927
"The Drug Enforcement Administration is secretly deploying spyware from an Israeli firm," writes the @nytimes.
"The United States has played both arsonist and firefighter" in terms of digital security, funding a deadly bazaar for state hackers.
nytimes.com/2022/12/08/us/…
928
Whistleblowers might be protected, if only they would submit themselves to “proper channels,” which is code for standing on a very particular part of the floor suspended above a tank labeled: DANGER! PIRANHAS.
edwardsnowden.substack.com/p/assange01
929
Software giants who have seen the commercial malware targeting their users should look at this as a template for imposing consequences on this predatory industry.
The "business" of human-rights-violations-as-a-service must be stamped out—before it grows.
apple.com/newsroom/2021/…
930
Issuing a currency is easy. Getting people to accept it is hard. twitter.com/viewsofac/stat…
931
If you have a @github account, you can join me in co-signing the first letter uniting security & privacy experts, researchers, professors, policy advocates, and consumers against @Apple's planned moves against all of our privacy.
appleprivacyletter.com
932
...beginning to suspect my wife may secretly be a witch. twitter.com/lsjourneys/sta…
933
You think Sam got time and a half? Hazard pay?
Did Sam even get Dental?
934
Beginning with an increase in paper notes, continuing with the cancellation of the right to exchange them for the more precious coin, and culminating in the debasement of the coin itself, the State finally achieved “sovereign currency:” a handsome napkin.
edwardsnowden.substack.com/p/cbdcs
935
@markcianci Well, a previous group of extremists gathered in 1776 to contemplate that issue and arrived at a solution that seemed okay for the previous two hundred some years:
937
*sigh* gonna be a big week twitter.com/cameron/status…
938
Nothing says "healthy political culture" quite like elaborate false-flag operations in a minor regional election. Wild story by @VICENews: twitter.com/cam_joseph/sta…
939
Remarkable that the Washington takeaway from Leahy's anecdote is
"Wow! The CIA is stalking Senators to whisper tips in their ears! How cinematic!"
and not
"How could Leahy sit on classified information he knew could stop a war?"
It decided his vote! twitter.com/vermontgmg/sta…
940
The Streisand Effect is alive and well. twitter.com/Snowden/status…
941
Read about the Biden, Trump, and Obama officials who accepted blood money from the NSO group to bury any efforts at accountability -- even *after* their involvement in the death and detention of journalists and rights defenders around the world! washingtonpost.com/technology/202…
942
If you're on an iPhone, this is the best article so far explaining the #nostr/Damus app everybody is talking about:
9to5mac.com/2023/02/01/nos…
943
系统的目的不是帮助你，而是控制你。 无论您感到多么孤立，请永远不要忘记您并不孤单：对新兴世代的剥削是一场全球斗争。
(对不起，我可怜的中文。'-.-)
youtube.com/watch?v=corZx0…
944
the next time she burns a pokemon card, tell her you think this was what uncle marx was talking about when he said the existence of the state is inseparable from the existence of slavery
945
@LelandEMcKnight Transactions are basically instantaneous on lightning-enabled wallets these days. Have you tried it?
946
In Israel, the only way to uncover the truth of a phone hacking scandal in which cops may have destroyed evidence is... to ask for help from a company that has routinely lied to cover up scandals in the past? How very modern.
haaretz.com/israel-news/.p…
947
@oneKevinJohnson @wikileaks @JamesOKeefeIII The source of a given piece of information is a hell of a lot less important than if that information is true.
949
Apple's system was never designed to protect children, as they would have you believe, but rather to protect their brand.
edwardsnowden.substack.com/p/all-seeing-i
950
Davinci Resolve is crippled in the most anger-inducing ways.
A Linux CLI from 1989 can convert a file format intended for CLAY TABLETS into ALIEN BEAT POETRY.
DR in *2023* is like "oh, wow, h.264? pretty exotic, there fella. aac audio? can't, sorry."
Then points you to Paypal.
You can find me on #nostr @ pubkey: #npub1sn0wdenkukak0d9dfczzeacvhkrgz92ak56egt7vdgzn8pv2wfqqhrjdv9. (use Damus on iOS, Amethyst on Android, or snort.social)