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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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Sometimes I wonder whether this push for “AI summaries of everything” is simply a consequence of the failure of “chat” to provide effective “search”
I’ve worked at companies where (first) Skype and (then) Slack were the principal means of keeping employees in touch with each other. In between, I worked at Facebook where *literally* Facebook was used to keep employees collaborating. This latter, worked. The others were shit. Among several key differences, the primary one was “most communication was
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The Telegraph’s sob story about a family having to cut down on their five holidays to pay school fees turned out to be fake
Remember, everyone, mainstream news is a trustworthy source of information, unlike social media: https://www.thepoke.com/2025/05/27/telegraph-sob-story-about-family-having-to-cut-holidays-to-pay-school-fees-fake/
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If you want to understand the life cycle of software, this history of jemalloc is not a bad start
Remember: there is no bad or good here, and there is no intentionality. To assume there should have been a different outcome would be presumptuous. There just “is”. Not everybody understands this. https://jasone.github.io/2025/06/12/jemalloc-postmortem/
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Muffett’s 7th Law: you aren’t allowed to complain about Palantir if you’ve used the Internet Archive or said “…the Internet never forgets”
I might also add “read Bellingcat or enjoyed ‘Jose Monkey‘”. I get it, “billionaire outrage” is huge, but the excesses of the Trump government are squarely a political issue. Screaming THIEL TECHBROS BIG DATA SOCIAL MEDIA SURVEILLANCE CAPITALISM ignores the fictional or real human or paper databases which have forever served government purposes for good
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