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“RE: https:// infosec.exchange/@adfichter/11 6737542672432636 # Goodnews !!! The # republic won against the # empire :) # palantir the # surveillance company who went to # court against # swis...”
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“US spy law to expire for first time after lawmakers reject Trump's controversial pick to lead spy agencies https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/12/us-spy-law-to-expire-for-first-time-after-lawmakers-reject-trumps-controversi...”
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“Digital Sovereignty Becomes An Imparative As the US Reads Dutch Emails "Microsoft allegedly shared the names and internal communications of Dutch officials working on EU platform regulation with the U.S. House of Repres...”
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“Mapping Every # Flock # LicensePlate Reader Near US # WorldCup Stadiums Most US World Cup stadiums are surrounded by # surveillance cameras. Want to know if you’re being watched on your way to a match? These...”
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“https://www. europesays.com/uk/1020841/ Why You Might Already Own SpaceX Shares, Siri’s AI Makeover, and Knicks Owner’s Surveillance Machine # Apple # ArtificialIntelligence # ElonMusk # IPOs # meta ...”
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“ADAMS: Bill C-34 is mostly scaffolding, but still a threat to privacy and vulnerable kids # Canada # cdnpoli # privacy # surveillance # C34 https:// provincialtimes.ca/adams-bill- c-34-is-mostly-sca...”
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“The 702 Ultimatum: # Warrant Requirement or Bust For months now, # Congress has been kicking the ball down the road—temporarily postponing the expiration of the mass # surveillance authority # Section702 of ...”
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“James Dolan, owner of Madison Square Garden, faces criticism after a Wired investigation exposed his use of facial recognition technology to monitor attendees. This surveillance extends to other venues like Radio City Mu...”
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“# AmnestyInternational Warns That # WorldCup Fans Face Potential Human Rights Violations https://www. wired.com/story/amnesty-intern ational-world-cup-human-rights/ # football # soccer # sports # p...”
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“This is a big deal! U.S. National Intelligence about to lose a key tool - congressional authorization for FISA section 702 is about expire which will create HUGE legal ambiguity for intelligence agencies and telecos. ...”
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“House Rejects Bill to Extend Surveillance Power With FISA Section 702 Set to Expire https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/11/us/politics/house-spy-program-bill.html # Politics # Surveillance # FISA”
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“"Of all the legislative items the House could consider,🚨Republican leaders are choosing to spend several precious legislative days considering HR2. The border is secure. It’s not a political vulnerability for Rs."
-M B...”
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“Saab's surveillance jet deal with Canada faces a U.S. stealth tech hurdle
Ottawa's choice of Saab's GlobalEye surveillance jet has potentially opened a new battle in Washington. Experts say fully integrating the aircraf...”
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#Anthropic Offers #Mythos Upgrade for Cyber Partners and a ‘Safe’ Version for the Rest of You
https://www.wired.com/story/anthropic-releases-claude-fable-5-mythos-5/
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“[DEATH]
Trump’s Social Media Surveillance: Social Scoring... On April 9, 2025, the US Citizenship and Immigration Services also announced that it will begin moni Source: https://www. techpolicy.press/trumps-social ...”
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“i predict that these systems - nominally put in place for the Men's Soccer World Cup surge - will **not** be removed afterwards. "oh well we might as well keep them, eh?" # BigBrotherTTC # Surveillance # TTC”
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“# Trump continues to support grossly unqualified Bill # Pulte for National Security Director, endangering passage of renewal of # FISA # surveillance legislation https:// apnews.com/article/trump-pulte -fo...”
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“"The FBI was able to forensically extract copies of incoming Signal messages from a defendant's iPhone, even after the app was deleted, because copies of the content were saved in the device's push notification database....”
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“World Cup 2026 Security Normalizes Mass Surveillance Soccer’s biggest party is turning into surveillance theater. The 2026 FIFA World Cup across 16 North American venues isn’t…
# Football # Soccer # WorldCu...”
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“# surveillance # privacy "Surveillance drones deployment on US’s Great Lakes raises data collection fears Rights groups and some locals worry that program to ‘track illicit activity’ could become a data collection...”
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“TTC to roll out real-time surveillance across all stations to spot danger, misbehaviour
The TTC is extending a pilot program that relies on constant video surveillance of subway stations, public address warnings and pas...”
