March 26, 2018 - But you do know the answer: Quit Facebook. We all have time, so we should vote with it · Before deleting your account overwrite everything with garbage data. If you simply close or delete your account, FB saves everything (in case you might come back, they can offer you a better experience, ...

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June 8, 2016 - The "standard interview questions" asked when an employee raises a legal concern about the practices of the NSA are used to turn the microscope onto the employee, rather then the legal issue (a practice certainly not lost on employees considering raising an issue).

November 30, 2020 - I think that the reactionary take on "deplatforming" is largely right (it's not something that should happen in a free society and is a violation of the principle of open dialogue in a liberal society), but it misses the forest for the trees. Twitter/Facebook/Reddit/etc DO have a legitimate ...

September 27, 2024 - It is insane to me that I can be notified via physical mail of months old data breaches, some of which contained my Social Security number, and that my only recourse is to set credit freezes from multiple credit bureaus · So me trying to do the right thing, am now scrambling for work, while ...

September 23, 2019 - At the very least it produced some dissonance between democratic establishment and their support base. Bill and Hilary continue to tour the country and I attended their road show in Seattle. Crowed cheered at every statement until they got to, and I quote, “Snowden is a traitor”, which ...

September 20, 2016 - God, I hate how quickly you can get paranoid these days. A mode of thought I would expect in socialist countries, not the US · There were a couple of times where I actually called the public contact numbers for NSA & GCHQ regarding particular stories about which I was especially upset, identifying ...

3 weeks ago - While I heard many of the headlines the reporting is very in depth, including a bunch of smaller details worth poking into. I'd recommend people who are interested and who haven't done so yet to just read a couple of these · Speculation: the Intercept was a move by the NSA to shut down the ...

November 5, 2021 - Aren’t the major media and news outlets owned by only handful of people? They won’t dare risk pissing off the government · The more concentrated media is, the fewer families TPTB need to threaten with violence for not keeping the newspapers on message. It's really very convenient

January 10, 2021 - This would be relevant for any Mastodon service hosted in Germany right · Woah, you lost me there. Free speech (at least within a common society) cannot be the irrevocable right to say whatever you want with no consequences. If people do not want to hear what you have to say, why should they ...

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September 1, 2017 - This is a brilliant line and it works so well because he is absolutely right: it should not be on the burden of the consumer to make sure their products are safe, be it from listeria or a spy device disguised as a children's toy · I don't know what needs to happen for people to get outraged, ...

June 27, 2020 - I had to read this link to see what it was talking about. Maybe some ridiculous AI crime prediction algorithm · Err, what the hell? Is someone supposed to be ashamed of selling email and docs/spreadsheet software to police departments? Of all the things Google does, selling G Suite is probably ...

December 27, 2013 - What is the Washington Post not telling us · True enough, but I think everyone already knows that

November 10, 2019 - It's very carefully written, it does not propose to make a moral judgement about whether the things Snowden revealed are evil only to show that in a technical sense they were an attack and so it made sense for the network to try to mitigate them. Work like D-PRIVE (privacy for DNS) was driven ...

April 8, 2026 - Snowden released classified data at great personal cost - he is now a US fugitive and will be promptly arrested if he ever tries to leave Russia · Sarah Wynn-Williams wrote a tell-all book for which she was paid. My understanding is that she also signed the non-disparagement clause as part ...

And I'd dispute that they "work" even if the subject is unaware of the flaws. Studies have shown innocent people regularly react to assertions of criminality. It's basically left up to the individual tester to "interpret" whether or not they find the person to be lying · Sure sometimes it ...

September 19, 2023 - There's almost no will from voters to fight this, so the discourse instantly leaps from "impossible" to "acceptable" · Not sure I'd call it psy-op

June 14, 2023 - When I first heard his story I expected him to be hailed as a hero, and thought we might even have a holiday to celebrate him for risking his life, freedom, and career to inform us that our government is doing something deeply unethical in secret with our own money, that violates our basic freedoms.

June 2, 2015 - It is also hard to change. I work with technology everyday. I planned to: · The results? I'm still on Gmail. I still have a Dropbox account and I'm slowly moving stuff to Spideroak. I'm the only one who uses TextSecure and I end up sending SMS in the clear to my friends.