Brian Hutchison ✔

@HutchB
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He/him. Technologist in the Boise area. brianh on Twitter.

As Texas Gov Abbot prepares to pardon a white man & convicted murderer for killing a peaceful BLM protestor—Texas sentences a Black man to 70 years in prison for “spitting at police” to “make an example out of him.”😳

Systemic white supremacy is thriving in the GOP. Horrific.

I remember when Aaron Swartz was criminally prosecuted for downloading too many academic journal articles, but, sure, it's totally cool to scrape everyone's personal photographs as part of a commercial effort to market discriminatory surveillance tech to police departments.

https://www.businessinsider.com/clearview-scraped-30-billion-images-facebook-police-facial-recogntion-database-2023-4

Clearview AI scraped 30 billion images from Facebook to share with police

Law enforcement officers have used Clearview AI's facial recognition database nearly a million times, Hoan Ton-That, the company's CEO, told the BBC.

Business Insider

The #malvertising campaigns via Google Ads are not just about software downloads and scams. They also include phishing for popular password managers such as 1Password.

The differences are so subtle, most people will fall for it.

Real URL:
https://my[.]1password.com/signin
Phishing URL:
https://my1pasword[.]com/signin

Aileen Cannon's Special Master Review Helped DOJ Prepare for a Key Witness Interview

https://www.emptywheel.net/2022/11/18/aileen-cannons-special-master-review-helped-doj-prepare-for-a-key-witness-interview/

#USPol #Trump #Mar-a-LagoSearch

Aileen Cannon's Special Master Review Helped DOJ Prepare for a Key Witness Interview - emptywheel

As part of the Special Master process, DOJ got Trump to confirm certain details, including dates, about a "mini smoking gun" that was in a desk drawer in his office. Which means he has helped DOJ prepare to interview whatever witness had control over that desk drawer.

emptywheel
Happy Birthday to Joe Biden!
Amazing #twitter
Using the official iOS Mastodon client on MacOS and it works fine, but it required oAuth steps in both Chrome & Safari browsers. That seems weird, and neither are defined as my default.
Feels oddly cozy over here
Mastodon test post.