Why yes, I am absolutely wearing this cut-off tshirt with an image of Artemisia Gentileschi’s Judith Beheading Holofrenes that says “Girl Dinner” to the talk I am giving this afternoon about tech-enabled abuse.

This is the kind of opsec fail that regularly trips people up, not secret backdoors in Signal.

This is your regular reminder that metadata matters.

In this case, the activist was deanonymized via the backup email for the Protonmail account that he used to set up Wire, which was an iCloud account linked to his real identity.

This is your regular reminder that most communications on Telegram are not end-to-end encrypted. Channels and groups are never end-to-end encrypted and 1-on-1 messages are only end-to-end when explicitly enabled.

Buying a new car in 2024 is a goddamn privacy nightmare, part 3591 of an endless series:

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I will be at the Computer History Museum on May 16th, talking about digital privacy, security, and Big Data with the folks from PBS' NOVA.

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Now this is the kind of “if you see something, say something” that I fully support.

The claim that a person living in New York would only own a heavy duty bike lock if they were some sort of nefarious professional protestor and not someone who just wants their bike not to be stolen in NYC is a sign of advanced brain rot.

Happy May Day. This is your regular reminder that collective action and solidarity make change possible.

Watch me talk to the European Data Protection Supervisor about the future of privacy while trying to keep my cat from wandering into the shot.

Evergreen advice for protesters.

This place has, in fact, made it impossible to hide the check mark I did not ask for and cannot opt out of.

Shoutout to Mona Wang, who has been leading the efforts to find security vulnerabilities in pinyin keyboard apps, which are widely used by Chinese-speakers.

Location tracking apps, when used with everyone’s knowledge and consent, are not de facto abusive, but bugs like this one leave them wide open to abuse by third parties.

Sometimes my professional interests combine to make a terrible Voltron of a story.

The dystopia is already here etc…

The flea markets at Saint Ouen in Paris are the most intense shopping experience known to man. I walked up some stairs in Marche Dauphine and told my friends, “I regret to inform you that this entire floor is vintage clothing. We may never leave this place.”

I just got a notification telling me that the “hide your check mark” feature on Premium is going away soon.

So if you have been given a check mark in order to make it look like lots of important and legit accounts are paying for this service, you can’t opt out & you can’t hide…

The Vallejo PD is bottomless mimosa of corruption.

Hid the stupid blue checkmark. It is not possible to opt out of Premium, but at least I can make sure that no one mistakes me for a person who would give this place money.