Dropsafe

by Alec Muffett

Category: uncategorised

Tom is not really helping, but it’s funny

2021/02/13
In Myanmar, China is helping the illegitamite military government to install a great firewall like on the mainland. How can I get around this? # some disturbing comments in this thread

2021/02/12
Anybody who wants to know why there are such vitriolic and abusive threads on social media sometimes, simply needs to watch this video

2021/02/12
If governments and academics are “concerned” about big platforms, they will be terrified of small, individual, distributed ones which will come in their wake.

2021/02/10
Data in transit is data at rest, rules UK Court of Appeal – I can kinda see their point, but also this highlights the challenges (unintended consequences?) of artificial distinctions in data protection legislation #SnoopersCharter

2021/02/10
NEW #DARKWEB THREAT: shipping LSD via fax-machine. For real, it said so on this website. Alert GCHQ to track down “fax” users.

2021/02/09
WANTED: public review of the v2.0 draft of “A Year of DNS over HTTPS over Tor” ; includes absolute and comparative performance measurements, Will be submitted for publication in ~ 1 week.

2021/02/08
One aspect of post-#Brexit Britain that had eluded me is that we’d see Nigel Farage hawking financial advice on YouTube against a bad greenscreen of London and from the safety of his local gastropub

2021/02/07
Wow: the request latency for DNS over HTTPS over Tor does not appear to be as bad as you would expect. In fact, far from it. #DoHoT

2021/02/06
A Resolution To The Bucatini Shortage in America # interesting: if you produce food in the USA and fail to adulterate it with enough vitamins, you end up trashing it as economically unsaleable

2021/02/06
Definition: #GDPWAAAH – data-privacy form of #CurtainTwitching or #GodwinsLaw, where #GDPR (or similar) is invoked mid-argument in an “Appeal to Force” in an attempt to chill or quell discussion

2021/02/05
Those who do not embrace @torproject are forced to reinvent it. Badly?

2021/02/05