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Remember the “Messages in @SignalApp’s Desktop App need to be inaccessibly encrypted on the local hard disk” brouhaha? It’s now claiming victims…
You can spot the telltale security-theater threat-model of someone who one moment laughs (“so much for security hey”) that they ought to be locked out of their own messages — yet the next complains that they are locked out of their own messages. I wonder which users, blogs & news media will again bemoan Signal
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Needle in a Neural Network: In Order to Forget You, First You Must Be Found | Carey Lening
Excellent article from Carey: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/needle-neural-network-order-forget-you-first-must-carey-lening-cdpp-oivbf
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How the American war on porn could change the way you use the internet | BBC Future
The BBC have finally written the article which they should have written in 2016: > If the age verification movement goes unchecked, it’s possible that you could be forced to tie your government ID to much of your online activity, Gillmor says. Some civil rights groups fear it could usher in a new era of
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How to Read a Legal Opinion: A Guide for New Law Students by Orin S. Kerr [PDF]
Possibly of use to the social network community at large: This essay is designed to help new law students prepare for the first few weeks of class. It explains what judicial opinions are, how they are structured, and what law students should look for when reading them. https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1160925
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CFAIL: The Conference for Failed Approaches and Insightful Losses in Cryptology | “Failing better since 2019…”
I just discovered this, lol: https://www.cfail.org
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Via @lorenzofb | NEW: CrowdStrike sent partners a $10 UberEats gift card to apologize for the outage
Oh dear. Links onwards to https://techcrunch.com/2024/07/24/crowdstrike-offers-a-10-apology-gift-card-to-say-sorry-for-outage/
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WhatsApp and Signal messages at risk of surveillance following EncroChat ruling, court hears | Computer Weekly | …maybe, but maybe not; avoid hysteria
Police could lawfully use bulk surveillance techniques to access messages from encrypted communications platforms such as WhatsApp and Signal following a ruling by the UK’s Investigatory Powers Tribunal (IPT), a court has heard. …except that such features DO NOT EXIST within WhatsApp and Signal, which therefore presumes that the UK Government can/will compel WhatsApp and
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2017: “EU: New antitrust complaint looms over Microsoft” | …the smoking gun to which Microsoft alludes re: CrowdStrike’s kernel modules
Quoting this article which clips this paywalled content — it seems that Microsoft are telling the truth; also it’s interesting to note that Apple locked-out third party kernel modules starting circa 2019. Further content on the same topic at: Microsoft comes under pressure as software suppliers raise market abuse complaints with the European Commission over
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I was asked for my perspective on how we got to a world where the CrowdStrike affair could have occurred…
So I responded: What we have just experienced is a synthesis of multiple, possibly unsolvable, systemic and regulatory problems. This kind of incident can (and does) happen to any and all platforms, but I would argue that Windows is disproportionately impacted because: (a) competing operating systems were built for more hostile environments like multiuser computers
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Helping our customers through the CrowdStrike outage | Microsoft
Microsoft claim that the Crowdstrike outage impacted 8.5 million machines, but as a fraction of internet-attached devices this is far smaller than the Internet Worm of 1988 which took out up to 10% (6,000 out of 60,000) of connected devices: While software updates may occasionally cause disturbances, significant incidents like the CrowdStrike event are infrequent.