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by Alec Muffett

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  • Insane Fake Girl Bot on *Mastodon* takes shots at: William Gibson, Craig Newmark, Jeff “Dark Tangent” Moss, David Preiss, …

    2025/06/25 14:39:52 BST

    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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  • IN CASE YOU MISSED IT: aren’t you glad that we don’t (yet) live in a world where on-device client side surveillance triggers report you to the police for using words like “bomb” or “uranium” in Signal & WhatsApp chats?

    2025/06/24 21:30:48 BST

    If such things did exist they would currently be swamped by people discussing global news: Exclusive: Early US intel assessment suggests strikes on Iran did not destroy nuclear sites, sources say https://edition.cnn.com/2025/06/24/politics/intel-assessment-us-strikes-iran-nuclear-sites

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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”

    2025/06/24 17:27:26 BST

    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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  • Britain: Police may grab your {phone, laptop} and legally use on-device credentials to go trawl Facebook, GMail, iCloud, Dropbox (etc) — WITHOUT WARRANT

    2025/06/24 12:49:55 BST

    I can’t say that I am entirely surprised, and it’s a bit more proportionate than “Backdooring Signal” however it really should have judicial oversight. Police to gain powers to grab online data when they seize phones and laptops | Computer Weekly https://www.computerweekly.com/news/366626070/Police-to-gain-powers-to-grab-online-data-when-they-seize-phones-and-laptops

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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

    2025/06/20 08:54:09 BST

    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”

    2025/06/20 07:39:24 BST

    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?

    2025/06/20 06:36:16 BST

    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

    2025/06/20 05:21:56 BST

    “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”

    2025/06/20 05:10:50 BST

    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

    2025/06/20 05:07:04 BST

    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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  • Australia: “Teen social media trial isn’t testing some ways kids will get around the [social media age verification] ban” | @crikey_news

    2025/06/20 04:50:31 BST

    AV: “here’s how we protect children, sign here!” Australia: “Awesome! <pays money>” AV: “…aaaaand here’s what we *won’t* do…” Australia: “…um, wait, what?” Age Verification is a grift. Separate, but linked, was a $6.5 million trial commissioned by the government to investigate how a social media minimum age could be enforced. Its findings would inform the “reasonable

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  • GDPR and the Intersection of Security and Privacy | JJ Katz | …corporate Deep Packet Inspection vs: GDPR, reconsidered…

    2025/06/19 17:30:22 BST

    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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