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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." #privacy https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/29/us/politics/nsa-call-records-purged.html
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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.
@staticsafe an ex of mine said the Internet's natural enemy was the backhoe
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.
Brave Browser Integrates Tor Into New Private Tab Feature http://www.pcmag.com/news/362191/brave-browser-integrates-tor-into-new-private-tab-feature?source=SectionArticles
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 🤔
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/jun/28/facebook-patent-phone-mic-listening-tv-shows source: https://twitter.com/torproject/status/1012783229089304577
@karyl counterpoint: it is already time for mesh networks to smash the telecom hegemony ✊
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.
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":
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
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. https://blog.torproject.org/new-release-tor-browser-80a9 https://twitter.com/torproject/status/1012367549550481408/photo/1 source: https://twitter.com/torproject/status/1012367549550481408
ICE Rigged Its Vetting Tool To Make Sure It Can Always Keep Immigrants Locked Up https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20180627/13312940119/ice-rigged-vetting-tool-to-make-sure-it-can-always-keep-immigrants-locked-up.shtml
