The new IOS 27 default enables “live listening” to your conversations. Go to settings > accessibility > audio and visual > live listen, and turn that shit off. Please SHARE WIDELY. Mine was set to “on”.

Mister Midnight@mstrmidnight.bsky.social · 22h ago

From a colleague of mine: New Apple update - The recent Apple IOS 27 update automatically enables “Live Listening” on Apple devices. This means that **all the iPhones and iPads** with this update, both **personal and operational**, are by default listening in on all conversations around them,

It's so disheartening to explain this over and over working in critical infrastructure cybersecurity full time. It's because everyone demands cheap, fast remote support and AI enabled real time telemetry and control.

*Wrong interpretation!* What such results tell you is the public *changes their mind based on how the question is framed*. In other words, people aren't telling you they're "stupid"; they're telling you they're *open to persuasion*. It says if you're the one who frames the argument you will win. 2/2

But run the numbers. Anti-trans Dems won last night. Pro-trans Dems *also won*. In other words, *no one cares*. Folks vote anti-trans on a line by itself, but *that's it*. What this tells us is the public is *movable*. Majority transphobic, but their transphobia is not a deep, important conviction.

Erin Reed@erininthemorning.com · 4d ago

Democrats never, ever have to run away from their record on trans people. There is absolutely no reason. If anti-trans ads didn't work in Mississippi and they ran ads with Talarico saying "god is nonbinary" in Texas only to get... this result tonight... anti-transgender politics has failed utterly.

I'll celebrate once I see how they govern.

This whole thread is informative but the key take-away is this

Bruno Dias@brunodias.dev · 2w ago

I don't know that there is a template or a "secret sauce" or a clear-cut lesson to take from this. But if there is one it's the idea of treating social media as the hostile territory that it is, of actually acting like you are a participant in propaganda warfare and not like a consumer.

Don't just demand digrams for state machines, demand declarative specifications for them that are converted to procedural code *deterministically*. Nothing else works reliably, including human post-hoc review of code.

I am tired of watching (and dealing with the fallout of) progressives/the center left/"liberals" across the west giving up on the idea of universal human rights and instead fighting to throw people to the fascists to save their own skin. It never works. Fight where you stand or die where you kneel.

The purpose of prototyping is *learning*, not the production of a prototype

Steve Farrugia@fasterandworse.com · 2w ago

"quick prototyping" is a myth created by ai centrists

Fire everyone on the cybersecurity team who had anything to do with this. What are you even testing here?

shauna@goldengateblond.bsky.social · 2w ago

this is fucking appalling. i already knew james dolan (who owns the knicks and madison square garden) was a douche but this is next-level. www.nytimes.com/athletic/771...

@kissane.myatproto.social Do you know anywhere that's tracking the state of AI cognitive deficiency research? You seem like one of the most likely people to have an easy answer to this who I know.

Bloody assholes and their wishes for interesting times in security

In today's news, "4" is not an appropriate private key for your root CA cert, no matter what XKCD tells you.

Matthew Shepard died on October 12th in 1998, 28 years ago. His ashes were interred at Washington National Cathedral 20 years later, in 2018, because before Episcopal Bishop Gene Robinson offered the Cathedral's crypt, his family had no place for him that would be safe from desecration.

A new essay on preventing social engineering that uses voice cloning. This one isn't just for companies, as these attacks are being aimed at individuals too. Along the way, we'll learn about security theory and see how it helps us address real problems. structures.systems/blog/social-...

Social Engineering Defense in the Age of Voice Cloning — Security Strategy for Startups: Systems Structure Ltd.

structures.systems

Are we the baddies

New working paper: the Norwegian wealth tax was a huge success. The "exodus" of wealthy people never happened (less than 100 individuals left). Tax revenue increased by 71.5%. No changes in business activity or investment. www.nber.org/papers/w35854

software architect works in concert with the software engineers in the same way an architect works with structural and materials engineers the way tech startups have evolved is a bit like if the construction industry had been taken over by DIY YouTubers whose primary goal is views & sponsorships

This!! Also and I say this because I come from a broadly "security" rather than "safety" space - systems that do not function within specifications are not rationalisable to the democratic public.

seeing like a state machine

Abstraction is the original sin of technology. It's essential to do anything and we have taught two generations to treat abstractions as real, but not what's beneath the ones they use nor the implications of this lie, and we wonder why no one can see the impact the lie has on their work and world.

Today was adventures in project management. We're starting the planning and prep process for next year's dyke march. Trying YouTrack for this year, so I got that configured, added the team, and made the first hundred tickets, transcribing last year's lists plus various stuff from our after action.

@emptywheel.bsky.social Thoughts on effort NSPM-7 unlocks additional collection authorities, either within FBI/DHS or on the NSA side? Or possibly, whether it's likely to have been interpreted that way even if it shouldn't be?

I just finished James C. Scott's last book, In Praise of Floods. It's a delightful, gentle book. I first read his Seeing Like a State something like fifteen years ago, and the way he sees the world has been a constant companion in my head and has shaped my thinking ever since.

> Cryptogyny is the systematic obfuscation of women's contributions to, or of their very existence in, a field of study.

Cryptogyny

On the systematic obfuscation of women's contributions.

olivia.science

Sable, Sapphic Wet Nightmare 🏳️‍⚧️@ghostlysable.bsky.social · last mo.

"women never contributed anything to science" and then you look under the hood and it's men stealing women's ideas over and over again

Given that the device linking channel has been used for attacks against Signal users, should a user linking a new device be treated as a soft compromise — not undoing safety number verification, but notifying the person messaging, including the modal when they first send a message after the change?

Kathy Sierra wrote what is still the best book on how to design tools so they really work for your users in 2015 — Badass: Making Users Awesome. That, of course, was also the year that the industry started really going in exactly the opposite direction.

Dare Obasanjo@carnage4life.bsky.social · last mo.

Enterprise software companies had a short-lived run where they competed on usability and product-led growth which seems to be over. Now every SaaS app seems to be converging on the same UX monstrosity, complete with AI features of dubious value.

Fascinating paper showing ad tracking services are receiving full prompts along with ID information when using even premium tiers of consumer AI services. jorgegarciaherrero.com/wp-content/i...

Nice client compliment today, "Some of your guidance for me, particularly around release practices, was quite foundational about how I think about constructing the team, especially not having it spread so thin and constantly scrambling to put things together at the last minute."

BREAKING NEWS: Tensions between Thor and the Care Bears have escalated rapidly overnight.