Notices by Alec Muffett (alecmuffett@mastodon.social)

Europol Director: “The European People are Criminal Scum and cannot be trusted with robust online privacy” | …or words to that effect
https://alecmuffett.com/article/110982
#CatherineDeBolle #censorship #europol #surveillance

When I worked on E2EE for @Messenger I forget the # of times various ideas were shot down by asking “what if the user drops their phone down a toilet?” ; now @SciTechGovUK want your driving licence on that phone
https://alecmuffett.com/article/110968
#DigitalId #dsit #oops

Utterly delighted new BBC Wonderblocks are teaching our preschoolers the basics of both algorithm development & applied password guessing, core skills that they will certainly need
https://alecmuffett.com/article/110966
#WonderBlocks #algorithms #bbc #cyber #programming

It will be really interesting to see if Pornhub (et al) choose to revoke their service to the UK in a manner consistent with their actions in the US, or not…
https://alecmuffett.com/article/110940
#AgeVerification #censorship #mindgeek #pornhub #vpn

All porn sites must ‘robustly’ verify UK user ages by July | BBC News
https://alecmuffett.com/article/110925
#AgeVerification #OnlineSafetyAct #ofcom #porn #tiktok

The Pornhub Bans Are Not About Keeping Kids Safe | …frankly this goes for most online safety regulation…
https://alecmuffett.com/article/110823
#AgeVerification #OnlineSafety #censorship #pornhub

Smuggled Starlink devices allegedly used to defy India’s internet shutdowns | The Guardian
https://alecmuffett.com/article/110821
#censorship #india #starlink

US Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency strongly endorses use of robust, unsurveilled End-to-End Encrypted Messenger software; it would be bizarre for #Ofcom to oppose this
https://alecmuffett.com/article/110769
#EndToEndEncryption #OnlineSafety #cisa #ofcom

Tony Blair calls for roll out of digital ID | “…put all your eggs in one basket, it makes it easier to lose them all and for the government to surveil you…”
https://alecmuffett.com/article/110762
#IdCards #ThreatModelling #TonyBlair

Google says its breakthrough Willow quantum chip can’t break modern cryptography | The Verge
https://alecmuffett.com/article/110761
#QuantumComputing #clickbait #encryption

Honestly thinking that Australia has just done a “Leeroy Jenkins” to Government efforts to “save children from themselves” by banning them from Social Media
https://alecmuffett.com/article/110718
#KevinBacon #SocialMedia #SocialMediaBan #australia #censorship

UK Digital Minister @peterkyle threatens companies which do not submit to government surveillance and censorship demands
https://alecmuffett.com/article/110681
#OnlineSafety #PeterKyle #dsit

Pakistani religious body declares using VPN is against Islamic law
https://alecmuffett.com/article/110666
#encryption #theocracy

UK cheeses miss out on international prize after getting stuck in customs | The Guardian
https://alecmuffett.com/article/110663
#brexit #cheese

@i @grillchen @p@fsebugoutzone.org @lucy @mint@ryona.agency @sun

Apologies, what did I do? HTTPS for Onion?

@i @grillchen @p@fsebugoutzone.org @lucy @mint@ryona.agency @sun

Oh that is always fun. Is it because of the custom TLD or is it because of some aspect of proof of ownership, or something else entirely different like the SOCKS debacle of a few months ago?

@i @grillchen @p@fsebugoutzone.org @lucy @mint@ryona.agency @sun

FWIW

Anybody who wants alt text can send me a DM because it's way too big

@mmasnick but what will happen when civil society runs into APIs which do not behave as general purpose functionality that scales linearly?

Yes we can argue about legalities and lawsuits, but the bottom line is that private APIs do not have to be designed to support this kind of functionality, and at some point civil society is going to complain that they don't.

At that point: either civil society gives up, or it demands a public API, or it seeks to compel removal of rate limits.

Tag: @mmasnick who may enjoy this one

Zuckerman vs: Zuckerberg: why and how this is a battle of the public understanding of APIs, and why Zuckerman needs to lose and Meta needs to win
https://alecmuffett.com/article/109757
#EthanZuckerman #KinLane #apis #meta #scraping