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Director of Cybersecurity @eff.org Co-founder of @stopstalkerware.bsky.social These opinions are my own, not my employers’ I did a TED talk once
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In response to the UK's demands for a backdoor, Apple has stopped offering users in the UK Advanced Data Protection, which provides end-to-end encryption for backups and files. www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...

submitted 4 hours ago • 4 comments

"Spend more on Elon Musk’s social-media platform, or else." "A lawyer at advertising conglomerate Interpublic Group fielded a phone call ... from a lawyer at X. The message was clear ... Get your clients to spend more on Elon Musk’s social-media platform, or else." A merger could be tanked. Gift!

submitted 2 days ago • 46 comments

"With Cocospy and Spyic, you can usually enter ✱✱001✱✱ on your Android phone app’s keypad and then press the “call” button to make the stalkerware apps appear on-screen — if they are installed." techcrunch.com/2025/02/20/s...

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

Stalkerware data leaks are one of the few ways in which we can get insight into the scope of stalkerware as a problem. 2.65 million unique email addresses were registered with Cocospy and Spyic. That's a lot of stalking.

submitted 2 days ago • 3 comments

A bug in two closely-related stalkerware apps, Cocospy and Spyic, is exposing the personal data of millions of people who have the software unwittingly installed on their phones: techcrunch.com/2025/02/20/s...

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

Did I mention that the data broker industry must be destroyed?

submitted 2 days ago • 4 comments

If you refer to an LLM chatbot as an "entity" that you "engage with," I know that I can stop reading and I will not be missing anything of value.

submitted 2 days ago • 7 comments

Job alert: the First Amendment Coalition is hiring. These are remote jobs for people based in California: firstamendmentcoalition.org/about/work-w...

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

EFF is proud to be part of the Repro Uncensored coalition, working to ensure that people who need reproductive health and abortion information can find and share it. www.reprouncensored.org

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

If you use Signal and your threat model includes Russian state actors, make sure your version of Signal is up to date in order to harden your account against these attacks: cloud.google.com/blog/topics/...

submitted 3 days ago • 3 comments

Today I encountered my first AI-generated news article that included a manufactured quote from me on a topic I did not speak or post about, just in case you're wondering how AI is going.

submitted 3 days ago • 9 comments

For those of us who are increasingly in positions where we cannot count on the rule of law to protect our digital privacy or security, here are some thoughts on how to threat model for your community: www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...

submitted 4 days ago • 6 comments

If the US blocks access to HRT, ADHD drugs, and SSRIs, I cannot begin to describe to you how much all of the tech sector will screech to a halt. The internet is built and maintained by trans people, people with chronic depression, and the neurodivergent. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

submitted 6 days ago • 201 comments

For most of my adult life, Valentine's Day has been the day that I sit down to do my taxes. I have never regretted this choice.

submitted 8 days ago • 8 comments

Tech companies are thrilled because we are about to enter a golden age of grifting.

submitted 8 days ago • 5 comments

I wish that journalists would stop uncritically buying into Musk's framing of what DOGE is doing as an audit. You can tell it is not an audit because it is being done by people with zero experience in auditing and the methodology is "poke around in files, looking for keywords without any context."

submitted 9 days ago • 20 comments

Paragon Solutions claims that they cut off the Italian government access to their spyware after they were caught spying on activists, which is interesting because the Italian government says they still have access. www.reuters.com/technology/c...

submitted 9 days ago • 2 comments

Barcelona-based spyware maker Variston seems to be shutting down. The company is comprised mainly of Israelis and their best-known customer is UAE. Do I expect all these folks to be working together under another name soon? Yes. techcrunch.com/2024/02/15/v...

submitted 9 days ago • 4 comments

Meanwhile, Chinese government hackers continue to compromise telecom infrastructure in the US, South Africa, Italy, and Thailand: therecord.media/china-salt-t...

submitted 9 days ago • 2 comments

*infosec professional voice* Men just aren't interested in making coffee.

submitted 9 days ago • 5 comments

Dentist: I see you're clenching your jaw and grinding your teeth. Is there something recent that's happened in the last few months? Me: I work in human rights.

submitted 9 days ago • 23 comments

Once again, I am here from Poland to tell you that predicating your response to a rule of law crisis on fear of how your opponents will frame your resistance is as ineffectual as it is solipsistic.

submitted 11 days ago • 54 comments

My co-workers are badass and I am proud of them. EFF is suing DOGE and OPM over their illegal sharing of federal employee data.

submitted 10 days ago • 7 comments

I will be very interested to see how these tools perform.

submitted 11 days ago • 6 comments