We’re destroying the only habitable planet in the galaxy so computers can instruct sick people to drink piss

New from 404 Media: the ID verification service for TikTok, Uber, X, and many more tech companies exposed real peoples' driver licenses. As we move towards an internet forcing us to verify our identities, shows these companies will absolutely be targeted 404media.co/id-verificatio…

I get the reflex here + acknowledge that there are real issues that need to be solved. But age verification software doesn't work + any mandate creates a v troubling surveillance regime where every person, young or old, would need to be 'verified' across all 'online' activity.

The first rule of data breaches: if it exists in a database on the Internet, it will be stolen. The second rule of data breaches: the service that lost your data will be incredibly vague about exactly what the hackers took, because it’s way worse than you imagine.

"[Regjeringen] vil innføre aldersgrense for bruk av sosiale medier ved hjelp av elektronisk identifisering." Trist å se at Regjering etter Regjering (og Stortinget generelt) konsekvent går for naiv teknologisk tilnærming som kaster personvernet på sjøen. tv.nrk.no/serie/dagsnytt…

🇬🇧 Is your government supporting #ChatControl? Do you want it to? Help change its position in time for the next vote later this year (it will be extremely tight)! This is what you can do now to save privacy and encryption: patrick-breyer.de/en/take-action…

When I show people this Information is Beautiful visualisation of the worlds largest data breaches, they are aghast informationisbeautiful.net/visualizations…

Quantitative research on output (the resulting code) from users of copilot for coding shows it doesn't improve productivity – contrary to vendors' wild claims (based on qualitative studies on the subjects' experience and own claims); Increases bugs by 41%! cio.com/article/354057…

Another reminder that lawful access systems (ie, backdoors) can become major sources of personal & national insecurity China🇨🇳operators penetrated networks of Verizon, AT&T & Lumen Tech Sarah Krouse Dustin Volz Aruna Viswanatha Robert McMillan wsj.com/tech/cybersecu… via The Wall Street Journal

When commercial entities build systems that capture or can access mass data, hackers & intelligence services will come for them. Whether it's for advertising or lawful interception. They will get breached. It's just a matter of when. x.com/jsrailton/stat…

Case in point: there's no way to build a backdoor that only the "good guys" can use. When the entire technical community says that the EU's ChatControl legislation + similar pose serious cybersecurity threats, we're not exaggerating for effect.

Looks like Hungary will bring the CSAM reg (“chat control”) — a plan to mass-scan all private messages — back for another vote in the EU Council this Wednesday and Thursday. They’ve picked up support from Italy this time.

I’m not joking when I say that this proposal has the potential to do major damage to European cybersecurity right at a moment when they’re going to need it most. See what’s happening in the US. wsj.com/tech/cybersecu…

The German government is trying to push through Parliament, at record speed, a "security package" that would increase biometric surveillance at an unprecedented scale. The proposed measures contravene the government’s own coalition and undermine European law and the German

European Council: We’re debating a historic law that will massively change the privacy expectations for 447 million people, and create a surveillance regime unparalleled in world history. European press: The only articles you’ll see about this are random blog posts.

I strongly recommend turning this off. It's unbelievable that they quietly enabled this while everyone was focused on their 'Recall' AI feature. Now they're collecting and using everyone's Microsoft Word and Excel data to train their AI models.

Chinese hackers (actually, cyber operators) gained control to shut down U.S. ports, power grids, and other critical infrastructure. Intrusions were severe, with key details lost permanently due to erased logs and inadequate tracking.

The EU initiative Going Dark has now been launched by the EU Commission. They call it ProtectEU. It’s a rebranding of Chat Control. New name. Same old propaganda. The EU Commission’s goal is to “access encrypted data in a lawful manner, safeguarding cybersecurity and