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Andy Greenberg: “AutoSploit Tool Makes Unskilled Hacking Easier Than Ever” — a headline which must have written *many* times in the past 30 years
Andy’s been around the block, but I go back further, so perhaps I selectively remember: …and a few others; so I* asked ChatGPT to help me fill out the list a bit: Tools that were going to kill the Internet (1985–2022) Anyway, back to Andy’s article: A tool called AutoSploit sews together existing hacking tools…
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Jenny Tightpants: “just cut the undersea cables connecting the UK to the rest of the internet at this point why even bother having online at all under laws like this”
Read on for the fair and balanced “evil chud” conclusion to a matter which enervated civil society a few weeks ago: mullvad is a good VPN and takes payment in cash for anyone in the UK who needs to hear this. yes i know one of their CEOs is an evil chud. whatever company you…
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Owen Boswarva: “I am interested to see whether the UK Government manages to finalise this list of banned sites without taking another run at Wikipedia”
We should all be looking at the regulation of user-to-user communication, and whether the UK Government has the necessary combination of hubris and stupidity to attempt to apply regulation to Wikipedia. This reaction from Preston Byrne nails the issue:
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Bobble Bardsley: “I’m getting very close to being willing to vote for any party who promises to stop banning vast swathes of the internet…”
The UK Government is systematically mismanaging the conditions necessary for the survival of democracy. It’s giving the vote to everyone aged 16+ whilst removing younger ones from social media that might offer wider political perspective, nannying them condescendingly whilst practically encouraging circumvention of the rule of (badly drafted) law, and Orwellian dystopia. What wins? Right…
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Zack Whittaker: “Reddit resisted giving users’ personal data to the U.S. government over critical ICE posts”
I’m pleased — at risk of jinxing it — that we are seeing gradual dissipation of the techlash perspective that “big tech” companies are inherently evil rather than capitalist & complicated; this will take a decade or so, but until then: Reddit disclosed this week that it resisted handing over personally identifiable information to U.S.…
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Graham Smith: “Can the Online Safety Act be fixed?”
https://www.cyberleagle.com/2026/11/can-online-safety-act-be-fixed.html The current clamour for amendments begs the question whether legislation built … on defectively designed foundations can ever be fixed by drawing up a snagging list. If not, we may be destined to go through this exercise over and again: a regulatory boom and bust cycle veering between flexibility and prescription, delegation and legislative…
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Why “Lines of Code Created” should never be a work (or any other kind of success) metric
https://www.folklore.org/Negative_2000_Lines_Of_Code.html In early 1982, the [Apple] Lisa software team was trying to buckle down for the big push to ship the software within the next six months. Some of the managers decided that it would be a good idea to track the progress of each individual engineer in terms of the amount of code that…
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IN CASE YOU MISSED IT: when your government attempts to anoint a preferred software solution to “protect children from harm”, this kind of omnishambles is likely to result
This is worth your time to read; by Paul Moore: HarmBlock+ World’s Safest Smartphone: Please Rotate Responsibly https://paul.reviews/harmblock-worlds-safest-smartphone-please-rotate-responsibly/
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SFLC (the “Indian EFF”) facing police action & gagging orders for tracking Indian censorship & suppression of speech
An Indian right-wing volunteer paramilitary organisation is claiming that tracking free speech violations and suppression is tantamount to encouraging circumvention. I can’t imagine whom they think that will advantage. more/details: https://sflc.in/sflc-in-statement-condemning-takedown-directions-affecting-digital-rights-organisations-in-india/
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Rachel Cunliffe: “It doesn’t matter if this law had good intentions […it] bans a whole lot of stuff that the people who brought it in just don’t want to talk about. This is their law. This is their JOB.”
If your law is so badly written it bans harmless acts by mistake, that’s a problem with YOU as legislators, not with the people pointing that out Thread: No, the “porn law row” does not risk trivialising VAWG. The terrible wording of the porn law risks trivialising VAWG. If your law is so badly written…
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Guido Fawkes: “IN FULL: The Innocuous & Educational Websites Labour Is Set to Ban for Under-16s”
Snapchat, TikTok, YouTube, Instagram, Facebook, X, Threads, Twitch, Kick and Reddit.Pinterest, Tumblr, BeReal, Lemon8, Dailymotion, VimeoBluesky, Mastodon, Quora, Substack, Medium, LinkedInDiscord, Yubo, Telegram channelsRoblox, Fortnite (player-made maps), Minecraft Marketplace and servers, Steam community, Rec Room, VRChatYouTube Kids, Lego PlaySpotify, SoundCloudStrava, Letterboxd, Goodreads, Wattpad, Twitch-style streaming sitesVinted, eBay, DepopEtsy, Gumtree, ShpockXbox Live & PlayStation Network messaging…
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