The UK's Demands for Apple to Break Encryption Is an Emergency for Us All
eff.org/deeplinks/2025/02/uks-…
The Washington Post reported that the United Kingdom is demanding that Apple create an encryption backdoor to give the government access to end-to-end encrypted data in iCloud.Electronic Frontier Foundation
🚨 Encryption is under attack 🚨 🔴 The UK government has demanded that Apple build a backdoor to retrieve content that any user has uploaded to the cloud.Mastodon
ProPublica has identified three lawyers with elite establishment credentials who’ve joined the DOGE effort. Two of their names haven’t been previously reported as working for the Elon Musk-led initiative.
Here’s what we know about them: propublica.org/article/elon-mu…
#News #Law #SupremeCourt #SCOTUS #DOGE #ElonMusk #Musk #USPolitics
Much attention has been paid to the young Silicon Valley engineers working for Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency, but the group has also hired high-powered legal talent.ProPublica
President Donald Trump has signed an executive order formalizing his announcement earlier this week that he’ll freeze assistance to South Africa for a law aiming to address some of the wrongs of South Africa’s racist apartheid era.ZEKE MILLER (AP News)
If you want to make sure to buy your photographic gear and supplies from Canada, I have been maintaining a list. It's not exhaustive, but it should get your started.
Canada camera stores
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I had an absolute blast filming my first-ever video with Pianote! 🎉 They threw a challenge my way—I had to learn a song on the spot and create my own arrangement. No spoilers, but let’s just say it was a ride! 🎹🔥
For all my blind and visually impaired friends, we made sure to include audio description of any text that appears on screen, so everyone can fully experience the video. Big thanks to the Pianote team for making this happen!
Check it out here: youtu.be/ZeM3fnF8mN8?si=nUbJWo…
More to come—this is just the beginning! Drop a comment, let me know what you think, and share it with your fellow music lovers! 🎶
#Pianote #FirstTimeOnPianote #MusicChallenge #BlindMusician #AccessibilityMatters #PianoMagic #AudioDescription #Improvisation #MusicForEveryone #MatthewWhitaker #Jazz #MusicIsLife
Watch as Matthew Whitaker—a virtuosic pianist—experiences "Rain" by Sleep Token for the first time. Known for their genre-defying music, Sleep Token’s atmosp...YouTube
Campain reverses a 2023 decision to halt government advertising on Facebook. "We cannot continue paying advertising dollars to Meta while they refuse to pay their fair share to Canadian newsThe Toronto Star
On February 7, 1978, television audiences were introduced to a quirky, lovable alien from the planet Ork.Luke Bouma (Cord Cutters News)
If you use the online food delivery service, there are a few steps you can take.Danni Santana (CNET)
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The next version of Deno will have a super fast JS/TS plugin API for the linter 🎉
Watch @lcasdev write a lint rule to ban string literals in <60 seconds.
This, plus many other goodies, to land next week with Deno 2.2.
#deno #nodejs #typescript #webdev #javascript
You know what I like to do in my terminal late at night?
I try to find my way through an infinite maze.
🧌 **minotaur**: Multiplayer SSH game, beware of the minotaurs!
🎮 Let's play together: *ssh frittura.org -p 2020*
🦀 Written in Rust & built with @ratatui_rs
⭐ GitHub: github.com/ricott1/minotaur
#rustlang #ratatui #tui #ssh #game #terminal
Contribute to ricott1/minotaur development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
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Nice to see official publications taking note that the vast majority of us reject the terms "person with autism", "high-functioning", and "low-functioning". Those are harmful, and from our perspective, inaccurate.
I am an **Autistic person** with **low to moderate support needs**.
liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/aut…
#Neurodiversity #Autism #labels
I just published a blog post about getaddrinfo and all the other weird DNS APIs that we use in Firefox to resolve HTTPS records.
valentin.gosu.se/blog/2025/02/…
All this was part of the talk I gave at FOSDEM last weekend.
