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Fixing: EXPKEYSIG 74A941BA219EC810 deb.torproject.org
Are you seeing this? W: An error occurred during the signature verification. The repository is not updated and the previous index files will be used. GPG error: https://deb.torproject.org/torproject.org bionic InRelease: The following signatures were invalid: EXPKEYSIG 74A941BA219EC810 deb.torproject.org archive signing key If so, do this: sudo apt-key adv \ –keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com \ –recv-key 74A941BA219EC810 …which
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Response to “Most People Don’t Need End-to-End Encryption, Most of the Time” #NothingToHide #NothingToFear #DrinkableWater #OnlineSafetyBill
> Flip that around, secure encryption is an edge case compared to the majority, like your examples, that just want to message family. Yes that’s correct! But it’s also a *general good* as infrastructure, because [end to end encryption] de-risks all communication from hacking/exfiltration. It’s a bit like “make all water served through the domestic
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How WhatsApp could shut down service to the UK using “Feature Flags”
Speaking as a former Facebook engineer, I would expect pushing some kind of “feature flag” (global configuration option) which prevented the service connecting for people with a “+44” phone number. Pretty simple. Geo blocking could be done similarly. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feature_toggle?wprov=sfla1 2/n) When you’re coding for at-scale platforms you quickly realise the utility of creating a tool
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How the #OnlineSafetyBill’s OFCOM surveillance measures can (will?) bring about public emasculation of the UK Government and a kind of #CyberBrexit effect (HT: @ciaranmartinoxf @allanofhallam @wongmjane @jamesrbuk)
Background So I have been reading two recent think-pieces: Security services are in the market for as much information as they can get and if the threat of a decryption order may encourage a hesitant company to offer other useful data in order to avoid this being carried out then they will see this as
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The Impending Crisis of Messenger Communications in the Westminster Bubble
So I keep tabs on Westminster discussion of internet technology via a selection of RSS feeds, and this gem directed my attention to this report from the ICO, dated from mid-2022, titled: Behind the screens – maintaining government transparency and data security in the age of messaging appsReport of the Information Commissioner to Parliament, July
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Some Friday Afternoon Laundry Political Predictions
I get a lot of time to think whilst cooking, cleaning, and doing vast amounts of laundry, and here’s a summary of where I believe a few political topics are, at the moment:
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A Land Acknowledgement for the Internet
For many years I have sought to push back against treatment of the internet as a “space” — simply: to do so is a category error because it is a domain of speech, unlike the more normal military/political operational domains such as air, sea, sky, land, and space. Thus: the “cyberspace” has always been a
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How the United States has just made it illegal for #WhatsApp to contain a Remote Code Execution (RCE) bug, via the Executive Order on Spyware
I have spent literally years attempting to explain to civil society and the public at large, that: …that attempting to regulate software by the “shape” of it (viz: what features it enables or provides) will always lead to ambiguity and almost certainly lead to illiberal or problematic legislation. Tip: never attempt to regulate the shape
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A Short Twitter-Thread on Scraping, Copyright, and Licensing, touching on Derivative Use, and LLMs / OpenAI / ChatGPT, etc…
…and (in case it’s not apparent) I propose that this argument can be extrapolated to the entire rest-of-the-net; if we don’t accept that LLMs may scrape data, then we need to popularise the throwing-up of paywalls and identity being required for all web-fetches. Because “trust” ain’t gonna cut it. Thread The number of devs from
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Possibly the most biting article on the whole of Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%22No_Way_to_Prevent_This%22,_Says_Only_Nation_Where_This_Regularly_Happens
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Alex Stamos (@alexstamos) op-ed at @CNN: “When it comes to TikTok, the US is blind” — waging proxy war on China via TikTok will make the USA & “The West” more *like* China
Personally, I am outright terrified of how people will interpret Alex saying: It turns out that there is no US law clearly governing the access that Beijing or Moscow-based employees of any tech or social media company have to the personal data of US citizens that use their services. …because damn we don’t need NOFORN
