Dropsafe

by Alec Muffett

Category: uncategorised

The Telegraph’s sob story about a family having to cut down on their five holidays to pay school fees turned out to be fake

2025/06/18
If you want to understand the life cycle of software, this history of jemalloc is not a bad start

2025/06/16
Muffett’s 7th Law: you aren’t allowed to complain about Palantir if you’ve used the Internet Archive or said “…the Internet never forgets”

2025/06/15
DNS4EU is surveilled

2025/06/13
Former UK internet minister bemoans that illiberal & poorly conceived approach to online safety and security is not being “built upon”

2025/06/13
How to Protest Safely in the Age of Surveillance | WIRED

2025/06/12
Poundland sold for £1 with shops set to close | BBC News

2025/06/12
I’m watching all of these broadly self-congratulatory RCS announcements in the light of the Apple TCN Case, desperately waiting for the zeitgeist to swing over to “…what do you mean my national carrier can disable E2EE for *me* ?”

2025/06/12
WhatsApp joins legal action against UK demand for Apple ‘back door’

2025/06/11
Government using national security as ‘smokescreen’ in Apple encryption row | Computer Weekly

2025/06/11
WhatsApp backs Apple in its legal row with the UK over user data | BBC News

2025/06/11
QUESTION: the Drone War in Ukraine suggests that fibre-optic tech is now dirt cheap; so where can I get some to run a 50m link around my garden?

2025/06/07