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The Risks of Internet Regulation | How Well-Intentioned Efforts Could Jeopardize Free Speech | @davidakaye in Foreign Affairs
David lays out a pointed critique of the common and systemic problems with different nations’ approaches to purportedly improving online safety & security; he brings his own prejudices regarding the desired outcome but this nonetheless is good stuff: Although a focus on safety and trust is legitimate, it alone cannot succeed if it puts at…
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CA police dept anonymises suspect images using LEGO heads | LEGO requests cease & desist on IP grounds
The police department was supposedly doing this in order to comply with a new Californian privacy law. The images alone are worth a click. https://www.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/1bk790d/police_post_photos_of_criminal_suspects_with_lego/ https://www.forbes.com/sites/jamesfarrell/2024/03/23/california-police-department-stops-using-lego-heads-for-suspect-photos-after-viral-posts-heres-why/ https://www.foxnews.com/media/lego-instructs-california-police-department-stop-using-lego-heads-mask-identities-suspects
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GPS jamming & interference map | Flightradar24
Fun stuff. We are wondering what the two red spots are on the Germany-Poland border; it seems a bit far to be caused by Kaliningrad. Defensive jamming? https://www.flightradar24.com/data/gps-jamming
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Better Preparation of Bacon
Anyone who is sufficiently foodie knows that products like meat often are injected with water to bulk-out the mass which is sold over the counter. This is particularly common with products like supermarket bacon, and I used to complain about it a lot – not to mention the steam and white gunk that would boil…
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Meta Encryption Privacy Fight Begins in Nevada State Court | …waiting for the other shoe to drop from today’s proceedings
News coverage at: https://news.bloomberglaw.com/privacy-and-data-security/meta-encryption-privacy-fight-begins-in-nevada-state-court Twitter zeitgeist at: https://github.com/alecmuffett/ready-made-twitter-searches#nevada-attempting-to-ban-end-to-end-encryption-for-minors
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“The Inspector-General has found significant failings in the GCSB’s hosting of a foreign partner’s system”
There’s a PDF linked in this tweet from the NZ Inspector-General of Intelligence Services, vaguely detailing how (presumably: US, UK, AU or CDN) foreign spooks parked a spooky surveillance “capability” on NZ soil and ran it without telling anyone, nor (worse) keeping proper records. Both are typical* but the latter deserves calling out as it’s…
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Runa Sandvik (@runasand) on security improvements that you can make to your own benefit (but probably haven’t)
“Google’s Advanced Protection Program is great, it’s a shame the company rarely mentions it”; quote: I think too many articles about spyware lack guidance for high-risk communities. The same can be said about posts from Google’s Threat Analysis Group. Don’t get me wrong, the research is good, but the posts often stop short of recommending…
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This whole thread, but this Tweet in particular, by @KayJebelli
The goal of EU Regulation is not to help the users, it’s to make the Internet more fragmented, more regulable, more nationalistic, and more protectionist on behalf of nation-state industries: And then there’s this, cutting, observation: just because regulation creates an opportunity, that doesn’t make it a real market opportunity
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Migrating from Google Podcasts to AntennaPod on Android
Like all fun Google applications, Google Podcasts is being axed and its function in this case is being rolled-over to YouTube Music, which I fear will mean less usability in (e.g.) cars, and even more adverts than those already spliced into the content. I want to get away from the extra crap. Podcast players &…
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SIGINT Tours & the Cold War Network
Back in 1998 I proposed setting up a tour of the UK’s major communication surveillance resources: https://cryptome.org/jya/sigintours.htm This is a map of Cold War sites in the UK, which is not quite the same but it resonates: https://coldwarnetwork.co.uk/190-2/