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We're so relieved to see Germany reaffirm its opposition to the dangerous Chat Control proposal--the one that would mandate mass scanning of communications. Germany's long been a solid champion of privacy, and the news that it was considering backing mass surveillance was alarming. 1/

1984 Screening in conjunction with Raoul Peck’s documentary Orwell: 2+2=5 Co-presented by The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) Introduced by Electronic Frontier Foundation Surveillance Litigation…

Tonight 👁️ Join EFF at the Roxie Theater for a special screening of 1984! Digital freedom supporters get discounted tickets with code BIGBROTHER25. Proceeds support EFF! roxie.com/film/1984/#...

Chart from NetBlocks showing platform feature restrictions by ISP in Afghanistan from October 7, 2025, to October 8, 2025. The data indicates widespread internet restrictions affecting social media and messaging platforms including Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat and pre-exciting Tiktok. Access issues are observed across major ISPs such as Afghan Wireless, Roshan, Western Telecom and Haqnet with services showing varying levels of reachability, in some cases down to 0%. The disruptions coincide with Taliban's censorship measures

⚠️ Confirmed: Metrics show social media platforms Instagram, Facebook and Snapchat are now restricted on multiple providers in #Afghanistan; the incident follows last week's telecoms blackout and is the latest in a series of internet censorship measures imposed by the Taliban

We are alarmed by reports that Germany is on the verge of a catastrophic about-face, reversing its longstanding and principled opposition to the EU’s Chat Control proposal which, if passed, could spell the end of the right to privacy in Europe. signal.org/blog/pdfs/ge...

Google Calls ICE Agents a Vulnerable Group, Removes ICE-Spotting App ‘Red Dot’ The move comes as Apple removed ICEBlock after direct pressure from U.S. Department of Justice officials and signals a broader crackdown on ICE-spotting apps.

New from 404 Media: Google removed an ICE-spotting app too. Called Red Dot, an immigration support group on the ground in Chicago told me it was using it. Google now removed, just like Apple did with ICEBlock after DOJ pressure. Google calls ICE vulnerable group
www.404media.co/google-calls...

The Second Order: The UK Government's new secret order still strikes at Apple's security Today we learned the UK has issued a new secret order forcing Apple to undermine iCloud’s advanced encryption again, but this time only for UK users.

If Apple breaks end-to-end encryption for the UK, it breaks it for everyone: The UK has issued a new secret order, again privacyinternational.org/news-analysi...

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Just upgraded my Cert Spotter subscription to monitor Certificate Transparency for all Geomys domains. Your business probably should, too!

It's good to know we'll get notified if any CA is compromised and/or mis-issues a certificate, but also funding @agwa.name's work benefits all the WebPKI.

Red Hat confirms security incident after hackers claim GitHub breach An extortion group calling itself the Crimson Collective claims to have breached Red Hat's private GitHub repositories, stealing nearly 570GB of compressed data across 28,000 internal projects.

Judging by what they are posting on Telegram, Crimson Collective expected a quick and easy payout from Red Hat, while Red Hat floundered and panicked about how to respond and essentially left them hanging in the wind.
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Chat Control Is Back on the Menu in the EU. It Still Must Be Stopped The European Union Council is once again debating its controversial message scanning proposal, aka “Chat Control,” that would lead to the scanning of private conversations of billions of people. Chat…

Chat Control would make it mandatory for service providers to scan all communications & files. There’s no system that’s only for the “good guys” www.eff.org/deeplinks/20... #chatkontrolle

WhatsApp-Konkurrent Signal droht mit Rückzug aus Europa Signal gilt als einer der sichersten Messenger. Die App könnte aber in Europa vom Markt verschwinden, falls sich die Chatkontrolle in der EU durchsetzt.

Messenger-App Signal: Meredith Whittaker kritisiert Pläne der EU zur #Chatkontrolle und droht, mit dem Messenger dann den europäischen Markt zu verlassen www.heise.de/news/Chefin-...

New Chinese APT, who dis?

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Klopatra: exposing a new Android banking trojan operation with roots in Turkey | Cleafy LABS In late August 2025, Cleafy's Threat Intelligence team discovered Klopatra, a new, highly sophisticated Android malware currently targeting banking users primarily in Spain and Italy. The number of co...

A new Android banking trojan has already infected more than 3,000 devices since its launch in late August. Most of the victims are located in Italy and Spain.

