Hmmm... Can't Reach This Page
A friend called me two weeks ago because his IPTV app had stopped playing anything, just a spinning wheel and a generic playback error. When he pulled up the service's own domain in a browser to see...
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The Data Is Still There. You Just Lost the Key.
A TikTok landed in my feed today (yes, I watch TikTok, I know) "confidently explaining GDPR's right to erasure" (https://vt.tiktok.com/ZSVHVKDHr/) in the mostly-correct register that TikTok reserves...
Your Claude Share Link Is More Public Than You Think
There is a "thread on the ClaudeAI subreddit" (https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1v6fiyj/you_can_view_a_lot_of_shared_conversations_via/) making the rounds today pointing out that a large...
California's New Age Verification Law: Making Kids Less Safe While Breaking Open Source
Earlier this month, "PC Gamer reported" (https://www.pcgamer.com/software/operating-systems/a-new-california-law-says-all-operating-systems-including-linux-need-to-have-some-form-of-age-verification-a...
Stop Inspecting Everything: The Case Against Universal TLS Interception
For the past decade, I've watched enterprise security teams deploy TLS inspection appliances with the best of intentions. The pitch is always the same: we need visibility into encrypted traffic to...
They Used a Lost Puppy to Sell You a Surveillance Network
I was watching the American feed of the Super Bowl last night when Ring's latest ad came on. A family loses their dog. They upload a photo. Ring's network of neighbourhood cameras springs into action,...
Bill S-209: Protecting Kids at the Cost of the Internet
Bill S-209 aims to protect kids from explicit material—but it risks turning ISPs into internet police, undermining privacy, and threatening freedom online. There’s a better way. 🛑📵 #BillS209 #Privacy #InternetFreedom
Hey HDSB - Security is EVERYONES problem.
Tonight I received the following email from the Halton District School Board: To summarize the email - Edge Imaging, a vendor tasked with managing school photographs for yearbooks during the 2022-2023 and 2023-2024 academic years, experienced a data breach. This breach occurred within the vendor's
Canada's Proposed Bill S-210 - Won't somebody please think of the children?
Recently, the Canadian political landscape witnessed a significant development with the passage of Bill S-210, also known as the Protecting Young Persons from Exposure to Pornography Act, through the Senate. Despite initial reluctance, Senators ultimately passed the bill in April, framing it as a m