Notices by evacide (evacide@hachyderm.io), page 4

When I talk about digital privacy, there is always some smug genius who shrugs and tells me, "Who cares? We all know we don't have any privacy anyway." Nothing could be more wrong. Convincing you that the fight is already over to the way people in power get you to stop resisting.

"Cisgender is a slur" has some real "people pointing out racist behavior are the real racists" energy to it.

If you own a Tesla, your car is covered in cameras that take images reviewed by Tesla employees, who share them with each other, joke about them, and make them into memes.

https://www.reuters.com/technology/tesla-workers-shared-sensitive-images-recorded-by-customer-cars-2023-04-06/

I see that everything is going fine over at the Hellsite.

I have spent this week declining work requests that are unreasonable in scope or that make me uncomfortable and I would like a goddamn medal.

Everything about Durov's statement is so profoundly dishonest that I feel like engaging in a point-by-point debunking is a waste of time. If most of the messages on your platform are not end-to-end encrypted AT ALL, it is less private and secure than platforms whose messages are all e2e by default.

https://t.me/durov/274

This is your regular reminder that most communications on Telegram are not end-to-end encrypted. Channels and groups are never end-to-end encrypted and 1-on-1 messages are only end-to-end when explicitly enabled.

@kete That guy was very bad and his fans/followers continue to be bad. Extremely fucking bad.

I see that today on the internet people are discovering who Meir Kahane was.

Buying a new car in 2024 is a goddamn privacy nightmare, part 3591 of an endless series: https://sherwood.news/tech/how-to-opt-out-of-the-privacy-nightmare-that-comes-factory-installed-in-new/

I will be at the Computer History Museum on May 16th, talking about digital privacy, security, and Big Data with the folks from PBS' NOVA.

https://computerhistory.org/events/nova-secrets-in-your-data

Do not stare into the abyss, lest you be invited to keynote the abyss.

Important fashion update: my silver bias-cut "space royalty" gown and silver star Hedy Lamarr headdress were a great success. On theme. Would wear again.

@eliza There are pictures, but I try to be careful about what I post here because people get weird.

I cannot overstate how dangerous to free speech and a healthy democracy it is to redefine all anti-Zionism and criticism of the state of Israel as antisemitism. You know who's loudly critical of Zionism and the Israeli govt? Jews. A lot of Jews.

https://forward.com/fast-forward/608308/gop-democrats-antisemitism-campus-israel/

It is now the time after my company-wide retreat when I come home and mentally review every single I said to my co-workers that was awkward or weird.

If you're the person who stole the package from my foyer, I hope you're enjoying Police and the Empire City: Race and the Origins of Modern Policing in New York.

When you are tired of giant flying French robot birds, you are tired of life.

I got a notification at the Bad Place informing me that they have reviewed my account and generously granted me Premium for free, along with a blue check.

I also haven't been able to log into the website on Firefox for about a month. So that's how things are going over there.

I have experimented with privacy/security advice chatbots and I have discovered that the part of my expertise I absolutely cannot replicate is figuring out what the person I'm talking to isn't telling me.