Notices by Max "Sweaty and Spooky" Eddy (maxeddy@infosec.exchange)

Reading through @soatok's post on Signal.

"If you walk away from it with more confidence in the security of Signal too, that’s cool, but I don’t think most people get their security advice from gay furry bloggers."

Buddy...I'm on Mastodon.

My team is hiring! Wirecutter is looking for a reporter to cover smartphones, wearables, and accessories. And it's a #union gig. Hit me up if you have any questions!

https://nytimes.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/NYT/job/Work-at-Home-NY/Sr-Staff-Writer--Smartphones---Wearables--NYT-Wirecutter_REQ-017762-1

#FediHire #fedihired

I'm genuinely surprised that Google is being so clear about this.

https://blog.google/products/maps/united-states-geographic-name-change-feb-2025/

A quote from Daniel K Gillmor that didn't make the final draft:

“The act of switching to an encrypted messenger is a social act, it is a community-oriented act, and it is a beneficial act.”

Build community, one encrypted message at a time.

I knew that SMS messages weren't secure but this was still startling.

“You might as well think of them as postcards,” said Daniel Kahn Gillmor, senior staff technologist at the American Civil Liberties Union. “Everybody along the path can see them.”

https://www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/reviews/encrypt-your-text-messages/

This is good to see and also I'm charmed that the top image appears to be an old Performa.

https://www.theverge.com/2024/11/27/24307284/microsoft-debunks-office-ai-data-scraping-rumors

Holy moly.
https://www.theverge.com/2024/2/5/24061997/twitter-alternative-spoutible-vulnerabilty

Early security theater.

It's just stunning to me how this has nothing to do with Twitter. He could be saying this about anything.

Turning Twitter into a bank is like buying the NFL and then telling fans they won't believe how good at chess all the teams are going to be.

https://www.theverge.com/2023/10/26/23934216/x-twitter-bank-elon-musk-2024

I am old fashioned in that I genuinely like client applications, which is why I tried 18 #Mastodon apps on Android, iOS, macOS, and Windows. These were the best ones.

https://www.pcmag.com/picks/best-mastodon-apps