epicenter_works, 1 month ago to random German

🕵️🔎🔎📱 The “repackaged” EU Council version of #chatcontrol still includes #MassSurveillance & serious threats to #encryption. Fortunately 🇩🇪🇵🇱🇫🇷🇦🇹🇳🇱🇪🇪🇫🇮 have acknowledged the severe concerns. We call on EU Member States to reject this dangerous position.
https://epicenter.works/content/open-letter-eu-councils-chatcontrol-is-still-mass-surveillance-undermining-encryption

Electrospaces, 1 month ago to random

Last Friday, the US House of Representatives renewed Section 702 FAA, which authorizes the NSA's PRISM and Upstream collection. However, the renewal is only for 2 instead of 5 years: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/fisa-reauthorization-house-vote-section-702/

ducasleo, 2 months ago to random

#eprint2024n555

If you ever have what you think is a conceptually new attack on LWE, please do the following effort: abstract it to a more general lattice problem. Ajtai/Regev type reductions imply such generalization exists. But rather than taking this huge implicit detour, abstracting it will make it way more clear what is it that you are doing.

By abstraction I do not mean a pedantic exercise of using a pretentious language. But the effort of getting rid of all that does not matter. And the best way to communicate your discoveries.

Abstraction has many advantages, like types. For example, when you use LWE/SIS, everything lives in (Z/qZ)^n. Is it a primal vector or a dual vector ? One has to recall from context, maybe jumping back 3 pages. Abstraction will force you to type your object to where they truely belong, giving the reader periodic reminders in a very concise manner. v \in L*. Ok, dual, thanks.

bert_hubert, 2 months ago to random

May you one day theorize something and 48 years later be photographed with the 27 kilometer large country-spanning machine that confirmed you were right. Awesome photo of Peter Higgs courtesy of the @CMSexperiment at CERN.

CenDemTech, 2 months ago to random

🚨 BREAKING: The House passed a two-year extension of #Section702 of #FISA, a controversial warrantless spying authority –– but in an extremely narrow tie vote, rejected critical reforms to stop rampant abuse of the law that has been well documented. https://cdt.org/press/u-s-house-vote-narrowly-allows-rampant-abuses-of-warrantless-spying-authority-to-continue/

EU_Commission, 2 months ago to Bulgaria

⚛️ Advances in quantum computing are expected to make it easier for malicious actors to access sensitive data unless we advance our cryptography.

Today, we published a Recommendation on Post-Quantum Cryptography to help #EU countries ensure the security of our Union’s digital infrastructures and services.

By developing a consistent strategy, our Union will protect citizens, societies and the digital single market in the next digital era.

Find out how ➡ https://europa.eu/!F8W86m

#DigitalEU

about.iftas.org, 2 months ago to space

https://about.iftas.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/DSA-Guide-Decentralised-Servers.pdf

IFTAS is happy to announce the public availability of our DSA Guide for Decentralized Services – a practical guide for small and micro services that are subject to the EU’s Digital Services Act.

Developed in collaboration with the great people at Tremau, our DSA Guide is designed to help independent social media service providers navigate these complex regulations and achieve compliance with these new rules without compromising the unique qualities of federated, open social networks.

As part of our Needs Assessment activities, we’ve heard a repeated need for help understanding the complex regulatory landscape that decentralized services need to consider, and this DSA Guide is the first of many in our plan to provide clear, actionable guidance to a range of regulations for the community.

As of February 2024, all online services and digital platforms that offer services in the European Union are required to be fully compliant with the DSA. If your server has member accounts in the EU, or is publicly viewable in the EU, your service is most likely impacted by this regulation.

However, various portions of the DSA are not applicable to “small and micro” services, and this guide will show you clearly which parts apply and which do not.

For administrators of platforms like Mastodon, PeerTube, and Pixelfed, the DSA Guide can help demystify the requirements and offer practical advice on achieving compliance for the over 27,000 independent operators of these and other decentralized social media services who otherwise may not be able to obtain the guidance and advice that larger operations can afford to invest in.

Download the DSA Guide for Decentralized Fediverse Services.

To join the discussion, visit our community chat service at https://matrix.to/#/#space:matrix.iftas.org or stay tuned to join our community portal in the coming weeks!

https://about.iftas.org/2024/04/09/dsa-guide-for-the-fediverse/

#ActivityPub #BetterSocialMedia #DSA #Fediverse

echo_pbreyer, 2 months ago to random German

🇬🇧The leaked #ChatControl proposal from the Belgian Council Presidency which will be discussed today reveals: The EU Commission’s extreme #ChatControl bill is alive. Our fight against this attack on digital privacy of correspondence continues!

More: https://www.patrick-breyer.de/en/full-chat-control-proposal-leaked-attack-on-digital-privacy-of-correspondence-and-secure-encryption/

kubamracek, 2 months ago to random

Programming microcontrollers with Embedded Swift is... definitely fun :)

Check out the sample projects (for ARM and RISC-V microcontrollers) we just published if you'd like to try that out too, or if you're just curious:

https://swift.org/blog/embedded-swift-examples/

https://github.com/apple/swift-embedded-examples

ErikJonker, 2 months ago to Israel

Good analysis by @Bellingcat of the #WCK attack in #Gaza
https://www.bellingcat.com/news/2024/04/02/strike-that-killed-world-central-kitchen-workers-bears-hallmarks-of-israeli-precision-strike/
#Israel #bellingcat

Mer__edith, 2 months ago to random

📢NEW FROM ME!

