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My sense is that Lina Khan was a “late-techlash” hire who appealed both to Regulators and Techlash Activists in her desire to GetBigTech™ rather than to determine what might need doing, and do it
The amazing thing is watching how all the HopesAndDreams™ of the SuperPrivacyActivist are starting to run into reality – that if all you want to do is GetBigTech™ then there is no “there” there. You have to demonstrate actual harms, not feelings and perceptions of the same, and all the market monopolies and lockins are…
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I am exceptionally glad that we don’t have to find out what Braverman’s “Plan B” was
If we lose in the Supreme Court, an outcome that I have consistently argued we must be prepared for, you will have wasted a year and an Act of Parliament, only to arrive back at square one. Worse than this, your magical thinking – believing that you can will your way through this without upsetting…
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Where Americans live in England | …and Wales, and I am wondering why there are increased Americans in Ceredigion? Is there a surveillance base there?
By comparison, Menwith Hill is the reason for Yorkshire lighting up: https://www.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/s/psgvQbe8Hv
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Diary for the last 3 days
Not to get into too much detail, but a bunch of long trips back-to-back to see family and to address some administrative obligations. Lots of driving which was mostly not done by me because the long-term lung infection is attempting to re-establish itself, meaning a lot of coughing of green gunk and a general need…
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When RFC 7686 and transparent proxies collide | time for old magic and for /etc/nsswitch.conf to save the day?
The Tor Developer maillist is in the midst of discovering the consequences of LibCurl and/or its dependent DNS resolver libraries following RFC 7686 and starting to actively ban lookups for .onion network addresses in software namespaces that are meant for resolving DNS. Regrettably it appears that for several years various anonymity tools have (ill-advisedly, riskily,…
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Bluetooth could help police spot e-bikes hacked for higher speeds | Senior German cycle-industry wonk calls for Bluetooth-based tracking of E-bikes
So there’s apparently debate in Germany that e-bikes are being “tuned” by some miscreant law-breakers to exceed speed & power constraints built into them by manufacturers and German law. This happens, and can have bad consequences for the bike let alone the rider, but in the sledgehammer-meets-nut way of political regulation: Ernst Brust […] has…
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#DavidCameron, a man who can be honestly said to have misunderestimated his own party’s hatred of the world, is now foreign secretary
I hope he has learned. On the other hand: I also cannot imagine anyone who will more fulsomely enrage the Brexiteer fringe.
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Meta and YouTube face criminal surveillance complaints | MAN WALKING AROUND IN PUBLIC SHOUTING INCREASINGLY LOUDLY THAT HE ‘JUST WANTS TO BE LEFT ALONE, DAMNIT!’
Maybe Alexander is right… but then there is the question of by what right he can tell a destination website that they must not deploy (e.g.) Meta or Google tracking pixels. Or that – passim his not being able to achieve that – how the likes of Google or Meta could ever explicitly honour not…
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Miele Dishwasher Hack
If you have a Miele dishwasher – we have an AutoDos model – there are a variety of programs including Quick Power Wash which gives you a 1h program running at 65C. Just to see what happens I pushed the Express option for Quick Power Wash, and the timer dropped to 13 minutes. It appears…
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“Through NATO, we can build a secure cyberspace for all” | no, no, sorry Jens, no we can’t.
“Building a secure cyberspace” is isomorphic to “build a world where all homes are { burglar, fire, flood, storm, earthquake }-proof, where people are all polite & law-abiding.” And: just like 1950s fantasy-idealism, it would be dystopic. “Cyber” is speech of the people, not a state-managed fantasy domain.