I wonder how quick it'll cook all the kids when the battery decides to start on fire
via @arstechnica
I'd been wondering why I'd heard so little from Naomi Wu lately, and the reason is unhappily worse than Twitter breaking API based post mirroring to Mastodon.
(TL;DR, she's been silenced by the authorities.)
Worth reading in full, as the end includes a brief interview and suggests that her earlier highlighting of the security risks of compromised keyboards to E2E encrypted messaging turned out to be potentially relevant.
https://www.hackingbutlegal.com/naomi-wu-and-the-silence-that-speaks-volumes/
When China's prodigious tech influencer, Naomi Wu, found herself silenced, it wasn't just the machinery of a surveillance state at play. Instead, it was a confluence of state repression and the sometimes capricious attention of a Western audience that, as she asserts, often views Chinese activists more as ideological tokens
Any technology company using #reCAPTCHA as part of their authentication system like #vultr
1. Doesn't know how to properly detect and ban automated attacks.
2. Shouldn't have your business.