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"Officials had discovered “technical irregularities” this year in its collection from phone companies of so-called call record details, or metadata showing who called or texted whom and when, but not what they said." nytimes.com/2018/06/29/us/poli

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~1 million Creative Commons images on 500px.com are dissapearing tomorrow!

If you have the resources please install the Archiveteam's Warrior program and select the 500px project! archiveteam.org/index.php?titl

irc is #500pieces on efnet

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Software only becomes 'enterprise grade' if, when its behavior is described to an outsider flatly and precisely, the outsider assumes the description is some kind of elaborate joke.

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@staticsafe an ex of mine said the Internet's natural enemy was the backhoe

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Debuggers may come and go, but print statements are forever

Hanlon’s razor:

Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.

Brodhead’s corollary:

Never attribute to malice or stupidity that which is adequately explained by incentives.

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Facebook filed to patent a system that can remotely activate the mic on someone’s phone using inaudible signals broadcast via a television.

“The technology in this patent has not been included in any of our products, and never will be.” - Facebook 🤔
theguardian.com/technology/201 source: twitter.com/torproject/status/

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@karyl counterpoint: it is already time for mesh networks to smash the telecom hegemony ✊

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Showing up to a project and telling folks they're not using tools that you feel they should be using is akin to showing up to a protest and refusing to participate because you can't stand the smell of the markers.

I was prepping for a presentation to an activist group about how to protect themselves online. I temporarily switched to DuckDuckGo as my primary search engine just so I’d be able to talk about my experience. That was more than 18 months ago and I still use DDG as my main search just about everywhere.

mastodon.at/@switchingsocial/1

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skill is when you can do the job while playing fallout

The cat really does not want me to make music and has made his displeasure known.

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Here's a conference talk I gave back in 2013 called "Security: A few terms, a few secrets, and a few hard truths":

vimeo.com/131222941

The talk is aimed at developers but stays pretty high-level.

It was my second time speaking in front of a large group and I caught the bug. RMS spoke at the same con and I was a little worried he would heckle me. :)

Cc @cwcopa

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We're trying out a new system for indicating .onion sites' relationships to TLS certificates.

Test out the new Tor Browser alpha, and let us know what you think. blog.torproject.org/new-releas twitter.com/torproject/status/ source: twitter.com/torproject/status/

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