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Rightscon is next week. It's like the RSA for the digital rights community and a great place to meet great people. I wasn't going to go anyway, but my not going hurts a bit more now and at this very late hour, it is making me a wee bit sad.

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Scream Cipher xkcd.com/3054

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All kicking off on YouTube tonight.

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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/...

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Kudos to @404media.bsky.social for leading by example and lowering the paywall on any article that's primarily based on public records. If a small, independent outlet can afford it, others have no excuse.

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BlackHoodie will be back at @ringzer0.bsky.social Bootstrap conference in Austin, TX 🤠 On Friday March 21st I'll be teaching Compiler Internals for Security Engineers, a class for women by women, and it's free. Register here blackhoodie.re/Ringzer0_Boo...

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The police came to our house, unannounced, to check if we're really living together, as that's required for a residency permit. Me, a white person: well, I guess that means the permit will be issued soon. My partner, not a white person: what the actual fuck just happened??

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What a #German #hospital team in #Darmstadt would look like without their #migrant colleagues #FCKAFD #MigrantsWelcome

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You and me both, artwork.

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As someone with chronic anxiety, I sometimes like it when other people make decisions for me. I hope Ukraine feels the same.

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Not a lot of happy news out there, but this is a great compilation album by a great band, so there is that.

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I'm in England. I hadn't been in England since before the pandemic. I didn't realise how much I missed it. Also, and this isn't anywhere near the top 1000 things that suck about migration policies around the world, should I ever decide to move back here, I can't, and that is currently making me sad.

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New: Another Italy-based spyware target, this one a refugee rights advocate caught up in the scandal over the release of a Libyan war crimes suspect. www.reuters.com/world/europe...

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Always good news when Bill finds and reports an iOS vulnerability. Also very bad news.

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We're hiring a Senior Digital Security Trainer to help us facilitate security education for journalists. Our office is based in Brooklyn, NY. Strong US-based remote candidates will also be considered. Please share widely! freedom.press/careers/job/...

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Kudos to whoever at the NSA did this job, for if they had only deleted occurrences of "privilege" in the DEI sense, we wouldn't have been talking about this.

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This remains a highly recommended daily podcast for anyone working in or adjacent to the cybers.

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@404media.co: What happens if this hazardous Asteroid hits earth? Me: What happens if it doesn't? www.404media.co/what-happens...

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In dire times like this, it was good to listen to @rondeibert.bsky.social on a podcast discussing his latest book, the Citizen Lab and what I guess Canadians would call a bit of "inside hockey" www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...

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This war is being fought inside your head the-far-away.com/2025/02/06/t...

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Sometimes I think back to that time I excitedly got a cool guy to keynote the conference I organized and then he later turned out to be a serial rapist.

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Have tips? Story ideas? Something you think I should know about? Reach me on Signal at KimZ.42 I cover cybersecurity and national security, writing about nation-state hacking, espionage, cyber warfare, cybercrime, and policy. I don't write about companies - unless they've done something wrong.

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And then there were three...

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I'm in a million Signal groups about The Stuff that's going on and for my own mental health, I can't wait for Signal to fix the broken mute option for group chats.

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Hey cybersecurity folks! As a direct or indirect consequence of the US (and others) cutting foreign aid, there are many who have done cybersecurity for NGOs and at-risk groups who are or will be looking for a job. They often have broad experience, from research to incident response to education 1/2

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Like other economists I'm being asked to comment on Trump tariffs. We should do so - it's our job. But first we should make the point stated eloquently here by @alanbeattie.bsky.social www.ft.com/content/c26b...

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My partner asked me today what this "sky app" I use is called and I got excited that she heard about Bluesky. She meant the app that allows you to identify stars and planets.

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I read Susie Boyt's novel "Loved and Missed" this weekend. Single (grand)mother raises her granddaughter as her drug-addicted daughter isn't able to. Full of reflective and very quotable passages. Full of love and human failure. Very British too. Absolutely loved it.

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There are USAID project reports that are so classified that they don't even show up in official lists of USAID publications, because they contain details about covert operations or information that puts aid workers at risk of physical harm (ie women in countries where women have no rights)

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#WhatsApp warns users of spyware targeting them. WhatsApp's owner, META, has sent warning messages to users to inform them that an Israeli company has hacked them or attempted to hack them.

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Hey everyone. We're hiring a Systems and Security Technical Lead @citizenlab.ca Come join us! It's an extraordinary place with extraordinary people ... and extraordinary security risks! Never a dull day, I can promise you that!! jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Toronto-...

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"No need for radio: we are the news" (from a poem by Mosab Abu Toha)

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