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Alec Muffett
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Alec Muffett @alecmuffett.bsky.social · 2h
One-man spam campaign ravages EU ‘chat control’ bill | POLITICO
https://alecmuffett.com/article/116596
#ChatControl #ClientSideScanning #EndToEndEncryption #OnlineSafety #censorship #surveillance
One-man spam campaign ravages EU ‘chat control’ bill | POLITICO
I can’t decide if I approve of the coverage or disapprove of the “lone hacker” spin: The website, called Fight Chat Control, was set up by Joachim, a 30-year-old software engineer…
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Alec Muffett @alecmuffett.bsky.social · 6h
Citizen Protest Halts Chat Control; Breyer Celebrates Major Victory for Digital Privacy | Patrick Breyer
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#ChatControl #EndToEndEncryption #EuropeanCommission #PatrickBreyer #censorship #germany #surveillance
Citizen Protest Halts Chat Control; Breyer Celebrates Major Victory for Digital Privacy | Patrick Breyer
“Without the tireless resistance from citizens, scientists, and organizations, EU governments would have passed a totalitarian mass surveillance law next week, spelling the end for digital pr…
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Alec Muffett @alecmuffett.bsky.social · 20h
Data protection under fire: Messenger services react to EU chat control | heise online
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#ChatControl #ClientSideScanning #EndToEndEncryption #EuropeanCommission #privacy
Data protection under fire: Messenger services react to EU chat control | heise online
Feedback from Signal, WhatsApp, Messenger & Threema: A Meta spokesperson told netzpolitik.org that despite claims to the contrary, the new proposal from the Danish EU presidency continues to un…
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Alec Muffett @alecmuffett.bsky.social · 1d
Proof-of-age ID leaked in Discord data breach | The Guardian
https://alecmuffett.com/article/116459
#AgeVerification #OnlineSafety #OnlineSafetyAct #censorship #discord #extortion #surveillance #vpns
Proof-of-age ID leaked in Discord data breach | The Guardian
If they were not obliged to collect the data then the data would not be available to be stolen: The support system was targeted to access user data with a view to extort a financial ransom from Dis…
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Alec Muffett @alecmuffett.bsky.social · 1d
Chat Control is “like a malware on your device” – Signal slams the EU proposal to scan your private chats | TechRadar
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#ChatControl #ClientSideScanning #EndToEndEncryption #censorship #signal #surveillance
Chat Control is “like a malware on your device” – Signal slams the EU proposal to scan your private chats | TechRadar
“Apart from the legal bit, that’s exactly how malware works. It compromises your device in order to gain access to information,” said Signal’s vice-president for global affairs, U…
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Alec Muffett @alecmuffett.bsky.social · 1d
I'm looking forward to that day in some ways, then maybe we can start talking about ideas again rather than outrage.
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Alec Muffett @alecmuffett.bsky.social · 1d
Did it look hon-y?
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Alec Muffett @alecmuffett.bsky.social · 1d
If an ID card is good, then an ID card plus a utility bill will be better:
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UK Digital ID Cards: is the Government going to compensate UK business for losses due to forcing them to accept additional business risk?
I spent the best part of 14 hours yesterday learning how to argue with people who, perhaps blindly, believe that Digital ID will bring “advantages” to “everybody”; a detaile…
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Alec Muffett @alecmuffett.bsky.social · 1d
[Home Secretary] Mahmood answers that just because you have a freedom “doesn’t mean you have to use it at every moment of every day”
https://alecmuffett.com/article/116208
#HomeOffice #HumanRights #ShabanaMahmood
[Home Secretary] Mahmood answers that just because you have a freedom “doesn’t mean you have to use it at every moment of every day”
Um…
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Alec Muffett @alecmuffett.bsky.social · 2d
The UK Is Still Trying to Backdoor Encryption for Apple Users | Electronic Frontier Foundation
https://alecmuffett.com/article/116180
#EndToEndEncryption #HomeOffice #apple #censorship #privacy #surveillance #tcn
The UK Is Still Trying to Backdoor Encryption for Apple Users | Electronic Frontier Foundation
“…but if there are no British users then there will be nobody to spy upon?” The initial order from January targeted the data of all Apple users. […] The new order provides insight into …
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Alec Muffett @alecmuffett.bsky.social · 2d
Terry Pratchett explains large chunks of civil society in a nutshell
https://alecmuffett.com/article/116170
#CivilSociety #TerryPratchett
Terry Pratchett explains large chunks of civil society in a nutshell
From “Jingo”.
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Alec Muffett @alecmuffett.bsky.social · 2d
Discord Age Verification Data Hack: ‘The unauthorized party also accessed a “small number” of images of government IDs from “users who had appealed an age determination.”’
https://alecmuffett.com/article/115973
Discord Age Verification Data Hack: ‘The unauthorized party also accessed a “small number” of images of government IDs from “users who had appealed an age determination.”’
If you require platforms to age verify it means the user is giving up more data to somebody, which means there is more data to be hacked: Discord customer service data breach leaks user info and sc…
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Alec Muffett @alecmuffett.bsky.social · 2d
Struggling to heat your home? Try 500 Raspberry Pi units | The Register
https://alecmuffett.com/article/115932
#RaspberryPi #heating
Struggling to heat your home? Try 500 Raspberry Pi units | The Register
Thermify told us that the processing power inside each HeatHub is provided by a cluster of 500 Raspberry Pi Compute Modules, either the CM4 or CM5. The whole kit is submerged in oil, and the heat i…
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Jared @jarede.bsky.social · 2d
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John Scott-Railton @jsrailton.bsky.social · 2d
NEW: breach of Discord age verification data.

