Kyle Rankin @kyle@librem.one

All week as we were preparing this article all I could think was: "No disassemble! No disassemble Librem 5!"

https://social.librem.one/@purism/105832956079998854

Pretty messed up that a mom had to have this conversation w/ their 7-yr-old: "Every time you ride your bike down this block, there are probably 50 cameras that watch you going past. If you make a bad choice, those cameras will catch you." #privacy https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2021/03/02/ring-camera-fears/

I replaced my personal laptop with a Librem 5 and laptop dock for a week. Here are my impressions: https://puri.sm/posts/my-first-week-of-librem-5-convergence/

In particular I appreciated the discussion on the responsibility everyone has not just for their own #privacy, but the privacy of everyone else they connect with. When you give up your privacy to an app, you are also selling out your friends, family and colleagues.

I really enjoyed this Radiolab episode on all of the security measures behind the Zcash key signing ceremony. Stick around for the bonus security and privacy dilemma when the reporter covering the event discovers their phone is hacked mid-ceremony: https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/radiolab/articles/ceremony

If you study the history of the Cold War (or watched the movie Wargames), you know we've had many "close calls" that almost led to nuclear holocaust, only stopped by someone's ethics overriding their orders and training. AI won't be programmed with that "limitation".

AI-controlled weapons are coming. For a preview of their "ethics" take all the recent stories of bias in AI, only instead of not hiring a minority candidate or granting them bail, the computer shoots them. #doomed https://www.washingtonpost.com/magazine/2021/02/17/pentagon-funds-killer-robots-but-ethics-are-under-debate/

Dropbox decided to take a one-time $400 million hit to cancel leases and follow other tech companies in the exodus from SF toward remote work: https://www.cnbc.com/2021/02/18/dropbox-takes-400-million-charge-on-real-estate-as-it-goes-virtual.html

Oh, gonna log it on, hackin' you, baby
I wanna log it on
You don't have a password that's too long
If the guesses miss you
Let me phish you good
Let your password out
Oh, log me on, come on

They are all insecure passwords with so much to guess
People think they're secure
Since they have to be, complex, I love it
There's nothing hard with me hacking you, baby no no
And guessin' passwords, to me, can never go wrong
Unless the factor's two.

Don't you know how sweet and wonderful auth can be,
I'm asking your website to log it on with me,
I ain't gonna worry, I ain't gonna fuzz, I won't fuzz you baby
So come on, log on, log on, log on, log on, baby
Stop beating round the bush, hey

Happy Valentine's Day to my red team and pentesting friends! Here's a little something to put you in the mood:

I've been really trying, baby
Trying to go hack this login for so long
And if you feel, like I steal baby
Come on, oh log on, ooh

Let's log it on, ow baby
Let's log it on, guess "love" baby
Let's log it on, "secret"
Let's log it on, woo

I attached a USB-C hub to my laptop dock using a flattened IKEA bracket and some 3M tape. Now I can easily use it and see both screens from my lap. A bit hacky but it works.

I was *this* close to writing up a parody of Britney Spears's "Toxic" covering today's news story about heavy metals discovered in baby food. I restrained myself this time as it seemed like it might be in bad taste.