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Let's talk architecture, not anecdotes. 🧱
Centralization is fragile. In Ep. 30 of Impractical Privacy, we are stripping back the myths:
🔗 Public Blockchains & CEX Funnels
💬 Metadata Whispers & E2E Fallacies
📡 P2P Mesh Networks
🌐 The math behind NAT Hole Punching and sovereignty.
Tune in for the deep dive into truly resilient networking.
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#P2P #CryptoPrivacy #Networking #Cybersecurity #Meshtastic #Privacy #Surveillance #Metadata #Decentralization #PrivacyMatters
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“# NoahSchachtman on # surveillance of # MSG by # JamesDolan # DemocracyNow https://www. democracynow.org/2026/6/10/ny_ knicks_james_dolan_msg_surveillance”
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“Cops Keep Getting Arrested for Using Flock to Stalk People
https:// quokk.au/c/world/p/971905/cops -keep-getting-arrested-for-using-flock-to-stalk-people”
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#Starmer gives tech firms ultimatum to block explicit images on children’s phones
#privacy #censorship #cybersecurity #politics #UK #AgeVerification
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“"Just days after a damning WIRED report exposed that Meta had quietly embedded facial recognition technology (FRT) code into millions of phones, the tech giant has quietly acquiesced in demands to reverse course. Last w...”
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“ICE denies having a protestor database, but letter to congress indicates they give themselves "wide latitude to collect information on individuals" 🤷
# ICE # Surveillance
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“RE: https:// mastodon.social/@thomaster/116 722439609895478 It starts with scanning photos. But if the OS has to scan 3rd party apps, this means it can scan EVERYTHING that is done on the phone. There is no trus...”
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#Signal, #DuckDuckGo among firms weighing #Canada exit over lawful access bill
https://globalnews.ca/news/11886905/lawful-access-bill-c-22-companies-services-canada/
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“Yet another way to track US citizens and deny our right to privacy! FCC Wants to Kill Burner Phones By Forcing Telecoms to Get All Customers’ IDs https://www. 404media.co/fcc-wants-to-kill- burner-phones-by-forcin...”
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Online harms bill to include #SocialMediaBan for children under 16: Source
https://globalnews.ca/news/11894610/canada-social-media-ban-teens-online-harms-bill/
#Canada #politics #SocialMedia #AgeVerification #privacy #cybersecurity
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Hoodik is a lightweight self-hosted cloud storage platform built with privacy in mind.
Files are encrypted directly in your browser before upload, ensuring the server never has access to your unencrypted data.
It also includes secure file sharing, encrypted notes, 2FA, S3 support, and easy Docker deployment.
👉 https://digitalescapetools.com/tools/tool.html?id=hoodik
#OpenSource #SelfHosted #Privacy #Encryption #CloudStorage #FOSS #CyberSecurity
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“Gwyneth Paltrow Just Goopified Drone Warfare
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“# Signal says # UK plan to scan devices for nude images 'endangers us all'
Encrypted messaging app warns device-level checks could be repurposed for # censorship
Signal argues that the proposed technology could...”
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“https://www. europesays.com/3051494/ North Korea bans border gatherings, targets speech # border # crackdowns # ForeignContent # JagangProvince # MinistryOfStateSecurity # NorthPyonganProvince # s...”
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“For our 30th installment of BINJ Live, we spoke with Freedom of the Press Foundation Chief of Advocacy Seth Stern about everything from the situation with # ICE protests in NJ, to the # Paramount merger, to safety ...”
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“Meta removed facial-recognition code from its smart glasses app days after reports revealed systems designed to identify people through biometric signatures. 👓
The reversal followed public scrutiny, but questions remai...”
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“Trump to meet House speaker as pressure mounts over surveillance law deadline https://www. theguardian.com/us-news/2026/j un/09/trump-johnson-surveillance-law # TrumpAdministration # DonaldTrump # MikeJohnso...”
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#Microsoft Hacked to Deliver #Malware to #Claude and #Gemini Users
https://www.404media.co/microsoft-hacked-to-deliver-malware-to-claude-and-gemini-users/
Indirect #PromptInjection remains a fundamental security challenge for #AI
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“Signal Warns UK Plan to Scan Devices for Nude Images Threatens Global Surveillance Signal is sounding the alarm on the UK's plan to scan devices for nude images, warning that it threatens global surveillance and undermi...”
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'/usr/bin/su' and '/bin/su would never be in the memory cache at all ... by default ... except in systems that run entirely in memory.
