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Librarian by day, whitehat by night. Cybersec consulting on the side when companies are in deep doo-doo. Probably one of exceedingly few 30-somethings to touch cobol 74 without spontaneously combusting.
If you live in the Nordic countries I have probably touched your bank's backend inappropriately. Multiple times.
My thoughts on Microsoft's threat to prosecute researchers for dropping zero day exploits
Microsoft, who banned Nightmare-Eclipse from their GitHub platform, conveys their displeasure with said individual
Along with a threat:
Our Digital Crimes Unit will continue bringing cases against these actors and those that enable their criminal activity – coordinating as needed with law enforcement around the world.
Also manages to sprinkle in a few references to not using CVD as being not "responsible". (Microsoft was a big proponent of the term "responsible disclosure", which has gone by the wayside because it tends to favor vendor-centric perspective in a subjective and moralizing way.)
Anyone asserting encryption is a tool for crime is either painfully misinformed or is attempting to manipulate legislators to gain oppressive power over the people.
Encryption is not a crime,
encryption is a shield.
Encryption protects you from cyberattack, identity theft, discrimination, doxxing, stalking, sexual violence, physical harm, and much more.
For safety, for privacy, for democracy, and for all our human rights, it's critical that we defend our right to encryption.
https://www.privacyguides.org/articles/2025/04/11/encryption-is-not-a-crime/
#Privacy #Encryption #DigitalRights #HumanRights #Democracy #RootForE2EE
Encryption is not a crime, encryption protects us all. Encryption, and especially end-to-end encryption, is an essential tool to protect everyone online. Attempts to undermine encryption are an attack to our fundamental right to privacy and an attack to our inherent right to security and safety.
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