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But some people deserve to be freed last. npub18wn0jd3p7n6u3y7mc46p0hpx3cmtv9k3mu82rc0lhkg3rdyf590s3wshpx evacide Please enjoy this interview with @hypervisible.blacksky.app about Meta's pervert glasses. npub18wn0jd3p7n6u3y7mc46p0hpx3cmtv9k3mu82rc0lhkg3rdyf590s3wshpx evacide I could start a feed of stories about cops using Flock to stalk and terrorize current and former partners and I would never run out of material. https://www.404media.co/florida-deputy-of-the-year-used-flock-to-stalk-ex-held-gun-in-her-mouth-did-a-nazi-salute/ npub18wn0jd3p7n6u3y7mc46p0hpx3cmtv9k3mu82rc0lhkg3rdyf590s3wshpx evacide When you target security researchers with malware, getting caught and written up is honestly one of the less unpleasant possible outcomes: https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/20/someone-targeted-security-researchers-using-a-fake-crypto-conference-as-a-lure/ npub18wn0jd3p7n6u3y7mc46p0hpx3cmtv9k3mu82rc0lhkg3rdyf590s3wshpx evacide I have stopped throwing parties and started just baking a cake and then telling my friends they should come over and help me eat this cake. npub18wn0jd3p7n6u3y7mc46p0hpx3cmtv9k3mu82rc0lhkg3rdyf590s3wshpx evacide If, when I say the revolution does not need drug-addled cut-rate Hunter S. Thompson impersonators, you think I'm talking about you...I am absolutely talking about you. npub18wn0jd3p7n6u3y7mc46p0hpx3cmtv9k3mu82rc0lhkg3rdyf590s3wshpx evacide I cannot overstate how much the revolution needs kind, reliable, people who show up when you need them and does not need drug-addled cut-rate Hunter S. Thompson impersonators. npub18wn0jd3p7n6u3y7mc46p0hpx3cmtv9k3mu82rc0lhkg3rdyf590s3wshpx evacide It is noteworthy when even the Los Angeles Police Department finds that Flock just isn't worthwhile. npub18wn0jd3p7n6u3y7mc46p0hpx3cmtv9k3mu82rc0lhkg3rdyf590s3wshpx evacide Four Thieves is dead! Long live Four Thieves! npub18wn0jd3p7n6u3y7mc46p0hpx3cmtv9k3mu82rc0lhkg3rdyf590s3wshpx evacide Today's Long Read is about how fringe far-right theories about the "censorship-industrial complex" became Trump policy: npub18wn0jd3p7n6u3y7mc46p0hpx3cmtv9k3mu82rc0lhkg3rdyf590s3wshpx evacide Researchers find a flaw in Apple's Private Relay that exposes users' real IP addresses, which also affects users of Tor's OnionBrowser in iOS: https://www.404media.co/apples-private-relay-is-exposing-users-real-ip-addresses/ npub18wn0jd3p7n6u3y7mc46p0hpx3cmtv9k3mu82rc0lhkg3rdyf590s3wshpx evacide You cannot make mass surveillance "safe" or "good" by adding more guardrails. 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The tools and players and platforms and fights all shift like sand under your feet and you're still working like it's 2003 or 2013 or 2023 and you might as well be yelling at clouds. npub18wn0jd3p7n6u3y7mc46p0hpx3cmtv9k3mu82rc0lhkg3rdyf590s3wshpx evacide Looking forward to the Washington Post's article about how Truth Social, Gab, and Nostr users need to get out of their bubbles. npub18wn0jd3p7n6u3y7mc46p0hpx3cmtv9k3mu82rc0lhkg3rdyf590s3wshpx evacide Google has rolled out a new feature for Android called "Intrusion Logging" that helps security researchers do forensic analysis to find spyware. It's pretty cool: https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/12/google-launches-new-android-security-feature-to-help-uncover-spyware-attacks/ npub18wn0jd3p7n6u3y7mc46p0hpx3cmtv9k3mu82rc0lhkg3rdyf590s3wshpx evacide If you are in your late thirties to mid-forties right now, there is a good chance that you have spent most of your life in a cycle of making some sort of home on the internet only to have it crumble beneath you like chalk and having to start