DNS is one of the critical building blocks of the internet and of the modern web. For the longest time the only way for Firefox to resolve a DNS domain was by using getaddrinfo.Binary Ch01ce (blog)
Ik laat Marieke De Hoon universitair hoofddocent internationaal strafrecht, hier achter met een fragment uit 📺 EenVandaag van 7 feb 2025… (slechts) 2️⃣ weken na de inauguratie.
Wil je begrijpen waarom soevereiniteit cruciaal is voor landen, organisaties en de manier waarop we verweven zijn met Big Tech? Klik op play. Of beter nog: stel jezelf de vraag wat er gebeurt als jouw organisatie maandag niet kan inloggen of deelnemen aan betalingen 🤔.
#Soevereininteit #autonomie #bigtech #aanDeSlagInDeEU
A new issue of #ThisWeekInGNOME is now online!
#186 Media Parsing
thisweek.gnome.org/posts/2025/…
Update on what happened across the GNOME project in the week from January 31 to February 07.thisweek.gnome.org
The UK's Demands for Apple to Break Encryption Is an Emergency for Us All
eff.org/deeplinks/2025/02/uks-…
The Washington Post reported that the United Kingdom is demanding that Apple create an encryption backdoor to give the government access to end-to-end encrypted data in iCloud.Electronic Frontier Foundation
If Apple complies with this, the UK government will gain access to all iCloud data globally. The only way Apple comes out of this with any integrity is to leave the UK market. If they give in to this, every regime in the world will demand the same thing. And that’s before we even get to the fact that there’s no such thing as a “backdoor” for just so-and-so. Either there is a door or there isn’t and if there is, anyone who obtains the key can use it.
theguardian.com/technology/202…
#apple #backdoor #UK #encryption #privacy #security #personhood #data #democracy #humanRights #iCloud
Expert says government has ‘lit the blue touch paper on a truly enormous fight’ as it challenges firm’s privacy stanceDan Milmo (The Guardian)
#AndroidAppRain at apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid today with 14 updated (11 RB) and 2 added:
* Print(Notes): a cross-platform markdown notes app inspired by Google Keep and Obsidian
* Scrcpy: mirror display and touch control between Android devices
3 #Magisk modules have been updated at apt.izzysoft.de/magisk
Enjoy your #free #Android #apps with the #IzzyOnDroid repository 
This is a repository of apps to be used with your F-Droid client. Applications in this repository are official binaries built by the original application developers, taken from their resp. repositories (mostly Github, GitLab, Codeberg).IzzyOnDroid App Repo
Welcome to the RB family, Hypatia 🥳
apt.izzysoft.de/packages/org.m…
Hypatia is the worlds first FOSS malware scanner for Android. It is powered by ClamAV style signature databases.
Thanks to some help by @asandikci from the MaintainTeam we managed to the the green shield up today
After generating Databases automatically with CI in both GitHub & Codeberg change default URL to Codeberg page and second one to GitHub pages as mirror this is a self-reminderGitHub
🎧 You Didn't Notice MP3 Is Now Free
｢ The MP3 format, once the gold standard for digital audio files, is now free. The licensing and patents on MP3 encoders have expired, meaning you can now include them in your applications without paying royalties. For software developers and audio enthusiasts, this might seem like a big deal ｣
Drop what you are doing and read this incredible story from Wired, if you can. After that, come back here.
wired.com/story/edward-coristi…
It mentions that a 19 y/o man who's assisting Musk's team and who has access to sensitive government systems is Edward Coristine. Wired said Coristine, who apparently goes by the nickname "Big Balls," runs a number of companies, including one called Tesla.Sexy LLC
"Tesla.Sexy controls dozens of web domains, including at least two Russian-registered domains. One of those domains, which is still active, offers a service called Helfie, which is an AI bot for Discord servers targeting the Russian market.While the operation of a Russian website would not violate US sanctions preventing Americans doing business with Russian companies, it could potentially be a factor in a security clearance review."
