Love my SO for sending me this image after me getting frustrated for being sick badly the past week.

An IBM slide from 1979.

IT staff refused to onboard Weiss, worried if she was granted the full access Musk requested Twitter would be breaking the law. The order was a response to previous privacy concerns. To some, it was unclear if Musk had read it. washingtonpost.com/technology/202…

OK! let’s talk about That Op-ed. The one that insisted not only that privacy is dangerous, but that not affirmatively building surveillance into communication tools is a radical ideological position. 1/ web.archive.org/web/2023010119…

Encryption is the best technology we have to protect information from bad actors, governments, and service providers, and it has developed to the point that it is virtually impossible to break—when used correctly. ssd.eff.org/en/module/what…

Some dithering from 2017

i hate this platform can’t it die already #MyTwitterAnniversary

People complain about the "woke mind virus" but honestly I find the Bayesian mind virus far more worrisome--all these tech cults & CEOs tossing around words like priors, updating beliefs, expected value, p(doom), in ways that don't make sense just to virtue signal or whatever 🤮

📣Official statement: the new EU chat controls proposal for mass scanning is the same old surveillance with new branding. Whether you call it a backdoor, a front door, or “upload moderation” it undermines encryption & creates significant vulnerabilities signal.org/blog/pdfs/uplo…

Let's stop #chatcontrol before we have every message in Europe monitored. This might be a radical opinion, but the mass scanning of messages sounds pretty dystopian to me.

While I imagine many people have bigger things to worry about, this plan is the most significant invasion of digital privacy that any nation (or group of nations) has ever proposed. It’s up for a vote today: worth paying attention to!

"The fact that the EU interior ministers want to exempt police officers, soldiers, intelligence officers and even themselves from chat control scanning proves that they know exactly just how unreliable and dangerous the snooping algorithms are that they want to unleash on us

I’m trying not to make my Twitter feed “all ChatControl all the time” but I’m not sure there’s much point in tweeting about cryptography if the EU passes legislation undermining it.

It seems like the vote on #ChatControl has been bumped to today. I'm starting to see bigger outlets write about it so our message it getting out! If more people knew about this proposed legislation, the public uproar would be immense. theverge.com/2024/6/19/2418…

Wild times at the EDPS 20th anniversary summit: EU Commissioner for Justice Věra Jourová has said the EC proposal for the #CSARegulation would break encryption, and that this is right because of the need to protect children. This is the first time I've *ever* heard the...

People think there is a point at which you win against surveillance. You never win: there will always be another battle.

What I love about cryptography is that if you take it, flip it upside down like a cafeteria tray, you get computational complexity theory — and on one end, a little desert tray of information theory. That’s why all the great scientists briefly slummed it as cryptographers.

“Home routing” is a nice feature that can encrypt data from your mobile phone’s home network when you’re roaming, and apparently law enforcement wants it gone. bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/…