Notices by August B (augustb@infosec.exchange)

For Europeans a good takeaway from Zuckerberg's Speech last week is stop using What's App...

https://bourniquelaw.com/2025/01/13/facebooks-new-villain-arc/

People have been worried about the UK's Online Safety Act. Here are a few thoughts on how this bad law might not be as scary as it looks.

https://bourniquelaw.com/2024/12/21/whats-this-about-the-online-safety-act/

Open source projects may have less to worry about then usual with the new EU-wide product regulation the Cyber Resilience Act, but figuring it out is tricky.

https://bourniquelaw.com/2024/11/16/the-cra-and-open-source/

Listening to a law school conference about the legal future of LLM ("AI") technology. It's mostly absurd optimism. I am reminded of listening to academics talk about cryptocurrency 10 years ago.

Hype about helping the disadvantaged...with tools whose only use has been to steal from the poor and enrich the hypemen.

Looking through various new privacy regulations like CA's "CAADCA" passed last year. The following occurs to me:

1. Protecting children from the internet continues to be a way to legitimize stalker-ware and state surveillance.

2. Calling speech "data management" and defining it as part of design or technology shouldn't make the doctrine of Prior Restraint vanish.

3. Handing the job of regulating and confirming identity to private companies seems like the opposite of protecting PII.

Looking at 2014 Dril Tweets in the same way a 14th century pilgrim would stare at the ruins of ancient Rome.