The sentencing of Nicholas Moore (one-year probation) serves as a case study in credential-based breaches. By compromising one set of credentials, Moore gained access to the U.S. Supreme Court, AmeriCorps, and the VA."
This highlights the persistent danger of "low-effort" entry points into high-value targets.
How are your organizations hardening against credential stuffing and lateral movement in the public sector?
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Governments from Australia to Canada are requiring online age verification, forcing users to share personal IDs to access content. These measures raise serious privacy, security, and freedom-of-speech risks for all users ๐
๐ https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/12/global-age-verification-measures-2024-year-review
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EFF has spent this year urging governments around the world, from Canada to Australia, to abandon their reckless plans to introduce age verification for a variety of online content under the guise of protecting children online. Mandatory age verification tools are surveillance systems that threaten...
Dylan "I read the law and I'm here to implement it" M. Tylor gets up in the morning and decides to write age verification code that he himself calls "hilariously pointless and ineffective", within a week strikes 4 repos off his list, and i bet the Linux Kernel is going to be next (I'm joking... mostly)
It's worth noting that the first people who approved the PR on systemd repo are 2 big tech employees - Mircoslop and Redhat/IBM (why I'm i not surprised!!), someone then opened a revert PR, Lennart Poettering (systemd creator) closed it.. thus blocking the removal
And this is why you now have Liberated Systemd, a fork of systemd without Age verification.. which IS 'hilariously pointless and ineffective' at saving children
when engineers starts reading the law like a specification, this is what you get.. useful idiots.
#ageverification #authoritarianism #SaveTheChildren #thinkofthechildren #epstein #surveillance #bigtech #government #privacy #anonymity #humanrights #FreeSoftware #freespeech #ubuntu #linux #fedora #arch #archlinux #agelesslinux #artix #whonix #tails #systemd #opensource #openknowledge #openaccess #cyberlaw #infosec
RE: https://grapheneos.social/@GrapheneOS/116307429187383416
I'm not worried about the surveillance laws as much as I'm worried about the "bUt wE cAn mAKe iT pRivAte" camp
#ageverification #authoritarianism #SaveTheChildren #thinkofthechildren #epstein #surveillance #bigtech #government #privacy #anonymity #humanrights #FreeSoftware #freespeech #ubuntu #linux #fedora #arch #archlinux #agelesslinux #artix #whonix #tails #systemd #opensource #openknowledge #openaccess #cyberlaw #infosec
Honestly.. at first i was surprised (and disappointed) at some major Linux distributions not having a clear answer to age verification laws after weeks of their announcement, but then lots of them started discussing them. really! discussing them! what's there to be discussed?
"maybe we can implement age checks in a privacy respecting manner? ๐๐"
And it's just so happens this serves the corporation that you work for best interests! Big tech "Foss devs" have a clear conflict of interest here
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EU, Japan, Australia Move From Voluntary Cyber Guidelines to Binding Law https://broadbandbreakfast.com/eu-japan-australia-move-from-voluntary-cyber-guidelines-to-binding-law/
Presently reading the 56 page opposition brief in the #socialmedia case regarding teens - the PDF available in the article below.
IoT privacy compliance development.
Samsung will revise ACR data practices after legal action by the Texas Attorney General.
Key elements:
โข Real-time viewing habit collection under scrutiny
โข Enhanced disclosure & consent flow promised
โข Emphasis on consumer transparency
โข Broader regulatory pressure on smart device telemetry
ACR data monetization highlights a persistent tension:
Device intelligence vs user autonomy
Advertising revenue vs explicit consent
Convenience vs continuous telemetry
As regulatory enforcement increases, IoT vendors may face stricter consent design expectations.
Question for security & privacy professionals:
Should connected consumer devices require periodic re-consent for telemetry collection?
Source: https://therecord.media/samsung-updates-acr-privacy-practices-texas
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