over. npub18wn0jd3p7n6u3y7mc46p0hpx3cmtv9k3mu82rc0lhkg3rdyf590s3wshpx evacide The English language needs a word for the rage I feel when the company that makes the pants I like discontinues them. npub18wn0jd3p7n6u3y7mc46p0hpx3cmtv9k3mu82rc0lhkg3rdyf590s3wshpx evacide When you have laws with which it is impossible to comply, you end up with selective enforcement that only punishes the opponents of people in power. Just sayin'. npub18wn0jd3p7n6u3y7mc46p0hpx3cmtv9k3mu82rc0lhkg3rdyf590s3wshpx evacide There is a whole class of apps that market themselves as "personal safety" or "anti-theft" that meet the definition of stalkerware and Cerberus Anti-Theft is one of them: https://hexproof.dev/datagrams/cerberus-on-play/ npub18wn0jd3p7n6u3y7mc46p0hpx3cmtv9k3mu82rc0lhkg3rdyf590s3wshpx evacide As foretold by prophecy, LAPD used their "first responder" drones to spy on No Kings protests and anti-ICE protests: https://theintercept.com/2026/04/20/lapd-skydio-drone-surveillance-no-kings-protest-ice/ npub18wn0jd3p7n6u3y7mc46p0hpx3cmtv9k3mu82rc0lhkg3rdyf590s3wshpx evacide Your push notifications can betray your privacy. Here are the settings you can enable to do something about that: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/04/how-push-notifications-can-betray-your-privacy-and-what-do-about-it npub18wn0jd3p7n6u3y7mc46p0hpx3cmtv9k3mu82rc0lhkg3rdyf590s3wshpx evacide I have started to write a new section of my AI talk on what AI is doing to vuln discovery, bug bounties, and defense and oh no it is 45 extra minutes of content. npub18wn0jd3p7n6u3y7mc46p0hpx3cmtv9k3mu82rc0lhkg3rdyf590s3wshpx evacide EFF is finally leaving X and here is a blog post about why: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/04/eff-leaving-x npub18wn0jd3p7n6u3y7mc46p0hpx3cmtv9k3mu82rc0lhkg3rdyf590s3wshpx evacide I was really hoping to go through life without needing to know what the plural of "apocalypse" is. npub18wn0jd3p7n6u3y7mc46p0hpx3cmtv9k3mu82rc0lhkg3rdyf590s3wshpx evacide "I'm just going to let people be wrong on the internet" remains the single most difficult New Year's Resolution I have ever made, hands down. Nothing else comes close. npub18wn0jd3p7n6u3y7mc46p0hpx3cmtv9k3mu82rc0lhkg3rdyf590s3wshpx evacide Good news for people with older iPhones. Patch your stuff. npub18wn0jd3p7n6u3y7mc46p0hpx3cmtv9k3mu82rc0lhkg3rdyf590s3wshpx evacide Yael's post demonstrates something about digital privacy/security that I think a lot of people miss: there is no right answer, just a series of trade-offs. And every person has to make their own decisions about which trade-offs are worthwhile. https://blog.yaelwrites.com/options-for-phones-at-protests/ npub18wn0jd3p7n6u3y7mc46p0hpx3cmtv9k3mu82rc0lhkg3rdyf590s3wshpx evacide People will react to news of major security vulns with "The only way to stay secure is to live as a hermit and throw your devices into the sea" and then keep chattering on the internet in a deeply unhermitlike manner while not throwing their devices into the sea. npub18wn0jd3p7n6u3y7mc46p0hpx3cmtv9k3mu82rc0lhkg3rdyf590s3wshpx evacide If you have an iPhone, today is a good day to make sure you are running the latest software. https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/23/someone-has-publicly-leaked-an-exploit-kit-that-can-hack-millions-of-iphones/ npub18wn0jd3p7n6u3y7mc46p0hpx3cmtv9k3mu82rc0lhkg3rdyf590s3wshpx evacide For people who are concerned about having their devices seized at US airports starting Monday when ICE "assists" the TSA, EFF has this guide: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/06/journalist-security-checklist-preparing-devices-travel-through-us-border npub18wn0jd3p7n6u3y7mc46p0hpx3cmtv9k3mu82rc0lhkg3rdyf590s3wshpx evacide What a stupid