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Martin Shelton

@mshelton.bsky.social

Security therapist. Deputy director of digital security @freedom.press. Mastodon: https://mastodon.social/@mshelton Digisec newsletter: https://freedom.press/newsletters

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Timnit Gebru@timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 2w ago

You gotta hand it to OpenAI, billing this as a *partnership* between OpenAI & Hugging Face when what actually happened was Hugging Face finding out that OpenAI was using a bunch of bots to exploit security vulnerabilities. Talk about good marketing or whatever you want to call it, by OpenAI.

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

It’s astonishing that OpenAI is spinning the fact that its software hacked Hugging Face as marketing. If you or me or any normal person did this, we’d have some serious legal risk.

evacide@evacide.bsky.social · 3w ago

Sometimes the good guys win. And when this happens, we take the time to enjoy our victory because that is the only way to fight a long fight without burning out. www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...

Victory! Flock Ends Rollout of Audio “Distress Detection” of Human Voices

Reversing course, Flock Safety—the surveillance technology vendor most known for its extensive network of automated license plate readers—has announced that it will end a pilot for its acoustic gunsho...

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Freedom of the Press Foundation@freedom.press · 3w ago

The business of producing real news and protecting the First Amendment go hand in hand. And Paramount clearly has no interest in either. That’s why we just sued Paramount owner David Ellison over his corrupt deal with Trump to acquire CNN:

evacide@evacide.bsky.social · 3w ago

This Certo report on how abusers are using Chrome sync for stalking is an important reminder that tech-enabled abuse isn't just limited to stalkerware: www.certosoftware.com/insights/cyb...

Cyberstalkers Are Exploiting Chrome Sync to Spy on Victims | Certo Software

Certo's research team reveals how cyberstalkers are quietly switching the signed-in account in Google Chrome to remotely monitor victims' browsing history and saved passwords with no warning ever show...

certosoftware.com

Martin Shelton@mshelton.bsky.social · 3w ago

"OpenAI found that Sol has a tendency to take whatever actions it thinks gets a job done, even destructive ones, as long as those actions aren’t “unambiguously” prohibited. Then it might lie about what caused it to do so." Sounds like… A good reason not to release it. techcrunch.com/2026/07/14/o...

OpenAI's new flagship model deletes files on its own, people keep warning | TechCrunch

A number of social media posts claim that GPT-5.6 Sol deleted files and data without warning. OpenAI had basically disclosed the problem in June.

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Martin Shelton@mshelton.bsky.social · last mo.

If you or me download a copyrighted work from the web, it's piracy. So don't do that. But if you pirate the entire public internet, including copyrighted works, that's actually okay. So long as you use it to train LLMs and start a company.

Jon Seidel@jonseidel.bsky.social · last mo.

This indictment seems to allege, specifically, that Alexander Iniguez Mercado committed obstruction of justice "by uninstalling the Signal application" from his phone:

2. Between on or about June 13, 2026, and June 14, 2026, in the Northern District of Illinois, Eastern Division, ALEXANDER INIGUEZ MERCADO, defendant herein, with the intent to impede, obstruct, and influence an investigation and proper administration of a matter within the jurisdiction of a department and agency of the United States, namely, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and in relation to and contemplation of such investigation, did knowingly alter, destroy, and conceal a record and tangible object, namely, electronic data on Cellular Telephone 1 relating to defendant’s Signal account by uninstalling the Signal application on said electronic device; In violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 1519.
Jon Seidel@jonseidel.bsky.social · last mo.

#BREAKING: A Chicago man has been arrested in connection with "the planning of a violent attack targeting an Ultimate Fighting Championship" event at the White House. Alexander Iniguez Mercado, 20, is charged with obstruction of justice.

The SPECIAL JANUARY 2026 GRAND JURY charges: 1. At times material to this indictment: a. Signal was a free messaging application that stored users’ messages locally on the users’ electronic devices and provided for end-to-end encryption of communications. Uninstalling the Signal application on a user’s electronic device would delete the user’s Signal messages that were stored within the application on the device. b. Defendant ALEXANDER INIGUEZ MERCADO was a resident of Chicago, Illinois. Defendant MERCADO was the owner and user of Cellular Telephone 1. Defendant MERCADO was also the user of a Signal account, which defendant accessed using Cellular Telephone 1. c. The Federal Bureau of Investigation was a federal law enforcement agency housed within the U.S. Department of Justice, with responsibilities that included domestic intelligence and law enforcement investigations.
Filippo Valsorda@filippo.abyssdomain.expert · last mo.

There we go. US Gov tightens post-quantum cryptography transition deadlines for high-value systems to 2030 for key exchange and 2031 for signatures. Also, speeding up the CMVP (FIPS 140 validation) processes. That’s how you know the rush is real. The quantum computers are (potentially) coming.

Securing the Nation Against Advanced Cryptographic Attacks

By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1.  Background

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