Can you have #nostr without zaps and Bitcoin? Because to be honest, the Bitcoin part of nostr as a social media platform really fucking sucks.

Cryptography The Key to Digital Security, How It Works, and Why It Matters by Keith Martin This was a great look at every day encryption usage and why it is important. It's not technical or made for security professionals: it's for everyone. Very accessible and almost fun to read. I loved the analogies and thought experiments to explain what are usually very complex topics. #cryptography #privacy #books

Gillian Anderson? Reznor and Ross (as Nine in Nails) soundtrack? Sign me up #movies #tronares

Trump Is Asking the Supreme Court To Let Him Have Black Sites The Trump administration inadvertently revealed on Monday that it is attempting to trap Venezuelan migrants in a catch-22 that would effectively block them from challenging their deportation and detention in an El Salvador prison. The government intends to treat the prison as a black site where migrants have no constitutional rights whatsoever and may be subject to any treatment whatsoever—including indefinite detention, forced labor, torture, or death.

Slate Magazine

Trump Is Asking the Supreme Court to Let Him Have Black Sites

Because this situation is unprecedented, there is little case law to indicate whether the DOJ is correct that migrants lose their rights at CECOT.

think I’m back to using YakiHonne. Primal notifications seem borked. And recently the new wallet connect/connected apps shows incorrect balances (but works)

Real Genius was always playing on a loop when I was a kid #ripVal

“As part of its efforts, the bloc has repeatedly introduced its Chat Control legislation, aimed at weakening the encryption that protects messaging services and force providers to provide a client-side backdoor for law enforcement.” #privacy

WebProNews

EU Possibly Emerging As One Of The Greatest Threats To Privacy

The European Union, once praised for its pro-privacy legislation, is now leading the charge toward a future with less privacy, one where the govern...

Looks like Elon couldn’t buy that Wisconsin seat. Congrats to Susan Crawford for defeating her opponent, a large bag of cash.

Windows NT is pronounced "Win Doesn't"

out here encrypting things in the wild #yubikey #encryption # privacy

It's the 26th anniversary of The Matrix. Released on March 31st, 1999, making cinematic history and forever leaving its mark on the Sci-Fi genre. #TheMatrix #Movies #Matrix

saw this wifi network on my flight. should I join?

A prominent computer scientist who has spent 20 years publishing academic papers on cryptography, privacy, and cybersecurity has gone incommunicado, had his professor profile, email account, and phone number removed by his employer Indiana University, and had his homes raided by the FBI. No one knows why.

Ars Technica

FBI raids home of prominent computer scientist who has gone incommunicado

Indiana University quietly removes profile of tenured professor and refuses to say why.

#cryptography

I’m case you needed yet another reason to ditch Windows: Soon you will HAVE to have a Microsoft account to use Windows. “Microsoft has removed the 'BypassNRO.cmd' script from Windows 11 preview builds, which allowed users to bypass the requirement to use a Microsoft Account when installing the operating system.”

BleepingComputer

Microsoft's killing script used to avoid Microsoft Account in Windows 11

Microsoft has removed the 'BypassNRO.cmd' script from Windows 11 preview builds, which allowed users to bypass the requirement to use a M...

Old vs New The red box was one way to make phree phone calls in the 80s/90s. This one was one I made when I was about 10. The flipper zero has an app on it that produces the same tones. #phreak #hacking #flipperzero #hacktheplanet

Yea I like vibe coding and this is my vibe #vibecoding

Damn do y’all remember that span of time when we just GAVE our locations away for FUN to apps like Foursquare and Gowalla?

The History of the Web

Gowalla, Foursquare and the (very) brief history of the Location Wars - The History of the Web

When the iPhone was released, two apps rushed to market in a battle over geolocation that would come to be briefly known as the "location wars"

#privacy

Glad I moved to #nostr and got off the xhitter Twitter (X) Hit by 2.8 Billion Profile Data Leak in Alleged Insider Job

Twitter (X) Hit by 2.8 Billion Profile Data Leak in Alleged Insider Job – Hackread – Cybersecurity News, Data Breaches, AI, and More

Finally picked up a few of these. Anyone else using a security key like yubikey? #privacy #security #yubikey

Damn it’s officially time to get a new mobile #phone. What’re the cool #nostr kids using now adays? Upgrading from an iPhone X. Keep looking at grapheneOS. Wish Linux phone was a legit option. Definitely interested in security. No #google. Not saying no to a new iPhone but hate all the AI shit.