time to have a degree in International Relations. npub18wn0jd3p7n6u3y7mc46p0hpx3cmtv9k3mu82rc0lhkg3rdyf590s3wshpx evacide I have come away from my last conference cautiously optimistic about how useful AI can be in reversing malware and extremely scared about all of the new attack surface being created in the use and deployment of AI tools. npub18wn0jd3p7n6u3y7mc46p0hpx3cmtv9k3mu82rc0lhkg3rdyf590s3wshpx evacide The greatest joke that my brain chemistry plays on me is that every few years I get an idea for a novel, which I will outline, write several chapters for, and then never touch again. npub18wn0jd3p7n6u3y7mc46p0hpx3cmtv9k3mu82rc0lhkg3rdyf590s3wshpx evacide Hacktivists tried to find a workaround to Discord’s age-verification software, Persona. Instead, they found its frontend exposed to the open internet, and that was just the beginning. npub18wn0jd3p7n6u3y7mc46p0hpx3cmtv9k3mu82rc0lhkg3rdyf590s3wshpx evacide The most monstrous lie that I regularly tell myself is "I'll get that work done while I'm on the plane." npub18wn0jd3p7n6u3y7mc46p0hpx3cmtv9k3mu82rc0lhkg3rdyf590s3wshpx evacide Meta thinks now is a great time to launch facial recognition surveillance tech in their creepy glasses because EFF will be too distracted by fascism to notice. npub18wn0jd3p7n6u3y7mc46p0hpx3cmtv9k3mu82rc0lhkg3rdyf590s3wshpx evacide Trying to explain compartmentalization to activists, but the biggest stumbling block is that most people become activists by accident, so their activism is deeply enmeshed with all of their existing accounts, platforms, and devices. npub18wn0jd3p7n6u3y7mc46p0hpx3cmtv9k3mu82rc0lhkg3rdyf590s3wshpx evacide Sometimes I get a really good quote in. npub18wn0jd3p7n6u3y7mc46p0hpx3cmtv9k3mu82rc0lhkg3rdyf590s3wshpx evacide Why do your organizing over Signal? So that you don't do your organizing on an app that hasn't been tested or reviewed, run by a guy who doesn't tell his users about data breaches and security problems. npub18wn0jd3p7n6u3y7mc46p0hpx3cmtv9k3mu82rc0lhkg3rdyf590s3wshpx evacide Planning to film ICE? Wired has a guide for that: https://www.wired.com/story/how-to-film-ice/ npub18wn0jd3p7n6u3y7mc46p0hpx3cmtv9k3mu82rc0lhkg3rdyf590s3wshpx evacide How many people here would be interested if I did a digital security/privacy advice blog somewhere? npub18wn0jd3p7n6u3y7mc46p0hpx3cmtv9k3mu82rc0lhkg3rdyf590s3wshpx evacide This is your regular reminder that I do not owe you an argument defending a position that you have decided that I hold. Indeed, I do not owe you an argument about anything. npub18wn0jd3p7n6u3y7mc46p0hpx3cmtv9k3mu82rc0lhkg3rdyf590s3wshpx evacide EFF will be closed Friday, Jan. 30 as part of the national shutdown in opposition to ICE and CBP and the brutality and terror they and other federal agencies continue to inflict on immigrant communities and any who stand with them. npub18wn0jd3p7n6u3y7mc46p0hpx3cmtv9k3mu82rc0lhkg3rdyf590s3wshpx evacide Hello, it's me. I'm the one training the resistance in the diabolically professional OPSEC of setting disappearing messages in the Signal group chat. npub18wn0jd3p7n6u3y7mc46p0hpx3cmtv9k3mu82rc0lhkg3rdyf590s3wshpx evacide It's Friday night and I'm outlining a 12-minute talk about the Opium Wars because, as you are aware, I know how to party. npub18wn0jd3p7n6u3y7mc46p0hpx3cmtv9k3mu82rc0lhkg3rdyf590s3wshpx evacide Do not store your Bitlocker encryption keys on Microsoft's servers if your threat model includes governments or law enforcement. As this article points out, this is the result of a design choice Microsoft made. It didn't have to be this way. npub18wn0jd3p7n6u3y7mc46p0hpx3cmtv9k3mu82rc0lhkg3rdyf590s3wshpx evacide Will this deal turn US TikTok into a propaganda tool for the Trump administration? Probably, yes. