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Jeremy Hunt bets on creating a $1tn ‘British Microsoft’ | …oh, bless…
Because of course the way you get a £1tn tech industry is to mess with stock market rules whilst fearmongering & regulating tech out of existence. Also: “a decade”? “What’s my yardstick of success? I’d like to see a British Alphabet, I’d like to see a British Microsoft” Hunt told the Financial Times. … “It might…
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Elon Musk Weighs in on the Encryption Wars Between Telegram and Signal | Headline misses: “Telegram is not even encrypted by default”
And now I’m literally wondering if Elon sees Telegram as the exit strategy for X https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-encrypted-messenger-app-wars-telegram-signal-2024-5
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“Telegram has launched a pretty intense campaign to malign Signal as insecure, with assistance from Elon Musk” | @matthew_d_green
> Pavel Durov, the CEO of Telegram, has recently been making a big conspiracy push to promote Telegram as more secure than Signal. This is like promoting ketchup as better for your car than synthetic motor oil. Telegram isn’t a secure messenger, full stop. That’s a choice Durov made. https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1789687898863792453.html
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Gosh, it’s almost like what we should have been doing all along is teaching people to have critical faculties and opinions
Silkie Carlo on Twitter: > Today’s leader in the Times (!): The “sinister irony of the disinformation industry” is that in posing as “neutral arbiters of accuracy” it “risks creating a new form of misinformation”.
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Dell API abused to steal 49 million customer records in data breach | …an example of poor security through lack of both rate limiting & behavioural modelling
Once they gained access to the portal, Menelik told BleepingComputer they had created a program that generated 7-digit service tags and submitted them to the portal page starting in March to scrape the returned information. As the portal reportedly did not include any rate limiting, the threat actor claims they could harvest the information of…
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Undersea cables and the vulnerability of American power | Engelsberg Ideas
Interesting essay, especially for anybody who has previously read The Victorian Internet https://engelsbergideas.com/essays/undersea-cables-and-the-vulnerability-of-american-power/
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BBC Radio 4 “Last Word” | Obituary for Ross Anderson
Starts at about 07:50 https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m001yxqh?partner=uk.co.bbc&origin=share-mobile
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Congressional Committee Threatens To Investigate Any Company Helping TikTok Defend Its Rights | Techdirt
> “Do you now, or have you ever, worked with TikTok to help defend its rights?” That McCarthyism-esque question is apparently being asked by members of Congress to organizations that have been working with TikTok to defend its Constitutional rights. https://www.techdirt.com/2024/05/10/congressional-committee-threatens-to-investigate-any-company-helping-tiktok-defend-its-rights/
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TheyWorkForYou is 20 years old and is starting a new project!
TWFY is a stalwart of British online democracy, a tool for tracking MPs and their voting interests and enabling their constituents to contact them directly. Their new project: WhoFundsThem — is self-explanatory in its importance. https://www.linkedin.com/posts/mysociety_support-whofundsthem-activity-7194275068888186880-cfd7
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UK: “Benefit fraud squad snoops on pupil data under secret deal” | …school records being cross-checked against benefits to detect fraud
The data protection act generally requires personal information to be gathered and used for specific purpose. School records are not gathered to pursue benefit investigations: > The DfE said the data-sharing agreement was “designed to provide confidence that the right and fair amount of benefit is being paid to the right claimant and any children…
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US Government forces NetChoice tech lobby group to eject TikTok
So now we have a House Un-American Internet Activities Committee?