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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.

[Mariska den Eelden 🇪🇺🇳🇱 @eeldenden]

It has begun. The US State Department is about to fund Russophile parties across Europe. The implementation of the White House new Security Strategy

[Jeremiah Johnson 🌐 @JeremiahDJohns]

Reporting from the Financial Times on Xinjiang remains incredibly grim:

* In some areas, 90% of children are taken from parents to be educated in boarding schools where they aren't allowed to speak Uyghur
* Officials monitor who eats during Ramadan and report those who skip meals
* Basic items like prayer mats and religious text are considered illegal contraband
* Adult Uyghur women are pressured to marry Han Chinese men, and there are official goals to sterilize a certain % of them.
* Xinjiang has the largest prison capacity in the world relative to population
* Huge numbers of Uyghur prisoners are now being shipped across the country in forced labor schemes, as a way to dodge Xinjiang sanctions/boycotts
* The CCP shut down all 10 existing Uyghur-language publishers, none remain. They fed one university's book collection into a shredder.

There's a lot going on the world, but it's worth remembering that China is still actively engaged in cultural genocide. They're barely even hiding it, they openly talk about the need to 'correct' Uyghur culture and create 'ethnic unity'. They are openly destroying an entire culture as efficiently as they can, cutting children off from parents, restricting language, restricting religious practice, forcing sterilizations and intermarriage, imprisoning anyone who resists the tiniest amount and shipping them out to forced labor factories. That is what the CCP is.

https://t.co/gHK9ZS38Vx

[MoneroWire @MoneroWireHQ]

🇨🇭Switzerland built its whole reputation on privacy. Now it's proposing a surveillance law that would force VPNs, email, and messaging providers to collect your ID, log your data for six months, and decrypt it on demand.

Proton says it's worse than the US.

[Abdulkadir | Cybersecurity @cyber_razz]

Microsoft just posted a 400-word statement about how much they respect security researchers.

“We have no intention to pursue action against individuals conducting security research.”

They are currently pursuing legal action against Nightmare-Eclipse.

The researcher they banned from GitHub.

Whose account they deleted.

Whose bug bounty they denied.

Who then dropped six zero-days in six weeks.

Three of which were exploited in the wild within days.

Microsoft’s legal team sent this statement to the PR team.

The PR team posted it anyway.

The researchers are still releasing vulnerabilities for free.

The statement did not slow them down.

[dragons/acc 🐉 @livebeef]

@JHWeissmann I want to live in a society where we accept that people can grow, but I want to see more proof of a change of heart beyond deleting social media posts when it was 5 years ago for an adult.

[dragons/acc 🐉 @livebeef]

@Eskinor2 @Pirat_Nation Gabe can't count to 3.

[dragons/acc 🐉 @livebeef]

@RamblingsNerd2 Part of me worries this is part of a viral marketing campaign. This no-name game has notably more visibility now as a result of this non-troversy.

Exploiting culture war nonsense has been done before in marketing.

[Robert Graham @robertgraham]

Over the past few days Microsoft has listened to nobody.

They previously implied they would prosecute those who dropped 0day. The tweet below doesn't reject this.

Indeed, they want researchers to be afraid to drop 0day, so they are never going to say that dropping 0day is legal.

Microsoft values the cybersecurity only when they are in control, when the community follows their rules.

Note that Google's approach is the opposite. Google explicitly states that while dropping 0day is not the ideal, it's legal and allowed.

Microsoft has clearly joined with Oracle in becoming the "bad guys" of cybersecurity.

[Zack Korman @ZackKorman]

When a security researcher harms customers it's a crime, but when Microsoft does it it's called Copilot.

[Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias]

Beating Ken Paxton is very important but also objectively very difficult — it would be worth swallowing a *lot* of moderation on issues to make it happen.

https://t.co/L7LObQBvJ6

[Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1]

Trump's Justice Department is seeking the names, addresses, and banking information of Reddit and X users — ratcheting up efforts to identify social media critics of government deportation efforts.

Jeanine Pirro's office has subpoenaed the social media companies as part of criminal investigations, asking for personal information on anonymous posters who have chided immigration enforcement efforts.

[dragons/acc 🐉 @livebeef]

@TheoRettich @FabtonVT @CR1337 I'm not aware of any law that mandates this. It's an important distinction! It gives Google cover when they deserve none.

[DeepHumor @DeepHumor]

Translation: The government wants everyone to submit ID age verification to... chat in video games and social media. The amount of people defending this shit is insane

[FIRE @TheFIREorg]

Free speech is being tested in real time across AI systems, social platforms, and emerging technologies.

We’re hiring a Lead Counsel, Tech & Free Expression Policy to help shape how speech is protected and regulated in this fast-changing tech landscape.

[dragons/acc 🐉 @livebeef]

@Yordanarchist @egirlian @ettingermentum Eh. Doubtful. They've lost a lot of political capital. Dems don't know wtf to do, but there won't be a resurgence of pre-2021 woke.

[dragons/acc 🐉 @livebeef]

@ettingermentum The people who claim the main problem with "woke" was being annoying as opposed to being totalizing culture warmongers (and frequently hypocrites) who would not stop no matter how many people they terrorized or drove to suicide.

[dragons/acc 🐉 @livebeef]

@ettingermentum The community leaders took action on the outlandish claims of the sociopaths without so much as talking to the accused or conducting investigation.

The people who sent personalized death threats via paper mail to peoples' home addresses along with pics of their targets' family

[Greg Lukianoff @glukianoff]

It’s a whole new world of government overreach.

Americans don’t want the state to be our guest in regulating social media, Germany is Bibbidi-Bobbidi-boosting state-approved news, faculty politics are drifting somewhere past Neverland, and Ofcom is telling TikTok and YouTube to let it go.

And why do I keep making Disney puns??? See the latest weekly free speech update to find out:

https://t.co/ZLPV8aGsKs

[dragons/acc 🐉 @livebeef]

@icythedragon That comes off like stupid LLM garbage "math". Likely because it's historically very rare for a Presisent to win two non-consecutive terms.