Qaz

@qazcetelic
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Gonna try this from my head without peeking;

"From this distant vantage point, the Earth might not seem of any particular interest. But for us it's different, consider again that dot. That's home. That's here. That's us.

On it, everyone you know, everyone you love, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived there.

The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines"

To bad Carl has to miss out 🌠

Exciting news!

I’ll be presenting our #okstupid investigation into the racist dating network WhiteDate at this year’s Chaos Communication Congress (#39c3)

The talk is titled “The Heartbreak Machine: Nazis in the Echo Chamber.”

Can’t wait to share more insights! :)

The S in IOT stands for Security
This is why neither the companies profiting from a technology nor the agencies deploying it can be trusted to tell the full story about how it's being used. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/10/flock-safety-and-texas-sheriff-claimed-license-plate-search-was-missing-person-it
Flock Safety and Texas Sheriff Claimed License Plate Search Was for a Missing Person. It Was an Abortion Investigation.

New documents and court records obtained by EFF show that Texas deputies queried Flock Safety's surveillance data in an abortion investigation, contradicting the narrative promoted by the company and the Johnson County Sheriff that she was “being searched for as a missing person,” and that “it was about her safety.” The new information shows that deputies had initiated a "death investigation" of a "non-viable fetus," collected evidence of a woman’s self-managed abortion, and consulted prosecutors about possibly charging her.

Electronic Frontier Foundation
The Feds targeted disabled veteran & tor operator Conrad Rockenhaus for refusing to decrypt his nodes https://rockenhaus.com/ #tor #privacy
How the Feds Targeted a Disabled Vet for Speaking Out - The Rockenhaus Case: A Public Record

A federal civil rights lawsuit filed in the Eastern District of Michigan details a sustained campaign of retaliatory prosecution against a 100% medically retired U.S. combat veteran and his wife.

The Rockenhaus Case: A Public Record

@EUCommission Important thing that should be solved in EU is IT literacy - especially of politicians.

End-to-end encryption is the only way to ensure secure communication. Any intermediary intercepting encryption voids the entire solution, therefore no - you can't scan "only for bad content" without jeopardizing security by scanning everything. It is misinformation to claim otherwise.

@ranx

@EUCommission @ranx look EU commission, there is no magic way to only scan for CSAM, all messages will be scanned.

Here's a document about cryptography and backdoors written round about the time of the clipper chip. TLDR:

A backdoor is a backdoor.

https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc1984

#ChatControl #NoChatControl

🇪🇺YES: Germany is not supporting the EU's #ChatControl bill as proposed!
The blocking minority needed to stop this illegal mass surveillance plan seems secured (for now). ✅

Opposition now also from LU🇱🇺 & SK🇸🇰!

#KeepUpTheFight https://fightchatcontrol.eu

Most telecom companies in the Netherlands seem to be experiencing outages. Interesting timing with the ongoing NATO summit in The Hague.
#netherlands #outage #NATOsummit

Just seeing that they are threatening Wikipedia's tax exempt status. The one good thing on the internet, the one healthy way we have of interacting with information.
https://www.theverge.com/news/656720/ed-martin-dc-attorney-wikipedia-nonprofit-threat

#USPol #Wikipedia

Trump DOJ goon threatens Wikipedia

Ed Martin, interim US attorney for DC, has written a letter to the Wikimedia Foundation, threatening its status as a nonprofit entity.

The Verge