Posts by evacide@mastodon.lol
(DIR) Post #ARmjS7PM1A3yOMKX56 by evacide@mastodon.lol
2023-01-19T00:29:52Z
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People who write books: do you find it useful to post your daily word count or do you prefer to write in absolute silence and pretend that the book has emerged fully-formed like Athena from the head of Zeus?
(DIR) Post #ARqK2at84Gew4XpT4S by evacide@mastodon.lol
2023-01-20T18:29:42Z
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"With AI, now any idiot can write malware!"As a security researcher, I can assure you that idiots have been writing malware for quite some time.
(DIR) Post #ARydidv0dzWi1j9U8m by evacide@mastodon.lol
2023-01-24T18:50:22Z
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"Commercially-available stalkerware could work in this incredibly subtle and technically sophisticated way. Have you read this paper?"I have. And let me tell you, commercially-available stalkerware works in the dumbest, simplest, and most insecure ways possible because it never has to be better than that to be effective.
(DIR) Post #ARydifknouYBieOMVc by evacide@mastodon.lol
2023-01-24T18:53:20Z
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Listen, I love a sophisticated adversary. I am down for some 3D chess. But mostly I fight morons.
(DIR) Post #AS1EC7sQK9d40MDir2 by evacide@mastodon.lol
2023-01-26T00:53:36Z
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Meta has reinstated Trump on all of its platforms without consulting with its Oversight Board. So that's fun.https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/01/25/trump-facebook-reinstated-meta/
(DIR) Post #AS6mh7aNpA82JMX6pM by evacide@mastodon.lol
2023-01-28T03:43:17Z
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Here is Runa Sandvik with your regular reminder that people are being prosecuted for their pregnancy outcomes with their digital communications as evidence: https://techcrunch.com/2023/01/27/digital-data-roe-wade-reproductive-privacy/
(DIR) Post #ASI2T31Yijen7xyFZQ by evacide@mastodon.lol
2023-02-02T19:09:09Z
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Netflix's ideas about what constitutes a family are similar to Google and Facebook's ideas about what constitutes a "real name" and it's about to turn into exactly the same kind of shitshow.
(DIR) Post #ASQ50uzWqYVXEVyl4y by evacide@mastodon.lol
2023-02-06T19:58:41Z
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The city of Vallejo was about to be forced to disclose evidence of its many police shootings, so they just went ahead and destroyed it:https://openvallejo.org/2023/02/05/vallejo-destroyed-evidence-of-police-killings/
(DIR) Post #ASRln7PQN6XgsXiY6K by evacide@mastodon.lol
2023-02-07T19:53:49Z
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Google is providing 100,000 security keys to "high risk individuals" for free and this is good: https://blog.google/technology/safety-security/new-partnerships-and-100000-security-keys-to-protect-high-risk-individuals/
(DIR) Post #ASSCdoTe5X5aJoTmSW by evacide@mastodon.lol
2023-02-07T23:42:40Z
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7 abortion providers are ready to switch to misoprostol-only medication abortions if a judge bans the main abortion pill, mifepristone, nationwide. That ruling could happen as soon as this Friday. Pretty much everything that Team "you're overreacting" insisted would never happen after Dobbs is, in fact, happening. It's almost as if they were not arguing in good faith this whole time.https://jezebel.com/mifepristone-ban-misoprostol-only-abortions-in-the-us-1850083070
(DIR) Post #ASY7ymeQjrvZujSnfU by evacide@mastodon.lol
2023-02-10T20:52:13Z
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I love the fediverse right up until my Mastodon server admin announces that they are shutting down the instance and I have to figure out where to migrate to.
(DIR) Post #ASf15GRdfibKbvEZtY by evacide@mastodon.lol
2023-02-14T05:27:13Z
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There is a loophole in HIPAA that allows doctors and nurses to report a pregnancy loss to the police. I've lost count of the number of times I've seen people read stories like this and say, "Doesn't HIPAA prohibit that?" and I have to tell them, "Haha. Nope."https://jezebel.com/does-hipaa-law-protect-information-about-abortion-1850108057
(DIR) Post #ASjA9iV4yqzf08sgaG by evacide@mastodon.lol
2023-02-15T23:33:27Z
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One more time, for the people at the back: domestic abusers FREQUENTLY have the passcode to their target's phones, either through coercion or shoulder-surfing. Monitoring software that requires a passcode in order to install it is STILL STALKERWARE. The defining trait of stalkerware it is designed to deceive the user into thinking their data is not being exfiltrated.
(DIR) Post #ASl6eitxWlPxiqy3v6 by evacide@mastodon.lol
2023-02-17T02:33:44Z
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Again, for the people at the back: deterring stalking is more important than deterring the theft of property. People's safety is more important property. Even your property. Even my property. Even stuff I would be very angry at having stolen.
(DIR) Post #ASldQepFBMl1Vvf9yi by evacide@mastodon.lol
2023-02-11T23:09:43Z
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I don’t have to bother separating the art from the artist if the art sucks.
(DIR) Post #ASurDgiZyxAlOqtXTk by evacide@mastodon.lol
2023-02-21T20:52:13Z
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There is a CIA booth at SXSW, just in case you're wondering how that event is now.
(DIR) Post #ASzX8i2qavfQm4WV9M by evacide@mastodon.lol
2023-02-24T00:19:01Z
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This is your regular reminder that “pre-crime” is a lie. Using surveillance to predict crime does not work and disproportionately targets marginalized people and communities.https://www.crikey.com.au/2023/02/22/auror-crime-intelligence-surveillance/
(DIR) Post #ATDN3vwthyXmDWJur2 by evacide@mastodon.lol
2023-03-02T18:52:34Z
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Oh look. It's another one of those things that Team You're Overreacting swore to me was totally not going to happen after Dobbs:https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/03/texas-republican-wants-isps-to-block-a-wide-range-of-abortion-websites/
(DIR) Post #ATPr3zKqbt5sN4BSdM by evacide@mastodon.lol
2023-03-08T19:25:14Z
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It's #internationalwomensday. Celebrate women by giving money to local abortion funds https://abortionfunds.org/ and to the National Center for Transgender Equality: https://transequality.org/
(DIR) Post #ATUSta3cJNnVy3QcU4 by evacide@mastodon.lol
2023-03-10T22:03:42Z
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If you are discussing your abortion and you live in a place where abortion is now essentially illegal, please remember to speak only to people you trust and remember to use end-to-end encrypted comms with disappearing messages turned on.https://www.texastribune.org/2023/03/10/texas-abortion-lawsuit/