JamesWords

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Tech policy for a better Internet from an Aotearoa New Zealand perspective. Also occasional storytelling through improv theatre and weird dice.

Was @jameswords on Twitter when that was a thing.

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By leaving insecure tracking devices on the open internet, “police have not only breached public trust but created a bounty of location data for everyone who drives by which can be abused by stalkers & other criminals,” EFF’s @cooperq told WIRED.
https://www.wired.com/story/license-plate-reader-live-video-data-exposed/
License Plate Readers Are Leaking Real-Time Video Feeds and Vehicle Data

Misconfigured license-plate-recognition systems reveal the livestreams of individual cameras and the wealth of data they collect about every vehicle that passes by them.

WIRED

If there is a RCE vulnerability in CUPS, would someone mind configuring mine for duplex printing, please?

#Linux #CUPS #cybersecurity

if you work with linux in production roles, you probably want to cancel any fun things you had planned for September 30th and make sure your snack cupboard is well-stocked
Everything is a conspiracy theory when you don't understand how anything works
Key take away from Jaye Weatherburn on communities of practice: organisations need to formalise community roles in job descriptions otherwise it will be difficult to sustain grass roots communities over time. We all know community is vital in #digipres so why does it fall outside of our formal roles? #ipres2024

Good news everyone! My magnum opus on Scrum just dropped, clocking in at almost 9K words! Prepare a drink, strap yourselves in, and enter the Torment Nexus.

https://ludic.mataroa.blog/blog/tossed-salads-and-scrumbled-eggs/

Tossed Salads And Scrumbled Eggs — Ludicity

Lovely little analysis of copyright as a protocol for who gets to share information and how the EU AI Act approach shifts the responsibilities involved.

From: @mnot
https://techpolicy.social/@mnot/113159306157535787

Mark Nottingham (@[email protected])

The EU AI Act and emerging practice flip copyright’s default opt-in regime to an opt-out one. What effects is this likely to have on the balance of power between rights holders and reuse? https://www.mnot.net/blog/2024/09/18/opt-out

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