Jackie Singh

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Security, Privacy, Research, Media, Art, Journalism | Supporting @STOPSpyingNY 🛑🚔 | Formerly @TeamJoe | Currently in film school!
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Migration day has arrived.
An interesting aspect of Mastodon is how much it resembles the online community at eBay circa 1997. (I’m proud to say that eBay invented ‘Trust and Safety’, to make the trading platform a safe place.) eBay had open “boards” where folks came to drink their morning coffee and to talk with friends. It’s tricky to create the right vibe where the community reinforces good norms, but it is possible.

As I type, “If a message about permissions appears, click ‘allow’” into a SharePoint page with an embedded Power App, a tiny #infosec angel appears on my shoulder to plead that I edit it to ask the user to *review* the permission request before clicking.

A #UX devil appears on the other shoulder. “Everyone has already been trained to click ‘Allow’ and ‘Yes’ over and over again just to do their jobs,” he says. “It’s a shame that you have to put any instructions. Don’t make them LONGER.”

#Introduction - I'm Congress member Ritchie Torres from #NewYork , The past few days here have been great, I want to keep building our platform here on #Mastodon to make sure we can continue our conversations on a public social media platform.

Can you please BOOST this post and FOLLOW our account and encourage your followers to do the same? Thank you.

Wishing I was at #HIP22

Sneaky. Link me to your best anti-surveillance defensive techniques.

Only running surveillance and never defending against it? Bad juju

Early this morning, three Tacoma Power substation facilities were deliberately attacked in east Pierce county. Currently, more than 14,000 customers are without power as a result.

The local police department received a burglary call at a substation in Spanaway shortly after 5 a.m. When deputies arrived, they saw forced entry & vandalized equipment that caused a loss of power. A substation in Graham & Puyallup revealed similar scenes: forced entry & damaged equipment.

https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/tacoma-power-says-2-substations-attacked-christmas-day/

Two Tacoma Power substations ‘attacked’ Christmas Day, says utility

More than 7,000 people are without power Sunday morning after two Tacoma Power Utilities substations went down after what they say was a deliberate attack.

The Seattle Times
Change my mind: Religious institutions don't deserve tax exempt status

I hope folks on my local Mastodon don't mind too much if I migrate my account over to @davetroy's server.

I think my content will probably have a better home there. Thank you to the admins/mods 💞

It’s Mike Flynn’s birthday today. 🎉🖕

ICYMI, Mike Flynn is the worst traitor in American history who should never see another birthday as a free man.

Flynn says that when the Russians invaded Crimea in 2014, that “this was totally avoidable” which is true. But the person who could have avoided it was the head of the Defense Intelligence Agency at the time, Lt. Gen. Mike Flynn.
#ArrestMikeFlynn
https://jimstewartson.substack.com/p/did-mike-flynn-enable-putins-annexation

Did Mike Flynn Enable Putin’s Annexation of Crimea in 2014?

Watch now (7 min) | Ukraine has always been Putin’s target

MindWar: The Psychological War on Democracy