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Tor Project unveils plans to route device traffic through Tor anonymity network with new VPN-like service | The Daily Swig
VPN+ tech detailed during annual ‘State of the Onion’ update Source: Tor Project unveils plans to route device traffic through Tor anonymity network with new VPN-like service | The Daily Swig
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In case you missed it and are looking for something else to be angry about, today: #Mitto #Surveillance
The co-founder of a company trusted by Google and Twitter to text security codes to millions of users also ran a service that helped governments secretly surveil and track mobile phones, according to former employees and clients. https://www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2021-12-06/swiss-tech-company-boss-accused-of-selling-mobile-network-access-for-spying See Also
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Unrolled thread re: “Meta’s Biggest Encrypted Messaging Mistake Was Its Promise” opinion-piece in @Wired by @elegant_wallaby
So, David wrote this, and I find it a really curious mixture: painting a picture of hard technological problems as-if it was somehow reckless to even attempt to solve them, and doom-mongering of the approach — woe betide Facebook for attempting to architect a solution which leans this way, rather than that way. So I wrote
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Re: Bug Bounty Programs, Small Startups, and Unicorns
A friend posted a question along the lines of: My startup is getting off the ground, we are starting to get funding, but setting up a bug-bounty program is not something we are big enough or resourced enough to pursue at the moment. What’s the best way to recognise the people who bring us issues
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A couple of weeks ago Meta/Facebook made the mistake of letting the UK Daily @Telegraph publish — and therefore editorialise & distort — their plans for end-to-end encryption. Today they’ve provided a bit more information, more wisely…
From the perspective of “getting more end-to-end encrypted security into the hands of the greatest number of people”, November 20th was a train-wreck for Meta’s corporate communications. What happened? The anti-encryption brigade seized upon a revised timeline described in a op-ed by Antigone Davis, re-presenting it simultaneously as backsliding whilst also crowing it as evidence
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One More Time: Facebook Isn’t a State Actor-Atkinson v. Facebook – Technology & Marketing Law Blog
This ruling provides a good preview of how the Ninth Circuit will handle Trump’s lawsuits against Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube. Those cases have no chance of success in the Ninth Circuit. The only question is whether Trump can get the Supreme Court to grant certiorari. If he can, all bets will be off. Source: One
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Unrolled: @jsrailton: @Apple just filed a major lawsuit against NSO Group
Apple also notifying some recent targets. Massive blow to the company notorious for selling spyware to dictators. And there's more… Explainer THREAD. 1/ https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2021/11/apple-sues-nso-group-to-curb-the-abuse-of-state-sponsored-spyware/ 2/ Apple's lawsuit, filed moments ago in Northern California hits NSO hard. – Seeks to hold NSO & parent accountable for abuses – ALSO Requests permanent injunction banning NSO from using
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This will all come out in the “Christmas Lecture” but I’m pretty sure that Information Security suffered a massive missed opportunity with Bell & La Padua in 1976, that has kinda tainted everything ever since
SUBJECT-OPERATION-OBJECT — yes you can model everything as that, but also you miss out on so very much more by adopting that as your model. [Previously]
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The fact that it took a month…to put together the effort to release the papers is a damning statement on how many members of the consortium see their role…to be a gatekeeper to information, rather than providing the public access to information /@techdirt
Me, I’m looking forward to seeing if they redact my stuff :popcorn: https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20211122/16550747990/lots-big-media-companies-had-access-to-facebook-files-only-gizmodo-decided-to-put-work-to-make-them-public.shtml