David

@deFractal@infosec.exchange
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IT security student. Programmer of digital duck tape, learning to write digital plumbing. Aspiring cryptographer. Personal research interests include zero-knowledge credentials (to counter online antisocial conduct while protecting privacy) and AV/image non-repudiation (to counter deepfakes).


Anti-exceptionalist egalitarian. Empirical pragmatist: evidence over ideology, results over rationalization. Theory is as good as the least of its falsifiability, its internal consistency, and its withstanding of attempted disproof. It is as useful as one is willing to revise or replace it when it falls.

"Ramos drew a chilling parallel on Tuesday between the repression her parents experienced under martial law and local residents’ warnings about automated license plate readers contributing to an expanding state #surveillance in their own community" #ALPR https://www.mercurynews.com/2026/02/25/mountain-view-flock-safety-contract-cancellation/?
Mass surveillance fears push Silicon Valley city to scrap automated license plate readers

Bay Area cities reassess contracts with license plate reader vendors

The Mercury News

"I wanted to focus your attention on a genuine piece of news out of the Epstein Files, even weeks after their original release. In 2019, a woman came forward and spoke to the FBI claiming that Donald Trump had assaulted her in the early 1980s. In her allegations, Jeffrey Epstein essentially provided her to Trump."

~ Josh Marshall

#Epstein #Trump #PamBondi #DOJ #pedophiles #coverup
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https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/yes-this-latest-trump-revelation-out-of-the-epstein-files-seem-big

Yes, This Latest Trump Revelation Out of the Epstein Files Seem Big

You’ve probably seen some hints of it. But I wanted to focus...

TPM - Talking Points Memo

#GiftArticle

How America [The #US] Chose Not to Hold the Powerful to Account

Our national project of #elite #impunity

By Adam Serwer

Around the world, powerful men are facing consequences for their actions. Former Brazilian President Jair #Bolsonaro was convicted of trying to overthrow the government in a #Jan6 style #coup, as was his South Korean counterpart, #YoonSukYuol.

#law #accountability #power #plutocracy
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/02/elite-accountability-powerful-impunity/686134/?gift=guxsrl_dAdXUP9zqbQPWxYP6ztvC2RKlz2tQfl1JB90

How America Chose Not to Hold the Powerful to Account

Our national project of elite impunity

The Atlantic

Something has changed about the unprompted responses from people seeing me using the MNT (Pocket) Reform in the last month. I'm not just getting a "whoa this is cool and nerdy", I'm hearing more people, unprompted, say "Oh, this seems important, because maybe we won't be able to get computers we control soon."

It's uncomfortable, in a way, that this is starting to become more of the zeitgeist, because I think it's true.

I really do think we need computers we can control and hack on and advance. Because we're in real trouble if we can't.

A friend has been saying "we need more routes to getting chips, we need more routes to manufacture PCBs, people have no idea how fragile 'being able to control your computer' is right now", and I agree with that

KDE supports the "Keep Android Open" campaign

#Google will cut off independent developers to #Android if they do not register with Google first. This will kill independent platforms like @fdroidorg and severely impede FLOSS devs from creating apps for Android.

https://keepandroidopen.org/

Many KDE apps are deployed for Android: KDE Connect, Itinerary, Tokodon, and there's even a test version of Krita for Android.

KDE calls on Google to reverse course and @keepandroidopen.

https://keepandroidopen.org/open-letter/

Brush-up On Fascism Before Trump's 2026 "State Of The Union"

Political scientist Lawrence Britt studied the Fascist regimes of Hitler’s Germany, Mussolini’s Italy, Franco’s Spain, Salazar’s Portugal, Papadopoulos’s Greece, Pinochet’s Chile, and Suharto’s Indonesia.

The Christian Left
Worst of the worst? Most US immigrants targeted for deportation in 2025 had no criminal charges, documents reveal | Trump administration | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/22/us-immigration-trump-administration #immigration #crime #stats
Worst of the worst? Most US immigrants targeted for deportation in 2025 had no criminal charges, documents reveal

A Guardian analysis finds the vast majority of people who entered deportation proceedings for the first time from January to August last year had no criminal convictions

The Guardian

The hidden ICE blueprint that should horrify every American | Opinion https://www.inquirer.com/opinion/ice-detention-centers-georgia-dhs-noem-trump-20260222.html

The plan to convert a newly built 1.2 million-square-foot warehouse into a concentration camp where as many as 8,500 humans — double the size of the current largest federal prison — would be housed for as long as 60 days (or likely more) has riled up both residents and public officials in a place where 75% voted for Donald Trump in 2024.

#ice #inhumane #plans #immigration

The hidden ICE blueprint that should horrify every American

An internal Homeland Security document shows how ICE plans to cram thousands of detained human beings inside a Georgia warehouse.

The Philadelphia Inquirer