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[Privex Inc - Affordable Privacy Hosting @PrivexInc]

At Privex we believe #privacy is a human right.

That's why we offer servers from as little as $0.99/mo - requiring only a name and email. #PrivacyIsAffordable

[Reclaim The Net @ReclaimTheNetHQ]

The UK Lords just voted to pull VPNs into Britain’s age-check dragnet. Tools meant to protect you from surveillance could now have to surveil you.

Every system built to keep you anonymous is being re-engineered for control.

[Tuta @TutaPrivacy]

Age verification is spreading like cancer.

First they came for adults site and social media; now they are already discussing about putting VPNs and app stores behind #AgeVerfication 🇬🇧🇦🇺

What’s sold as “online safety” means #surveillance via IDs checks or face scans.

Privacy & anonymity protect journalists, whistleblowers & activists.

We must fight against age verification - or the free web dies!

👉 More: https://t.co/xov9sUcmqy

[alpha @omarsbigsister]

UK, Australia, and America all doing the same exact thing. Horrific censorship laws being passed because they're "protecting kids" and the media doesn't question it at ALL.

Imagine if we had journalists actually hold these politicians accountable.

[Reclaim The Net @ReclaimTheNetHQ]

The new “social media age law” deletes every account under 16 and compels verification for everyone else. Reddit calls it unconstitutional, saying it crushes privacy and political speech while protecting no one.

The state can’t save kids by stripping everyone’s anonymity. But it can cause mass surveillance on a scale never seen before.

[Mullvad.net @mullvadnet]

Chat Control trilogue negotiations to start 9 December – the EU Commission continues to spread misinformation about the Chat Control proposal.

Today, EU Commissioner Magnus Brunner visited the European Parliament and announced that the trilogue negotiations on Chat Control will begin next week, on 9 December, with the ambition of being completed before April 2026.

During the questions from the MEPs, it was obvious that Magnus Brunner is following in the exact footsteps of former Commissioner Ylva Johansson. He stated that he is not satisfied with the Council’s compromise proposal; in his view, the scanning does not go far enough.

During the questions from the MEPs, Brunner continued to spread the Commission’s Chat Control misinformation.

Markéta Gregorová, from the Czech Pirate Party, compared the Commission’s proposal to the police opening all envelopes in the physical world and asked Brunner a direct question: “Since both the Parliament and the Council have decided to question your approach (no mandatory scanning), will you play an honest broker in the negotiations in the upcoming trilogues or will you be pushing for more scanning?”

Magnus Brunner:
“I think our scanning suggestion was quite … we were suggesting a targeted scanning. I don’t quite understand … is that really what you are saying, that you want to compare protecting our children to privacy of opening up envelopes?”

Markéta Gregorová: “That’s what’s in your proposal.”

Magnus Brunner:
“First of all, we must protect our children from this harm, to be honest, there are criminals, I think we have to do everything to protect them, I don’t quite understand why you sort of always balance … in this case I’m really clear, our first of all priority is to protect our children from this abuse. We don’t have to agree on everything. Me as a father … it’s incredible, what’s happening in this world. It’s not about Chat Control, it’s a complete misunderstanding, no it’s not about Chat Control it’s about protecting our children and it’s about fighting against pedophiles, that’s what it’s about. That’s my approach, it’s not about open envelopes or Chat Control.”

Magnus Brunner follows the Commission’s tradition of just answering “what about the children” on every question, and continues to spread the misinformation that Chat Control is targeted scanning.

Birgit Sippel, from the Social Democratic Party of Germany, also asked for figures never mentioned in the discussion:
“There’s one figure I didn’t hear, and that’s just how many children have been saved from these situations of abuse, because of digital investigations, how many have been protected from these cases of abuse? I haven’t found any figures on that."

Magnus Brunner: “On identified victims, I don’t have any specific figures.”

Since Chat Control has been up for discussion for almost four years now, it would be remarkable if Magnus Brunner did not understand what his own commission is proposing. Therefore, the only plausible explanation is that he is consciously following in Ylva Johansson’s footsteps, striving to mislead the EU population. It seems certain that he, in the event of a “failed” Chat Control negotiation, will continue working toward mandatory mass surveillance through the ProtectEU initiative. We remind once again of the corrupt origins of Chat Control and what truly lies behind the legislative proposal: https://t.co/bJzNgmZunh

The European Commission will not be an honest party when they lead the negotiations next week. We can only hope that the Parliament stands firm. Javier Zarzalejos, who is the chairman of LIBE (Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs) in the Parliament, was straightforward on the Parliament’s position: ”The proposition from the Commission was very problematic in some areas. All political groups finally supported report of the Parliament and we will to the trilogues with such strong mandate of the Parliament.”

