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Paul Walsh: “Journalists…are going to get bitten in the ass when…their whistleblowers & confidential sources will be forced to verify their real identities before they can communicate privately”
quote: Journalists who interview other journalists about technology related legislation that threatens everyone’s right to digital privacy are going to get bitten in the ass when they realise that they, their whistleblowers and confidential sources will be forced to verify their real identities before they can communicate privately. The British government is trying to outlaw…
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“Privacy is Bad” – @lisanandy; you’d think someone who cares so much about VAWG would not want to stop vulnerable people freely accessing secure communication
Paraphrasing only slightly; you’d think someone who cares so much about VAWG would not want to stop vulnerable people freely accessing secure communication. If an abuser seizes your passport & driving licence, they can effectively gag you.
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DeepMind: “Formal Verification of Signal’s Protocol with Gemini” — illicit surveillance backdoors are becoming increasingly untenable
“How Google DeepMind researchers built a new agentic framework that formally verified the code of Signal’s cryptographic protocol — long considered to be a grand security challenge” https://deepmind.google/blog/introducing-alphaproof-code/ No wonder Governments are pushing hard to get people to welcome overt surveillance.
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Terror tsar: China’s AI bot is rewriting history
“Writing for The Telegraph, he said: “If national security is concerned with protecting our Western democracy with its spirit of open enquiry and commitment to evidence and debate, then Qwen’s self-censorship and attack on the historical record and promotion of Chinese propaganda is a genuine threat.”” https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2026/11/08/terror-tsar-chinas-ai-bot-threatens-britain/ Archived at: https://archive.ph/kr0ux
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Clade of “Human Emacs” developers want Free/OpenSource software to be small-batch, handmade, organic, untouched by LLMs
To me it’s rather ironic that the people having this argument are largely working in the archetypal AI research language of the 1960s, 70s, and 80s: indeed, i have decided that llms are, at every level, an affront to justice, from who makes and profits and pushes them, to how they are trained, to the…
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30 years since “Smashing The Stack For Fun & Profit” – buffer overflows were the “AI AGENTS WILL DOOM US ALL” threat of the mid-90s
Mass panic and fearmongering are nothing new in information security:
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Government Plans to force #AgeVerification on EBay & Vinted are not due to “Grooming”, but instead…
There’s much speculation re: the plans, and some quite sane commentary (e.g. below) but since Vinted and EBay both have strongly enforced 18+ age requirements, the risk of “grooming” is negligible. I propose that instead there are five forces at work, in approximate order of : Some folk are saying “isn’t it strange that they…
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Le Grand Jackpotting: Activists demonstrate use of new French “Gigabyte Tax” to add €1000s to individual French website costs
Mere hours after a French Socialist Party amendment instituted per-gigabyte taxes upon “platforms” for sending data to French users, French activists are demonstrating their ability to rack-up €10,000 daily costs in “taxes” to be paid by arbitrary French websites — including political parties [All English translations via Google Translate or Twitter, by source] Friday: The…
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The Memory Hierarchy, Measured in Human Time: From a 1997 Sun [Microsystems] book to an NVIDIA H100: the same memory hierarchy, thirty years apart
The text smells slightly of AI subediting, but the learnings and the references make this a worthwhile read: https://morillocarlos.substack.com/p/the-memory-hierarchy-measured-in
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REMINDER: If you use Signal on Android and if you really care about privacy, here are 3 default app settings that you should fix *TODAY*
The world is changing, and assumptions we made a decade ago regarding the tradeoffs between usability and privacy are changing with them. Signal has been with us for years, and is gradually adapting but it still has a strong need to not alienate new users, whereas people who have been using it for most/all of…
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BREAKING: TIME MAGAZINE: “THE DEVIL IN THE NETWORK”
Computer experts were worried that it would get into the hands of computer intruders, who would use it as a burglar’s tool kit to break the Internet wide open. The program is so point-and-click simple that it can turn second-rate hackers into efficient computer crackers. Source: THE DEVIL IN THE NETWORKJosh QuittnerApr 17, 1995 5:00…
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IF YOU DO NOTHING ELSE TODAY: please read this astonishing summary of what Paul Moore has been doing to #SafeToNet, #HarmBlock & the Government-lauded #HMDFuse kids’ phone
Every online generation has at least one overhyped, disastrously implemented “great white saviour” safety app that turns out to be atrocious. Now comes: HarmBlock+ World’s Safest Smartphone: Please Rotate Responsibly https://paul.reviews/harmblock-worlds-safest-smartphone-please-rotate-responsibly/