The really interesting part for me is Coristine's work history at a company called Path Networks, which Wired describes generously as a company "known for hiring reformed black-hat hackers."
"At Path Network, Coristine worked as a systems engineer from April to June of 2022, according to his now-deleted LinkedIn resume. Path has at times listed as employees Eric Taylor, also known as Cosmo the God, a well-known former cybercriminal and member of the hacker group UGNazis, as well as Matthew Flannery, an Australian convicted hacker whom police allege was a member of the hacker group LulzSec. It’s unclear whether Coristine worked at Path concurrently with those hackers, and WIRED found no evidence that either Coristine or other Path employees engaged in illegal activity while at the company."
The founder of Path is a young man named Marshal Webb. I wrote about Webb back in 2016, in a story about a DDoS defense company he co-founded called BackConnect LLC. Working with Doug Madory, we determined that BackConnect had a long history of hijacking Internet address space that it didn't own.
krebsonsecurity.com/2016/09/dd…
Incidentally, less than 24 hours after that story ran, my site KrebsOnSecurity.com was hit with the biggest DDoS attack the Internet had ever seen at the time. That sustained attack kept my site offline for nearly 4 days.
krebsonsecurity.com/2016/09/kr…
Here's the real story behind why Coristine only worked at Path for a few months. He was fired after Webb accused him of making it known that one of Path's employees was Curtis Gervais, a serial swatter from Canada who was convicted of perpetrating dozens of swattings and bomb threats -- including at least two attempts on our home in 2014. [BTW the aforementioned Eric Taylor was convicted of a separate (successful) swatting against our home in 2013.
krebsonsecurity.com/2017/09/ca…
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In the screenshot here, we can see Webb replying to a message from Gervais stating that "Edward has been terminated for leaking internal information to the competitors."
Wired cited experts saying it's unlikely Coristine could have passed a security clearance needed to view the sensitive government information he now has access to.
Want to learn more about Path? Check out the website pathtruths.com/
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Experts question whether Edward Coristine, a DOGE staffer who has gone by “Big Balls” online, would pass the background check typically required for access to sensitive US government systems.Andy Greenberg (WIRED)
“It is a scandal, an abrogation of duty and the very definition of putting party before country.”
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Putting Parliament on hold for a leadership race prevents MPs from getting to work against an existential threat – and it’s the very definition of putting party before countryRobyn Urback (The Globe and Mail)
...say the legacy merdia that spent the last two years writing how he should leave.
These fuckers can't have it both ways.
"Chen Yaozuo was a #Teochew prime minister & grand tutor of the crown prince of the #SongDynasty (960–1279) in the 11th century. Coming from a family of officials, he was a rising star at the start of his career, until he bravely, or some might say foolishly, answered a call of Emperor Zhenzong for open criticisms by submitting a memorial that spelt out the ills of the times, including matters that no one else dared to speak about. As a result, Chen Yaozuo was banished & demoted to become an assistant prefect in the Teochew prefecture. This happened in 998, almost 180 years after Han Yu of the Tang dynasty suffered a similar fate."
"....Chen Yaozuo was more of a problem-solver than Han Yu, and he knew this. At the same time, he sensed the Teochew people’s deep admiration for his fellow Confucian. Cleverly capitalising on this, Chen Yaozuo erected a shrine in honour of Han Yu and he used it to commence his own programme to promote education among what was still a backward population. In pursuit of this goal, the Sichuan native also set up a Confucian temple and places of learning, while identifying and encouraging able families to send their children to schools.
Chen Yaozuo left Teochew after three years of devoted service to its people. He subsequently revealed in an inscription presented to a study room in Zhangpu (a county in Fujian adjacent to Teochew prefecture) that his time in Teo-yor was passed without major worries, despite it being enveloped in miasma."
