Dropsafe

by Alec Muffett

Tag: online safety

Instagram wrongly says some users breached child sex abuse rules | BBC News

2025/07/09
New anti-fraud system is labelling hospital texts and other legitimate messages as ‘likely scam’ | Irish Independent

2025/07/08
Unverified report: 14yo loses access, banned from Google/YouTube because Google Photos includes video of self as baby in bathtub

2025/07/08
Julian Sanchez: “If your law is good when there are good people in office, but dangerous when there are bad people in office, your law is bad”

2025/06/24
Let’s all take a moment to consider that if — as demanded by Ofcom — encrypted messenger systems WERE actually monitoring conversations for words like: drone, bomb, explosive… all reports would currently be swamped

2025/06/02
I don’t have official confirmation, but I’m unilaterally declaring dibs on inspiration for this WhatsApp advertising campaign…

2025/06/01
BBC demonstrates smuggled North Korean phone and how it implements both censorship and accountability in the user interface…

2025/05/31
This video is an absolute perfect masterclass in open source intelligence gathering. Or cyber stalking. Both. Whatever. MUSTWATCH

2025/05/12
Wikipedia challenging UK law it says exposes it to ‘manipulation and vandalism’ | Wikipedia | The Guardian

2025/05/09
US Gov’t Signal-clone with backdoor for message retention, hacked, messages leaked | …I really hope #Ofcom are watching re: the impact of proposed client side scanning

2025/05/05
Baby food pouches low in key nutrients, lab testing finds | BBC News | …READ THIS ARTICLE if you are interested in AI or Cybersecurity, because …

2025/04/29
Raphael Satter makes a fair point in this Bluesky thread: where is the {tech, cyber, safety} industry support for Chris Krebs?

2025/04/11