Cicada

OSINT fanatic, datalove ❥ he/him آزادی بیان Opinions are probably mine.

[Cicada @AnonCicada]

It is important to stress that @wikileaks is a media organization with journalists and publishers. They deserve the same freedoms

[Electrospaces @electrospaces]

A great new resource for studying the Snowden-revelations: summaries of documents and coverterms from the Five Eyes SIGINT agencies, compiled by @caparsons:
https://t.co/c8jWWzENJC

[profdeibert @RonDeibert]

NEW @citizenlab report:

You Move, They Follow:
Uncovering Iran’s Mobile Legal Intercept System 🇮🇷

https://t.co/0v2k16T7Up

[Lilian Weng @lilianweng]

🦖Large Transformers are powerful but expensive to train & use. The extremely high inference cost is a big bottleneck for adopting them for solving real-world tasks at scale. Check out my new post on some ideas on inference optimization for Transformers: https://t.co/PIr4GHRsA3

[Sebastian Raschka @rasbt]

Embedding layers are often perceived as a fancy operation that we apply to encode the inputs (each word tokens) for large language models.
But embedding layers = fully-connected layers on one-hot encoded inputs. They just replace expensive matrix multiplications w index look-ups.

[François Chollet @fchollet]

When it comes to similarities between the brain and deep learning, what's really striking is that everything that was actually bio inspired (e.g. sigmoid/tanh activations, spiking NNs, hebbian learning, etc.) had been dropped, while... (Cont.)

[jack @jack]

working on granting $1mm per year for @torproject now

[yan @bcrypt]

not to mention privacy badger, panopticlick, and SSL observatory. in addition to being the visionary force behind all these projects, peter was a generous friend and let me stay in his house on short notice when i was going through some stuff.

[yan @bcrypt]

peter, among other things, was my first boss at EFF and gave me a chance in cybersecurity when nobody else did. he was the mastermind behind HTTPS Everywhere and Let’s Encrypt. few people have had such a positive impact on the Internet in so little time

[Sanitary Panels @sanitarypanels]

See you there folks!

[Gabriella "Biella" Coleman @BiellaColeman]

Please pass the word on: the @torproject is looking for new board members. Details and applications here https://t.co/PiaVfu9bGa

[profdeibert @RonDeibert]

The comms specialist is a critical member of the @citizenlab team

This is a great opportunity for someone with experience looking to engage media and help shape our team's public communications 🤩

[Cicada @AnonCicada]

@randyzwitch Yep, sort by amount raised: https://t.co/UJ322zk3BL

[Daniel Cid @danielcid]

Great details on how Cisco got hacked.

1- Personal Google account of an employee gets compromised - it has password synced enabled.

2- Got all the employee's passwords, including their Cisco VPN credentials.

3- Phishing to accept 2FA

4- They are in

https://t.co/M5kVfyepKH

[Freedom of the Press Foundation @FreedomofPress]

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange could be extradited to the U.S. as soon as this fall. We implore the Biden administration to end the prosecution that virtually every major civil liberties org agrees is a clear and present danger to U.S. press freedom: https://t.co/INVZJW91h2

[Internet Freedom Foundation (IFF) @internetfreedom]

#PrivacySupreme is here!

Save the date on August 27th to join us for our annual grand platform on all things privacy in India, at @bicblr!📢

(🖼:@LinesByJose)

Keep an eye out here for an *exciting speaker line-up* and REGISTER NOW👇
https://t.co/1u14TzBSR9

[OONI @OpenObservatory]

We're super excited to share that @elyachmeneva has joined the OONI team! 😍🥳

As OONI's new Community Coordinator, Elizaveta will support the global OONI community in measuring internet censorship. 🐙✨

Welcome, Elizaveta! ♥️

[Electrospaces @electrospaces]

Some interesting details from the trial against #Vault7 leaker Joshua Schulte: https://t.co/COr90y6xgU

[Edward Snowden @Snowden]

This is the real reason Assange is in prison. #FreeAssange