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China hacked Ministry of Defence, Sky News learns | Politics News
Well, this should be fun, but it also sounds familiar from last few years in the USA: > The cyberattack was on a payroll system with current service personnel and some veterans. It is largely names and bank details that have been exposed. https://news.sky.com/story/china-hacked-ministry-of-defence-sky-news-learns-13130757
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Nigeria imposes 0.5% “Cybersecurity Levy” on electronic transfers, because of course that’s how you do information security
Western governments are missing a trick: > Following the enactment of the Cybercrime (Prohibition, Prevention, etc) (amendment) Act 2024 and under the provision of Section 44 (2)(a) of the Act, a levy of 0.5 per cent (0.005) equivalent to a half per cent of all electronic transactions value by the business specified in the Second
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Charting a Vision of Progress for European Tech Policy | by Kay Jebelli | Chamber of Progress | Apr, 2024 | Medium
> When it comes to tech policy, it seems that there are two increasingly diverging interpretations of today’s world. On the one hand, we are told that technology is challenging our economy, our democracy, our very humanity. We are told that large digital monopolies have stifled innovation and progress, that these platforms are incentivised to
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Polish Embassy Interviews 1st Person to Crack Enigma: Marian Rejewski | flyingpenguin
> They feature war hero Marian Rejewski, the 1st person to crack the Enigma code, describing major breakthroughs before and during WWII (which the British rarely, if ever, gave proper credit to Poland): https://www.flyingpenguin.com/?p=56989
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Complexity, the Law and noyb suing OpenAI
Carey’s entirely plausible analysis of the actual problem with AI and GDPR which is currently being trumpeted by Max Schrems’ project: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/complexity-law-noyb-suing-openai-carey-lening-cdpp-nxxoe
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I’m a security person. If you’re faced with the tradeoff between security and another priority, your answer is clear: check your priorities and your risk appetite per your ISMS
Nadella’s Microsoft approach is leaning the right ways and is great copy for media, but it’s bland and meaningless when stripped from the context of a proper information security management system. What he means is that stuff ought to be secure by default and it’s time for Microsoft to let go of previously higher goals
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“Fake news” legislation risks doing more harm than good amid a record number of elections in 2024 | Nieman Journalism Lab
From April 10th > “Fake news” legislation that governments around the world have written in recent years to combat mis- and disinformation does little to protect journalistic freedom. Rather, it can create a greater risk of harm. https://www.niemanlab.org/2024/04/fake-news-legislation-risks-doing-more-harm-than-good-amid-a-record-number-of-elections-in-2024/
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What Happens When a Romance Writer Gets Locked Out of Google Docs | WIRED
When content moderation and online safety gets the wrong end of the stick; this is a massive problem which we are only going to see more of but which will remain underreported due to embarrassment and lack of traction in popular media https://www.wired.com/story/what-happens-when-a-romance-author-gets-locked-out-of-google-docs/
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Hours After Aussie Gov’t Greenlights Online Age Verification Pilot, Breach Of Mandated Verification Database For Bars Is Revealed | Techdirt
:facepalm: https://www.techdirt.com/2024/05/03/hours-after-aussie-govt-greenlights-online-age-verification-pilot-mandated-verification-database-for-bars-is-breached/
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Roman snail dye found in UK for the first time | BBC News
Tyrian Purple is one of those materials that I’ve read about in any number of books but never actually seen; this is amazing and helps contextualize how valuable it really must have been: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cjje132jvygo
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WhatsApp could leave India over encryption battle | Rest of World
Bravo. In a Delhi High Court proceeding last Thursday, WhatsApp said it would be forced to leave the country if the court required traceability, as doing so would mean breaking end-to-end encryption. https://restofworld.org/2024/exporter-whatsapp-encryption-india/
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EUROPE IS NOW THE WORLD’S GREATEST THREAT TO SECURE AND PRIVATE COMMUNICATION | Thread by @bpreneel1 on Thread Reader App
Read this. Just read it. https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1785972533386244106.html