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by Alec Muffett
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A Primer for End-to-End Encryption
A “Duck Test” for End-to-End Secure Messaging
Why Privacy will always be more impactful than Safety
Muffett on Passwords
Pre-Flight Travel Checklist
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fake news
Remember, kids, social media is full of falsehoods but *real* journalism from respectable outlets can be trusted. Elsewhere: former NYC mayor Bill de Blasio was wholesale misrepresented in the Times
2025/10/29
The Telegraph’s sob story about a family having to cut down on their five holidays to pay school fees turned out to be fake
2025/06/18
Re: “Findings Report: Governance on Fediverse Microblogging Servers”
2024/08/21
With @realDonaldTrump reposting fake images of @taylorSwift13 endorsement we should see restructuring of the AI debate: “who cares if it’s AI, look at the impact”
2024/08/19
“Fake news” legislation risks doing more harm than good amid a record number of elections in 2024 | Nieman Journalism Lab
2024/05/05
Fact-Checker @PolitiFact derides KOSA age-verification concerns as “False” because “there are other ways [beyond demanding ID] to assess users’ ages, such as self-reporting & face scanning tools, some of which are already in use”
2024/02/25
BBC News: The real people pretending to be ‘Boris bots’ on Facebook # a fine primer on “coordinated inauthentic behaviour”
2021/01/31