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The Pall Mall Pact and why it matters | Malwarebytes | …I don’t entirely agree that this is a good thing
Speaking as an author of “hacking tools” which have inspired the “hacking tools” of today — tools used by the kinds of people who *found* companies like Malwarebytes — I find perspectives such as this to be problematic, hypocritical, and lacking in dual-use perspective: Commercial hacking tools have enabled intrusive surveillance practices that undermine fundamental freedom
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Boarding passes and check-in could be scrapped in air travel shake-up | The Guardian | …this is a really bad idea in several obvious ways
Dead batteries, lost documents, enabling “search” by customs & immigration… hell, no: The [ICAO] plans to dramatically shake up existing rules for airports and airlines through the introduction of a “digital travel credential”. This would allow passengers to store passport information on their devices to be used for travel. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/apr/11/boarding-passes-and-check-in-to-be-scrapped-in-air-travel-shake-up-plans
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Why I Emphatically Oppose Online Age Verification Mandates | Technology & Marketing Law Blog
Eric Goldman on fire, again: I hold uncompromising views on this topic. For reasons I explain in 63 anguished and tear-stained pages, I am a categorical “no” on all online age authentication mandates. To me… To me, it doesn’t matter what the laws are called, how the authentication duties are styled, what sales hooks the
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tariff | PyPI
If you need a laugh this morning: The GREATEST, most TREMENDOUS Python package that makes importing great again! https://pypi.org/project/tariff/
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So You Want to Be a Dissident? | The New Yorker
We analyzed the literature of protest and spoke to a range of people, including foreign dissidents and opposition leaders, movement strategists, domestic activists, and scholars of nonviolent movements. We asked them for their advice … for those who want to oppose these dramatic changes but harbor considerable fear for their jobs, their freedom, their way
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There’s a lot of chatter going around at the moment regarding “AI IS EVIL BECAUSE IT EATS A LOT OF POWER” …
…however by contrast there is a lot of really thoughtful contrasting discussion in the Reddit comments of this posting:
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Raphael Satter makes a fair point in this Bluesky thread: where is the {tech, cyber, safety} industry support for Chris Krebs?
As for the [cyber, trust & safety] industry, it often casts itself as fighting to defend democracy from election hackers & foreign disinfo. Surely punishing Krebs for defending the truth about America’s elections – and punishing @sentinelone.com for the ‘offense’ of having hired him – would draw public indignation, right? https://bsky.app/profile/raphae.li/post/3lmkicymrqs22 [thread] https://www.reuters.com/world/us/cybersecurity-industry-falls-silent-trump-turns-ire-sentinelone-2025-04-10/
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I don’t greatly like that the BBC have made me agree with Kemi Badenoch about something, but she’s absolutely correct to say that…
…policy making should not be a matter of responding to populist “gut feels” inspired by cinema or television. Aside from anything else: back in the 1980s this was how we got so many terrible computer misuse laws & unjust trials, because of WarGames. https://x.com/addicted2newz/status/1910281285798396237
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Adolescence team to remake Threads nuclear attack epic | BBC News
Of all the things from my childhood that they did not need to reboot, this is possibly the thing which least needed rebooting. Perhaps they can set it in Appalachia, give it a male lead with a plucky sidekick dog and make it a musical? https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cm24nedy37ro
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Matt Blaze | Written testimony before the House Committee on Government Reform Subcommittee on Military and Foreign Affairs | April 2, 2025
Blaze nails the cost/(dis-)benefit analysis of drilling holes in everyone’s privacy, trust & integrity to satisfy a niche use case, although I feel he leaves too much wiggle room and risk open in conflating E2EE, Signal, and “off by default” surveillance of telecom switches: Needless to say, court-authorized wiretaps are an important tool used by
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Study: Kids with smartphones are less depressed, anxious, bullied than peers without them
“We went into this study expecting to find what many researchers, teachers and other observers assume: smartphone ownership is harmful to children,” said Justin D. Martin, the study’s lead researcher. Instead, “most of the time we found the opposite—that owning a smartphone was associated with positive outcomes.” https://reason.com/2025/04/07/study-kids-with-smartphones-are-less-depressed-anxious-bullied-than-peers-without-them/ Via:
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