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Reclaiming Privacy Rights: A Roadmap for Organizations Fighting Surveillance(fas.org)
1 points by rt4mn 2y ago|0 comments
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by rt4mn 2y ago
yeah... a lot of ink has been spilled over there should be a Warrent requirement for the FBI but imo the data broker loophole is the bigger issue. NSA buys netflow data in bulk for petes sake.
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by rt4mn 2y ago
Section 702 is expiring at the end of the month but whether or not it gets re-authorized by a bill called RISSA is likely going to the floor of the house NEXT WEEK. IF you care about privacy and surveillance, contact your house member and s
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by rt4mn 2y ago
> Risky Biz (and really anything Patrick Gray touches) is awesome. Would recommend. Patrick Gray is a good interviewer and news source but he is also a big booster of the American surveillance apparatus, and has spoken against such reas
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by rt4mn 3y ago
Its less "Looks like we need new powers again!" and more "Please dont take away our post-9/11 powers (702), and not because we forgot how to do our jobs without them we actually do need them for realz!" See also the
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by rt4mn 3y ago
This whole thing was a shit show. Very happy Restore the Fourth signed the open letter calling for House Intelligence chair to step down. https://www.freedomworks.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/Turn... A
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by rt4mn 3y ago
This is a big deal. If you care about your privacy, its not enough to use good op-sec. You need to address the source of the problem: the governent is abusing its power, and it needs to stop doing that This bill is an attempt to fix that. T
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Sen Wyden's New Surveillance Reform Act Reins in the Worst Abuses of Section 702(eff.org)
3 points by rt4mn 3y ago|1 comments
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by rt4mn 3y ago
Nope. "If Alice registers number X and enables reglock, but Bob later proves ownership of number X (by registering and completing the SMS code), then Alice will be unregistered." IE, if somone intercepts the SMS code, even with re
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by rt4mn 3y ago
This is probably going to be a bit of a mini rant, been thinking bout this for a while (10 years in fact). > Although it is physically impossible for the single guard to observe all the inmates' cells at once, the fact that the inma
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by rt4mn 3y ago
I really hope this eventually leads to a situation where an adversary cant forcibly de-link you from your signal account by taking control of your phone number or intercepting an sms.
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by rt4mn 3y ago
For a lot of people, signal is not simply a User-User "texting" type application, but much more akin to slack or discord or matrix. Many, Many reporters put their signal number in twitter bio seeking tips. Many activists (includin
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by rt4mn 3y ago
I mean, I dont agree with the person you are replying to, but signal absolutely is a social network. Its a network you use to communicate socially. You can argue its not social media , but I think the stories feature definitely puts it on
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by rt4mn 3y ago
Nowadays my go-to source for unbiased (or perhapes better to say "non-partison"), easily digestible information on incredibly complicated topics is CRS: https://crsreports.congress.gov/search/#/?termsToSe
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EFF's first take on the first draft of UN Cybercrime Convention Treaty(eff.org)
14 points by rt4mn 3y ago|2 comments
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by rt4mn 3y ago
First Draft of UN Cybercrime Convention Drops Troubling Provisions, But Dangerous And Open-Ended Cross Border Surveillance Powers Are Back on the Table
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by rt4mn 3y ago
Good day to be a Minnesota hacker.
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by rt4mn 3y ago
Perhaps they misspoke, or perhaps they misunderstood, or perhaps their usage of the term is different then yours or mine. I understood them to mean it in the sense that the FDA holds democratic legitimacy by nature of its assistance as an o
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by rt4mn 3y ago
While I agree with the headline (section 702 is a big deal, its the legal loophole authorizing vast swaths of American mass surveillance, and it expires this year), I don't think its a good idea to take infosec advice from one of the g
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CISOs, Don’t Ignore the FISA Section 702 Debate(lawfareblog.com)
2 points by rt4mn 3y ago|1 comments
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by rt4mn 3y ago
I feel like thats a deliberate misreading of the parent comment. Of course the FDA is not, itself, a democratic instution. But then neither is your local police department or NASA. The reason those institutions are accepted despite the lack
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by rt4mn 3y ago
with the caveat that I dont personally use bitcoin, I still think the above description is simpler then using gift credit cards, for a couple of reasons: - gift cards involves getting in a car and driving to a place to buy them, which intro
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The Stop CSAM Act Would Put Security and Free Speech at Risk(eff.org)
3 points by rt4mn 3y ago|1 comments
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by rt4mn 3y ago
The bill is quite similar to the EARN-IT act.
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by rt4mn 3y ago
> The conclusion I came to is that a lot of people complain about the impending end of E2EE but very few people are actually willing to do anything about it except whine. The connection between E2EE and privacy is to ephemeral to make th
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by rt4mn 4y ago
Yesterday in the senate the FBI revealed they have purchesed location data. Wonder if the spooks will cop to anything else without Sen Wyden to ask hard questions?
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Watch live: House Intel discusses global threats and (hopefully) surveillence(c-span.org)
1 points by rt4mn 4y ago|1 comments
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by rt4mn 4y ago
> the implications of bitcoin & cryptocurrency to let these systems grow & be harder to deal with has only gone up & up & up ever-more. While I agree the implications are concerning, I think its difficult to overstate jus
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by rt4mn 4y ago
Its even more bonkers that she remained anti-encryption and pro-mass surveillance after the CIA was caught spying on her committee , while her committee attempted to investigate the CIA! https://www.theatlantic.com/politics
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by rt4mn 4y ago
This article gives a great intro into why finally, 10 years after snowden, we may see some real mass surveillance reform, which is exciting. There is also some interesting reporting on some of the recent abuses uncovered in this report: ht

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