Electronic Frontier FoundationICE has spent hundreds of millions on surveillance. Some technologists are building tools to find it, map it, and push back. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/01/how-hackers-are-fighting-back-against-ice
Michael Barclay
@mbarc
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Part-time volunteer at Electronic Frontier Foundation (posts are my own). Former partner at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, specializing in patent, copyright, and trade secret law. I enjoy travel, playing the guitar and ukulele, cat videos, Taylor Swift concerts, and Oxford commas.
@georgetakei
He didn't say he was talking to a former president who was still **alive**.
"This dead president, was he in the room with you when he told he had wanted to invade Iran?"
He didn't say he was talking to a former president who was still **alive**.
"This dead president, was he in the room with you when he told he had wanted to invade Iran?"
A three judge panel has upheld Proposition 50, the California redistricting initiative. By a 2-1 vote, it rejected the Republican's request for a preliminary injunction enjoining the new districts (a Trump-appointed judge dissented).
https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cacd.994285/gov.uscourts.cacd.994285.216.0.pdf
https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cacd.994285/gov.uscourts.cacd.994285.216.0.pdf
Copyright claims can’t be the gatekeeper to the internet. EFF urges SCOTUS to apply patent-law limits and stop overbroad secondary liability. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/09/eff-court-supreme-court-must-rein-expansive-secondary-copyright-liability
EFF to Court: The Supreme Court Must Rein in Expansive Secondary Copyright Liability
If the Supreme Court doesn’t reverse a lower court’s ruling, internet service providers (ISPs) could be forced to terminate people’s internet access based on nothing more than mere accusations of copyright infringement. This would threaten innocent users who rely on broadband for essential aspects...
Your internet shouldn’t vanish because a roommate is accused of copyright infringement. SCOTUS must rein in overbroad secondary liability that chills lawful access. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/09/eff-court-supreme-court-must-rein-expansive-secondary-copyright-liability
EFF to Court: The Supreme Court Must Rein in Expansive Secondary Copyright Liability
If the Supreme Court doesn’t reverse a lower court’s ruling, internet service providers (ISPs) could be forced to terminate people’s internet access based on nothing more than mere accusations of copyright infringement. This would threaten innocent users who rely on broadband for essential aspects...
SCOTUS should toss the Fourth Circuit’s made-up ‘material contribution’ test that stretches contributory liability and pressures ISPs to cut off whole households from the internet on mere accusations of copyright infringement. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/09/eff-court-supreme-court-must-rein-expansive-secondary-copyright-liability
EFF to Court: The Supreme Court Must Rein in Expansive Secondary Copyright Liability
If the Supreme Court doesn’t reverse a lower court’s ruling, internet service providers (ISPs) could be forced to terminate people’s internet access based on nothing more than mere accusations of copyright infringement. This would threaten innocent users who rely on broadband for essential aspects...
Zack Davisson
That Nonproductive GuyNew Signal update just dropped
@SwiftOnSecurity It's not even a close contest.
https://x.com/SwiftOnSecurity/status/1074810043495796736
https://x.com/SwiftOnSecurity/status/1074810043495796736
@georgetakei The Onion figured this out in 2014
https://theonion.com/fbi-uncovers-al-qaeda-plot-to-just-sit-back-and-enjoy-c-1819576375/
https://theonion.com/fbi-uncovers-al-qaeda-plot-to-just-sit-back-and-enjoy-c-1819576375/
FBI Uncovers Al-Qaeda Plot To Just Sit Back And Enjoy Collapse Of United States
WASHINGTON—Putting the nation on alert against what it has described as a “highly credible terrorist threat,” the FBI announced today that it has uncovered a plot by members of al-Qaeda to sit back and enjoy themselves while the United States collapses of its own accord.