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US Senator: twitter.com/RandPaul/statu…
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One of these days, people should consider the possibility that the reason we've gone SEVEN YEARS without a single piece of evidence is because it didn't happen. Crazy, right? twitter.com/dnvolz/status/…
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“Nearly every other legal system in the world condemns coercive confinement, and long ago replaced secret grand juries with public hearings... even knowing I am very likely to stay in jail for an even longer time, I’m never backing down.” gizmodo.com/chelsea-mannin…
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Princeton Computer Scientists: @Apple is "gambling with security, privacy and free speech worldwide."
The core design of Apple's new "child safety" system—comparing your photos against a secret blacklist—is "dangerous" and "easily repurposed for surveillance and censorship." twitter.com/evacide/status…
530
There have been thousands of Afghan civilians trapped and panicking on the civilian side of the airport with their commercial jets unable to take off all night, and DOD is crowing about flying out just 500 people?
People that could be on that other side stamping emergency visas? twitter.com/PeterAlexander…
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Journalists should press HARD on the #spyPhone scandal. It is indefensible for @Apple, which positions itself as a pro-privacy company, to push a harshly criticized surveillance paradigm into one billion phones despite condemnations by both security experts and rights groups. twitter.com/Snowden/status…
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With the FBI breaking into US systems to delete malware from Microsoft exchange servers and now this, the government is engaged in a breathtaking sprint to protect the Microsoft brand.
Have the Solarwinds hacks led to a quiet embrace of "national champions" style infosec policy? twitter.com/NSACyber/statu…
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Members of Congress should be making calls about this. Journalists should be asking the White House and DOJ questions.
The founder of Sci-hub—unquestionably one of the most important sites for academics in the world—should not be subject to persecution for their work. twitter.com/ringo_ring/sta…
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I talked to Russell Brand (@rustyrockets) about privacy, surveillance, and more. Here's a part about how your phone is used to keep track of your movements—even if you uninstall every app in the drawer and disable "location services": youtube.com/watch?v=2jxdwI…
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For those wondering why the politicians who violated your rights for more than a decade are pushing long-discredited propaganda, here is the real "significant consequence" they're worried with: theguardian.com/us-news/2020/s…
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The worst part of cryptocurrency transforming into dragon-level wealth is witnessing good people emotionally devolve into dragons themselves: so intellectually paralyzed by the fear that everyone they see threatens their hoard that they lose sight of the world beyond their cave. twitter.com/gladstein/stat…
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Skepticism is a virtue, cynicism is a vice.
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One notorious digital armaments dealer dismissed his involvement in human rights abuses. “We work with the good guys.” He added, “And sometimes the good guys don’t behave.”
Yeah, you know what they call good guys that don't behave?
Bad guys.
nytimes.com/2022/12/08/us/…
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Great to hear, but there's no record of you speaking like this last week when your close partners in Israel—who, unlike China, you can definitely influence—were exposed by the #PegasusProject for their involvement in the actual *deaths and detentions* of journalists.
Why not? twitter.com/SecBlinken/sta…
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Even anime is contemplating how we shift the burdens of war.
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If you're curious about the pardon controversy but haven't followed all the arguments being made for (and against!), @ggreenwald just wrote a comprehensive summary. greenwald.substack.com/p/the-case-for…
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If you're a journalist, you need to read this thread. twitter.com/AndrewDFish/st…
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This looks like the first confirmed case of digital weapons made by Israel's NSO group being used against a major US reporter. NSO has repeatedly, falsely sworn their hacks are only used against "terrorists" and "serious criminals." Which one is @NYTBen? twitter.com/RonDeibert/sta…
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Large-sample (~78k) poll results on the pardon question: pic.twitter.com/ecs0ZBLYlw
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What is #nostr?
Unlike the old social media "platforms" where the platform-owner (FB, Tiktok, Twitter) gets to decide who can speak—and what can be heard—#nostr is an open protocol.
If a platform is a silo, a protocol is a river: no one owns it, and everyone is free to swim. twitter.com/jack/status/16…
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Read this thread about how a federal court ruled last year that the FBI broke surveillance laws 15,993 out of 16,000 times -- and that's just the beginning. twitter.com/LizaGoitein/st…
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"bLoW a wHisTLe oN rUsSiA aNd sEe wHat hApPenS"
To score points on the idea that a whistleblower would have to flee the Kremlin—just as they must escape the White House—is to define "victory" as equaling *Russia.* Is that winning?
Assange faces 175 years: a death sentence.
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The rigid communities of belief formed today on all sides of every issue are a symbol of where we went wrong. Fractious, incurious, and all too certain. twitter.com/Reuters/status…
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Singling out @tiktok_us just because it's linked to China is entirely the wrong move.
Don't ban a company.
Don't ban a country.
Ban the *practice.*
Make the systematic and exploitative collection of people's private details unlawful. Under *any* flag.
blog.malwarebytes.com/privacy-2/2022…
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Remember, the EARN IT act is only the latest attack in the government's very long war on encryption. Switzerland's most sensitive communications-security company was secretly run by the CIA. There is nothing these people won't do to stamp out the idea of a private conversation. twitter.com/Snowden/status…
You can find me on #nostr @ pubkey: #npub1sn0wdenkukak0d9dfczzeacvhkrgz92ak56egt7vdgzn8pv2wfqqhrjdv9. (use Damus on iOS, Amethyst on Android, or snort.social)