TL;DR
⚠️ Invisible prompts misled Gemini
📩 AI summaries spoofed Gmail alerts
🔍 Prompt injection worked cleanly
🔐 Google patched, but risk remains
https://www.pcmag.com/news/google-gemini-bug-turns-gmail-summaries-into-phishing-attack
#cybersecurity #promptinjection#AIrisks#Gmail #security #privacy #cloud #infosec#AI
🚨 WARNING: Google is trying to force you into using #Gemini AI on Android in #Gmail, #WhatsApp & other apps - hijacking your data for "AI training"
This is opted in by default – so check your Settings to opt out.
Here’s how: 👉 https://tuta.com/blog/how-to-disable-gemini-on-android
🤖 Gemini’s Gmail summaries were just caught parroting phishing scams. A security researcher embedded hidden prompts in email text (w/ white font, zero size) to make Gemini falsely claim the user's Gmail password was compromised and suggest calling a fake Google number. It's patched now, but the bigger issue remains: AI tools that interpret or summarize content can be manipulated just like humans. Attackers know this and will keep probing for prompt injection weaknesses.
TL;DR
⚠️ Invisible prompts misled Gemini
📩 AI summaries spoofed Gmail alerts
🔍 Prompt injection worked cleanly
🔐 Google patched, but risk remains
https://www.pcmag.com/news/google-gemini-bug-turns-gmail-summaries-into-phishing-attack
#cybersecurity #promptinjection#AIrisks#Gmail #security #privacy #cloud #infosec#AI
🚨 WARNING: Google is trying to force you into using #Gemini AI on Android in #Gmail, #WhatsApp & other apps - hijacking your data for "AI training"
This is opted in by default – so check your Settings to opt out.
Here’s how: 👉 https://tuta.com/blog/how-to-disable-gemini-on-android
WARNING: #GOOGLE IS TRYING TO TRICK YOU INTO USING GEMINI AI AND FEEDING GEMINI YOUR DATA IN GMAIL AND OTHER APPS!
What Google is now doing should be ILLEGAL. PERIOD. For the first time I can recall in history of using Gmail, it just now popped a modal dialogue box -- DEMANDING that I choose whether or not I wanted "Smart Features" turned on -- which when you read the verbiage mostly means goddamned Gemini AI AND if you enable this you're giving Google permission to use your data to "improve" this horrifically invasive, inept, and misinformation spewing tech that steals data from websites for its own use without permission of those sites. DON'T LET IT SUCK IN YOUR EMAIL AS WELL!
There was no way I could find to exit the modal window without choosing YES or NO, which means my existing selection to NOT use Gmail Smart Features (long my preference) was NOT being honored. After saying NO to this disgusting query by Google, I was pushed to ANOTHER page where I was forced to choose again about "smart features" in "other" Google apps. I chose NO again and finally was permitted to escape this trap.
Note that while you can fairly easily check to make sure "smart features" are turned off in Gmail settings, I offhand don't have a clue as to how to find the similar settings in other Google apps that may have been affected by this absolutely disrespectful forced dialogue, as Google keeps trying to ram Gemini AI down our throats.
ENOUGH IS ENOUGH! Google has become a DISGRACE.
WARNING: #GOOGLE IS TRYING TO TRICK YOU INTO USING GEMINI AI AND FEEDING GEMINI YOUR DATA IN GMAIL AND OTHER APPS!
What Google is now doing should be ILLEGAL. PERIOD. For the first time I can recall in history of using Gmail, it just now popped a modal dialogue box -- DEMANDING that I choose whether or not I wanted "Smart Features" turned on -- which when you read the verbiage mostly means goddamned Gemini AI AND if you enable this you're giving Google permission to use your data to "improve" this horrifically invasive, inept, and misinformation spewing tech that steals data from websites for its own use without permission of those sites. DON'T LET IT SUCK IN YOUR EMAIL AS WELL!
There was no way I could find to exit the modal window without choosing YES or NO, which means my existing selection to NOT use Gmail Smart Features (long my preference) was NOT being honored. After saying NO to this disgusting query by Google, I was pushed to ANOTHER page where I was forced to choose again about "smart features" in "other" Google apps. I chose NO again and finally was permitted to escape this trap.
Note that while you can fairly easily check to make sure "smart features" are turned off in Gmail settings, I offhand don't have a clue as to how to find the similar settings in other Google apps that may have been affected by this absolutely disrespectful forced dialogue, as Google keeps trying to ram Gemini AI down our throats.
ENOUGH IS ENOUGH! Google has become a DISGRACE.
Valide alternative a #gmail sono #protonmail e #infomaniak.
Al posto di #microsoft #office c’è #onlyoffice
Ci sono alternative per tutto, se le trovate, condividetele!
Siate Europei!
Valide alternative a #gmail sono #protonmail e #infomaniak.
Al posto di #microsoft #office c’è #onlyoffice
Ci sono alternative per tutto, se le trovate, condividetele!
Siate Europei!
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