Well I got all bent out of shape about Proton Mail. There are valid use cases for these tools but users should know what the service can and can't protect. freedom.press/digisec/blog...
4th Cir., 2-1, affirms a jury finding that the operators of the Abu Ghraib Prison in 2008 are liable for conspiracy to commit torture and conspiracy to commit cruel, inhuman, and degrading treatment under the Alien Tort Statute.
Damages awarded: $42 million.
www.ca4.uscourts.gov/opinions/251...
"Palantir CEO Alex Karp says his AI technology will lessen the power of “highly educated, often female voters, who vote mostly Democrat” while increasing the power of working-class men."
Just saying it right out loud now.
newrepublic.com/post/207693/...
NEW: A bipartisan group of lawmakers introduced a bill requiring warrants for FBI searches of Americans' communications under FISA, aligning federal law w/ a 2025 ruling that found the practice unconstitutional.
It would also ban the government from buying Americans' private data from data brokers.
I met with AI data labelers in Kenya who are organizing their colleagues to fight the brutal working conditions and horrible pay given to the workers at the "bottom of the AI supply chain." They believe the NDAs they've signed are unenforceable so are speaking out:
www.404media.co/ai-is-africa...
omg
Congratulations to San Francisco for inventing the long-prophesied banana that costs ten dollars sfstandard.com/2026/03/11/g...
Yes! I spent so much of my youth poring over Far Side collections and wondering what the cartoons meant.
"Our work shows that it is fast and easy to create convincing false positives for PhotoDNA."
"𝑃ℎ𝑜𝑡𝑜𝐷𝑁𝐴 is unreliable for the detection of illicit content: it is easy to incriminate someone by sending them false content with a hash value close to illicit content (a false positive) and to avoid detection of illicit content with minimal modifications to an image (a false negative)."
just putting this in the 'bring back shame' files
www.politico.com/news/2026/03...
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wondering what the Trump equivalent of the Lutine Bell at Lloyd's is gonna be. something super classy, probably, like a morning show DJ's sound board
Even if you think the guy is a hack (which I don’t necessarily think he is), Josh Rudd literally has zero experience in cyber operations which is sorta important if you’re leading the NSA
Exclusive: HSI, a branch of DHS that usually investigates drug cartels and human trafficking networks, is now probing the 2020 election results in Arizona: www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
Scoop: DHS ousted multiple privacy officers at CBP after they questioned orders to purposely mislabel records about government surveillance to prevent their release under FOIA.
BREAKING: A judge refused to block a Kansas law that invalidates the driver’s licenses of transgender people and allows trans people to be sued for using public restrooms.
This isn't the final say, and we will keep fighting in court to stop this discriminatory law.
Podcast! Justin Hendrix spoke to Electronic Frontier Foundation executive director Cindy Cohn. Her new book, Privacy’s Defender: My Thirty-Year Fight Against Digital Surveillance, weaves her journey with the legal battles she's fought on behalf of whistleblowers, researchers, and everyday people.
We're looking for a director to handle a huge and fascinating scope with a 70+ person team in LinkedIn security: AI security, appsec, production security, security of the corporate systems, third party security, and handling the corporate identity services.
today's news dredging up this 1987 Far Side cartoon from my childhood memory
"The creation of a dedicated office to defend the interests of criminal defendants before the Supreme Court makes real a recommendation that I and other scholars first urged a decade ago," said Harvard law professor Andrew Crespo, who documented the advocacy gap in a 2016 paper.
I would have given this like a <10% chance of happening (I'm not in the right loops to know about it). Good news.
Apparently they were the last U.S. air carrier to stop - last year!
We are aware of recent reports regarding targeted phishing attacks that have resulted in account takeovers of some Signal users, including government officials and journalists. We take this very seriously. 1/7
A thing I learned just now is that US airlines stopped hedging fuel costs. I just... assumed they... still did that? (Apparently EU & Asian air carriers still do?) www.reuters.com/business/ene...
🚨NEWS: @knightcolumbia.org & @protectdemocracy.org just filed a lawsuit on behalf of @thecoalition.bsky.social challenging the Trump administration's policy targeting social media researchers and trust & safety workers for visa revocation and deportation. More: knightcolumbia.org/content/tech...
It's not just the last thing I'd delegate; it's the last thing I *write*. The article evolves so much over time! How can I know what I think 'til I see what I say?
the point of LL is to go Mindhunter on your opponent using all available OSINT on them, in the hopes you can maybe win or tie on D because you cannot for the life of you drag out of your memory an answer you *know* you know and will feel colossally stupid for forgetting when you finally see it
where "each other" includes "their own fucking colleagues at the same fucking firm whom they work with all the time"
Republicans are using kids as a smokescreen for what Big Tech lobbyists want: a national surveillance program to harvest our data with zero protections for people and their privacy.
We must fight this dangerous expansion of surveillance technology.