Perhaps suid binaries should have special sandboxing for forcing them to be read from protected media into sandboxed memory addresses.
Maybe that would be a tougher nut to crack?
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📜 Scrolls volume 32 is out! Go check it out for the latest #indieweb, #fediverse and #infosec / #cybersecurity stuff.
https://shellsharks.com/scrolls/scroll/2026-03-06
Have a great weekend!
"While the [age verification] bill moved through the legislature, the OSI, FSF, Software Freedom Conservancy, and Linux Foundation all sat it out — no testimony, no public analysis, no formal opposition on the record."Are the adults listening?
California's computer age verification law is poison. The new California age verification law is a version of INGSOC's telescreen watching you. And the usual self-proclaimed software freedom fighters are AWOL as this attack on your freedom is executed.
Don't listen to apologists who claim this isn't a big deal. It is a huge deal. This law is not about protecting children. The California law is a ruse for laying the foundation and precedent for mandatory remote control of all operating systems. They are using children as a shield for their true intentions. It's called a 'subterfuge' or a 'pretext' to hide the real rationale. And in politics subterfuge is very common. These politicians don't care about your children. They care about control and information is control. Compliance with California's new law is highly corrosive to free software and deadly to personal privacy.
With the mandatory age verification API in place, legislators can later add more laws mandating retrieval of even more privacy-invasive information just to install and use any operating system. This is Big Brother's telescreen in your living room. And the Linux community is nearly silent on the matter, instead focused on artificial intelligence investment.
Where were the software freedom organizations when California was mandating installation of #spyware in all free and open source operating systems? Did they oppose it? Or did they support it by silence? The California age verification law is the greatest threat to software freedom in recent history., striking right at the root of software installation for all users. Yet (((crickets))).
Is silence really tacit support?
"While the [age verification] bill moved through the legislature, the OSI, FSF, Software Freedom Conservancy, and Linux Foundation all sat it out — no testimony, no public analysis, no formal opposition on the record."[https://boingboing.net/2026/03/02/californias-age-verification-law-could-regulate-every-linux-command.html]
Where were they when this mandatory spyware infrastructure was being shoved down our throats? Where were the self-proclaimed software freedom fighters? Where were the calls to action? I didn't see any.
Is silence golden ... or is gold buying silence?
Let these organizations know that you oppose California's age verification spyware law and that you expect them to rally in defense of true software freedom--freedom from government oversight of your software systems. Parents--and not the spyware state--should protect their children. The government is neither your parent nor your god nor your savior and the people should send a clear message stating that.
California, stay out of my operating system! And stay the hell away from children!
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Al Gore Invented the Internet.
Joe Biden invented PGP encryption.
Cypherpunks write code.
Joe Biden gifted humanity with PGP encryption (in a roundabout way). Phil Zimmermann created PGP in response to a anti-privacy bill clause proposed by Senator Joe Biden.
https://www.americanscientist.org/article/cypherpunks-write-code
"In 1990, the FBI launched an over-the-top crackdown on computer hackers, known as Operation Sundevil. This was swiftly followed, in early 1991, by a proposed piece of U.S. Senate legislation that would force electronic communications service providers to hand over people’s personal data. (The key clause, S.266, was pushed by the then chairman of the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee, Senator Joe Biden.)"
"On learning of Biden’s S.266 clause, Zimmermann feverishly set out to complete the project, almost losing his house in the process. When he finished his software in 1991, he published it all online, free for anyone who wanted to use it. He called it “Pretty Good Privacy,” or PGP for short, and within weeks it had been downloaded and shared by thousands of people around the world. “Before PGP, there was no way for two ordinary people to communicate over long distances without the risk of interception,” said Zimmermann in a later interview. “Not by phone, not by FedEx, not by fax.” It remains the most widely used form of email encryption to this day."Joe Biden's first panopticon bill:
https://www.congress.gov/bill/102nd-congress/senate-bill/266
"SEC. 2201. COOPERATION OF TELECOMMUNICATIONS PROVIDERS WITH LAW ENFORCEMENT. It is the sense of Congress that providers of electronic communications services and manufacturers of electronic communications service equipment shall ensure that communications systems permit the government to obtain the plain text contents of voice, data, and other communications when appropriately authorized by law."As they say in Texas: That dinosaur don't hunt.
