Dropsafe

by Alec Muffett

Category: uncategorised

Tony Blair: “British people will all have their own unique digital identifier, and will make most transactions through their phone, as citizens with government and as customers with firms”

2025/09/28
The Liberal Democrats finally come out hard against something: Digital ID Cards. Let’s hope that they generalise this to all ID Cards…

2025/09/28
Tip for Civil Society: Never Negotiate. Always make them do the bad thing. Don’t help them do it, but make their choice either: do something really bad, or nothing at all

2025/09/27
“You’re taking me to Harrogate in the middle of the night for a tweet. Is this what you signed up to the police to do?”

2025/09/26
Thought for the evening: if someone is banned from Google and/or Apple by breaking their EULA or similar, they will be unable to work in the United Kingdom, @Kier_Starmer?

2025/09/26
Question: how will this supposed UK Digital ID work for people who use rooted phones and open source operating systems with alternative app stores, as demanded in the EU Digital Services Act?

2025/09/26
“Public backs ‘super ID card’ which could be used to report potholes, Tony Blair’s think tank says” | The Independent | WHAT IN THE NAME OF GOD??!?

2025/09/26
“What’s the UK issue with ID cards?” | …the answer is as follows: Many Britons are terrible people, and we know it…

2025/09/26
Farage “firmly opposed to @Keir_Starmer’s digital ID cards” | …I hate it when I agree with him:

2025/09/26
UK agency makes arrest in airport cybercrime probe | The Register | IT WAS A 40-SOMETHING YEAR OLD GUY IN A BASEMENT IN WEST SUSSEX

2025/09/24
Bluesky users discover that even “federated” & “distributed” platforms exhibit “lock-in” due to “network effects”; and “cognitive dissonance” ensues…

2025/09/24
How Signal’s Meredith Whittaker Remembers SignalGate: ‘No Fucking Way’ | WIRED

2025/09/24