PSA: we're aware that Signal is down for some people. This appears to be related to a major AWS outage. Stand by.

Just want these to exist outside my phone, amazing concert!

Let's talk metadata: Today, a friend of mine in a risky environment asked me how to make sure an image they designed is not traceable back to them, since it's been a while since the last time I checked "deeply", it was time for a refresh!!

Enabling Android Advanced Protection on a Pixel from the stable update: very easy to activate, and I haven't noticed any usage problems or incompatibilities. The intrusion logging isn't there yet (so alert on that one), and I couldn't disable Play Protect or enable 2G networks as advertised.

“The truth is that a tattoo identifying Tren de Aragua does not exist,” she told me. “Tren de Aragua does not use any tattoos as a form of gang identification; no Venezuelan gang does.”

Chris Hayes@chrislhayes.bsky.social · last yr.

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Starting today, our chapter in Venezuela will be operating in exile. The growing threat to its members has made the situation too dangerous to remain in the country. Our statement here ⬇️

Venezuela: Transparency International Forced into Exile Amid Growing…

Transparency International's chapter in Venezuela will now operate in exile due to a troubling increase climate of repression.

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I’ve posted a detailed explanation of why the claimed ESP32 Bluetooth chip “backdoor” is not a backdoor. It’s just a poor security practice, which is found in other Bluetooth chips by vendors like Broadcom, Cypress, and Texas Instruments too. https://darkmentor.com/blog/esp32_non-backdoor/

The ESP32 "backdoor" that wasn't | Dark Mentor LLC

4 day class covering the full Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) protocol stack from the bottom (PHY) up to the top (GATT). The core of the class is built around playing with a game application on an Android phone, talking via Bluetooth to an IoT-type piece of hardware, and analyzing the communication between them. The 4th day is focused on assessing a cutomized Ultra-Vulnerable Peripheral firmware, running on Zephyr RTOS, which has had vulnerabilities introduced into it which are representative of vulnerabilities found in the past across many other platforms.

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Yea this would be physical

Three Bulgarians were sentenced for spying for Russia in the UK today. This is one of their chats - using IMSI catchers to spy on Ukrainians in the German military base

🔔NEW: Apple threat notification 🔔 Apple have just sent new notifications to individual's targeted by highly-invasive mobile spyware! Reach out to our team at @Amnesty's Security Lab or trusted experts if you received this critical warning www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...

Apple threat notifications: What they mean and what you can do

Apple threat notifications: What they mean and what you can do

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📣 📣 We need your feedback for the 2025 Global Gathering. While TCU has been impacted by the recent freeze, we are moving forward with hosting the GG, albeit on a different scale than previously planned.

MY ACCOMPLISHMENTS THIS WEEK 1. Consciousness 2. Respiration 3. I petted several cats 4. Consumed pizza 5. Strategic AND tactical napping

Backdooring popular encryption to fight crime is such a silly idea I can sum up the argument in one sentence: criminals will set up and use the non-backdoored version making everyone else less secure.

🧵 Amnesty International is appalled by the arbitrary detention of human rights defender (HRD) Carlos Correa and we call on Nicolás Maduro to immediately and unconditionally release him and other HRDs in #Venezuela.

Fellowship for human rights defenders, journalists, and/or technologists working in civil society orgs to train with Amnesty Tech's Security Lab to build skills and knowledge on advanced digital threats and forensic investigation techniques: careers.amnesty.org/jobs/vacancy...

Opposite of "if you can't say anything nice, don't say anything" is also true: If you have something nice to say, just say it. Out loud and offline A stranger looks good today, you're glad to know someone, you're happy to see familiar folks, you love someone's work... It's just nice to feel human

Steven Lumpkin@silent0siris.bsky.social · 2y ago

Ok wait What’s your best, most impactful, small habit that you’ve embraced that you like and would recommend to others?

There are depressingly regular comments in Doctor Who fandom about the show going "woke" - mate, what show have you been watching for literally decades? It's always been that way.

True story

This is i-would-print-it-and-put-it-in-my-board-if-I-had-one amazing, bookmarked!

Martin Shelton@mshelton.bsky.social · 2y ago

When writing security guidance, without a light touch you can scare or overwhelm your audience. The advice often ages quickly, so you need a plan to help ensure it continues to make sense to future readers. It also needs to be tuned for YOUR community. source.opennews.org/articles/adv...

Open a PDF in Acrobat to edit. No, I don't want the zoom level to be 300% by default. No, I don't want to turn on your useless AI shit. How is it going to do anything even remotely useful with a USCIS form? Fuck off! What the actual fuck NO I DON'T WANT SOME HELP I JUST WANT TO FILL THIS OUT!

Make an obsidian-related video of less than 20min challenge

I want to be able to tell my computer, "This is the volume at which I want to hear EVERYTHING. Do whatever you have to behind the scenes so that no matter if I'm watching YouTube or Max or Netflix or listening to music it will all be at the same volume with no intervention on my part."

🌬️ Open Briefings is #hiring a Wellbeing Coordinator - Civic Defenders Project! See this and other job openings in our Digital Rights Job Board: https://www.digitalrights.community/job-board #TechJobs #DRJobs #JobSearch

Find a Job | Digital Rights Job Board

Find a job in digital rights, human rights, internet freedom, and more! Our digital rights job board has opportunities from organizations in over 144+ countries working at the intersection of human…

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Tell Washington DC that I'm coming

Digital transnational repression (DTR) is increasingly becoming the cornerstone of ‘everyday’ transnational repression, posing a significant threat to the rights and freedoms of dissidents and activists living in exile. youtu.be/FkPCec7jG5I

Digital Transnational Repression Explained

YouTube video by The Citizen Lab

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Gestionas servidores web y quieres ayudar a traspasar el bloqueo que hay en Rusia a la red tor y otras herramientas anticensura??? Este es un llamado de @torproject.org para buscar personas y organizaciones que desplieguen puentes webtunnel blog.torproject.org/call-for-web...

Tor in Russia: A call for more WebTunnel bridges | Tor Project

As the Russian government intensifies its grip on the internet, censorship circumvention tools like Tor are more critical than ever. Here's the latest on Tor censorship in Russia and how you can help ...

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Tor Project@torproject.org · 2y ago

We're calling on the Tor & Internet freedom community to help scale up WebTunnel bridges. Ever thought about running a Tor bridge? Now is the time! Our goal is to deploy 200 new WebTunnel bridges by the end of this year to open secure access for users in Russia.🕸️🌉 blog.torproject.org/call-for-web...