evacide 3 weeks ago

NYT reports that the TSA is giving ICE a list of every person who's to be taking a domestic flight inside the US so ICE can run it through their database looking for targets. I'm not a lawyer, but I feel like the 4th Amendment has something to say about this.

Immigration Agents Are Using Air Passenger Data for Deportation Effort

The Transportation Security Administration is flagging passengers for Immigration and Customs Enforcement to identify and detain travelers subject ...

evacide 1 month ago

I don't dress for the male gaze. I dress for a women who are old enough to be my mother, wear oversized jewelry, and say things like "I'd dye my hair that color."

evacide 2 months ago

"A soldier knows what to do when they encounter another soldier. But an air-humping frog?" @sarahjeong.bsky.social on the shitposting/aura farming era of American politics.

The Verge

American politics has devolved into shitposting and aura farming

The Frog is owning the president.

evacide 2 months ago

As the prophecy foretold, a major platform's third-party age verification system has been hacked and hackers had access to the government ID images of Discord's users.

Tom

Discord users suffer the first high-profile age-verification hack – and it

Critics of age verification laws warned this was inevitable

evacide 4 months ago

I take it all back, there ARE violent criminals on the streets of San Francisco. They're grabbing people off the street and pepper spraying journalists.

I reported from an ICE action on Sansome and all I got was a face full of pepper spray

Federal agents are stepping up their actions against protesters and, apparently, the press

evacide 4 months ago

It is sometimes necessary, in these difficult times, to spend an hour scrolling through clothing sites, hoping that one of these gowns is going to give you the strength to fight fascism.

evacide 4 months ago

Even when I don't go to Vegas, the Vegas gossip comes to me.

evacide 5 months ago

Ron Deibert is absolutely the voice that the infosec industry needs to be listening right now. We are in a moment where fascism is consolidating power and most of the infosec industry is either playing along or is busy bragging about how much AI they've shoved into their products.

TechCrunch

Citizen Lab director warns cyber industry about US authoritarian descent | TechCrunch

Ron Deibert, the head of the prominent digital human rights groups Citizen Lab, sounds the alarm at the Black Hat security conference about the "dr...

evacide 5 months ago

Listen, we are in a terrible and difficult time where the horrors can often feel overwhelming. Lean into the things that bring you joy. If that means that sometimes you're wringing that last drop of dopamine out of watching bad people suffer as the result of their poor choices, you do you.

evacide 5 months ago

This is just to let you know I have taken the plums out of the icebox because fruit is better at room temperature

evacide 5 months ago

This is your regular reminder that if you are the smartest person in the room, go find another room. You are not going to run out of people or rooms.

evacide 5 months ago

I've spent not-insignificant amount of time at protests in the US, looking for signs of IMSI catchers and never found anything, so when I saw this, my ears perked up:

Straight Arrow News

Exclusive: Evidence of cell phone surveillance detected at anti-ICE protest

Mobile network anomalies consistent with cell phone surveillance were detected at a July 4 protest at an ICE field office in Washington state.

evacide 6 months ago

I was feeling entirely too confident and capable, so I decided to train press-up to handstand and now I am going to be suffering through these drills and progressions for a good long time.

evacide 6 months ago

Every once in a while, someone tells me that an abusive partner left them alone because they were afraid of what I would do if they didn't, and I feel like I have done something right.

evacide 6 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 6 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 7 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 7 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 7 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 8 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.