What happens when a government can order technology companies to create a back door into encrypted communications that even they cannot access?

A rare cross-border coalition of Canadian civil-liberties advocates and Republican lawmakers is warning that Canada's proposed surveillance legislation could threaten privacy rights on both sides of the border.

'Privacy is not a luxury in a free society.'

Sweeping vulnerability

Supporters of proposed Bill C-22 say such powers are necessary to help law enforcement investigate terrorists, organized crime, and other serious threats in an age of encrypted messaging. Critics counter that once a vulnerability is built into a system, it cannot be confined to one country, one agency, or one investigation.

Last Friday, the Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms presented a petition to the office of Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney. More than 40,000 people signed the petition opposing Bill C-22, which would expand the government's ability to obtain electronic communications and other digital evidence during criminal and national security investigations.

US opposition

VPN providers are already threatening to leave the Canadian market if the bill becomes law. In a May 7 letter, Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, and Rep. Brian Mast (R-Fla.), chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, warned Canada's Public Safety Minister Gary Anandasangaree that the legislation could jeopardize privacy rights in both countries.

"Canada's Bill C-22, currently under consideration in Parliament, would drastically expand Canada's surveillance and data access powers in ways that create significant cross-border risks to the security and data privacy of Americans," the lawmakers wrote.

"We write to express our concerns that, if enacted, Bill C-22 would allow Canadian government officials to compel American companies to build backdoors into their encrypted systems, thereby introducing systemic vulnerabilities that could be exploited by hackers, foreign adversaries, and cybercriminals."

The lawmakers also warned that the bill's language is sufficiently broad to permit secret ministerial orders.

"If a U.S.-based provider is forced to redesign its system to facilitate Canadian authorized access to content that is currently inaccessible even to the provider itself, the resulting capability cannot be geographically limited," they wrote. "This directly threatens the privacy of U.S. persons who expect and depend upon robust encryption to protect sensitive communications, health data, financial records, and personal correspondence from unwarranted intrusion."

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Stark terms

At a Friday news conference before submitting the petition to Carney, JCCF board member John Robson, a prominent Ottawa historian and journalist, described the bill in stark terms.

“I'm here on Parliament Hill today because we are delivering a petition with 42,344 signatures asking Parliament not to proceed with Bill C-22 ... because [Prime Minister Mark Carney] is the moving force behind this bill, and we're hoping to persuade him that all these signatures from Canadians across the country ... represent legitimate, serious concerns about the scope of this bill,” Robson said.

Robson noted that many Canadians and the constitutional scholars at the JCCF “are concerned about Bill C-22 because it would require service providers to compile Canadians' electronic data, to develop systems for extracting information from it and turning it over to the government.”

“It's not that Canadians ... are against law enforcement having appropriate powers, including to fight organized crime,” Robson said.

“It's one more ham-fisted way of targeting ordinary, law-abiding people instead of adopting tailored measures suitable to the real crime problems. And privacy is not a luxury in a free society.”

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Canada-US coalition emerges against Mark Carney's surveillance bill

What happens when a spyware investigator finds himself the target of hackers. “Having the attack land in my inbox, and the chance to turn the tables on the attackers and understand more about the campaign was too good to pass up,” Donncha Ó Cearbhaill said. Read more from @Techcrunch:

https://flip.it/1CR1Q2

#Tech #CyberSecurity #Hackers #Technology

hack the planet! can't wait to watch this.
#hackers #hacktheplanet

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Screenshot of the opening to the movie Hackers, the 56K upgrade

Plus: The NSA tests Anthropic’s Mythos Preview to find vulnerabilities, a Finnish teen is charged over the Scattered Spider hacking spree, and more.

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Disneyland Now Uses Face Recognition on Visitors

Kevin Mitnick, the Ghost in the wires
https://negativepid.blog/kevin-mitnick-the-ghost-in-the-wires/

#kevinMitnick #hackers #Cybersecurity #cyberattacks #cyberThreats #onlineSecurity #negativepid

Cyber warfare groups: SEA
https://negativepid.blog/cyber-warfare-groups-sea/

#SEA #SyrianElectronicArmy #politics #hackers #hacktivism #extremism #internetMovements #cyberwarfare #syria #propaganda #negativepid

Anonymous: hactivism vs cybercrime
https://negativepid.blog/anonymous-hacktivism-vs-cybercrime/

#anonymous #hackers #hackerCollectives #hackerCulture #cyberpunk #hacktivism #cybercrime #Cybersecurity #cyberattacks #behaviouralStudies #socialMedia #onlineForums #identity #negativepid

Chaos Computer Club
https://negativepid.blog/chaos-computer-club-ccc/

#CCC #ChaosComputerClub #hackers #hackerCollectives #Germany #BBS #ethicalHacking
#Cybersecurity #cyberattacks #cyberThreats #onlineSecurity #negativepid

Kevin Mitnick, the Ghost in the wires
https://negativepid.blog/kevin-mitnick-the-ghost-in-the-wires/

#kevinMitnick #hackers #Cybersecurity #cyberattacks #cyberThreats #onlineSecurity #negativepid

US suspects China in breach of FBI surveillance network

U.S. investigators believe hackers affiliated with the Chinese government are responsible for a cyber intrusion on an internal Federal Bureau of Investigation computer network that ‌holds information related to some domestic surveillance

#fbi #surveillance #databreach #china #security #cybersecurity #hackers #hacking #hacked

https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boards-policy-regulation/us-suspects-china-breach-fbi-surveillance-network-wsj-reports-2026-03-06/

Fortune: #Discord cuts ties with #PeterThiel-backed verification software after its #code was found tied to U.S. #surveillance efforts - https://web.archive.org/web/20260224100715/https://fortune.com/2026/02/24/discord-peter-thiel-backed-persona-identity-verification-breach/

#Persona basically left their code accessible on a #USGovernment endpoint. Researchers looked.

