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submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

IMPT: STREAMING TODAY at 1000 Eastern, 1500 UK, 1600 Paris: US Gov’t obliquely discusses *sanctioning* UK for attempting to backdoor Apple iCloud https://alecmuffett.com/article/113449 #EndToEndEncryption #HomeOffice #apple #icloud #privacy #trump

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

Compare: "I {was, was nearly} {fired, thrown out of college} because of you!" …which I've heard perhaps 20 times.

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

I've written previously about how Britain has a fetish for "geeks should be relegated to garden sheds where they should come up with world-beating technologies without resources, to demonstrate their worth" — which informs, amongst other things, paltry GCHQ salaries. www.topgear.com/car-news/int...

submitted 4 days ago • 3 comments

Pornhub, YouPorn owner suspends access to French users over age verification law https://alecmuffett.com/article/113446 #AgeVerification #censorship #france #porn

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

“My experience with Canonical’s interview process” | …this is an atrocious story https://alecmuffett.com/article/113440 #interviewing #tech

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

What the hell is “Bitcoin-Style Encryption”? https://alecmuffett.com/article/113438 #ElonMusk #EndToEndEncryption

submitted 6 days ago • 2 comments

TechCrunch UK & EU appears to be gone https://alecmuffett.com/article/113435 #journalism #techcrunch

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

Thought for the Day: the anthropomorphic personification of death for soap bubbles is a 3-year-old child https://alecmuffett.com/article/113433 #death #pratchett

submitted 6 days ago • 2 comments

Let’s all take a moment to consider that if — as demanded by Ofcom — encrypted messenger systems WERE actually monitoring conversations for words like: drone, bomb, explosive… all reports would curre[…] https://alecmuffett.com/article/113431

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

I don’t have official confirmation, but I’m unilaterally declaring dibs on inspiration for this WhatsApp advertising campaign… https://alecmuffett.com/article/113418 #ChildSafety #ClientSideScanning #EndToEndEncryption #OnlineSafety #privacy #whatsapp

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

BBC demonstrates smuggled North Korean phone and how it implements both censorship and accountability in the user interface… https://alecmuffett.com/article/113416 #NorthKorea #OnlineSafety #censorship #totalitarianism

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

“OpenAI, defender of user privacy” – not what you would typically expect to hear from civil society, but in this case it’s true… https://alecmuffett.com/article/113410 #EndToEndEncryption #NewYorkTimes #deletion #openai #privacy

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

The Laws: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_fla...

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

Remembering John Young, co-founder of web archive Cryptome | The Register https://alecmuffett.com/article/113406 #JohnYoung

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

While in the LOTR movies Denethor just randomly went crazy, that's not the whole story. Denethor became a doomer. He spent all night scrolling through bad news on his magic device, because the Dark Lord only let him see bad news and not good, until he lost all hope and it broke him.

submitted 15 days ago • 23 comments

I think that one of the reasons that I’m not worried about AGI is that I’m still waiting for the end of the world to be caused by Quantum Computing https://alecmuffett.com/article/113401 #ItsTheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowItAndIFeelFine #QuantumComputing #ai2027

submitted 16 days ago • 1 comment

By Default, Signal Doesn’t Recall | Signal Windows app leverages DRM content protection hacks to hide messages from Windows Recall https://alecmuffett.com/article/113398 #EndToEndEncryption #signal #windows

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

Reminder: Civil Society in the UK and USA typically demands a 24-hour turnaround for decisions on content-takedown or user-takedown requests. Some of them demand fines upon platforms which fail to decide such simple matters in such a time window.

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments