SS7 and Diameter vulnerabilities have reached The Economist level of attention:

economist.com/leaders/2024/0…

So... FBI ran a Truman Show on this 🇨🇳spy for 8 years?

Wild.

1/ Our EU capital markets are no longer competitive & this needs to change ASAP.

Otherwise there is zero chance we will be economically competitive, esp. in financing-hungry tech areas like AI.

A few concerning trends/facts & key solutions to this problem 🧵

Something I missed: most common ISO management standards (including e.g. 27001) now require including climate change considerations in the management system.

iaf.nu/iaf_system/upl…

The mankind’s knowledge lasted better when it was printed on paper.

38% of webpages that existed in 2013 are no longer accessible.

pewresearch.org/data-labs/2024…

Top 3 long-term global risks:
1️⃣ extreme weather events
2️⃣ critical change to Earth systems
3️⃣ biodiversity loss & ecosystem collapse
💡It is a big challenge, but we must respond. Our future depends on it.
Explore the @WEF 2024 Global Risks Report ➡️ ow.ly/LGY250RILgv

Council of Europe adopts first international treaty on artificial intelligence - I guess this is the first binding and international common ground on AI regulation?

coe.int/en/web/portal/…

babe wake up new dprk it workers indictment just dropped 😨

justice.gov/usao-dc/pr/cha…

Woah.
Google is effectively trying to buy out the United States by tendering a cashier's check for the claimed max damages from screwing industry with adtech market power abuses. US DOJ's adtech antitrust trial seeking to break them up is months away. 1/4

Wow Slack - what a fine #privacy mess you’ve created here. You’re doing it all wrong. It should be #privacy bydesign yet you’ve f*cked it all up.

Press those update buttons folks.

Great to see some actual details of Amazon Web Services European Sovereign Cloud plans! I'm confident that cloud regions that are independent of non-EU regions will in the future be required by many EU/national compliance regimes for to ensure resilience.

aws.amazon.com/blogs/security…

Major data #breach could affect up to 120k pupils, guardians and city workers in Helsinki, Finland.

yle.fi/a/74-20088448

#infosec #cybersecurity #crime

The cloud is expensive. Even more at scale.

tech.ahrefs.com/how-ahrefs-get…

Telegram has launched a pretty intense campaign to malign Signal as insecure, with assistance from Elon Musk. The goal seems to be to get activists to switch away from encrypted Signal to mostly-unencrypted Telegram. I want to talk about this a bit. 1/

Measles, Mumps, Rubella, and Polio right now.

German approach to fight climate change:

1. Close nuclear power plants

2. Keep coal mines and coal power plants going instead

3. Underreport coal mines emissions by factor of 184

4. Make energy intensive industries not profitable in the process

Genius, simply genius

Rereading this infamous comment, those were actually reasonable qualms for 2007. Dropbox was a conjecture that those qualms weren't consequential to its commercial aspirations.

Google Cloud accidentally deleted a company's entire cloud environment (Unisuper, an investment company, which manages $80B). The company had backups in another region, but GCP deleted those too. Luckily, they had yet more backups on another provider.
theguardian.com/australia-news…

Seems like we’re getting a major push for activists to switch from Signal to Telegram, which has no encryption by default and a pretty shady history of refusing to add it. Seems like a great idea, hope folks jump all over that.