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Zuckerman v. Meta Platforms | Knight First Amendment Institute | …a misconceived, anti-1A conceit posing in the name of the 1st Amendment
“Hello, my name is Ethan and I would like the US Government to compel platforms to write/maintain code providing an immutable, unchanging API that my friends can use to inefficiently and in a failure prone manner, run half-assed badly written tools to fuck up their friendships and group subscriptions while choking the performance of backend
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Tens of millions secretly use WhatsApp despite bans | BBC News
This resonates with my experience of people using Facebook from inside repressive and censorial regimes when I was working there 2013-16 Meta is wisely reticent about such activity in order to not disconnect those users, and “the greater good is served by lawful surveillance to protect children”-types are talking out of their hat. > “We
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These are the life skills which we need to teach people
Via Vess: https://infosec.exchange/@bontchev/112364787685708164
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Amazon AWS to walk back recently launched “Bankruptcy as a Service” (BaaS) feature
A common failure mode in the past 40 years of communication is for automated billing to be triggered by an unauthenticated request to a service; I saw examples in the 1980s on PSS. That Amazon would make the mistake nowadays of billing people for failed and unauthenticated delete requests, does seem sloppy. Thus this is
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The Corn Laws go digital | Cyberleagle
If you believe that digital signatures require a network of federated trusted third parties, clap your hands: https://www.cyberleagle.com/2024/04/the-corn-laws-go-digital.html
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“How to monetize a Cryptographic method?” / “How to advance in your Infosec career?”
Pretty much the same advice applies to both; the cryptography & infosec industries are riven with people who did [something cool] once and who want to milk it forever, and … exceptions exist, but generally you will advance further because of what you do rather than for what you have done. Don’t sit on your
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No One Should Have That Much Power | Mark Nottingham
> One of the assumptions built into these calls is that if the tech community would just nerd harder, a solution could be somehow magically found that preserved privacy and security while letting the ‘good guys’ have access. With all respect to the valuable work that law enforcement does to protect society, it’s equally as
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Bill Gates, Man United and 20 other sites that ban linking to them | Malcolm Coles
This is a hilarious step back into the Neanderthal days when people believed that they could tell others on the open web that it was not permitted to hyperlink to them. (excusing newspapers, which are obviously are a very special case that distinguishes them from normal websites) https://malcolmcoles.com/no-linking/
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Interview with Senior Rust Developer in 2023
How did I only now discover this? HT: dancol
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The Tao of Programming
This is a classic. I have a print edition. Many software development truths (and myths) from the 1960s and 70s are still alive today, if slightly mutated and less obvious to those for whom it is “just a job”. https://www.mit.edu/~xela/tao.html
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Aaron Sorkin to write film about how people are scum who should not be permitted to communicate with each other without oversight | The Guardian
> When asked whose responsibility that was, he replied: “Mark Zuckerberg.” …so Donald Trump is off the hook, then? https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2024/apr/26/aaron-sorkin-january-6-film
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“WhatsApp Must Act to Protect Elections” | Mozilla want to make WhatsApp painful to use during elections, because people are scum
Yeah. Nah. This is a foolhardy, misconceived idea which will be trivially circumvented by motivated political actors (never underestimate a village hall filled with activists) whilst also undermining WhatsApp and other platforms’ positions on CSAM versus message privacy. Here’s a test: “First, Do Signal.” Our Letter To WhatsApp: WhatsApp needs to implement these product changes