Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

If you are discussing your abortion and you live in a place where abortion is now essentially illegal, please remember to speak only to people you trust and remember to use end-to-end encrypted comms with disappearing messages turned on.

https://www.texastribune.org/2023/03/10/texas-abortion-lawsuit/

If your organization works to investigate, expose, and prevent spyware around the world, this new funding initiative from the Ford Foundation is for you. https://fordfoundation.forms.fm/spyware-accountability-initiative-spring-2023-request-for-concept-notes/forms/9600

As a technologist I have to point out that the technological solutions to do this *safely* don’t exist. They are at best at the research stage. ML textual analysis schemes do exist, and often misfire. These systems will need to accomplish this task perfectly and also privately.

You might ask how the EU, famous for its focus on privacy, justifies the development of automated text-analysis tools that scan your private chats. The Impact Assessment has an analysis. To say that this analysis is deficient is really much too kind.

The EU’s “chat control” legislation is the most alarming proposal I’ve ever read. Taken in context, it is essentially a design for the most powerful text and image-based mass surveillance system the free world has ever seen.

Silicon Valley startups: We're libertarian, hate government regulation and oversight, and believe every person and business should be accountable for its own decisions and mistakes.

Also Silicon Valley startups: OMG,
#SVB has failed. The government better do a bailout, and the FDIC must protect all our assets expediently!

https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2023/03/10/investing/svb-bank/index.html

I think it is fine for someone to use Mastodon DMs to send any message that they would also feel comfortable sending over unencrypted email. For some people that is "basically nothing" and for others that is "basically everything".

I am making this post so that I can link it in future discussions here so I do not have to type it again.

If you are seeing this post because I linked you to it: greetings from the past! It is March 20, 2023 and the weather today in Portland, Oregon, USA is dreary.

Periodic reminder: most Non-Disclosure Agreements represent an unbounded risk to your future professional viability an happiness. Signing them is a very bad idea.

Now this is legitimately ironic: https://www.tomsguide.com/news/billions-of-pcs-and-other-devices-vulnerable-to-newly-discovered-tpm-20-flaws Poor old #Microsoft can't catch a break. Yet again I thank my lucky stars that the idea of running MSFT Windows makes me puke in my mouth.

Latest statement from the defendants of the Aston Park / #Asheville Sanctuary Camp Defendants + a phone zap (3/3)

A small 12 member worker #coop provides best elderly home care in Finland.

This is according to a massive survey of service user satisfaction spanning 2800 providers with 42,000 respondents.

https://otlehti.pellervo.fi/2023/03/10/suomen-parasta-kotipalvelua-kalajokilaaksossa/

Without the incredible speed the #linux #kernel can #hibernate and #resume at, I wouldn't be so #productive on the go. It only takes a few seconds, which feels like roughly time time it would take to store 4 GB of RAM to disk.

Whoever did this, thank you. 🐧#opensource #foss

The recently dubbed 'BlackLotus' malware is particularly impressive. Frankly next level hellseed. A UEFI bootkit that completely bypasses SecureBoot, self-signs against non-OS components, shims its way into the bootloader and then onto persistence in the target OS.

Note that it's built to worm its way into other OSs on same physical machine (dual-boot systems, hypervisors like Parallels on Macs)

Exploits CVE-2022-21894, in all supported versions of Windows.

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/03/unkillable-uefi-malware-bypassing-secure-boot-enabled-by-unpatchable-windows-flaw/

@atomicpoet

People need to understand.

#Google isn't a search engine.
#Facebook isn't a journal to share with your friend.
#Instagram isn't a public photo album.
#Twitter isn't a micro-blogging website.

They are all advertisement companies.