#Biden #JoeBiden #PGP #Cypherpunks #Cypherpunk #PhilZimmermann #Privacy #Cybersecurity #Cryptography #GPG #Email #Senate #Law #Government #Panopticon #Hackers #Hacking #Security #Encryption
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"New research shows that behaviors that occur at the very lowest levels of the network stack make encryption—in any form, not just those that have been broken in the past—incapable of providing client isolation, an encryption-enabled protection promised by all router makers, that is intended to block direct communication between two or more connected clients.
The isolation can effectively be nullified through AirSnitch, the name the researchers gave to a series of attacks that capitalize on the newly discovered weaknesses. Various forms of AirSnitch work across a broad range of routers, including those from Netgear, D-Link, Ubiquiti, Cisco, and those running DD-WRT and OpenWrt.
AirSnitch “breaks worldwide Wi-Fi encryption, and it might have the potential to enable advanced cyberattacks,” Xin’an Zhou, the lead author of the research paper, said in an interview. “Advanced attacks can build on our primitives to [perform] cookie stealing, DNS and cache poisoning. Our research physically wiretaps the wire altogether so these sophisticated attacks will work. It’s really a threat to worldwide network security.” Zhou presented his research on Wednesday at the 2026 Network and Distributed System Security Symposium.
Paper co-author Mathy Vanhoef, said a few hours after this post went live that the attack may be better described as a Wi-Fi encryption “bypass,” “in the sense that we can bypass client isolation. We don’t break Wi-Fi authentication or encryption. Crypto is often bypassed instead of broken. And we bypass it ;)” People who don’t rely on client or network isolation, he added, are safe."
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Delta Chat is a messaging platform that works over email.
Setup is similar to a email client.
Messaging is decentralized and interoperable.
Supports end-to-end encryption via PGP.
PGP encryption keys are created automatically.
Default desktop client is based on Electron.
Electron is based on the Google Chromium web browser.
Website: https://delta.chat
Mastodon: @delta
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X's documentation explicitly states:
"Direct messages are not protected against hacking or unauthorised access."
If messages aren't protected against hacking, they're not encrypted properly.
This is encryption theatre, not encryption.
Words matter in security.
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How to Organize Safely in the Age of Surveillance
From threat modeling to encrypted collaboration apps, we’ve collected experts’ tips and tools for safely and effectively building a group—even while being targeted and tracked by the powerful.
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How to Organize Safely in the Age of Surveillance
Cryptomator is a client-side encryption tool for cloud storage services.
Data protected via AES-256 encryption.
Individual and business features.
Managed and self-hosted options.
ENCRYPTED
File content.
File/Folder name.
NOT ENCRYPTED
File/Folder access/creation/modification timestamp.
Number of files/folders in a folder/vault.
File size.
Website: https://cryptomator.org
Mastodon: @cryptomator
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I wish people would stop giving credit to "prominent cybersecurity/cryptography experts" just because they released some "cypherpunk" book or software of unproven impact 30 years ago and have since then retreated into golden tenure, writing technically empty but catchy preprints with provocative titles. These "Ludd grandpas" (you know at least a couple of names of who I'm referring to) are, unfortunately, still worshipped by a large number of semireligious followers, who contribute to the spread of their moldy ignorance.
Thinking deeper, maybe mine is a typical case of rejection for the image in the mirror: I hope I will never become like that in the future.
The world does not stop at your rants. Keep moving and stay open-minded, or become obsolete.
#cybersecurity #security #infosec #cryptography #crypto #academia #rant #luddism
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So, hear me out:
If instead of the current Hash+Salt based modality of password management, and given the relative lack of quantum complexity in how that all works for authentication, I have a proposition.
For any given password length N, N! hashes are taken for the password such that any substring starting with the first character and any arbitrary following sequential characters (D) to the length of the string (c0->cD) where D < N. This would require a quantum actor to deal with an element quantum mechanics is explicitly bad at dealing with: Certainty.
Instead of relying on the relatively low quantum complexity of the hashes, we extrapolate into another dimension and create an ordering of hashes that becomes a tangible certainty. Instead of having to find all of the hashes in a field (Low quantum complexity, High computational complexity), the operator must find a specific order from those hashes in the field (Extremely high quantum complexity, Moderate computational complexity).
It would also reduce the urgency of collision discoveries in hashing algorithms too.
Just a thought.
#cryptography #cybersecurity #informationsecurity #passwords #hashingalgorithms #hash #notThatKindofHash