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Embarrassing times for the European Commission after security researchers found flaws within minutes of using its age verification app. https://www.politico.eu/article/eu-brussels-launched-age-checking-app-hackers-say-took-them-2-minutes-break-it/
(ICYMI: I have a blog post on why age verification laws are a bad idea to begin with: https://this.weekinsecurity.com/papers-please-age-verification-laws-threaten-everyones-online-security-and-privacy/)
Iran’s Internet Blackout: Peering into The World’s Worst Internet Shutdown
Some are calling it Digital Apartheid. Our latest post uses traffic data to show how expanded whitelisting is reshaping internet access in Iran.
https://www.kentik.com/blog/irans-internet-blackout-peering-into-the-worlds-worst-internet-shutdown/
Internet analyst Doug Madory examines Iran’s ongoing internet blackout, now one of the largest government-directed communication shutdowns in history, and shows how limited connectivity is being selectively restored for a privileged few.
Mastodon, I need your help! As more European countries and orgs look to ditch US technology and move to sovereign or open source alternatives, I'm trying to track these efforts.
So far, I've found more than half a dozen government agencies, cities, orgs, that are embracing digital sovereignty but want to hear about other examples that I've missed. Who else should I be adding to this?
Here's a list of what I have so far:
*Edit: This list is now on Proton Sheets, as I should have seen that coming*
Mastodon, I need your help! As more European countries and orgs look to ditch US technology and move to sovereign or open source alternatives, I'm trying to track these efforts.
So far, I've found more than half a dozen government agencies, cities, orgs, that are embracing digital sovereignty but want to hear about other examples that I've missed. Who else should I be adding to this?
Here's a list of what I have so far:
*Edit: This list is now on Proton Sheets, as I should have seen that coming*
NEW:
Thousands of men are members of Telegram groups and channels that advertise and sell hacking and surveillance services that can be used to harass friends, wives and girlfriends, and former partners, new research has uncovered.
The findings, from a European nonprofit group, also say that the communities are involved in extensive trading, selling, and promotion of a huge variety of abusive content, including nonconsensual intimate images of women, so-called nudifying services, plus folders of images that sellers claim include child sexual abuse material and depictions of incest and rape.
https://www.wired.com/story/men-are-buying-hacking-tools-to-use-against-their-wives-and-friends/
> "the cost for each arrest using traditional methods was 53.9 per cent higher than for those using facial recognition, based on the number of officer hours involved. When I asked the Met how it had arrived at this figure, a spokesperson confirmed the calculation did not take into account the cost of the technology." 🤭
https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/technology/72853/rise-facial-recognition-policing
NEW: UK officials today sanctioned a Chinese-language $20 billion scam marketplace.
For years, Xinbi Guarantee has sold stolen personal data, money laundering services, and the infrastructure needed to run online scams. The sanctions are the latest move combatting organized scamming from Cambodia
https://www.wired.com/story/20-billion-xinbi-guarantee-uk-sanctions/
evacide
Zack Whittaker
Doug Madory
NetBlocks
Andy Greenberg
Nicolas Kayser-Bril
