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evacide, 7 days ago to random

Summer is here, which means that people are having Discourse about what weight women are allowed to reach before they should not be allowed to wear revealing clothing instead of just letting people wear clothes and shutting the hell up.

evacide, 8 days ago to random

Let there be no doubt that NSO Group is using the courts to harass the security researchers who have done the most to shed light on their years of misdeeds and lies.

https://theintercept.com/2024/05/06/pegasus-nso-group-israeli-spyware-citizen-lab/

evacide, 8 days ago to random

I went to see "Innocence" at the opera last night and I was perfectly fine until the survivor of a school shooting said it made her decide to become a doctor. It turns out that trauma survivors becoming the people who would have saved themselves stabs me directly in the feelings.

evacide, 10 days ago to random

Microsoft says they are making a bunch of changes to Recall to mitigate the many, many security and privacy problems that researchers have found over the last week:

https://www.theverge.com/2024/6/7/24173499/microsoft-windows-recall-response-security-concerns

evacide, 10 days ago to random

When AirTags first came out and I warned that they were Apple's gift to stalkers, so many Apple fanboys told me that I was overreacting.

https://www.404media.co/email/ce4cec4d-51c3-4101-b2b4-2c9a64aee5e8

evacide, 10 days ago to random

I am going to have to write a blog post version of my talk on physical trackers because I am not going to go through all of these arguments again with people who only just now discovered that AirTags get used for stalking.

evacide, 11 days ago to random

I try to be gracious and good rather than petty and mean, but sometimes bad things happen to bad people and I pop some popcorn, as a little treat.

evacide, 17 days ago to random

Who are the "supersharers" of fake news on Twitter? Republican Middle-aged white women living in Arizona, Florida, and Texas.

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adl4435

evacide, 16 days ago to random

There are so many reasons you shouldn't use stalkerware and @lorenzofb lays them all out for you right here: https://techcrunch.com/2024/05/31/hacked-leaked-exposed-why-you-should-stop-using-stalkerware-apps/

evacide, 17 days ago to random

Yes, I know that guy still stands a good chance of winning the election in November, but this is your regular reminder that you can't fight a long fight without stopping to enjoy your victories or you will burn out to a cinder.

evacide, 19 days ago to random

"I cannot be phased by being condescended to by old white men in legislative meetings. I have worked many years in infosec and I am dead inside" is an actual thing I said in an all-hands meeting yesterday.

evacide, 19 days ago to random

If you, a white person, feel the need to disguise yourself as a black person for any goddamn reason, how about you just don't?

evacide, 21 days ago to random

There is nothing more American than bragging that you know a bunch of languages because you can stumble your way through a restaurant menu and nothing more European than fluently speaking 3+ languages while apologizing for your accent.

evacide, 25 days ago to random

As a person who enjoys live music, this is the kind of action I love to see.

“It is time to break up Live Nation-Ticketmaster,” US Attorney General Merrick Garland said in a statement announcing the lawsuit.

https://www.theverge.com/2024/5/23/24163083/live-nation-ticketmaster-doj-monopoly-lawsuit-break-up

evacide, 26 days ago to random

A lot of people who are not experts in domestic abuse think they're making a clever point by informing me that if an abuser has physical access & login credentials, the game's already over.

I am very tired and do not have the energy to explain why making spying easier for abusers is bad, actually.

evacide, 26 days ago to random

"...a would-be hacker would need to gain physical access to your device, unlock it and sign in before they could access saved screenshots."

I've got some news for Microsoft about how domestic abuse works.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cpwwqp6nx14o

evacide, 26 days ago to random

I keep writing "privacy for cats" instead of "privacy for cars" in my work calendar, which leads to a very different mental image of what my job looks like.

evacide, 26 days ago to random

One day I will do a massive thread of just the worst digital privacy and security advice that people have given in my mentions.

evacide, 28 days ago to random

"I'm not listening to any more Dune takes from a guy who can't tell CHOAM from the Landsraad!" is a perfectly normal thing to yell while making brunch.

evacide, 1 month ago to random

Threat models matter.

When a platform/service/app tells you they are “private” or “secure” always ask “from whom?”

Criminals, domestic abusers, law enforcement, data brokers, and intelligence agencies are all different attackers with very different capabilities.

evacide, 1 month ago to random

When I talk about digital privacy, there is always some smug genius who shrugs and tells me, "Who cares? We all know we don't have any privacy anyway." Nothing could be more wrong. Convincing you that the fight is already over to the way people in power get you to stop resisting.

evacide, 1 month ago to random

"Cisgender is a slur" has some real "people pointing out racist behavior are the real racists" energy to it.

evacide, 1 month ago to random

Ted Baker is the latest I-need-something-to-wear-while-giving-a-talk brand to messily implode. This is a personal attack on my conference wardrobe.

evacide, 1 month ago to random

If you own a Tesla, your car is covered in cameras that take images reviewed by Tesla employees, who share them with each other, joke about them, and make them into memes.

https://www.reuters.com/technology/tesla-workers-shared-sensitive-images-recorded-by-customer-cars-2023-04-06/

evacide, 1 month ago to random

I see that everything is going fine over at the Hellsite.