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I wish that I could be as optimistic as @ciaranmartinoxf regarding the eventual wisdom of the British state regarding end-to-end encryption, but I cannot…
There will have to be at least 2x changes of Government before what Ciaran is asking for below, can happen; the first will be an ouster of the Tories which is necessary because they are fuelling the Home Office mindset (NB: not the other way around) that “The Tech Companies Must Be Brought To Heel”
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Halley’s Comet reaches Perihelion, is on its way back | props to @JohnSimpsonNews
I saw the comet in 1986 – my first year of studying Astronomy at UCL – and although it wasn’t an a visual feast, it was amazing to be even passively observing something so rare and with such a tail and tale of historical importance. It would be nice to see it again, but I,
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IN CASE YOU MISSED IT | Report: 2.6B records compromised by data breaches, underscoring need for E2EE | Apple (yes, *that* one) posts report/PDF underscoring existential need for end-to-end encryption in future of Cloud data
https://www.apple.com/uk/newsroom/2023/12/report-2-point-6-billion-records-compromised-by-data-breaches-in-past-two-years/ https://www.apple.com/newsroom/pdfs/The-Continued-Threat-to-Personal-Data-Key-Factors-Behind-the-2023-Increase.pdf [PDF]
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Why Is Paul Ehrlich So Hard to Ignore? – Human Progress | there are lessons here for the #infosec & #ai communities; beware doom-mongers
https://humanprogress.org/why-is-paul-ehrlich-so-hard-to-ignore/
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The standard domestic laundry model
Irrespective that I am 6’4″ and my clothes tend to be 2XL Rarely a day passes without me doing a load of laundry, possibly up to 5.
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Are you an “encryption extremist?” If you’re not, perhaps you should be?
One of the people who is most opposed to giving better data privacy and security to 1.3 billion people, is a noted child safety advocate in Australia. He writes breathlessly of the Twitter Community Note that has become attached to the UK National Crime Authority tweet of yesterday; apparently it’s extremist to point out the
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If you’ve been sent this blogpost it’s to ask you: do you NOT want 1.3 billion human beings to have better data security and better privacy?
Your choice of answers are pretty straightforward: So here’s 1 million people. It’s a chickpea on a plate, just the one. Perhaps that’s the million people who you feel are at most risk from other people getting better privacy and data security. Perhaps you envision a few million of them, globally? Now here’s the approximate
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End-to-End Encrypted Instagram and Messenger Chats: Why It Took Meta 7 Years | WIRED | nice piece
https://www.wired.com/story/meta-messenger-instagram-end-to-end-encryption/