Dropsafe

by Alec Muffett

Category: uncategorised

UK quietly scrubs encryption advice from government websites | TechCrunch | it’s nice to get coverage…

2025/03/06
Why Techdirt Is Now A Democracy Blog (Whether We Like It Or Not) | Techdirt | …if you are not reading Mike Masnick, you are spectating rather than understanding

2025/03/06
CGNAT frustrates all IP address-based technologies | Cybersecurity | SIDN

2025/03/05
If Age Verification is to be done at all, it should be like this: a bearer-token signed by the App Store, Browser Provider or Device, and trusted by the Age-Consumer e.g. Age-Restricted Service Vendor

2025/03/05
NCSC, GCHQ, UK Gov’t expunge advice to “use Apple encryption” for Barristers, Solicitors (etc…) — co-incidental with Apple lawsuit against HMG’s demanding a backdoor in the same (HT @DavidDavisMP @PrivacyMatters @zsk)

2025/03/05
Breaking WhatsApp or Signal encryption: a dangerous political chimera | Le Monde, via Google Translate

2025/03/05
Apple takes legal action in UK data privacy row | BBC News

2025/03/04
Apple launches legal challenge to UK ‘back door’ order

2025/03/04
Apple details improvements to child accounts, App Store age-filtering | Six Colors

2025/03/04
IN CASE YOU MISSED IT: do banking transactions count as “user to user” communication services & social media under the UK & AU Online Safety Acts?

2025/03/03
Track your MP’s boozing | …God forbid that British MPs should be subject to surveillance

2025/03/03
UK watchdog probes TikTok (and Reddit, Imgur) over children’s data | POLITICO

2025/03/03