IF YOU DO NOTHING ELSE TODAY: please read this astonishing summary of what Paul Moore has been doing to #SafeToNet, #HarmBlock & the Government-lauded #HMDFuse kids' phone #Privacy #Security #InternetPolicy
Squirrels: The Threat to Critical National Infrastructure #Security #Privacy #Infrastructure
Obvious in retrospect, someone who got their break "looking through the square window" into everyone's lives, is going to be in favour of surveillance & censorship #Privacy #Security #Censorship
Douglas Adams in 1978 predicted Terence Tao's role as Vroomfondel in the modern AI debate: "We demand rigidly defined areas of doubt and uncertainty!" #AI #Privacy #Humor
RSA-260 has been factorised #Cryptography #Math #Security
"German flashlight forum TLF (taschenlampen-forum.de) will be taken offline permanently on September 16" #Privacy #Security #Censorship
"Trump ally issues bill to exempt US websites from British regulators" #Privacy #Security #InternetPolicy
CDT: "The British Public Reject
State Access to Private Online
Conversations" #Privacy #Security #Surveillance
France's top court blocks social media ban for under-15s | Reuters #Privacy #InternetPolicy #Censorship
#RUSI / Royal United Services Institute makes batshit proposal to socially engineer "nationalism" in Britain to foster "total defence" / army signups #Privacy #Security #Policy
Eventually @andyburnham @10DowningStreet must choose whether he wants British children online to be "safe" or "educated", 'coz we can't have "both" #Privacy #OnlineSafety #Censorship
The Java Story | The Official Documentary #History #Tech #Programming
Remember, Kids: Cyberaugmentation is only for the less-abled! #Privacy #Cybersecurity #AI
RE: 1 BILLION #Privacy #Security #Tech
microgpt #AI #LLM #Python
Ofcom's quest to censor the world | spiked #Privacy #Censorship #InternetPolicy
When I started password cracking in 1991, using all available computer resources of a small university I could manage about 200 guesses per second #Security #Privacy #History
New York puts accuracy minimums for age assurance into effect with SAFE for Kids Act | Biometric Update #Privacy #Security #Policy
India App Censorship Leads To Own Goal, Streisand Effect, Ofcom To Take Note, Please| Rahul Matthan #Privacy #Censorship #India
US Gov't threatens sanctions on China for Open Source LLMs "because distillation is a cyber attack" #Privacy #OpenSource #CyberSecurity
The Huggingface Dilemma #AI #LLM #PrivacyTech
Apple Defeats Liability for Not Scanning iCloud for CSAM, But the Judge Was Not Pleased-Amy v. Apple | Eric Goldman #Privacy #Security #Policy
EU Exempts Apple Watch and AirPods [and iPhone] From Battery Removal Requirement [due to water resistance & safety] #Privacy #Security #TechPolicy
I was waiting for this: House of Lords / Baroness Royall: "Algorithms Killed Ann Widdecombe" #Privacy #Algorithms #Security
"Social Media Curfew" is a Digital "Purity Ring" #Privacy #Censorship #SocialMedia
How It Started in 2018 / How It's Going in 2026: UK Labour Government to discover "Timezones" in 3... 2... #Privacy #Security #InternetPolicy
Coco had a haircut... #Pets #Dogs #Life
I asked 3 separate AIs to pretend to be Nigel Farage's campaign manager and to propose a strategy to survive the Clacton by-election; this is what they suggested #AI #Politics #Strategy
EU Mandates Driver-Facing Cameras in New Cars From Today #Privacy #Surveillance #Europe
Stochastic Nerds #AI #LLM #PrivacyTech
Age Verification is Digital ID #Privacy #Security #DigitalID
India asks WhatsApp to pause username feature rollout over fraud concerns - BBC News #Privacy #Security #Censorship
Remember, folks: coordinated misinformation campaigns only happen on the internet / in social media, not in the fact-checked, trustworthy mainstream press #Misinformation #Internet #Security
Mullvad, Napoleon and Sun Tzu: it would be wise for civil society to take a look in the mirror #Privacy #Security #Policy
When you build tools with abstract and rather arbitrary notions of "safety" baked into them - not addressing a specific threat model - they get considerably weaker #Security #Privacy #Trust
Online Age Verification Law Could Kill Whistleblowing #Privacy #Security #Censorship
It's not about the children, it's about how monetize surveillance: demand the illiberal, stupid, self-defeating & impossible, & then criminalise the wrong people for circumvention #Privacy #Security #Policy
Britain, or Russia? #Privacy #Censorship #Security
Digital Sovereignty is a Clusterfuck #Privacy #Security #Policy
Gov't "would...like Ofcom to launch a rapid assessment of what highly effective age assurance looks like for determining whether someone is over 16" #Privacy #Security #Policy