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evacide, to random
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"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.

notroot,

@evacide I tried not to. I did. It's my own flaw, not yours.

evacide,
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@notroot Nah, I understand. I have the same problem.

evacide, to random
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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?

scy,
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@evacide But I feel the need, and I'm so used to simply doing whatever I feel like! I won't let wokeism take away my god-given freedom!

evacide, to random
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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.

Arcaik,
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@evacide If you're learning French (and like France's culture) you'll like the whole show I think.

evacide,
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@Arcaik You are correct.

evacide, to random
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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

ottaross,
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@evacide About time. Here's hoping this is the start of govs getting the guts to start breaking up the massive monoliths that are controlling so many sectors, squelching innovation, and lining billionaire pockets. Amazon, Meta, Alphabet next pls.

mhalligan,
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@evacide I really wish the country had taken Eddy Veder seriously when he called for antitrust action against ticket master.

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

mxtthxw,
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@evacide +1 for please do!

Wraithe,
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@evacide If you put a towel over the computer, the FBI cant see anything you do on it, but the CIA can, which we’re trying to figure out why that is.

evacide, to random
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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.

coldclimate,
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@evacide thank you for all you do. I am sorry that reply guys even dare.

nosmaharba,
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@evacide we (white cis male) aren't accustomed to sharing victimhood.

On the rare occasion when Everyone is the victim, we react as WCMs usually do, and form a hierarchy inside it - and declare ourselves King.

Sorry

evacide, to random
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"...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,
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@wrosecrans This feature is being implemented because there were zero survivors of domestic abuse involved the high-level decision-making.

skry,
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@GossiTheDog @evacide This sounds like employer surveillance ware that can also be abused by any family admin. I can’t think of any reason I would want such a thing, as a user.

Also, if browser password managers are insecure, we should be shouting that from the rooftops.

evacide, to random
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"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, to random
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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.

gabek,

@evacide Thank you for putting it better than I can.

evacide, to random
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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.

SteveBellovin,
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@evacide I saw you on PBS last night!

meganL,
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@evacide Thank you for saying this. I've been replying this way to people - less concisely and eloquently - on this subject for some time now.

The right to privacy does exist - not enough people defend it from the onslaught. Thank you for the work you do.

evacide, to random
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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.

cliffle,
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@evacide well shit. Guess I should check these liquidation sales.

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

evan,
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@jsit ohhhhhhhhh

I hadn't thought of that!

antiphase,

@evan Both Latin and Greek if I'm not mistaken

evacide, to random
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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/

huntingdon,
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@evacide

Presumably, Tesla knows which cars cameras took which photos, so pairing them up with the car owner wouldn't seem hard. Unless, that is, the owner takes seriously Tesla's claim that the cameras are there "to assist driving" and are “designed from the ground up to protect your privacy.”

Reuters's list of examples included a lot of faces. I don't suppose anyone at Tesla or elsewhere in Elmo's organization have access to facial recognition software. No?

bodomenke,
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@evacide That’s good, so that I do not have to. 😂

evacide, to random
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I see that everything is going fine over at the Hellsite.

stevenray,
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@evacide ha, wow.

wonka,
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@evacide Yesterday, I posted the following over there:
> cisgender (adjective): of, relating to, or being a person whose gender identity corresponds with the sex the person was identified as having at birth (https://merriam-webster.com/dictionary/cisgender)
> slur (noun): an insulting or disparaging remark or innuendo (https://merriam-webster.com/dictionary/slur)

And up to now, that post is visible. Well, to my followers, because I set my account to "protected" quite some ago. Seems it's not just the occurrence of "cisgender" and "slur".

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