Dropsafe

by Alec Muffett

Category: uncategorised

Apple says UK could ‘secretly veto’ global privacy tools | …The Home Office said … that it also had to keep the country safe [from people being TOO secure]

2024/01/31
The Investigatory Powers (Amendment) Bill: further changes are still needed to ensure user trust and safety, and to mitigate potential conflicts of law

2024/01/31
Wire a computer to a radio & a satellite dish, download free weather maps & imagery from space…

2024/01/31
Internet Standards Almanac | …pretty and interesting/ish, but I find it clumsy to explore & lacking in opinionation

2024/01/31
Bugs in our pockets: the risks of client-side scanning

2024/01/31
(2018) “Government regulation is not something to fear. Regulation doesn’t stifle innovation.” | …just a little reminder that sometimes even the great and the good will get it wrong

2024/01/31
Meta tool to block nude images in teens’ private messages | …note, since this does not report outwards this is not client-side scanning, no more than a spellchecker would be

2024/01/31
You learn some weird stuff on Instagram… and this is exceptional

2024/01/30
British man acquitted over London-Spain flight bomb hoax | …SnapChat leaking messages to security services & supporting KOSA? Not a good combo for user privacy | HT @rebeccamkern

2024/01/30
UK tabloid media seems hellbent upon resurrecting the myth of “red rooms” (i.e. “dark web snuff movies”) even though there is no such phenomenon

2024/01/29
The Rust community are lovely but they definitely are worthy of the snark…

2024/01/29
“Overly powerful, rent-seeking gatekeepers seem like a problem” HT @sdw@mastodon.social / @sdw

2024/01/29