Pluralistic: The three armies fighting for the post-American world (05 May 2026)

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://pluralistic.net/2026/05/05/three-is-a-magic-number/

"Jeremy Scahill, journalist, author and co-founder of Drop Site News joins Emma to provide updates on the ongoing negotiations between the U.S. and Iran."—

Iran Sets Negotiation Terms | Jeremy Scahill >

https://youtu.be/Md5kgNSD30w?si=RFRSmnv3Ya7j2iqL

#Jeremy_Scahill #interview #Iran #USIsrael #Trump_regime #Epstein_war #negociation #inflation #Strait_of_Hormuz #defense #supply_chain #intelligence #USA #Israel #OPEC #UAE #civilian_targets #United_Arab_Emirates #Steve_Witkoff
#Jared_Kushner #Saudi_Arabia #Kuwait #Middle_East #human_shields #geopolitics #circumvention #air_strikes #retaliatory_strikes #video

From Gourmet Tools to Self-Serve Building Blocks: Scaling Resilience with Shared Language and Reuse

In my SplinterCon keynote tomorrow: think in self-serve capabilities – Resolve, Shape, Carry, Relay, Choose – not monolithic "gourmet" tools.

Users ask which tool works. Providers need to ask what is being targeted, how, and which capability is missing.

May 5, 12:05 PM EDT / 18:05 CET

Register: https://splintercon.net/splintercon-online/

#SplinterCon #InternetFreedom #Circumvention

⚠️ Ubisoft and EA suddenly cut off Russian players, nationwide outages knocking out Ubisoft Connect and EA App.

Monitoring sites report mass auth/connect failures; official websites and support forums are also down. As of 6 April 2026 neither devs nor regulators have given an explanation. Circumvention tools/VPNs usually restore access, while ISPs insist there are no issues. Players are like, WTF, temporarily unable to lau...

#SteamAndEpic #Ubisoft #Players #Connect #Circumvention #Battlefield

Most of the discussions about the impact of the latest generative AI systems on copyright have centred on text, images and video. That’s no surprise, since writers, artists and film-makers feel very strongly about their creations, and members of the public can relate easily to the issues that AI raises for this kind of creativity. But there’s another creative domain that has been massively […]

Pluralistic: Tools vs uses (16 Mar 2026)

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://pluralistic.net/2026/03/16/whittle-a-webserver/

While the final version of our paper will be presented at IFIP SEC 2026, I summarized our recent work on history covert channels and covert channel amplification: https://www.wendzel.de/misc/2026/02/28/history-cc.html

I just added the AMPhitryon part: short packets produced by #censorship #circumvention or covert channel tools are often difficult or even impossible to compress, leaving traces that can be analyzed by adversaries. We changed that and can now compress very short packets! #infosec #cybersecurity

“The Diary of a Young Girl” is a Dutch language diary written by the young Jewish writer Anne Frank while she was in hiding for two years with her family during the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands. Although the diary and Anne Frank’s death in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp are well known, few are aware that the text has a complicated copyright history – one that could have […]