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I’m a security person. If you’re faced with the tradeoff between security and another priority, your answer is clear: check your priorities and your risk appetite per your ISMS
Nadella’s Microsoft approach is leaning the right ways and is great copy for media, but it’s bland and meaningless when stripped from the context of a proper information security management system. What he means is that stuff ought to be secure by default and it’s time for Microsoft to let go of previously higher goals…
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“Fake news” legislation risks doing more harm than good amid a record number of elections in 2024 | Nieman Journalism Lab
From April 10th > “Fake news” legislation that governments around the world have written in recent years to combat mis- and disinformation does little to protect journalistic freedom. Rather, it can create a greater risk of harm. https://www.niemanlab.org/2024/04/fake-news-legislation-risks-doing-more-harm-than-good-amid-a-record-number-of-elections-in-2024/
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What Happens When a Romance Writer Gets Locked Out of Google Docs | WIRED
When content moderation and online safety gets the wrong end of the stick; this is a massive problem which we are only going to see more of but which will remain underreported due to embarrassment and lack of traction in popular media https://www.wired.com/story/what-happens-when-a-romance-author-gets-locked-out-of-google-docs/
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Hours After Aussie Gov’t Greenlights Online Age Verification Pilot, Breach Of Mandated Verification Database For Bars Is Revealed | Techdirt
:facepalm: https://www.techdirt.com/2024/05/03/hours-after-aussie-govt-greenlights-online-age-verification-pilot-mandated-verification-database-for-bars-is-breached/
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Roman snail dye found in UK for the first time | BBC News
Tyrian Purple is one of those materials that I’ve read about in any number of books but never actually seen; this is amazing and helps contextualize how valuable it really must have been: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cjje132jvygo
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WhatsApp could leave India over encryption battle | Rest of World
Bravo. In a Delhi High Court proceeding last Thursday, WhatsApp said it would be forced to leave the country if the court required traceability, as doing so would mean breaking end-to-end encryption. https://restofworld.org/2024/exporter-whatsapp-encryption-india/
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EUROPE IS NOW THE WORLD’S GREATEST THREAT TO SECURE AND PRIVATE COMMUNICATION | Thread by @bpreneel1 on Thread Reader App
Read this. Just read it. https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1785972533386244106.html
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Zuckerman v. Meta Platforms | Knight First Amendment Institute | …a misconceived, anti-1A conceit posing in the name of the 1st Amendment
“Hello, my name is Ethan and I would like the US Government to compel platforms to write/maintain code providing an immutable, unchanging API that my friends can use to inefficiently and in a failure prone manner, run half-assed badly written tools to fuck up their friendships and group subscriptions while choking the performance of backend…
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Tens of millions secretly use WhatsApp despite bans | BBC News
This resonates with my experience of people using Facebook from inside repressive and censorial regimes when I was working there 2013-16 Meta is wisely reticent about such activity in order to not disconnect those users, and “the greater good is served by lawful surveillance to protect children”-types are talking out of their hat. > “We…
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These are the life skills which we need to teach people
Via Vess: https://infosec.exchange/@bontchev/112364787685708164
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Amazon AWS to walk back recently launched “Bankruptcy as a Service” (BaaS) feature
A common failure mode in the past 40 years of communication is for automated billing to be triggered by an unauthenticated request to a service; I saw examples in the 1980s on PSS. That Amazon would make the mistake nowadays of billing people for failed and unauthenticated delete requests, does seem sloppy. Thus this is…
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The Corn Laws go digital | Cyberleagle
If you believe that digital signatures require a network of federated trusted third parties, clap your hands: https://www.cyberleagle.com/2024/04/the-corn-laws-go-digital.html