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CAMERON WILSON @cameronwilson.bsky.social · 6h

We're now finding out that as many as 70,000 people had their government IDs provided to prove their ages leaked by Discord. Like I wrote last week, this is an inherent risk (and made greater by a rushed process) of getting platforms to do age checks

Discord says 70,000 users may have had their government IDs leaked in breach

The ID pics had been submitted as part of age-related appeals.

www.theverge.com

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 5h

Bray is a historian at Rutgers who received death threats after landing on Turning Points USA's Professor Watchlist. As a result, he announced he was moving to Europe. And then this happened.

This kind of harassment and abuse of scholars is Charlie Kirk's legacy and it's only getting worse.

Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 6h

“Someone” cancelled my family’s flight out of the country at the last second.

We got our boarding passes. We checked our bags. Went through security. Then at our gate our reservation ‘disappeared.’

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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 5h

This is the lesson of 2025

Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 6h

he's going to come after you either way, so you might as well act with integrity

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pulsarcube.bsky.social @pulsarcube.bsky.social · 1d

The leader of the CDU caucus has stated that the CDU is now against the proposal, which is a good sign. There will be a vote tomorrow on the positioning of the German government.

netzpolitik.org/2025/eu-uebe...

EU-Überwachungspläne: Unionsfraktion jetzt gegen Chatkontrolle, Innenministerium will sich nicht äußern

Überraschend kündigte am Dienstagnachmittag der Fraktionsvorsitzende der CDU/CSU an, dass es eine anlasslose Kontrolle von Chats mit der Union nicht geben würde. Das Innenministerium sagt, die Abstimm...

netzpolitik.org

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Matthew Green @matthewdgreen.bsky.social · 1d

I hear that the EU ChatControl situation is going better today. I cannot believe how close the EU has gotten to passing this crazy regulation.

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Matthew Green @matthewdgreen.bsky.social · 1d

Who is “we”?

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Matthew Green @matthewdgreen.bsky.social · 1d

One where every commenter on the liberal blogs is not a hard-right Bush-era Republican.

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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 1d

NEW: In May, a Texas police department said they used the powerful Flock surveillance network against a woman who had an abortion "for her safety"

Newly obtained court records show it was a 'death investigation,' and they considered charging her with a crime

www.404media.co/police-said-...

Police Said They Surveilled Woman Who Had an Abortion for Her 'Safety.' Court Records Show They Considered Charging Her With a Crime

Court records show that the narrative Flock and a Texas Sheriff's Office has told the public isn't the whole story, and that police were conducting a 'death investigation' into the abortion.

www.404media.co

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Matthew Green @matthewdgreen.bsky.social · 1d

Substack is a bad place.

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Matthew Green @matthewdgreen.bsky.social · 3d

If AI became quietly superintelligent in 2018 and began reorganizing our world to its purposes, would that look very different than what’s happening today?

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Matthew Green @matthewdgreen.bsky.social · 4d

Anything is possible to pull off if you’re willing to force someone to redesign their app, and you’re not concerned about security. Just force people to upload the texts to a server before they even get encrypted.

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Mike Masnick @mmasnick.bsky.social · 5d

It's too long a story to explain how I know this, but I once found out that the FBI made challenge coins about how they tried to force Apple to break iPhone encryption. Challenge coins celebrating shitty behavior is deeply a part of FBI culture.

Sam @samd.bsky.social · 5d

reddit occupied government

Ken Dilanian
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The challenge coins being handed out by @FBIDirectorKash. Seems someone put a lot of thought into this.

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Matthew Green @matthewdgreen.bsky.social · 5d

The Xiaofeng Wang search warrant has been unsealed, thanks to @riana.bsky.social. infosec.exchange/@hovav/11531...

Hovav Shacham (@[email protected])

After a mere six months, progress on @[email protected]’s motion seeking to unseal the XiaoFeng Wang search warrant!! https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/69834044/21/in-re-motion-to-unseal...

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Signal @signal.org · 5d

We are alarmed by reports that Germany is on the verge of a catastrophic about-face, reversing its longstanding and principled opposition to the EU’s Chat Control proposal which, if passed, could spell the end of the right to privacy in Europe. signal.org/blog/pdfs/ge...

signal.org

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Matthew Green @matthewdgreen.bsky.social · 6d

Buy me a drink, sing me a song, take me as I am because I can’t stay long?

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WIRED @wired.com · 6d

As the Trump administration threatens them, liberal nonprofits have been quietly preparing to do everything from surrendering 501(c)(3) status to relocating outside the US.

The Trump Administration Is Coming for Nonprofits. They're Getting Ready

As the Trump administration threatens them, liberal nonprofits have been quietly preparing to do everything from surrendering 501(c)(3) status to relocating outside the US.

wrd.cm

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Matthew Green @matthewdgreen.bsky.social · 6d

Doesn’t sound much like what the states require for age verification, but I guess that’s good?

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Matthew Green @matthewdgreen.bsky.social · 6d

techcrunch.com/2025/09/29/b...

Bluesky rolls out age verification for users in Ohio | TechCrunch

Users in Ohio will have to verify their age to use Bluesky's social network as of Monday.

techcrunch.com

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Matthew Green @matthewdgreen.bsky.social · 6d

These laws are never ever put to bed. One day you’ll be distracted and they’ll get one through.

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Matthew Green @matthewdgreen.bsky.social · 6d

They’ve been going after Meta too.

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Matthew Green @matthewdgreen.bsky.social · 6d

So BlueSky is blocked in Mississippi and requires age verification for “adult content” in SD, WY, OH and the UK. How accurate is their classification of adult content?

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Matthew Green @matthewdgreen.bsky.social · 7d

“AI expert” to a computer scientist: you’re working on optimizing model architectures and improving backprop.

“AI expert” for real: you’re gluing transformers together with Python and hoping you get better results.

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Matthew Green @matthewdgreen.bsky.social · 7d

My student pointed me to this paragraph in the Guardian’s “CoverDrop” white paper. Gagh we need more good software engineers to build libraries!

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Matthew Green @matthewdgreen.bsky.social · 7d

All of them.

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Matthew Green @matthewdgreen.bsky.social · 7d

Would be a technical nightmare because now you’d have two versions of Apple encryption, where the security changes depending on where in the world you are (ie your IP address.) This is so dangerous that it’s tantamount to a global backdoor, including against US citizens.

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