Yeah, they know what you say on #SocialMedia, #FacialIdentity, and 267 other things to identify and profile you.

#PersonalIdentity #AgeVerification #SpyWare #PersonaIdentities #hack #hackers #WhiteHat

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."

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."

#Biden #JoeBiden #PGP #Cypherpunks #Cypherpunk #PhilZimmermann #Privacy #Cybersecurity #Cryptography #GPG #Email #Senate #Law #Government #Panopticon #Hackers #Hacking #Security #Encryption

Hackers are developing open-source tools like OUI-SPY and crowdsourced maps (deflock.me, alpr.watch) to detect and counter ICE's automated license plate readers and surveillance cameras. 🔍
These counter-surveillance efforts aim to protect communities from mass tracking, though legal risks remain. ⚖️

@eff

🔗 https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/01/how-hackers-are-fighting-back-against-ice

#TechNews #Privacy #Surveillance #Data #Security #Rights #OpenSource #Policy #DigitalRights #Tech #Ethics #Freedom #Hackers #Hacking #ICE #USA #US #Trump #DonaldTrump

How #Hackers Are Fighting Back Against #ICE

ICE has spent hundreds of millions of dollars on #surveillance technology to #spy on anyone—and potentially everyone—in the United States. It can be hard to imagine how to defend oneself against such an overwhelming force. But a few enterprising hackers have started projects to do counter surveillance against ICE, and hopefully protect their communities through clever use of technology.
#privacy

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/01/how-hackers-are-fighting-back-against-ice

@codemonkeymike

Hmm, nothing in Texas at all, that's surprising!

Yo #Texas #hackers, who wants to band together to give microcrap the boot? ;)

In 2018 this paper reframed a major chapter of computing history in a way that's more apparent and relevant today.

The paper traces the ideological roots of Seymour Papert's constructionism and Logo, as well as projects his work influenced such as Scratch and OLPC, to the MIT hacker culture. It also explains the fall from grace of the theory in the education world, but notably not in the technology world, as a consequence of that culture and its disconnect with the wider social implications.

https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3274287

#LogoLang #mit #hackers

Inquiry ongoing after UK government hacked, says minister

Cyber security officials have confirmed they are aiding an investigation after a minister said the UK government had been hacked.

It is understood a Chinese affiliated group is suspected of being behind the attack.

#UK #NCSC #GCHQ #China #security #cybersecurity #hackers #hacking #hacked

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cj4qpwprw9vo

Underground: Tales of Hacking, Madness and Obsession on the Electronic Frontier is a 1997 book by Suelette Dreyfus, researched by Julian Assange. It describes the exploits of a group of Australian, American, and British black hat hackers during the late 1980s and early 1990s, among them Assange himself.

You can get it free
https://underground-book.net/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Underground_(Dreyfus_book)
#book #ebook #underground #hackers #hacking #exploits #blackhat #computers #security #suelettedreyfus #julianassange #readers

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Underground: Tales of Hacking, Madness and Obsession on the Electronic Frontier is a 1997 book by Suelette Dreyfus, researched by Julian Assange.

Google has confirmed that hackers have stolen the Salesforce-stored data of more than 200 companies in a large-scale supply chain hack. On Thursday, The nebulous hacking group known as Scattered Lapsus$ Hunters claimed responsibility. Read more from @Techcrunch:

https://flip.it/zDONb5

#Tech #Google #Salesforce #Cybersecurity #Hackers

When hackers hit a company with a ransomware attack, another company that specializes in negotiating with the perpetrators may step in. Two such specialists were recently charged by the U.S. Dept. of Justice for carrying out ransom attacks of their own. @Techcrunch has more:

https://flip.it/H-1Vkb

#Tech #CyberCrime #CyberSecurity #Technology #Hackers

I suspect US newspaper chain Champion Media has a Chinese hijacker at one of its newspapers. When I tried to archive a url, the archive was redirected to a fake CloudFlare website in Hong Kong at a weird domain registered a week or so ago.

The suspect redirect domain is xpoalswwkjddsljsy DOT com

Maybe a malware downloader?

Archive at archive.ph /xPFNv

This is just a hunch. Not my expertise.

I try to archive all the news and other URLs related to shootings in southern Ohio.

#InfoSec #malware #Hackers

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archive.ph screenshot showing a fake cloudflare captch

We at #hispagatos revamped our #blog and #gemlog [http|gemini] and posted the #announcement to #usenet check it out! Also created a new entry on it related to most of the #projects we have been working on in #2025 there are more news but this ones are the most relevant!

- https://rocksolid-us.pugleaf.net/groups/hispagatos.talk/thread/1238
- https://hispagatos.org
- gemini://hispagatos.org

Happy #Hacking
ReK2

#hackerculture #hackingisnotacrime #hackers #nntp #smallweb #gemini #gopher

As you may have picked up, it's the 30th anniversary of #Hackers, the 1995 masterpiece and quintessential hacker subculture movie. I didn't see it till I was already in undergrad, about 15 years after it was released... and it was immediately apparent where hacker vibes came from. Go watch it, it's silly, but good :D

A happy "Pool's sprung a leak" to those who celebrate.

"Remember that there is a distinction between a programming language and a graphical user interface. Don't confuse snazzy graphics (generated using someone else's libraries and tools) with good programming."

@infostorm@a.gup.pe @hacking@a.gup.pe @c@a.gup.pe @programming@a.gup.pe @dev@a.gup.pe @quotes@a.gup.pe

#BjarneStroustrup #C #cplusplus #Hacking #Hackers #Programming #Programmers #Dev #Developers #Code #Coding #quotes #quotations