Including some users passports & DLs

Age verification is a badly implemented data grab wrapped in a moral panic.

Mark my words, as age verification mandates expand, we'll end up more surveilled and less secure. 1/
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Alec Muffett @alecmuffett.bsky.social · 2d
I've got a post on my blog which will get pushed to social media tomorrow morning :-) — it turns out that if you want shit to actually be read you need to post it during daylight hours on weekdays.

Ridiculous, isn't it?
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Alec Muffett @alecmuffett.bsky.social · 3d
Might be something to do with the EU tendency to regulate things to death, no?
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Alice Stollmeyer @stollmeyer.bsky.social · 4d
🔥 Finally an EU leader says it out loud:

“We have been incredibly naive in entrusting our democratic space to social networks that are controlled either by large American entrepreneurs or large Chinese companies, whose interests are not at all the survival or proper functioning of our democracies.”
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Defend Democracy @defenddemocracy.bsky.social · 4d
President Macron: “Europeans, let's wake up!

We have been incredibly naive in entrusting our democratic space to social networks.”

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Deanna Kreisel 🌱 @doctorwaffle.substack.com · 5d
In honor of National Poetry Day, the greatest parody rewrite of all time:
Screen cap of parodic version of William Blake's "The Tyger" that begins: Tyger! Tyger! Burning bright (Not sure if I spelled that right) What immortal hand or eye Could fashion such a stripy guy? What the hammer that hath hewn it Into such a chonky unit? Did who made the lamb make thee, Or an external franchisee?
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Alec Muffett @alecmuffett.bsky.social · 5d
Do not introduce Digital ID cards | Petitions | 2.75 MILLION SIGNATURES …
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#DigitalId #IdCards #KierStarmer #UkLabour #censorship #surveillance
Do not introduce Digital ID cards | Petitions | 2.75 MILLION SIGNATURES …
…and all they can do is retrench; extended details at the link: We will introduce a digital ID within this Parliament to help tackle illegal migration, make accessing government services easier, an…
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Alec Muffett @alecmuffett.bsky.social · 5d
<cough>nobodymentiondocker</cough>
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Andrea @valkyrie.hacker.gf · 5d
It gradually begins to dawn that replacing web sites with apps distributed through easily-controlled chokepoints was a terrible idea
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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 5d
so the US government just forced a tech company to delete an app it doesn’t like, which is totally normal stuff

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Andrea @valkyrie.hacker.gf · 5d
People: the boot will never lick you back
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Andrea @valkyrie.hacker.gf · 5d
Also in this connection, recall that Google is also going to be forcing developers to identify themselves to get a signing key to install on stock Android: techcrunch.com/2025/08/25/g...
Google will require developer verification for Android apps outside the Play Store | TechCrunch
Google will ask all Android developers to verify their identity starting next year.
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Andrea @valkyrie.hacker.gf · 5d
It gradually begins to dawn that replacing web sites with apps distributed through easily-controlled chokepoints was a terrible idea
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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 5d
so the US government just forced a tech company to delete an app it doesn’t like, which is totally normal stuff

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ICEBlock Owner After Apple Removes App: ‘We Are Determined to Fight This’
Apple removed ICEBlock reportedly after direct pressure from Department of Justice officials. “I am incredibly disappointed by Apple's actions today. Capitulating to an authoritarian regime is never t...
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Alex Hern @hern.bsky.social · 5d
Six years ago, almost to the day, Apple removing a similar app from the Hong Kong App Store was seen as such a breach that Tim Cook wrote an all staff email to defend it www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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Alec Muffett @alecmuffett.bsky.social · 5d
One of the things I am toying with is using DVLA as a metaphor / example for the manner and scale of errors that the #DigitalID programme may have. It shares many characteristics: a live database, online checks, reliant parties at MOT test centres, & legal burden:

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Alec Muffett @alecmuffett.bsky.social · 5d
One of the things I am toying with is using DVLA as a metaphor / example for the manner and scale of errors that the #DigitalID programme may have. It shares many characteristics: a live database, online checks, reliant parties at MOT test centres, & legal burden:

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