Trump updated the PQC EO:
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Here is a STEAM project I worked up for my kid's school demonstrating (critiquing!) the potential use of AI multimodal models in law enforcement, border control, and surveillance...

#ai #machinelearning #computervision #steam #lawenforcement #surveillance #privacy #gpt4o #elevenlabs #openai

DAITA v2 provides the same level of protection as v1 but with half the average bandwidth overhead

Posted some technical details on DAITA v1 and v2 defenses together with @mullvad.bsky.social to celebrate the broad deployment of v2 🚀

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I think about this headline all of the time.

Wyden Releases Draft Bill to Secure Americans’ Communications Against Foreign Surveillance Demands | U.S. Senator Ron Wyden of Oregon The Official U.S. Senate website of Senator Ron Wyden of Oregon

Senator Wyden has proposed a bipartisan bill that would block foreign nations from demanding backdoors in US encryption. www.wyden.senate.gov/news/press-r...

European Parliament urges lawmakers to only use encrypted messages after China hacks The advice comes after it was revealed that a China-linked hacking group conducted large-scale intrusions on U.S. and global telecommunication providers.

"European Parliament urges lawmakers to only use encrypted messages after China hacks" www.politico.eu/article/euro...

One of the biggest areas of AI hype right now is the notion that it will hyperaccelerate scientific progress. I understand why people think this — AI is already accelerating scientific _production_. 🧵

Trump and Apple better tell the UK to go to hell with its demand to access Americans’ private, encrypted texts and files. Trump and American tech companies letting foreign governments secretly spy on Americans would be an unmitigated privacy and national security disaster.

Internet Freedom Workshop: Tor、Tails、OONI - OONI-Research Join us on February 23rd, 2025, in Taipei, Taiwan, for a full-day event focused on online privacy, censorship circumvention, and monitoring. Hosted in partnership with the Open Culture Foundation, OON...

Attending #RightsCon? So are we!
Join our full-day event dedicated to online privacy, censorship circumvention, and censorship monitoring, on Feb 23 or any of our other sessions and talks:
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”For us little people, the choice seems to be between being data-jacked and screwed over by the undemocratic Chinese, or being data-jacked and screwed over by the post-democratic tech bros. Once again, it’s the old syphilis or Ebola menu choice.”

Snart kommer det ett bättre alternativ.

Executive Order to the State Department Sideswipes Freedom Tools, Threatens Censorship Resistance, Privacy, and Anonymity of Millions In the first weeks of the Trump Administration, we have witnessed a spate of sweeping, confusing, and likely unconstitutional executive orders, including some that have already had devastating human c...

We want to draw attention to one of the new Administration's Executive Orders that directly impacts the freedom tools that people around the world depend on to fight censorship, and protect their security and anonymity.

Feelings are Facts: Love, Privacy, and the Politics of Intellectual Shame A debut of new research and analysis, focused on emotions and the affective register—love! shame! intimacy! What happens when we put lov...

I'm late to the party, but this lecture by @meredithmeredith.bsky.social is absolutely excellent, and a reminder of the importance of clear conceptualisation and asking the right questions media.ccc.de/v/38c3-feeli...

3/ Europol demanding backdoors when some of the worst recent national security breaches in the US happened... when #China targeted government-mandated backdoors.

There's every reason to believe something similar may have happened in #Europe.
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Ny lag kan tvinga Whatsapp att lämna Sverige WhatsApp kan överge Sverige. Det är en fullt tänkbar konsekvens av den kommande lagen om datalagring, varnar remissinstanser.

En ny lag kan få WhatsApp och Signal att lämna Sverige.

I guess the way I would summarize this is that the road to hell is paved with good intentions. And I feel like many of my well-meaning colleagues are paving that road, with beautiful privacy-preserving bricks. But they don’t want to think hard about the destination.

I knew one day I’d have to watch powerful men burn the world down – I just didn’t expect them to be such losers | Rebecca Shaw Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg’s desperation to be cool as they suck up to Donald Trump is so cringe it makes my skin crawl

Now that's a headline.

This Salt Typhoon stuff is insane. The entire FISA surveillance infrastructure has been completely owned by China and literally no part of our telecom infrastructure is safe to use without end-to-end encryption.

Fearsome File Formats Presented at 38C3 in Hamburg on the 28th December 2024. With so many open-source parsers being tested and fuzzed, and widely available specs, what c…

I presented about file formats at #38C3.
Thanks for the feedback everyone!
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Offentlighetsprincipen är för dyr för skolorna Offentlighetsprincipen är för dyr för skolorna

”Pengarna ska gå till undervisning – inte administration” skriver Almegas förbundsdirektör.

Ok men ”Academedias och IES aktieutdelning är mångdubbelt större än kostnaden för att införa offentlighetsprincipen” svarar Åsa och jag,
www.aftonbladet.se/kultur/a/dRj...

Tor in Russia: A call for more WebTunnel bridges | Tor Project As the Russian government intensifies its grip on the internet, censorship circumvention tools like Tor are more critical than ever. Here's the latest on Tor censorship in Russia and how you can help ...

We're calling on the Tor & Internet freedom community to help scale up WebTunnel bridges. Ever thought about running a Tor bridge? Now is the time! Our goal is to deploy 200 new WebTunnel bridges by the end of this year to open secure access for users in Russia.🕸️🌉 blog.torproject.org/call-for-web...

Tor in Russia: A call for more WebTunnel bridges | Tor Project As the Russian government intensifies its grip on the internet, censorship circumvention tools like Tor are more critical than ever. Here's the latest on Tor censorship in Russia and how you can help ...

Tor Project has "urgent need" for 200 new bridges to bypass Russian censorship

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Rage Against The Machine
Denial Against The Machine
Bargaining Against The Machine
Depression Against The Machine
Acceptance Against The Machine

- The Kübler De La Rocha Model