Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

@nixCraft@mastodon.social It's worse than you might think. The developer @laffer1@bsd.network didn't just add download restrictions (which would have been ok in my book), but they actually added this restriction to the copyright license of MidnightBSD as well, making the entire project nonfree software.

A lot of people talking about dumping Proton right now are misunderstanding what actually happened.

Feds were able to coerce the Swiss government to coerce Proton to hand over whatever data they had on an anonymous Stop Cop City email address, that was being investigated for terrorism.

That metadata included credit card details information for the account, which is very difficult to anonymize.

Proton offers cash payments to work around this obvious security flaw.

If you must pay for a Proton account for a radical project, pay with cash (you can mail it) or washed crypto (Monero -> Bitcoin).

All credit card payments are traceable, even to a privacy-focused company.

Your security model should not rely on a business to fight the state on your behalf.

Your email or VPN provider is not going to risk prison time for your $5/mo. It's just not going to happen, at least for anything commercial. Tuta and every other email privacy-focused email company will comply with court orders.

Trying to find the perfect email provider is a fool's errand. It doesn't exist.

You can however anonymize your useage of privacy friendly services like Proton, Tuta, or Mailbox by not entering your credit card number, phone number, name, personal email, or IP to that account.

They’re trying so hard to justify it and avoid saying, “U.S. STRIKES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL IN IRAN.”

The perfect headline doesn’t exi…

https://www.engadget.com/big-tech/google-pledges-roughly-three-hours-of-its-annual-profit-to-fight-climate-change-164808010.html

But don’t hold your breath.

What’s the point of having principles if you’re expected to compromise then whenever it’s inconvenient?

I wrote about the House hearing today, how Congress is trying to strip anonymity from the Internet, and the devastating effects that has for journalists, whistleblowers, LGBTQ ppl, immigrants, civil rights activists, abortion providers and anyone challenging power for @theintercept https://theintercept.com/2026/03/05/kosa-online-age-verification-free-speech-privacy/

Given what is plain to see the video and accurately described in the article, “Senator Helps Officers" is an egregiously cowardly headling. https://mas.to/@gleick/116178407102807491

If you pay Proton Mail for a service, they may hand over the payment data in response to a court order: https://www.404media.co/proton-mail-helped-fbi-unmask-anonymous-stop-cop-city-protestor/

For nearly a year, DHS tried to keep secret that it had killed a U.S. citizen.

Then came a FOIA request from American Oversight.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/2026/03/05/texas-dhs-shooting-citizen-killed/

@cdarwin

Joe Neguse is spectacular!

Here he is questioning Kristi Nome today...

Neguse: Where is this company headquartered?

Noem: I don’t know.

Neguse: I don’t know either. We can’t find it. We did find an address that’s registered to a political operative. This company that received 143 million dollars was incorporated 8 days before this contract went out. You want the American people to believe that this is all above board...

#Primary2026

DOJ took #Epstein victims' testimony, then did nothing - https://boingboing.net/2026/03/02/doj-took-epstein-victims-testimony-then-did-nothing.html hiding something? #trump

‘What happened in Texas is a warning’: advocates say Republicans suppressed votes in the primaries - https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/05/voter-suppression-texas-primaries shabby stuff

Vaccines are free. #Measles now costs $1.5 billion a year - https://boingboing.net/2026/03/02/vaccines-are-free-measles-now-costs-1-5-billion-a-year.html not to mention the pain; well done #antivaxxers

The U.K. accelerates toward police state status, by requiring the equivalent of a license to read and speak online. Worse, it drastically undermines your personal security.

The US is moving this way, too. Wake up, people, because it's almost too late.

https://action.openrightsgroup.org/no-id-checks-web-access

I am convinced we are on the verge of the first "AI agent worm". This looks like the closest hint of it, though it isn't it quite itself: an attack on a PR agent that got it to set up to install openclaw with full access on 4k machines https://grith.ai/blog/clinejection-when-your-ai-tool-installs-another

But, the agents installed weren't given instructions to *do* anything yet.

Soon they will be. And when they are, the havoc will be massive. Unlike traditional worms, where you're looking for the typically byte-for-byte identical worm embedded in the system, an agent worm can do different, nondeterministic things on every install, and carry out a global action.

I suspect we're months away from seeing the first agent worm, *if* that. There may already be some happening right now in FOSS projects, undetected.

Bottom line on the DHS "changes":

Noem, Mullin, and their boss all belong in prison.

The good news: Kristi Noem has been fired as Secretary of Homeland Security.

The bad news: the person our big wet president has tapped to replace her is Sen. Markwayne Mullin, who is a strong candidate for the dumbest member of the United States Senate

https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/116178030946996760

#USPol

I wrote a blogpost on this: "The first AI agent worm is months away, if that" https://dustycloud.org/blog/the-first-ai-agent-worm-is-months-away-if-that/

People who are using LLM agents for their coding, review systems, etc will probably be the first ones hit. But once agents start installing agents into other systems, we could be off to the races.