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susansegfault.bsky.social
Queer criminologist, Lecturer at University of Edinburgh in STS. Researching power, harm, and values in digital infrastructure. Pfp by Jamie Buchan
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1. 🧵The story of Noah’s Ark comes from ancient Mesopotamia. But why is its history so overlooked? Author @lswisnom.bsky.social joins @lsmwilson.bsky.social on The Lede podcast to discuss why its been so disregarded. newlinesmag.com/podcast/a-lo...

submitted 10 hours ago • 1 comment

“When overwhelmed unemployment insurance systems malfunctioned…governments blamed the sixty-year-old programming language COBOL. But what really failed?” Just gonna repost this old article about computers, care, labor, and disinvestment in infrastructure for no reason🙃 logicmag.io/care/built-t...

submitted 7 days ago • 28 comments

one rule of internet discourse: every time cobol is back in the news, i am required to share this brilliant piece from @histoftech.bsky.social logicmag.io/care/built-t...

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"We have ceded so many of the core operations of our lives and institutions to tech, we must recognise that strong encryption isn’t the enemy of security — it *is* security." - Signal President @meredithmeredith.bsky.social for @financialtimes.com on the war on encryption www.ft.com/content/a934...

submitted 16 days ago • 5 comments

For any lovely people who haven't heard, or aren't totally sick of me going on about it, my book on @torproject.bsky.social - bizarrely, the first book to tell the secret history of the technology behind the so-called 'dark web' - is out. Buy here or any bookstore: mitpress.mit.edu/978026254818...

submitted 331 days ago • 5 comments

FULL KEYNOTE -- me + Guy K at SXSW on why privacy is a fundamental guarantor of a gorgeous, good life (not an absence, not a vacuum, not abstract). And how AI threatens privacy. And why Signal is so special and why you should use & love & support it ❤️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=AyH7...

submitted 24 days ago • 26 comments

🚨 Alongside Liberty and Leigh Day, we've filed a complaint against the UK Government's use of ‘Technical Capability Notices’ (TCN) - a power that gives the government the right to issue secret orders to companies, undermining our privacy and security. pvcy.org/TCNchallenge

submitted 22 days ago • 1 comment

"This is a significant test for the battle between law enforcement and technology.” Holding the Apple case in secret makes the legal process more cloak and dagger, less scales and sword. It sets the stage for more shady encryption-breaking orders to be made. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

submitted 21 days ago • 1 comment

Apple TCN tribunal is Friday www.computerweekly.com/news/3666203...

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The new homomathematics. All prime numbers welcome. www.openrightsgroup.org/blog/queercr...

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“We don’t want to be the outlier that proves the rule, we want to be a new set of rules leading the way to a much more open and diverse tech ecosystem,” Signal President @meredithmeredith.bsky.social told WIRED.

submitted 121 days ago • 6 comments

#critical #criminology #punishment #institutions #surveillance

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The conference is the Punishment and Society Symposium (though in practice we accept critical work way beyond punishment to include critical work on policing, surveillance, control and lots of other crim topics).

submitted 36 days ago • 1 comment

To all lovely critical thoughtful criminology (and adjacent) ECRs and MCRs, see the call for this incredible conference. Not just for scholars of punishment - any aspects of institutional crim, control, or other critical criminological scholarship v welcome. forms.office.com/pages/respon...

submitted 36 days ago • 1 comment

Published a blog on Light Blue Touchpaper in response to the Apple TCN - www.lightbluetouchpaper.org/2025/02/11/a... A feminist argument against weakening encryption. As the Home Office trying to argue for breaking encrypted services to prevent VAWG, I make a feminist counter-argument in response.

submitted 52 days ago • 3 comments

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... ever tried to fix the whole Internet? We look at efforts by a small group of network engineers to get a standard set in the late 90s (BCP38) - but never fully applied - adopted around the world, with surprising success. Result is a big change to global DDoS.

submitted 46 days ago • 1 comment

New blog post is up! This one looks at what could be happening, and what may happen next, in the Apple v UK encryption drama. While much of this is speculation, I outline what the law says may be happening, and where I hope we go from here. open.substack.com/pub/issuesin...

submitted 37 days ago • 0 comments

There could hardly be a more relevant moment to have this conversation about refusing and resisting AI. All welcome - come on down! [*streaming link to follow]

submitted 42 days ago • 0 comments

We at the Internet Society are deeply disappointed that Apple has had to stop offering end-to-end encryption in the UK. The following can be attributed to Dr. Joseph Lorenzo Hall, Distinguished Technologist at the Internet Society: 1/

submitted 42 days ago • 6 comments

Never entirely sure how hashtags work on here but may be of interest to #sts #maintenance #cybersecurity #criminology

submitted 46 days ago • 0 comments

And of course, as is the tradition of all Bourdieusian papers, we propose (you guessed it) a new named form of capital - infrastructural capital - as a way of explaining how action is mediated across a complex topology of human-infrastructure relationships. But feel free ofc to ignore that bit.

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www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... ever tried to fix the whole Internet? We look at efforts by a small group of network engineers to get a standard set in the late 90s (BCP38) - but never fully applied - adopted around the world, with surprising success. Result is a big change to global DDoS.

submitted 46 days ago • 1 comment

‘About every decade…we have another conversation about the [#intelligence agency] license to operate, another debate about the balance between privacy and security. I have to say, the pace of that really has to increase,” stressed the former #GCHQ director.’ 👏 therecord.media/intel-agenci...

submitted 50 days ago • 1 comment

The event I look forward to each year and actually am so pleased to arrange. Nice, interesting people doing innovative, novel and theoretical work spending two days talking, socialising and supporting each other. Dreamy. Consider sending an abstract.

submitted 74 days ago • 0 comments

Punishment & Society symposium CfP. Deadline is 28th of this month.

submitted 59 days ago • 0 comments

Talk on Friday where I'll be presenting some new research on the roles that MI5 and GCHQ are playing in shaping security markets in the UK - spoiler: it's a lot!

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submitted 52 days ago • 1 comment

Published a blog on Light Blue Touchpaper in response to the Apple TCN - www.lightbluetouchpaper.org/2025/02/11/a... A feminist argument against weakening encryption. As the Home Office trying to argue for breaking encrypted services to prevent VAWG, I make a feminist counter-argument in response.

submitted 52 days ago • 3 comments