[Reclaim The Net @ReclaimTheNetHQ]

The EU just voted to advance a “child protection” plan that builds a digital ID system for the entire internet. Every user reverified, every login tracked.

Anonymity ends. Surveillance begins.

Free speech cannot survive a world that demands ID to speak.

[@levelsio @levelsio]

Just a month later and...

🇪🇺 ChatControl is back!

Now they're trying to pass an even more far reaching ChatControl law through the back door, in a form even more intrusive than the originally rejected plan, without needing any of the EU countries votes

The new proposal:
- total mandatory surveillance of ALL text chats, emails and social media in the EU
- obligatory registration of your ID/passport to your chat, email or social media account
- minimum age requirement for chat, email and social media apps of 16 (!)

The only way to stop this law is if EU countries veto it

Read more here by @echo_pbreyer:

https://t.co/Yg2iXX9uWs

[Runa Sandvik @runasand]

iOS with Lockdown Mode is still the best defense we have against sophisticated spyware. Here's a snippet from @micahflee's keynote at @BSidesPDX a few days ago. https://t.co/pGIaNmemqc

[Colin Percival @cperciva]

If every company using FreeBSD in EC2 spent 0.1% of their EC2 spend on sponsoring FreeBSD, it would barely be noticeable in their budgets but it would be a tremendous boon to FreeBSD development.

Seriously, FreeBSD is free, but is 0.1% an unreasonable amount to ask for?

[FFmpeg @FFmpeg]

The maintainer of libxml2 put it very well

[Jannik 🐿️ @kineyDE]

main argument against secure boot: it's a solution looking for a problem.
Other than preventing your own employees from fully using your company supplied notebooks it has no use.
It does not prevent evil maid attacks (hardware implants like keyloggers are trivial) and has absolutely no benefit whatsoever for lost/stolen devices oder online attacks.

[Chris Titus Tech @christitustech]

My main issue with Secure Boot: Microsoft is the Certificate Authority and even Linux bootloaders are signed via it in almost every case I've seen.

[vx-underground @vxunderground]

Don't worry, Chat. YouTube has a brilliant solution to prove you're sufficiently old enough to view slop content.

If you don't feel comfortable giving YouTube (Google) a photo copy of your driver's license or passport, you can instead just tell them your banking information.

These companies don't give a fuck about you or your children. They want to see your face crystal clear so they can sell it and track you. So instead they've got another option to make your life "better', they'll just get straight to the point and take your money.

It's perfect. It's almost like a "I don't want to show you my face" tax

[Pirat_Nation 🔴 @Pirat_Nation]

The UK Government has responded to the petition with nearly 400,000 signatures to repeal the Online Safety Act.

They have no plans to repeal the online safety act

[vx-underground @vxunderground]

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.

[vx-underground @vxunderground]

We gotta protect the kids... By having every internet user submit personally identifiable information to virtually any website which may intentionally, or unintentionally, show a penis or a vagina (most the internet).

The alternative was suggesting parents monitor their children and exercise healthy boundaries and also internet and/or computational literacy.

Luckily the government was kind enough to collect your PII, watch what you do online, and collect your data... To protect your kids! Not spy on you. The government would never spy on you. That is unethical.

[Privex Inc - Affordable Privacy Hosting @PrivexInc]

We sincerely apologise for the recent outages across our SE and NL regions - we’re unfortunately dealing with a very determined attacker who has been almost non-stop carpet bombing two of our regions

We’ve been doing everything in our power to mitigate the attacks

[Seth Harp @sethharpesq]

These days when DHS and ICE come knocking, they remotely take out your WiFi beforehand so that you can’t livestream the interaction, and to disable Ring cameras. From ⁦@radleybalko⁩’s substack. H/t ⁦@mazsidahmed⁩

[Privex Inc - Affordable Privacy Hosting @PrivexInc]

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[Privex Inc - Affordable Privacy Hosting @PrivexInc]

@rebane2001 RIP Kevin 😔

We run an ad-free and open source My IP service which shows both v4 + v6, which also has an API to make it easy to quickly get your IPv4 and v6 via curl ☺️

V4 + V6: https://t.co/rkVHmG2OY7
V4 only https://t.co/7IylJoJono
V6 only: https://t.co/srnheINQIa
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[Privex Inc - Affordable Privacy Hosting @PrivexInc]

@rebane2001 RIP Kevin 😔

We run an ad-free and open source My IP service which shows both v4 + v6, which also has an API to make it easy to quickly get your IPv4 and v6 via curl ☺️

V4 + V6: https://t.co/rkVHmG2OY7
V4 only https://t.co/7IylJoJono
V6 only: https://t.co/srnheINQIa
.