ryan nakamoto

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Native Angeleno. Native American. Human. AR/VR/Smart-Devices Security & Privacy @ Reality Labs
I think about this every time I SSH

Here are the results of a rather unscientific test of 23 hours of engagement for the exact same thread I posted on Twitter, Mastodon and Threads. The thread was a text heavy, technical discussion of the tech policy issues involving Threads and ActivityPub.

Despite having way more followers on Twitter, the amount and quality of engagement was way worse. Threads shows real promise, but for a serious tech policy discussion the quality of engagement using my own Mastodon server was better.

"Take them down to Mud Creek and hang them up with a damn rope. But you can't do that anymore. They got more rights than we got." Oklahoma: https://www.oklahoman.com/story/news/state/2023/04/17/mccurtain-county-sheriff-commissioners-audio-lynching-hiring-hitmen/70122140007/
Transcript of McCurtain County Sheriff, Commissioners discussing lynching, hiring hit men

A newspaper in McCurtain County, Oklahoma has released audio of county leaders discussing plans to kill one of their reporters and lynch Black people.

The Oklahoman
'We wanted to help': Students arrested after exposing FreeHour security flaw

Police investigate four students who discovered vulnerability in application

Times of Malta
CircleCI security alert: Rotate any secrets stored in CircleCI (Updated Jan 13)

Read CircleCI’s security alerts from January 2023. Last updated 1/13/2023.

CircleCI
All secrets in your hosted CI are compromised.
LastPass has been breached: What now?

You should be very concerned about the LastPass breach. Depending on who you are, now might be the right time to change your passwords.

Almost Secure
The bit about a lawyer being stopped from entering a music hall in the US because its facial recognition system picked up that she's part of a law company that's suing them is even crazier than I thought.

The law company isn't suing the music hall - it's suing a restaurant, in another state, which is owned by the hall's parent company MSG Entertainment. MSG gone ahead and harvested photos of all the lawyers in the firm and fed it to an image recognition system to ban them from every MSG Entertainment owned location.

People always tell me that if you've got nothing to hide then you've got nothing to fear. She's got nothing to hide and they still went after her.

If this doesn't start making people worried about facial recognition then there's serious trouble coming.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2022/12/facial-recognition-flags-girl-scout-mom-as-security-risk-at-rockettes-show/
MSG defends using facial recognition to kick lawyer out of Rockettes show

MSG Entertainment began using facial recognition at venues in 2018.

Ars Technica

I find this letter from John Carmack interesting in that it summarizes a sentiment I've heard from literally all of the highest impact/most effective people I've talked to at large companies:

You can make a big difference, but you're constantly fighting against a self-sabotaging organization.

I know some fairly high impact people who aren't bothered by this kind of thing; those people tend to say things like "I try not to care too much" or "I used to get too frustrated, so now I [do less].