On the TikTok ban, the danger of abandoning defense of speech to extremists, & how the liberal tendency to assume a just state "outside the scope of this paper" leads to confused law/policy that can exacerbate the problems platforms pose.

https://lpeproject.org/blog/social-media-authoritarianism-and-the-world-as-it-is/

randahl, 2 months ago to random

Recap of Putin's narrative:

Ukraine is a country of Russians waiting to be liberated, who deserve to have their energy infrastructure bombed, so they can freeze to death before the liberation, because they are led by a Jewish president who is somehow also a nazi who has recently sent his Islamic jihadist terrorists to gun down Russians in Moscow while screaming “allahu akbar”.

Imagine the briefing on Russian tv1, where the hosts are told to keep a straight face while delivering this message.

benjojo, 2 months ago to random

New blog post!

Signed but not secure covers the Jan 3 outage that happened to Orange Spain due to malicious creation of RPKI ROA's

Greguti, 2 months ago to random French

1/5 Claire Nouvian, fondatrice de Bloom France, vient de poster sur X (ex-Twitter) un thread fort utile pour mieux comprendre les votes des divers groupes politiques au Parlement Européen sur l'environnement et l'écologie.

Plutôt que vous encourager à aller sur le site de Musk, en voici un résumé :)

"🚨 Qui a voté quoi pdt 5 ans ? Après des mois de travail, nous publions avec Bloom l’analyse des votes sur les enjeux écologiques au Parlement européen."

#Européennes2024 #Ecologie #Environnement

Infographie de Bloom France proposant un "classement des délégations françaises du parlement européen". Les 3 groupes composés de partis de gauche sont les "bâtisseurs", les diverses composantes macronistes sont les "irréguliers" et les différents partis classés à l'extrême droite sont "les casseurs".

zackwhittaker, 2 months ago to random

Proof that warrant canaries are still serving their purpose.

The Ethereum Foundation said in a GitHub commit that it had removed the warrant canary after it "received a voluntary enquiry from a state authority that included a requirement for confidentiality."

Here it is: https://github.com/ethereum/ethereum-foundation-website/commit/769b30603504b4b5e8f601f8014691a8d1821390

Ange, 2 months ago to random

Marc Stevens came up with a new kind of MD5 collisions:
alphanum, no space, single byte difference (always +4), and not even 2 blocks!

No more high entropy collision blocks!

md5("TEXTCOLLBYfGiJUETHQ4hAcKSMd5zYpgqf1YRDhkmxHkhPWptrkoyz28wnI9V0aHeAuaKnak")

md5("TEXTCOLLBYfGiJUETHQ4hEcKSMd5zYpgqf1YRDhkmxHkhPWptrkoyz28wnI9V0aHeAuaKnak")

chaser, 3 months ago to random

Families in Gaza begin work on suspicious photoshop pic in hopes to get the media worrying about their wellbeing
https://chaser.com.au/world/families-in-gaza-begin-work-on-suspicious-photoshop-pic-in-hopes-to-get-the-media-worrying-about-their-wellbeing/

bert_hubert, 3 months ago to random

An official announcement from the Dutch government: "The Netherlands hosts some of the world's largest internet exchanges. This obliges us to make the best use of these exchanges for our national security. With the Temporary Cyber Act, we will make optimum use of the data carried on our cables to protect The Netherlands against Russian and Chinese hackers". https://www.rijksoverheid.nl/actueel/nieuws/2024/03/12/inlichtingendiensten-kunnen-sneller-en-beter-optreden-tegen-cyberdreiging

rauhul, 3 months ago to swift

Hey, I did a thing!
Try out Swift on the Playdate: https://forums.swift.org/t/byte-sized-swift-building-tiny-games-for-the-playdate/70615

#Swift #SwiftLang #Playdate

fulelo, 3 months ago to random

#BBCNews - The other #Oppenheimer story that won't win Oscars
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-68515779

bsi, 3 months ago to random German

Zum #Weltfrauentag möchten wir an die leider oftmals vergessenen Programmiererinnen erinnern, die die IT-Welt maßgeblich geprägt haben. Nur dank dieser Pionierleistungen ist die Informatik heutzutage auf dem jetzigen Wissensstand.

#DeutschlandDigitalSicherBSI

gov, 3 months ago (edited 3 months ago) to random German

#DécisionCF Le Conseil fédéral a adopté le mandat définitif pour les négociations avec l'UE. Elles pourront commencer dès que la
Commission européenne aura également un mandat définitif, probablement ce mois-ci encore : https://admin.ch/gov/fr/accueil/documentation/communiques.msg-id-100342.html (BK) #SwissEUrelations 1/5

fossifoundation, 3 months ago to random German

Our director @wallento and other leading academics from Europe have published an open letter toward European funding agencies, where they highlight the importance of open source EDA tools for education and research. Share and co-sign! https://open-source-eda-letter.eu

signalapp, 3 months ago to random

Phone number privacy and usernames are now rolling out to everyone using Signal version 7.0! Update your app to take advantage of these new features 🎇

https://signal.org/blog/phone-number-privacy-usernames/

shawnhooper, 3 months ago to dance

This dance routine by the CDK Company in the Netherlands to Gotye's "Somebody that I used to know" is absolutely fantastic.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REPPgPcw4hk

#dance