Insane Fake Girl Bot on *Mastodon* takes shots at: William Gibson, Craig Newmark, Jeff “Dark Tangent” Moss, David Preiss, …
https://alecmuffett.com/article/113615#FakeAccounts #mastodon #spam
Insane Fake Girl Bot on *Mastodon* takes shots at: William Gibson, Craig Newmark, Jeff “Dark Tangent” Moss, David Preiss, …
I can only think that because it’s such a small community on Mastodon it decided to go with spamming a list and it chose poorly.
IN CASE YOU MISSED IT: aren’t you glad that we don’t (yet) live in a world where on-device client side surveillance triggers report you to the police for using words like “bomb” or “uranium” in Signal & WhatsApp chats?
https://alecmuffett.com/article/113606#ClientSideScanning #EndToEndEncryption #HomeOffice #apple #censorship #meta #signal #surveillance #whatsapp
IN CASE YOU MISSED IT: aren’t you glad that we don’t (yet) live in a world where on-device client side surveillance triggers report you to the police for using words like “bomb” or “uranium” in Signal & WhatsApp chats?
If such things did exist they would currently be swamped by people discussing global news: Exclusive: Early US intel assessment suggests strikes on Iran did not destroy nuclear sites, sources say
Julian Sanchez: “If your law is good when there are good people in office, but dangerous when there are bad people in office, your law is bad”
https://alecmuffett.com/article/113601#AgeVerification #FreeSpeech #OnlineSafety #censorship #glad #kosa #lgbtq #privacy #trump
Julian Sanchez: “If your law is good when there are good people in office, but dangerous when there are bad people in office, your law is bad”
Who would have guessed? Will Oremus: “Separately and notably, GLAAD — which dropped its opposition to KOSA last year after changes to the bill, easing its path to Democratic support — told me…
Britain: Police may grab your {phone, laptop} and legally use on-device credentials to go trawl Facebook, GMail, iCloud, Dropbox (etc) — WITHOUT WARRANT
https://alecmuffett.com/article/113597#authoritarianism #hacking #police #privacy #surveillance #uk
Britain: Police may grab your {phone, laptop} and legally use on-device credentials to go trawl Facebook, GMail, iCloud, Dropbox (etc) — WITHOUT WARRANT
I can’t say that I am entirely surprised, and it’s a bit more proportionate than “Backdooring Signal” however it really should have judicial oversight. Police to gain powers…
If the state deploys infrastructural internet services with logging & content filtering, those things are surveillance & censorship because they are done by the state
https://alecmuffett.com/article/113587#StatePower #censorship #surveillance
If the state deploys infrastructural internet services with logging & content filtering, those things are surveillance & censorship because they are done by the state
The state has a monopoly on violence. The state has a monopoly on censorship. The state tries to have a monopoly on surveillance. If the state deploys infrastructural internet services with logging…
From 2024: “COERCING LLMS TO DO AND REVEAL (ALMOST) ANYTHING”
While we’re on the general topic of if you adequately lie to a computer you will always get what you want: Via:
My first LLM-to-WordPress Spam?
Of course it’s an inevitability even for the Blogosphere but I was amused to find this thing in my spam inbox this morning; none of the links check-out and apparently inboxgate.rest has a rep…
1933: The Technocrats’ Magazine | Technocracy Inc | Internet Archive
“Technocracy was a progressive engineering movement founded by Howard Scott and Walter Rautenstrauch and centered at Columbia University School of Engineering.” Take a browse over coffe…
In case you missed it: “By Default, Signal Doesn’t Recall”
It’s rapidly getting to the point where if you want to have conversation privacy you must implement screenshot-prevention (mobile) or DRM-protection (laptop) in order to prevent surveillance;…
Matt Green identifies an eternal verity
It’s weird how people are “opposed to surveillance” only until they get their hands on the surveillance apparatus. Links to:
