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Once you wake up to the idea that the world has been patterned, intentionally or unintentionally, in ways you don’t agree with, you can begin to change it. edwardsnowden.substack.com/p/conspiracy-p…
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🚨🚨 Apple says to "protect children," they're updating every iPhone to continuously compare your photos and cloud storage against a secret blacklist. If it finds a hit, they call the cops.
iOS will also tell your parents if you view a nude in iMessage.
eff.org/deeplinks/2021…
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No matter how well-intentioned, @Apple is rolling out mass surveillance to the entire world with this. Make no mistake: if they can scan for kiddie porn today, they can scan for anything tomorrow.
They turned a trillion dollars of devices into iNarcs—*without asking.* twitter.com/Snowden/status…
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cheems bb no what is you doing arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20…
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The true epiphany is that you’re the one pulling the strings: you have more agency than your push-notifications would have you believe. edwardsnowden.substack.com/p/conspiracy-p…
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Unbelievable: @Apple now circulating a propaganda letter describing the internet-wide opposition to their decision to start checking the private files on every iPhone against a secret government blacklist as "the screeching voices of the minority."
This has become a scandal. twitter.com/kaepora/status…
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If you have a @github account, you can co-sign this letter for technologists and security experts opposing @Apple's plan. I did.
appleprivacyletter.com
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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
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Big print on Apple billboard vs. small print on Apple license:
"Apple reserves the right, at any time and from time to time, to update, revise, supplement, and otherwise modify this Agreement and to impose new or additional rules, policies, terms, or conditions on your use." twitter.com/matthew_d_gree…
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Read this. "It is the endorsement by one of the largest industry players of the principle that ubiquitous spyware on consumer computing devices is normal and acceptable in free societies." twitter.com/normative/stat…
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The media is beginning to write with noticeably more skepticism about @Apple's plan to transform your iPhone into a spyPhone. Keep pushing! mediaite.com/news/edward-sn…
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Have to say I've been pretty impressed with the follow-up reporting on the #PegasusProject by @haaretzcom.
It's great to see somebody in Israel taking it seriously, even if the government isn't. The public shouldn't be locked out of an investigation that effects the whole world.
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Currently writing: Under His 'i'
If you own an iPhone, you should probably make sure you're on the mailing list at edwardsnowden.substack.com.
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It would be funny if it weren't so sad. He doesn't need ridicule—he needs help. twitter.com/cobie/status/1…
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Among the “crimes” that Hale was convicted was exposing the secret watchlisting rulebook used to label people, including U.S. citizens, as “known or suspected terrorists” without evidence that they did anything wrong.
theintercept.com/2021/07/30/dan…
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All the world’s a stage, but in this case it’s staged specifically for you—the audience who is also the star. edwardsnowden.substack.com/p/conspiracy-p…
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Apple's new iPhone contraband-scanning system is now a national security issue. They just openly admitted they have no answer for what to do when China comes knocking.
Hard to understate how disastrous this new system is for iPhone security. Tim Cook needs to intervene. twitter.com/josephfcox/sta…
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The last time China stamped an inappropriate demand for access, @Apple sold out their users out.
To quote them: “While we advocated against iCloud being subject to these laws, we were ultimately unsuccessful."
(LINK1: reuters.com/article/us-chi…
LINK2: nytimes.com/2021/05/17/tec…) twitter.com/sjmurdoch/stat…
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The world's foremost human rights organization, @amnesty, has issued an extremely strong statement denouncing the Biden administration's political persecution of Julian Assange -- which reignites tomorrow.
amnesty.org/en/latest/news…
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Do not shut up about Apple's #spyPhone scandal. We can win this. twitter.com/matthew_d_gree…
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The US Secretary of State really thought "Yes, this is the lecture I want to give the day before we demand Julian Assange be extradited and thrown in a dungeon for publishing evidence of our war crimes in Iraq and Afghanistan."
Can't wait to hear more on not jailing dissidents. twitter.com/StateDept/stat…
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Papers writing on Assange should mention the core of the US's extradition case—a frail and deeply suspect "hacking" claim—collapsed in June when the US's prime witness recanted his testimony (stundin.is/grein/13627/). What remains are only "unlawful journalism" charges. twitter.com/khrafnsson/sta…
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