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Gender-based violence orgs: how much do you know about encryption?
At Chayn, we believe encryption is a feminist issue and a matter of gender justice. Most importantly, it’s vital to protecting survivors of gender based violence. From safeguarding private messages and access to medical information, to shielding activists from state surveillance, strong encryption isn’t just tech, it can be a lifeline. https://www.linkedin.com/posts/chayn_gbv-encryption-feminism-activity-7366061863610032128-J_It
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Horrific video shows racial abuse of Halifax healthcare worker in park | YorkshireLive
I cannot understand why anybody with a liberal disposition would be inclined to force ID Cards – digital or otherwise – onto the British population in order that racists can have more “LET’S SEE YOUR ID CARD THEN” ammunition. These people are obscene: https://www.examinerlive.co.uk/news/local-news/row-row-row-your-boat-32381503
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Australia to Enforce Mandatory Social Media Age Checks | Australian e-Safety Commissioner bans plotline of Bluey episode
Bluey is a phenomenon, especially if you are a parent. It’s the finest export from Australia since Kylie Minogue & Steve Irwin. Series 2 Episode 24 “Faceytalk” is all about young kids in an extended family sharing silly times together over social media. Admittedly it does end in one of the kids overexcitedly drowning a
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Huntress Endpoint Detection and Response “does an (alleged) Kaspersky” and chooses to dox a customer having unilaterally decided the customer is evil
…we determined that the host that had installed the Huntress agent was, in fact, malicious. We wanted to serve the broader community by sharing what we learned about the tradecraft that the threat actor was using in this incident. In deciding what information to publish about this investigation, we carefully considered several factors, like strictly
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Memory Integrity Enforcement: A complete vision for memory safety in Apple devices | Apple Security Research
Cute: Today we’re introducing the culmination of this effort: Memory Integrity Enforcement (MIE), our comprehensive memory safety defense for Apple platforms. Memory Integrity Enforcement is built on the robust foundation provided by our secure memory allocators, coupled with Enhanced Memory Tagging Extension (EMTE) https://security.apple.com/blog/memory-integrity-enforcement/
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Home Office to spend £1.3M on age-determining algorithm | The Register | I wonder what their acceptable false positive rate will be?
I am betting that I could just return “18+” and be correct more than 90% of the time: A contract tender … “Home Office are seeking to procure an algorithm that can accurately predict the age of a subject,” the contract’s description reads. “This will have multiple use cases for Home Office, an example could/would
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Russia squeezes out WhatsApp, pushes homegrown Max in messaging battle | WaPo | …in case you missed it…
…the next step for the UK government will be to obligate phones to be installed with state spyware, following the examples of Russia & China: The government’s expanding surveillance efforts are pushing users toward a new state-backed app called Max, which security experts warn would share private data with authorities, leaving Russians cut off from
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“it is simply not feasible to perform detection of known and new CSAM for hundreds of millions of users with an acceptable level of accuracy, independently of the specific filter”
The text below is an open letter on the position of scientists and researchers on the EU’s proposed Child Sexual Abuse Regulation. https://csa-scientist-open-letter.org/Sep2025
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Age Verification Providers’ Association (AVPA) desperately seeks ways to minimise UK VPN adoption numbers
Traffic to top adult sites “from the UK” apparently “fell by 47%” with no mention of comparative increase of traffic “from” other countries like Belgium, Netherlands, USA, or Singapore; then we get an unsourced “7%” usage figure for under 18s accessing adult content and compute 47% of that. This is not how to argue via
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We’re Walling Off The Open Internet To Stop AI—And It May End Up Breaking Everything Else | Techdirt
Masnick again on top form. Also, me, previously. Consider the broader implications: if we normalize blocking AI tools from accessing web content, where does it end? We’ve talked in the past about how many visually impaired users rely on technological tools to “read” websites for them. If we establish that all technological intermediary tools can
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Signal >> Blog >> Introducing Signal Secure Backups
Seems reasonable: If you do decide to opt in to secure backups, you’ll be able to securely back up all of your text messages and the last 45 days’ worth of media for free. If you want to back up your media history beyond 45 days, as well as your message history, we also offer
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