play safe on the internet with the help of friendly nerds! i'll be at the melb event telling ridiculous stories

secure your digital lyf with a bunch of friendlynerds.org this thurs at melb, syd and bris - we'll have @_AmyGray_ Lucie Krahulcova Michelle Gallaher and Dr Sarah Ashton in melb talking about the fun and not so fun aspects of love and the internet

secure your digital everything with a bunch of friendlynerds.org this thurs at melb, syd and bris Thoughtworks - @[email protected] and @FCTweedie will be in syd talking about the fun and not so fun aspects of love and the internet

brisbane - still time to register for tonight's friendlynerds.org event and secure your digital everything - Dr Amelia Radke and Brandon Bakker will be at the brisbane Thoughtworks talking about the fun and not so fun aspects of love and the internet

Alarming news on Chelsea E. Manning On 1 Nov I called on #USGovt to terminate her coercive detention without delay, categorized it as #torture (bit.ly/2ZAn10Y ) & reiterated this in my official report to #HRC43 (bit.ly/2vYhNBL). No response. dailym.ai/2W4yqq3

Wait... how can Covid-19 contact tracing apps (like #DP3T and @COVIDWatchApp) protect our health AND privacy? Well! Here's a one-page comic explainer! 👇 (condensed version of x.com/mikarv/status/… . cc0/public domain, re-post freely!)

1/ #COVID tracing: * is important * can be done in a decentralised model that protects privacy better than a centralised one So it’s not right to present it as ‘society can defend against #COVID19 OR ppl can have privacy, so suck it and live with the loss of privacy’

Miss EFA Talks? Here is the video from Lucie Krahulcova from Access Now talking digital rights in a pandemic & #COVID19au tracing apps with EFA's Policy Chair Angus Murray - thanks to all - join us again on 20 May 2020 for next EFA talks! #auslaw #auspol youtu.be/TI6RycNsHrY

That's a nice start, but I only see the app code. If we can't see the #COVIDSafeApp server code too, we don't even know what's in the encrypted messages we're sending.

this is some mask-off police state shit

@noneuclideangrl and I have written a summary of the outstanding issues with #covidsafe, 4 weeks after launch. Still major privacy concerns! docs.google.com/document/d/17s… Ariel Bogle phocks Josh Taylor Ben Grubb 🐛 Stilgherrian Jamie Tarabay Thanks to Vanessa Teague & Richard Nelson

The murder of George Floyd was the result of inhumane police brutality that is perpetuated by a culture of white supremacy.  benjerrys.co/2XXle5J

Ban Facial Recognition for Mass Surveillance. Sign Digital Rights Watch petition here: digitalrightswatch.org.au/ban-facial-rec…

#XConfOnline Australia has officially kicked off! An exciting start to the event with Nigel Dalton’s welcome message and our first keynote presentation by Martin Fowler and scottwshaw. There’s still time to register so get your ticket here: thght.works/32foIE4

Did you notice anything unexpected in the lineup at Thoughtworks XConf Online in Australia? Interested in how we pulled it off? If you want me to share our secret, Read on: thght.works/34m9i1R

The naivety from this The Sydney Morning Herald editorial is pretty amazing: "if Big Tech opens a back door it should be a very small one which does not allow malign actors to snoop on private communications" As if the size of a 'back door' will stop the 'baddies'. smh.com.au/national/big-t…

Watching this log4j bug metastasize, I’m seeing people ask why industry doesn’t fund open source. I don’t have a great answer, but I have some thoughts following the experience with Heartbleed in ‘14. 1/