Shot + chaser

AI-generated evidence is already showing up in court, with parties trying to pass off deepfakes as authentic. We spoke to 5 judges about the issue, who say it could just be the beginning of how AI will upend courts. www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-ne...

Danish officials have found a new way to push for the Chat Control encryption-breaking legislation without the proposed law going through a public debate www.patrick-breyer.de/en/posts/cha...

Web 1.0: The web is for information Web 2.0: The web is for ads Web 3.0: The web is for scams

Some in cybersec were debating how much VPNs protect your privacy while on public WiFi hotspots. I wrote some technical notes. cybersect.substack.com/p/experts-vs...

1802: Everyone is talking about the new Steam Machine 2025: Everyone is talking about the new Steam Machine

Who named these AirPods.

I’m a huge sceptic about killer robots but Copilot poses a different AI threat to human life - it can send the most placid, amiable person off into a murderous rage

This sounds like a piss-poor situation. Or maybe a piss-rich one?

Microsoft are rolling out Gaming Copilot to Windows 11 PCs. Silently, enabled by default, screenshots enabled by default, model training enabled by default. doublepulsar.com/microsoft-bu...

There's this Karen who lives on a boat here and doesn't like the sea lions because they're noisy, so she scares them away by blasting an air horn at them (which is 100x louder and way more annoying than sea lions). I'm trying to be a good person, but 3am air horn drone raids would be extremely funny

after I picked up my kid from school today I got a message from the school saying they couldn't do much work since Amazon was down and also they couldn't tell us that they couldn't do much work since Amazon was down, since Amazon was down

It scares me that the US is horny for "offensive cyber operations" against China, as if they didn't lay off almost everyone responsible for coordinating cyber defense, decided not to pay the rest, and can't even get their critical infrastructure providers to patch 20 year old vulnerabilities.

The “age verification” and the “human identification” problem are the same problem. It upsets me to be around people who think they’re working on the first, but don’t understand they’re actually working on the second.

I'm attending a NATO conference today and someone has done the funniest thing possible with the name of their wi-fi network

I wonder if Microsoft secretly wants everyone to switch to Linux. There are certainly fewer reasons to stick to Windows every day: www.theverge.com/news/793579/...

Another lesson in real world jawboning. DOJ pressures one company (Apple) into compliance. The next company (Google) also complies with no direct DOJ contact at all. The company whose Maps app tells me where the highway patrol is (thx!) won't let scared and vulnerable people share ICE location.

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...

The UK is demanding another backdoor in Apple’s encryption. www.ft.com/content/d101...

I spent the week at the police surveillance convention and let me tell you my biggest observation: The name of the game now is consolidating as much information as humanely possible from surveillance devices, the internet, other governmental data, and literally a million other places. 🧵

"identity protection and free credit monitoring" are on some thoughts and prayers level of bullshit

You can always count on the crypto community for a good laugh

Lmaooooooo

Secret Service: *Arrests local coke dealer* Secret Service: "We stopped a potential terrorist in possession of enough chemicals to kill the entire UN General Assembly"

A recording of my lecture "Should Paying Off Ransomware Be Illegal?" is now publicly available on YouTube. Ignore the first minute and a half of chatter in Bulgarian - that's my boss introducing me. The lecture itself is in English. Apologies for my awful accent. 😀

Oh. That doesn’t seem right

I know it’s been said again and again, but what does it say about ChatControl that its backers keep explicitly *exempting* law enforcement and national security accounts from content scanning?

The EU's largest party, the EPP, is seriously looking at a mandatory age-verification mechanism on app stores, social networks, and some online services edri.org/our-work/age...

Seriously someone should look into this

Where Babies Come From xkcd.com/3127/

Mozilla Under Fire For Firefox AI 'Bloat' That Blows Up CPU and Drains Battery https://news.slashdot.org/story/25/08/12/1159248/mozilla-under-fire-for-firefox-ai-bloat-that-blows-up-cpu-and-drains-battery?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed

The XZ-Utils backdoor, first discovered in March 2024, is still present in at least 35 Linux images on Docker Hub, potentially putting users, organizations, and their data at risk.

In the early 2020s it was de rigueur among progressive 1A scholars to decry "Free Speech Absolutism" and then lazily gesture towards Europe and the UK as examples of properly balancing speech rights and the public interest in fighting misinfo & hate speech. They're strangely quiet these days...

Have a minute? 😂

discovered the Immortal Noodles

This is big. GitHub is no longer independent at Microsoft after CEO resignation: GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke has resigned, and now GitHub will be part of Microsoft’s core AI engineering team. Github is no longer independent company. www.theverge.com/news/757461/...

Ofcom says that if you refuse to censor yourself under the Online Safety Act, it will force payment processors and ISPs to stop doing business with you. When the government can't shut you up, the banks and credit cards will. Absolutely terrifying. www.ofcom.org.uk/siteassets/r...

Did you get the email I sent 😭

anyone working in security knows that tools can be used for good or for evil but dont forget they are often used for stupid

Inkjet.

Is everyone's printer this rude, or just mine?

NOW I GOTTA WORRY ABOUT NUCLEAR HORNETS?!

Crazy that governments impose website age restrictions on their citizens before they provide Internet compatible government ID for their citizens, and everyone's stuck providing selfies that get hacked and recycled for fraud.

this is what we on the internet call "doubling down" instead of admitting you've royally fucked up

🪪 My concerns about the Online Safety Act remain the same as when I last wrote about it nearly decade a decade ago when it was proposed as the Digital Economy Bill: 1) It normalizes uploading sensitive documents such as ID scans to random websites, which will likely increase identity theft. 1/3

Shout out to the government of the United Kingdom. They singlehandedly doubled, possibly tripled, the value of cybersecurity people. Identity theft is going to be rampant in the next 2 or 3 years.

It seems pretty obvious to me that western governments are looking at China and other countries with monitored/sealed Internet and slowly putting the pieces in place to do the same thing for their own Internets.