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evacide

@evacide@hachyderm.io

Director of Cybersecurity
@EFF
/ Co-founder of
@stopstalkerware
/ These are my opinions, not my employers’ / I did a TED talk once

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evacide, to random
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Today I visited the Acropolis, where a lot of very beautiful marble friezes would be if the British hadn't stolen them, put them in the British Museum, and refused to return them to the Greek government.

There may have been some yelling.

evacide,
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@dazfuller When the British government said it was because the Greeks would not be able to take care of the marbles properly, the Greek government built a great big museum with a spot that says "THE MARBLES WOULD GO HERE IF THE FUCKING BRITISH WOULD JUST RETURN THEM."

evacide,
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@dazfuller It is not surprising that the people who ran around the world stealing all of its most important and beautiful artifacts have a law saying that this is a-okay.

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The first person to write a comprehensive report on the use of integrated car tech in domestic abuse situations will win my eternal gratitude, as expressed through the purchase of drinks.

lzg, to random
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it's nice to see coworkers. we laugh a lot more IRL than on zoom. I missed laughing with other people during the day.

evacide,
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@lzg People who don't see me in person believe I am Very Serious all the time.

evacide,
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@lzg We only threatened to steal one co-worker's eye.

evacide,
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@lzg If you sit down at a table with three half-blind crones with your two perfectly good eyes, you're taking a risk.

evacide, to random
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I like winning:

Apple and Google partner on an industry specification to address unwanted tracking by Bluetooth-enabled physical trackers.

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2023/05/apple-google-partner-on-an-industry-specification-to-address-unwanted-tracking/

evacide, to random
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Congress is trying to outlaw end-to-end encryption again and it's time to take action. Tell your rep. to vote against the STOP CSAM Act.

https://act.eff.org/action/tell-congress-don-t-outlaw-encrypted-applications

evacide, to random
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This week-long retreat with my co-workers is great but it also means that I have to explain how I spent my sabbatical approximately 100 times in a row.

hacks4pancakes, to random

I have to let you all in on something.

At this point in my career I’m privileged to mentor a lot of young people, especially veterans and college students. And every so often they’re like really excited to meet me and say they would like to be like me. This totally blows my mind because they go to like MIT, Stanford, or Purdue ….and they’re usually in the second year of a PHD and they run their cybersecurity competition team and speak 9 languages or something….

I was a TERRIBLE youth. Yea, I eventually went to DePaul which is respectable and I have three okay undergrad degrees - merely because I had no choice but to enlist at 17 and the military kicked the crap out of me. I went to community college first the hard way around. I almost didn’t graduate from high school. I was a miserable, unhappy, uncool gnc goth kid who hacked computers and swore a lot. Those schools would have .blown their noses at my application and probably banned me from the campus for being a delinquent.

What I want to say is if you’re one of those rock star young people, I’m super impressed by you, and you’ve picked one hell of a role model. Keep it up, and don’t burn out.

If you’re that totally screwed up teenager, though, I might not get to see you at awards ceremonies and touted by the top professors at cons, but you can make it too. Even if nobody is ever in your corner.

evacide,
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@hacks4pancakes I feel these feels. I just spent a couple of weeks meeting with extremely high-performing type-A students at fancy schools and the thing that I told them that seemed to resonate the most is that the job they will have in 20 years hasn't been invented yet and that it is ok to screw up or make the wrong choice or change their minds because my career has definitely not been a straight line of non-stop success.

martijn_grooten, to random
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When in Hamilton they said "immigrants, we get the job done", did they also have two wait two hours in line for immigration at Dulles airport?

evacide,
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@martijn_grooten I know this isn't true because you did not say "liberate." Americans liberate Arab countries. We liberate them for decades at a time.

evacide, to random
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I feel like most of the social media posts I'm seeing right now are complaints about other social media platforms, sprinkled with the occasional complaint about the actual platform they are on.

evacide, to random
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Every time some rando complains that EFF has been taken over by woke feminists, I only grow more powerful.

evacide, to random
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Just in case you were wondering if Elon ever met a authoritarian boot he couldn't wait to lick: the answer is no.
https://restofworld.org/2023/elon-musk-twitter-government-orders/

evacide, to random
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Being violently attacked and/or murdered by homeless people is not an SF problem. Being homeless and dying of an OD on fentanyl imported by an exec of the San Jose police union because SF has closed its supervised injection sites is an SF problem.

evacide,
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@jwstark People who say "crime" when they mean "I see poor people being visibly poor" give themselves away real fast.

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Running a Mastodon instance is thankless work, which I imagine is why I've seen so many admins burn out already.

evacide, to random
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There is a person trying to smear an org in my field by making new email accounts and pretending to be a bunch of different people complaining about them to people like me. They seem to be completely unaware that their writing style is distinctive enough to give them away every time.

evacide, to random
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The attorney general of Missouri has created this form where people can helpfully report their "transgender concerns."

You know what to do.

https://ago.mo.gov/file-a-complaint/transgender-center-concerns

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Just got permanently suspended for publishing this story: https://www.wired.com/story/matt-walsh-twitter-hack-doomed

evacide,
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@dell No policies. Only vibes.

evacide, to random
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I don't understand the people who told me I would get more conservative with age. The more powerful I become, the more angry I get at the people who abuse their power and the more aware I become of the ways in which systemic oppression functions.

evacide,
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20-year old me totally believed that tech was a meritocracy where people pulled themselves up by their bootstraps and that the 30-something guys I dated were attracted to me because I was so mature.

evacide,
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In other news, I am reading "Capital in the 21st Century" by Thomas Picketty and I am so angry at baby boomers right now.

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