evacide 7 months ago

Website/device age verification is a privacy and security nightmare and everyone who tells you that this is a solved problem is lying to you.

Gizmodo

Supreme Court Says Age Verification Laws for Porn Sites Are Constitutional

Nineteen states have age verification laws.

evacide 7 months ago

Do I think that the national Democratic Party will learn anything from Mamdani's win? No. Do I think it is important to enjoy a goddamn victory once in a while? Yes.

evacide 7 months ago

I would like to be Chrisjen Avasarala: impeccably-dressed, running things, swearing like a sailor. But I am Camina Drummer: barely keeping it together, sort of in charge, with a lot of complicated relationships and a strong eyeliner game.

evacide 8 months ago

Me, looking at my work calendar: This is insane. No one can do this much work. I'm going to find the asshole that did this and give them a piece of my mind! Me, looking in the mirror: Oh no.

evacide 8 months ago

Did I mention that the data broker industry must be destroyed?

The Intercept

U.S. Spy Agencies Are Getting a One-Stop Shop to Buy Your Most Sensitive Personal Data

The government wants to build a centralized platform where spy agencies can more easily buy private info about millions of people.

evacide 9 months ago

Q&A from a talk I gave last week. Q: "What do you think is the biggest threat in cybersecurity right now? Is it post-quantum computing? Is it AI?" A: Fascism. It's fascism.

evacide 9 months ago

The only way I can possibly touch enough grass to get through this day is to remove all of my clothes and roll around on a lawn.

evacide 9 months ago

There is so much bad news out there right now that it is sometimes difficult to even see the wins.

U.S. Restores Legal Status for Many International Students, but Warns of Removals to Come

Immigration officials signaled that the Trump administration would continue to pursue efforts to terminate the legal status of the students, despit...

evacide 9 months ago

For people who are looking to shield their identities in group chats: Signal does not store past handle IDs and 7 days after changing your handle, another Signal user can claim it.

evacide 10 months ago

Big Law has failed to stand up to Trump and now infosec is following suit. https://www.reuters.com/world/us/cybersecurity-industry-falls-silent-trump-turns-ire-sentinelone-2025-04-10/

evacide 10 months ago

Weird how the jobs that AI-boosters say AI is going to replace never seems to include the management or executive class.

evacide 10 months ago

I checked in on the Bad Place and discovered that a bunch of misogynists have spent a couple of weeks getting very worked up about a screenshot of a post I made about a decade ago and that locking my account last year has successfully deprived them of further ammo. Everything is cool and normal.

evacide 10 months ago

Today's OPSEC lesson is this: all of the encryption in the world is not going to save you if you add the editor of The Atlantic to your war-planning Signal group chat.

The Atlantic

The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans

U.S. national-security leaders included me in a group chat about upcoming military strikes in Yemen. I didn’t think it could be real. Then the bo...

evacide 10 months ago

For people who are concerned about crossing the US border, The Verge and Wired both have useful discussion and advice:

The Verge

Is it safe to travel with your phone right now?

Know your rights, but also minimize your risk.

WIRED

How to Enter the US With Your Digital Privacy Intact

Crossing into the United States has become increasingly dangerous for digital privacy. Here are a few steps you can take to minimize the risk of Cu...

evacide 10 months ago

You can learn a lot of useful OPSEC lessons by examining the ways in which people get caught, so I'm just going to leave this right here.

404 Media

How Three Alleged Tesla Vandals Got Caught

Automatic license plate readers, Instagram captions, and fingerprints.

evacide 10 months ago

If you're critical of the US government and you are planning to cross the US border any time soon, today is a good day to review EFF's border search pocket guide:

Electronic Frontier Foundation

EFF Border Search Pocket Guide

border-pocket-guide-2.pdf

evacide 10 months ago

I rarely tell people to throw their devices into the sea, but you should throw your Amazon Echo into the sea.

WIRED

Everything You Say to Your Echo Will Soon Be Sent to Amazon, and You Can’t Opt Out

Amazon is killing its “Do Not Send Voice Recordings” privacy feature on March 28 as the company aims to bolster Alexa+, its new subscription as...

evacide 10 months ago

It's Monday, which is a good day to remember that the data broker industry must be destroyed:

Gizmodo

Data Broker Brags About Having Highly Detailed Personal Information on Nearly All Internet Users

The advertising industry is immensely powerful, and disturbingly opaque.

evacide 11 months ago

Listen, I'm not going to pretend that I'm even remotely surprised, but I will tell you that this is a slap in the face to every person in the infosec community that has worked to track and thwart Russian APTs for the last several decades.

the Guardian

Trump administration retreats in fight against Russian cyber threats

Recent incidents indicate US is no longer characterizing Russia as a cybersecurity threat, marking a radical departure: ‘Putin is on the inside n...

evacide 11 months ago

Aerial coach: Do you remember this sequence from two weeks ago? Me: Listen, a lot has happened in the last two weeks...