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Cyber Waffle: “They Changed The Online Safety Act” ; this guy has done several decent videos, I wish he wasn’t doing the hoodie cyber anon-schtick, but the content is mostly sane…
A reasonable 8 minutes of time, allowing for advertising:
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Nixon: You may not have read about the time he told a dinner party at the White House, “I could leave this room, and in 25 minutes, 70 million people would be dead”
American Presidents, eh? Nuclear weapons: How Cold War major Harold Hering asked a forbidden question that cost him his career https://slate.com/human-interest/2011/02/nuclear-weapons-how-cold-war-major-harold-hering-asked-a-forbidden-question-that-cost-him-his-career.html
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Online Safety Act: A well-intentioned disaster? | Professional Security Magazine
As internet users become desensitised to handing over their confidential information to websites, we could see attackers spoofing age verification domains in a bid to steal confidential information, such as passport details or driving licences. These phishing attacks are especially dangerous because they appear entirely plausible in the context of the Act. https://professionalsecurity.co.uk/news/interviews/online-safety-act-a-well-intentioned-disaster/
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…of course when Imgur self-censors itself out of the UK, it takes with it all of the websites that use it as a kind of CDN for OC
Oh dear. I wonder what else is impacted? Reddit?
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An Indian court [ruled] that [X], as a foreign company, does not have a constitutional right to free speech under Indian law
Indians should perhaps get angry that Indian Users on X are thus impacted: India court rejects X’s ‘free speech’ argument, backs government takedown powers | TechCrunch https://techcrunch.com/2025/09/24/india-court-rejects-xs-free-speech-argument-backs-government-takedown-powers/
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Vitalik Buterin Warns EU Surveillance Plan Threatens Digital Privacy
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/vitalik-buterin-warns-eu-surveillance-174743693.html
censorship chat control client side scanning end to end encryption privacy surveilance Vitalik ButerinFediverse reactions
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Amnesty International: Digital ID will ‘put rights of people in UK at risk’ | The National
Labour has failed to read the room: Amnesty International said Starmer’s plans were a “dangerous overreaction” […] Age UK raised concerns that digital ID would disenfranchise older people and those who struggle with reading & writing […] Migrate UK, said that it was “interesting” the UK Government is pursuing the policy despite “overwhelming opposition to
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Tony Blair: “British people will all have their own unique digital identifier, and will make most transactions through their phone, as citizens with government and as customers with firms”
So, like WeChat & AliPay in China then? So the government can shut them off? We don’t need disruption, especially not at the moment, thanks, Tony. “Digital ID Is the Disruption the UK Desperately Needs” https://institute.global/insights/tech-and-digitalisation/tony-blair-digital-id-is-the-disruption-the-uk-desperately-needs
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The Liberal Democrats finally come out hard against something: Digital ID Cards. Let’s hope that they generalise this to all ID Cards…
No to Digital ID Cards | Liberal Democrats People shouldn’t be turned into criminals just because they can’t have a digital ID, or choose not to. https://www.libdems.org.uk/nodigitalid
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Tip for Civil Society: Never Negotiate. Always make them do the bad thing. Don’t help them do it, but make their choice either: do something really bad, or nothing at all
I started messing with Unix in my 2nd year at university in 1986, I got into cryptography in 1990, open source/free software in 1991, and then pretty much constant battles with regulators & authorities ever since. If I was to share one lesson it’d be: always call their bluff. Make them do the bad thing
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