So I guess this is just supposed to happen? Confirmed that it's a real threat, too.
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/02/22/musk-federal-employees-explanation-dismissal-00205613
"Freedom of speech," he cries, as he blocks one of the freest, most user friendly private communication tools.
"Last year, a joint investigation revealed that a Florida-based data broker, Datastream Group, was selling highly sensitive location data that tracked United States military and intelligence personnel overseas."
https://www.404media.co/email/02ccba38-fb45-4a02-9e65-a3247436c018
Best timeline.
“The use of tools such as Meta Pixel without explicit consent seems wholly in breach of the law and should be immediately stopped. The gambling industry’s marketing practices are now out of control, and our regulatory structure and codes of practice are repeatedly shown to be inadequate. This cannot go on.”
This is why we should have had proper data privacy laws years ago. There'd be precedence and mechanisms in place. I wonder if Californians might be able to invoke CCPA. Also, Elon here, defaming, again.
https://www.theregister.com/2025/02/10/doge_infosec_impact_court_order/
Brian Krebs posting some... Interesting observations about some of the new government AWS servers.
https://www.fractures.media/p/is-the-us-throwing-away-its-tech
Chips, Tariffs, and Temper Tantrums. By attempting to blindly protect US industry, and pushing the Project 2025 agenda, is the Trump administration just handing China its tech leadership mantle?
“Coristine’s brief contract was terminated after the conclusion of an internal investigation into the leaking of proprietary company information that coincided with his tenure.”
A thing that makes me so nihilistic here is, I tried explaining to my few remaining "apolitical" friends in November that the security/tech things happening now with the Elon/Thiel acolytes were a distinct and likely possibility. Completely met with shrugs. And they'll probably forget by '26.
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5111199-federal-employees-sue-opm-email/ Could be huge. Potentially blows the Elon hostile takeover wide open.
This is really unsurprising.
https://www.securityweek.com/deepseek-blames-disruption-on-cyberattack-as-vulnerabilities-emerge/
Started using Openvibe for my federated services. It isn't perfect yet by any means, but I gotta say, anyone who was complaining about usability might want to take a look. Currently running Bsky, Mastodon, Nostr, and Threads.
Giant god damned babies. Is this really the best the US tech industry can do?
https://www.404media.co/email/d50708d7-966e-4d7c-a702-364575d9a704/?ref=daily-stories-newsletter
Brian Krebs laying out the confusion within the US cybersecurity apparatus, brought on by the Trump admin.
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2025/01/a-tumultuous-week-for-federal-cybersecurity-efforts/
https://open.spotify.com/episode/2D8toTI1mqCQTPdfC0Ttml?si=82f083b0f3204fc9
The *hugely bloated* recap of August was released in audio form. Huge things happening in the infosec and cyber realm.
If you're not in the know: LianSpy is a Russian Android spyware (think something like Pegasus). The findings by Kaspersky show that it runs on mainline cloud infrastructure. The implication is that this wouldn't be possible without state support.
My most unhinged post to date. It's about the spread of disinfo, misinfo, and actual cyberattacks in the wake of the CrowdStrike incident. Extremely long one.
In this episode, Rose explains how Chivo Wallet was released with a cascade of security failures and very convincing implications of corruption. "Move fast and break things" is probably the wrong way to run an essential service.
https://open.spotify.com/episode/59DLeAOuWil1bCv3411pvu?si=b2df5b1a3cae4fdf
At the risk of sounding like *insert local band*...
A lot of great things coming.
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