The Klopatra trojan is an extremely advanced malware that appears to be the work of a Turkish-speaking group

www.cleafy.com/cleafy-labs/...

The German government has posted a guide on implementing passkey support server-side, so more companies move to supporting it as the preferred 2FA method.

www.bsi.bund.de/DE/Service-N...

F-Droid may soon become a dead app store thanks to the.... Google and the twisted way of implementing the EU DMA that basically gives Google full control of Android now....

f-droid.org/2025/09/29/g...

news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4541...

This kinda feels like a hybrid between crime net phone and a pro-privacy audience.

UP Phone Buy UP Phone—the privacy-first smartphone with hardware kill-switch, built-in VPN, encrypted cloud & uncensored App Hub. Take back your data control.

What the hell is this?

unplugged.com/products/up-...

it supports 2G, 3G so the SS7 nightmare live on.

unplugged.com/pages/featur...

A psychical disconnect for the battery is a cool feature but does nothing to fundamentally protect the device if the OS is just a re-skinned android clone.

Our CfP closes at 2359hrs on the 30th Sept (that's tomorrow)!
If you have a Talk, a Workshop, or wish to give you first talk on our Rookie track, you are running out of time!

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#BSidesLDN2025

Inside the Nuclear Bunkers, Mines, and Mountains Being Retrofitted as Data Centers Companies are going to great lengths to protect the infrastructure that provides the backbone of the world’s digital services—by burying their data deep underground.

Companies are going to great lengths to protect the infrastructure that provides the backbone of the world’s digital services—by burying their data deep underground. www.wired.com/story/inside...

Palantir Wants to Be a Lifestyle Brand Defense tech giant Palantir is selling T-shirts and tote bags as part of a bid to encourage fans to publicly endorse it.

Palantir Technologies sells software that immigration authorities use to identify and arrest people, militaries use to organize drone strikes, and corporations use to manage their supply chains. Now, it also sells tote bags.

Reform UK's ex-Wales leader Nathan Gill admits pro-Russia bribery Nathan Gill admits eight charges of bribery while being a Member of the European Parliament.

Putin's People Party gets caught in the act again
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Armed Guards and Muscle Milk: Senate Investigation Reveals DOGE Takeover Details A new Senate report claims DOGE put every American's Social Security number at risk—and that officials at federal agencies essentially obstructed an investigation, all but denying DOGE even exists.

NEW! A Senate report claims that DOGE has put *every* American’s social security number at risk; that staff at GSA, OPM, and SSA wouldn’t or couldn’t say what DOGE was doing; and that agencies claimed that DOGE actually doesn’t exist at all.

For @wired.com

www.wired.com/story/armed-...

DomainTools has a good profile on Salt Typhoon, the Chinese APT that hacked over a dozen US telcos at the end of last year. It's actually a very old and sprawling APT, involving everything from MSS supervisors to front companies and contractors.

dti.domaintools.com/inside-salt-...

Secret Service agents dismantle network that could shut down New York cellphone system Agents discovered electronic devices in five locations in and around the city that could be used to disable cellphone towers. The system could also be used for criminal activities.

1/ Hi, I'm TProphet. I write the Telecom Informer for @2600.com. A lot of people have been asking me about www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat... given that I'm somewhat knowledgeable in the area.

Here's my take: I'm kind of astonished that this is public, and it isn't normal that it would ever be.

m0leCon 2025 - YouTube

Talks from the m0leCon 2025 security conference, which took place earlier this month, are available on YouTube

www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Well, yes, recovery codes are when everything has gone wrong and you need an emergency recovery. You wouldn't store those encrypted, what if you lost the encryption key???

Today far-right anti-immigration rioters in The Hague assaulted a press photographer, attacked police, tried to storm the under-renovation Binnenhof and smashed the liberal D66 party office windows….

nos.nl/liveblog/258...

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I can't decide if this poll is a parody or not.

EFF, ACLU to SFPD: Stop Illegally Sharing Data With ICE and The San Francisco Police Department is the latest California law enforcement agency to get caught sharing automated license plate reader (ALPR) data with out-of-state and federal agencies. EFF and

Even though it’s been against the law since 2016, the San Francisco Police Department has been caught sharing ALPR data with non-California agencies. Ignoring these laws exposes sensitive location information to misuse and puts entire communities at risk. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...