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/22/technology/tiktok-deal-oracle-bytedance-china-us.html?unlocked_article_code=1.GlA.k_AA.rNjpdy5oNvN9&smid=url-share npub18wn0jd3p7n6u3y7mc46p0hpx3cmtv9k3mu82rc0lhkg3rdyf590s3wshpx evacide Trying to protect everything from everyone all the time is a good way to drive yourself crazy. This is why we threat model. Here is EFF's Surveillance Self Defense guide to putting together your security plan, also known as threat modeling: https://ssd.eff.org/module/your-security-plan npub18wn0jd3p7n6u3y7mc46p0hpx3cmtv9k3mu82rc0lhkg3rdyf590s3wshpx evacide If you are organizing folks in Minneapolis right now, you may find this guide to Signal for beginners by @nprofile…upkm useful: https://freedom.press/digisec/blog/signal-beginners/ npub18wn0jd3p7n6u3y7mc46p0hpx3cmtv9k3mu82rc0lhkg3rdyf590s3wshpx evacide Project Zero releases a 0-click exploit chain for the Pixel 9. This one targets the Pixel, but the 0-click bug and exploit techniques used also apply to most other Android devices. npub18wn0jd3p7n6u3y7mc46p0hpx3cmtv9k3mu82rc0lhkg3rdyf590s3wshpx evacide This is your regular reminder that authoritarianism is just domestic abuse writ large. npub18wn0jd3p7n6u3y7mc46p0hpx3cmtv9k3mu82rc0lhkg3rdyf590s3wshpx evacide Sometimes I read the threads that experienced activists write about how to behave at protests because it reminds me that the kinds of replies I get when I give digital privacy/security advice aren't just for me. npub18wn0jd3p7n6u3y7mc46p0hpx3cmtv9k3mu82rc0lhkg3rdyf590s3wshpx evacide We are 9 days into 2026 and my New Years' Resolution to just let people be wrong on the internet is already is truly testing the limits of my willpower. npub18wn0jd3p7n6u3y7mc46p0hpx3cmtv9k3mu82rc0lhkg3rdyf590s3wshpx evacide There is no one-size-fits-all solution for digital safety at protests. You need to decide in advance what your goals are, what is important for you to protect, and what is likely to happen to you, and threat model accordingly. npub18wn0jd3p7n6u3y7mc46p0hpx3cmtv9k3mu82rc0lhkg3rdyf590s3wshpx evacide But if it is important to you to maintain your anonymity at a protest, consider leaving your phone at home, or at least turning it on/off only once you are well out of the neighborhood. npub18wn0jd3p7n6u3y7mc46p0hpx3cmtv9k3mu82rc0lhkg3rdyf590s3wshpx evacide There are other reasons you might want to take a cheap/disposable/burner phone to a protest, such as making sure that if you are arrested, the police don't seize/break/confiscate your main phone. npub18wn0jd3p7n6u3y7mc46p0hpx3cmtv9k3mu82rc0lhkg3rdyf590s3wshpx evacide If you don't want ICE to know you were at a protest, taking a burner phone is not going to help you stay anonymous if you go home afterwards. https://www.404media.co/inside-ices-tool-to-monitor-phones-in-entire-neighborhoods/ npub18wn0jd3p7n6u3y7mc46p0hpx3cmtv9k3mu82rc0lhkg3rdyf590s3wshpx evacide All that the Turing Test proves is that human are much, much stupider than Alan Turing ever suspected. npub18wn0jd3p7n6u3y7mc46p0hpx3cmtv9k3mu82rc0lhkg3rdyf590s3wshpx evacide It is January 4th and my neighbor's 2026 resolution to get up at 5:50 am and spend an hour running on a treadmill while watching videos at full volume directly on the other side of the wall from my headboard is thankfully at an end. npub18wn0jd3p7n6u3y7mc46p0hpx3cmtv9k3mu82rc0lhkg3rdyf590s3wshpx evacide This year, for my mental health, I'm going to practice just letting people be wrong on the internet. npub18wn0jd3p7n6u3y7mc46p0hpx3cmtv9k3mu82rc0lhkg3rdyf590s3wshpx evacide More evidence that the Trump administration is cozying up to cybermercenaries. 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