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Data isn't gold, it's uranium. Companies stockpile and refine it because of the great power it creates. But the industry is largely unregulated and creates hazardous by-products. When it spills it's almost impossible to clean up and when it explodes it leaves a wasteland behind.

Many people don't know that @purism offers an anti-interdiction service for laptop orders. In this post I describe what the service is and some of the measures we put in place, including some new ones based on our PureBoot tamper-evident boot process.
puri.sm/posts/anti-interdictio

Somebody gets it; the power and freedom of the Librem 5. youtube.com/watch?v=AnbqjNvpup
Thanks for sharing your ideas David (hackersgame)

Five years from now: "Whoops, it turns out we trained our AI on existing staff so it finds white men most trustworthy. Sorry everybody, we were told AI was unbiased." maketecheasier.com/face-scanni

@purism Nicole and I (taking the photo) on a little Librem 5 Birch fabrication trip...

Two interesting tidbits:
1. Actual enforcement of the penalty clause for abusing DMCA takedowns.
2. He could use DMCA takedowns to get a person's home address!

arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20

I've gotten some questions about Packagekit and why we don't provide interactive signing during package updates. I talk at length about some of the challenges with that approach here: github.com/osresearch/heads/is

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I wrote an article about best practices (including travel tips) for PureBoot, @purism 's tamper-evident boot firmware that allows the user to control all of the keys and secrets used for the signing process. Check it out here: puri.sm/posts/pureboot-best-pr

Kyle Rankin, 's Chief Security Officer, overviews - our cutting-edge secured boot process - and shares his PureBoot and best practice. Great advice for anyone who travels with their laptop. puri.sm/posts/pureboot-best-pr

Hey! Hackers disrespecting me?
Take 'em out.
You gotta keep 'em separated.
Hey! Pager's calling after me?
Prod is out.
You gotta keep 'em separated.
Hey, they don't pay no mind,
If they're not on a pager won't be working overtime.
Hey, come out and play.

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By the time you hear the pager,
It's already too late,
Some untested code pushed to Ruby on Rails,
One server's wasted and your uptime's a waste.
It goes down the same as the thousands before,
No one is getting smarter,
No one's learning the score.
The neverending spree of hacks and simple mistakes
Is gonna tie your own rope tie your own rope tie your own.

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Hey! Pager's calling after me?
Prod is out.
You gotta keep 'em separated.
Hey! Hackers disrespecting me?
Take 'em out.
You gotta keep 'em separated.
Hey, they don't pay no mind,
If they're from a different country won't be doing any time.
Hey, come out and play.

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Like the latest fashion,
Like a spreading disease,
Devs will login all the way to production,
Getting root shells with the greatest of ease.

Pentests staked out your whole network locale,
And if they pop your Jenkins then it's all over pal.
If one dev exploit gets a shell in Linux,
They're gonna bash it up, slash it up, hack it up, prod's not up.

Inspector Gadget is a cautionary tale about a tech-obsessed gadget geek dealing with the consequences of buggy voice recognition software.

That said, if I ever do use a voice assistant, I'm changing the trigger phrase to "Go Go Gadget."

Translation: PG&E has neglected maintenance and upgrades for so long that even with the spotlight on them it's going to take a *decade* to catch up.
"California Can Expect Blackouts For A Decade, Says PG&E CEO" n.pr/31oc020

Holy smokes.

LibreOffice runs on the Librem 5!

AND IT WORKS.

Saving files, opening files, typing... the UI is a bit cramped (it's a desktop app on a phone)... but hot-diggity! It works!

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I've said it before and I'll say it again: the most persistent, resourceful and difficult adversaries to secure against are kids behind parental/school controls and employees behind corporate firewalls: washingtonpost.com/technology/

Giving users the power to moderate their own feeds is the key. Centralized moderation will always be flawed--a company can never represent your sensitivities as well as you and your peers (and will likely bow to outside pressure to censor, whether it's China or groups of users).
vice.com/en_us/article/a35yke/

This is among the reasons I never post pictures of my son. I understand and accept risks to my own identity, but I don't own his online identity--I'm merely a steward of it until he's an adult. I hope at that point I can hand it off to him untarnished and unexploited.
nytimes.com/interactive/2019/1

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