"Chen Yaozuo’s heart remained with the place even many years after his departure. His poem below, “A note to Registrar Li Zi in Chaoyang” (送潮陽李孜主簿), illustrates this:
潮陽山水東南奇
The mountains and waters of Chaoyang are a wonder of the Southeast
魚鹽城郭民熙熙
Fishing boats, salt beds, and people going in and out of the city form a merry sight
當時為撰玄聖碑
Back then I had to write inscriptions for the sages
而今風俗鄒魯為。
Today its customs are like Zou and Lu [i.e. the home countries of Mencius and Confucius]
#Chinese #historians credit Han Yu for starting what we may call a #revolution through #literacy in Teochew. Yet the extent of Chen Yaozuo’s tireless contributions towards this cause can be seen by its fruits. Before his arrival, the Teochew prefecture produced only three men who attained the status of jinshi, the highest scholarly title awarded by the Chinese imperial court since the late 6th century. By the end of Song, the records show more than 170 jinshi from Teochew, of whom about a third came from Teo-yor.
Beyond scholarly titles, the creation of an educated class sparked a golden age in Teochew with accelerated advancements in agriculture and industry that ended its days as a backwater."
Ref: inf.news/en/history/08fbe53052…
Ref: theteochewstore.org/blogs/late…
#AsianMastodon #China #Gaginang #ChineseRevolutionaries #ChineseImperialEra #TeochewHistory #ChineseHistory #AsianHistory #SouthEastAsia #HistoryOfChina #LearnHistory #TootSEA #ChineseScholars #TeochewRoots
History has a funny old way of repeating itself. Chen Yaozuo (陳堯佐) was a prime minister and grand tutor of the crown prince of the Song dynasty (960–1279) in the 11th century.The Teochew Store 潮舖
Meta’s alleged torrenting and seeding of pirated books complicates copyright case.Ashley Belanger (Ars Technica)
Steady progress on MAS, a terraform deployment for Matrix on AWS, and a retreat in Thailand.
That and more happened This Week in Matrix!
matrix.org/blog/2025/02/07/thi…
Matrix, the open protocol for secure decentralised communicationsThib (m.org) (matrix.org)
Missed FOSDEM, and you want to know how Matrix got where it is right now, where it succeeded, where it fell short, and what's remaining on the Road to Mainstream Matrix?
We have your back!
Matthew's Main Track Talk in Janson at FOSDEM 2025: The Road To Mainstream Matrix.(This Week in) Matrix🐘 https://mastodon.matrix.org/@matrix🤝 https://www.l...YouTube
Trudeau tells business leaders at economic summit Trump's 51st state threat 'is a real thing'
Six times so far ... is how often important parts of #deltachat were independently #security audited and analyzed. Thanks to IncludeSecurity, Cure53, Applied Crypto Team at ETH Zuerich and Radical Open Security.
Last audit is from December 2024 covering @rpgp , the minimal #OpenPGP Rust library that is gaining traction with others projects as well.
Shout-out to dignifiedquire and @hko for their excellent maintenance! For more info on Delta Chat related security audits: delta.chat/en/help#security-au…
What is Delta Chat? Delta Chat is a reliable, decentralized and secure messaging app, available for mobile and desktop platforms. Delta Chat feels like Whatsapp or Telegram but you can also use and...delta.chat
I tried to find when #Signal has published the most recent #security audit, and it turns out they either never published an audit or their code was never audited at all.
The closest thing I found is the list
community.signalusers.org/t/ov…
which only cites research papers and some evidence that in 2018 Signal paid Doyensec, but nothing got published as the result. Even then, it looks like the apps were not audited for more than 5 years since then.
Let’s collect past security audits here: Formal audits Year Auditor(s) Sponsor App/Component Published Link Last update / extended 2013 iSEC Partners (NCC Group) Open Technology Fund RedPhone and TextSecure ❌ Blog post 2014 Frosch et al.Signal Community
Authoritarians and tech CEOs now share the same goal: to keep us locked in an eternal doomscroll instead of organizing against them, Janus Rose writes.Janus Rose (404 Media)
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