The fight on ChatControl has not even finished yet and another dystopian measure already looms at the horizon: age verification. Among the many bad things about it: the proposed EU age verification app does not plan desktop support […] [Original post on infosec.exchange]

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From: @tomgag https://infosec.exchange/@tomgag/115241394754858878

And now for something completely different, boring, and technically mundane: I wrote a tutorial (but it's more of a set of personal notes) on the use of QEMU/KVM with libvirt on Linux: https://gagliardoni.net/#20250921_qemu #linux #security #hacking #vm #virtualization #qemu #kvm #libvirt

LinkedIn now enables "use my data for AI training" by default. You have to go to Settings & Privacy -> Data Privacy to turn it off. Opt-in by default should be illegal. #linkedin #ai #privacy #ml #gdpr #eu

When a company says it has "no plans" to enshittify its product, you should take that to mean it will proceed fairly soon with enshittification. Today's example is Samsung: https://www.theverge.com/news/780757/samsung-brings-ads-to-us-fridges

"Sideloading" is the rentseeker word for "being able to run software of your choosing on a computing device you purchased". There is no reasonable case for an operating system developer having a say over what programs you run on your hardware. #android #google

They say "ChatControl is not a backdoor: it doesn't break E2E encryption, because it's client-side scanning". Let me explain you what this actually means. https://gagliardoni.net/#20250916_clientside Client-side scanning is like asking to an alcoholic schizo with a history of corruption, who […]

This is getting ridiculous: https://mastodon.social/@chatcontrol/115204439983078498 > Danish Minister of Justice and chief architect of the current Chat Control proposal, Peter Hummelgaard: > > "We must break with the totally erroneous perception that it is everyone's civil liberty to […]

#bluesky has begun requiring users in South Dakota and Wyoming to verify their age in response to new state-level online safety laws. @bsky.app the #freespeech #decentralized platform. #censorship #privacy #fediverse #mastodon […]

Did I just send 25 letters by recorded post to representatives of the Italian government, parliament, and EU institutions, speaking out against ChatControl? https://gagliardoni.net/#20250913_chatcontrol_letters Yes, it looks like I did. #chatcontrol #eu […] [Original post on infosec.exchange]

Oh, I like this: https://swiss.social/@swaldorff/115186445638788782 > Interesting: a Danish supermarket chain is setting up "Emergency Stores" that can keep open for up to three days without power or telecom and store an expanded stock of non-perishable food and essentials. The idea is that no […]

🇪🇺YES: Germany is not supporting the EU's #chatcontrol bill as proposed! The blocking minority needed to stop this illegal mass surveillance plan seems secured (for now). ✅ Opposition now also from LU🇱🇺 & SK🇸🇰! #keepupthefight https://fightchatcontrol.eu

"400 scientists speak out against ChatControl" https://www.heise.de/en/news/400-scientists-speak-out-against-chat-control-10637109.html Open Letter: https://csa-scientist-open-letter.org/Sep2025 hashtag#privacy hashtag#eu hashtag#chatcontrol hashtag#security hashtag#surveillance

Lettera aperta di ricercatori e scienziati contro #chatcontrol Se volete aderire potete farlo qui. Si veda anche https://mamot.fr/@bruteforce/115173683839437520

Signal moving on to cloud backups is an opportunity for reflection. In theory, since it's an added, opt-in feature, and since Signal has always supported local backups on Android, that's not an issue: the user decides what backup strategy to use. But local backups require access to the […]

Signal is introducing cloud backups as an opt-in feature: https://signal.org/blog/introducing-secure-backups/ * opt-in, end-to-end encrypted * local backup keeps working (on Android) * max 100 MiB for free tier, premium tier starting at 1.99 USD/month Not sure how I feel about it. Are […]

I usually don't endorse or link YouTube videos, but this is golden: Google: 'Your $1000 phone needs our permission to install apps now'". Android users are screwed by Louis Rossmann https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QBEKlIV_70E It's like we are living in the enshittified version of a whole […]

[Potentially disgusting] Today I discovered the word "dingleberry". Fun fact, there is a perfect 1:1 translation of the word in Italian: it's called "tarzanello" (little Tarzan, for obvious reasons). #ud_dingleberry #tarzanello #humour #disgusting #nsfw

Following the success (sarcasm!) of my previous post "Battle of IMs", I decided it's time to write another post where I try to articulate in a technical but snarky way my view on the wonderful world of social media, and which one is best among the mainstream and non-mainstream ones. This is a […]

I just noticed that ioc.exchange warrant canary has been dead since March. https://ioc.exchange/about I wonder how meaningful canaries are, especially in the context of platforms like Mastodon. I mean, the bar to keep them alive is pretty high: "never provided any law enforcement organization […]

The war on crypto never ends. The war on privacy, civil rights, security and freedom of speech never ends. This time we are dangerously close to lose. The "Child Sexual Abuse" (CSA) EU regulation proposal, more aptly nicknamed "ChatControl", will be voted […] [Original post on infosec.exchange]