dragons/acc 🐉

InfoSec. Dragons. Open Access. Occasionally Copyright. I'm also Jewish.

[dragons/acc 🐉 @livebeef]

I will never understand people who think the appropriate response to an insensitive comment is to wage a campaign of personal and professional ruination.

To borrow an old quip - it's akin to fighting dandruff with decapitation.

[Marcus Hutchins @MalwareTechBlog]

Wait, are you suggesting that telling people your product is going to take their job and then murder them wasn't a winning marketing strategy?

[Christophe Boutry @Ced_haurus]

🔴 L'Union européenne poursuit son offensive sur la vérification de l'âge en ligne. 🇪🇺

La Commission européenne vient de présenter, le 11 novembre, son Digital Fairness Act, un nouveau projet de règlement destiné à encadrer les pratiques commerciales numériques, notamment pour protéger les mineurs.

Publicité ciblée, jeux vidéo, achats intégrés, interfaces addictives… Le texte prévoit de nouvelles restrictions applicables aux mineurs.

Mais pour distinguer les mineurs des adultes, les plateformes pourraient être incitées à multiplier les dispositifs de contrôle de l'âge.

Et ce projet s'ajoute à une série d'initiatives européennes :

🔹 DSA (en vigueur) : obligations de protection des mineurs et vérification de l'âge encouragée pour certains services.

🔹 Application européenne de vérification de l'âge : technologie déclarée prête en avril 2026, avec un déploiement encouragé dans les États membres.

🔹 Portefeuille européen d'identité numérique : déploiement prévu fin 2026, permettant notamment de justifier sa majorité en ligne.

🔹 KIDS Act (septembre 2026) : proposition visant à restreindre l'accès des mineurs aux réseaux sociaux et à renforcer les contrôles d'âge.

🔹 Digital Fairness Act (novembre 2026) : nouvelle proposition qui étend les protections des mineurs à d'autres pratiques et services numériques.

⚠️ Le problème n'est pas chaque texte pris isolément, mais leur accumulation.

Sous couvert de protection des mineurs, l'Union européenne construit progressivement le cadre juridique et les outils techniques permettant de généraliser les contrôles d'âge sur Internet.

La Commission promet des mécanismes respectueux de la vie privée, sans transmission systématique de l'identité aux plateformes. Trust me bro...

https://t.co/rXoUmnNSP8

(repéré par @kled)

[yonatan @zozuar]

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[Jeremiah Grossman @jeremiahg]

For those who recall, when HD Moore released Metasploit, the community debated whether it would make hacking too easy, arm script kiddies, and give attackers an advantage. The same conversation took place with L0phtCrack, and SATAN before then. History tells us how this plays out already.

[dragons/acc 🐉 @livebeef]

@GamingAndPandas Counterpoint:

Whatever the fuck just happened to Humble Bundle

[alex 🤖🔪🧠 @tsivitaler]

there is smoke coming from my gpu, a new ceo has been chosen

[Sarah McLaughlin @sarahemclaugh]

“Online age verification champions are a bit like horror movie villains. Once Michael Myers gets inside a house, he's not going to stop with just one or seven kills.” @ENBrown on the UK age-gating………eBay: https://t.co/P089dDvdOO

[Michael W. @Michaelskywal]

USB-C has 24 pins, and at least 12 different ways to take them over.

DisplayPort, Thunderbolt, an HDMI mode nobody built, a VR standard that died in 2 years, and hidden ones from Apple and Nintendo.

Here's which pins each one takes.

[Jimmy Wales @jimmy_wales]

As I have said for a long time, the Online Safety Act is not fit for purpose. Badly written, tyrannical in scope, and extremely damaging to... online safety of kids.

https://t.co/OXEsDgSgpW

[Ramblings of a Filipino Nerd - Version 2.0 @RamblingsNerd2]

NCOSE used to be very "trad" btw, back in its Morality in Media days. Founded by a Jesuit and Catholic moral guardians, they were involved with yesteryear's moral panics.

Over time, of course, they allied themselves with more progressive busybodies and the rest was history.

[Protecting Kids Online @PKOproject]

"After years of attempts, Sen. Richard Blumenthal thinks his Kids Online Safety Act could finally become law following last week's Democratic 'blue wave'."

The uniparty may very well try to push KOSA through in the lame duck session. Call your senator and tell them you DO NOT WANT KOSA!!! [phone]

[Julie Barrett @juliecbarrett]

Uniparty doing Uniparty things.

KOSA would be a huge expansion of online surveillance and data collection and a big step towards digital ID. 🚫KOSA

[DBL MP / Double @dbl_mp1]

welp it’s that time again to contact your sens/reps!

KOSA is a censorship bill that violates the constitution. It is NOT designed to protect kids.

[John Bumstead @RDKLInc]

Decided to finally see what this AI thing is all about

[Jacob Mchangama @JMchangama]

The default position in democratic Europe is now to blame every bad thing on the Internet and insist that government regulation of speech is the answer. This will not end well.

[nora @hypervisor]

@QuinnyPig

[Bobbie 😘 @bobbiegalore]

Are you a sex worker concerned about the terrifying anti-porn laws creeping into the UK? Here are the specific MPs who want to destroy your life, put you in extreme danger, and take away your livelihood. Is your MP on the list?

[Brian Krassenstein @krassenstein]

This thread is HORIFYING.

- An 18-year-old former Turning Point chapter VP says she was held down and assaulted at a TPUSA event. It was filmed without her consent, and a man can be heard saying "she is for the whole team" while she resists, and there is clearly blood visible on pants.

- The video was taken without her permission and the men jump onto her. She filed a police report with Rutgers PD. Instead of accountability, she says she got a threatened lawsuit, and that a Turning Point staffer deleted their messages.

- The man she accuses, Vincent Tabone (who goes by "Jim Callahan"), sent her an AI-written cease-and-desist and threatened a defamation suit.

- The man who allegedly filmed her, Daniel Baez of William Paterson University, kept contacting her after she told him to stop.

- Her Turning Point field rep, Anthony Romano, allegedly first told her to block Baez, later changed his position, and deleted their chat messages.

Then there's video of Turning Point's own general counsel walking into a room of underage drinkers, high schoolers included, and saying "I know you are all 21!"

Where is the outrage from the "protect the kids" crowd? Every reporter should be on this.

[Julie Barrett @juliecbarrett]

🚨Digital ID whack-a-mole games are back for 2027:

Starting with Texas social media ban SB 212. This year's version lowers the age from 18 to 16. It's supposed to "protect kids", but it's going to require every user to provide identity verification to have a social media account.

Doesn't put parents in the "driver's seat". In fact, parents have no say. Under 16 = NO social media. There is no parental consent exception.

This is government-as-parent.

Pay attention to the "transactional data" that is required for the verification process. This means credit bureau, bank, and data broker records. How many 16–17-year-olds have that?

This is another bill being sold as "child safety" that creates a digital ID and surveillance framework for every user.

[MoshiMoshiMoan @MoshiMoshiMoan]

>targets 30 fps
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