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Insane Fake Girl Bot on *Mastodon* takes shots at: William Gibson, Craig Newmark, Jeff “Dark Tangent” Moss, David Preiss, …
I can only think that because it’s such a small community on Mastodon it decided to go with spamming a list and it chose poorly.
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Julian Sanchez: “If your law is good when there are good people in office, but dangerous when there are bad people in office, your law is bad”
Who would have guessed? Will Oremus: “Separately and notably, GLAAD — which dropped its opposition to KOSA last year after changes to the bill, easing its path to Democratic support — told me it now wants lawmakers to review the bill in light of “changes in the FTC and other government leadership”
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If the state deploys infrastructural internet services with logging & content filtering, those things are surveillance & censorship because they are done by the state
The state has a monopoly on violence. The state has a monopoly on censorship. The state tries to have a monopoly on surveillance. If the state deploys infrastructural internet services with logging and content filtering, those things are surveillance and censorship because [they are] “done by the state”. In reference to:
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From 2024: “COERCING LLMS TO DO AND REVEAL (ALMOST) ANYTHING”
While we’re on the general topic of if you adequately lie to a computer you will always get what you want: https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.14020 Via: https://infosec.exchange/@bontchev/111973977204255663
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My first LLM-to-WordPress Spam?
Of course it’s an inevitability even for the Blogosphere but I was amused to find this thing in my spam inbox this morning; none of the links check-out and apparently inboxgate.rest has a reputation for spam. It smells very much like LinkedIn engagement spam.
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1933: The Technocrats’ Magazine | Technocracy Inc | Internet Archive
“Technocracy was a progressive engineering movement founded by Howard Scott and Walter Rautenstrauch and centered at Columbia University School of Engineering.” Take a browse over coffee; we’ve re-heard most of the ideas since, many quite recently, a weird blend of some-right-and-mostly-left-wing theses of “technology will take our jobs” & “universal basic income” & “technology will
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In case you missed it: “By Default, Signal Doesn’t Recall”
It’s rapidly getting to the point where if you want to have conversation privacy you must implement screenshot-prevention (mobile) or DRM-protection (laptop) in order to prevent surveillance; and then get users to enable those features. https://signal.org/blog/signal-doesnt-recall
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Matt Green identifies an eternal verity
It’s weird how people are “opposed to surveillance” only until they get their hands on the surveillance apparatus. Links to: https://gizmodo.com/fbi-director-kash-patel-abruptly-closes-internal-watchdog-office-overseeing-surveillance-compliance-2000604994
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GDPR and the Intersection of Security and Privacy | JJ Katz | …corporate Deep Packet Inspection vs: GDPR, reconsidered…
Jon muses about whether DPI from a practical perspective is in conflict with GDPR With web proxying, filtering, deep-packet inspection (or SSL inspection) and other tools a well-equipped SOC will be able to see everything, even the content of a user’s https sessions. And even though most Acceptable Use Policies (AUPs) prohibit personal use of
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