Our good friends from @eff.org are going to join us at #DEFCON34 to talk about ALPRs. We will go into excruciating details about how all the governance and policies around ALPRs are designed to fail. bsky.app/profile/evac...

evacide@evacide.bsky.social · 11h ago

You cannot make mass surveillance "safe" or "good" by adding more guardrails. The only way to make Flock safe is to get rid of Flock. www.gpb.org/news/2026/08...

i’ll be at #defcon34 with @trevortimm.bsky.social this week Lessons from a decade of building whistleblower tech When: Friday, August 7th at 2:00pm Where: LVCC - L1 - Exhibit Hall West 3 - 906 (Main Track 3) defcon.org/html/defcon-...

Lockdown Systems will be at DEF CON this week! ☠️🐢 Come meet our collective members @micahflee.com, @yaelwrites.com, and @redshiftzero.bsky.social at the Vegas conference, and get some stickers from us! Here's where we will be 👇️ 1/4

GrapheneOS is not a crime

GrapheneOS@grapheneos.org · 2w ago

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Web scraping helps journalists report the news and libraries preserve history. Locking down sites to stop AI will hurt these helpful uses. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

The Free and Open Web Is Under Attack at the IETF

The ability to access publicly available information using automated tools is a central value and benefit of a free and open internet. Automated access—often called crawling or scraping—powers

eff.org

come work with me! we are hiring a cryptography engineer

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

📢 Freedom of the Press Foundation is hiring a cryptography engineer for its @securedrop.org team to design and specify extensions to the system's end-to-end encryption protocol. Learn more and apply: freedomofthepress.na.teamtailor.com/jobs/610227-...

Web applications are only as trustworthy as their servers, and servers can get hacked. That’s why we are introducing WEBCAT, which lets web browsers verify the origin of code before it runs. 🌞 Today, WEBCAT enters alpha testing! If you like to experiment with cutting-edge software, give it a try:

Help us test WEBCAT alpha

Web applications are only as trustworthy as the servers that serve them, and servers can get hacked. So, last year, we introduced WEBCAT (Web-Based Code Assurance and Transparency), a project designed...

securedrop.org

Community contributions are what power Tor, tune in Wed, Dec 10 at 1700 UTC for day 2 of our State of the Onion to hear directly from @ooni.org, The Guardian Project, @freedom.press, HushLine and more. 📺 www.youtube.com/watch?v=tZVk... 🧅 xgsobitduxv7gcc5qlveigwiku7qcjn5exf4ayusw4mwq7kfrapmrjyd.onion

State of the Onion 2025 – Community Day

YouTube video by The Tor Project

youtube.com

How do you think Santa is handling cyberthreats? With Dangerzone of course! (Yeah, it took some training.) If you feel like testing his security team, you should know it has a challenge for you: Craft Santa a letter that can bypass Dangerzone's defenses and earn a bounty! 💰🎅 […]

NEW RESOURCE: For months, ICE has engaged in an arbitrary campaign of warrantless stops and arrests in Chicago. Need security advice for activists under a significant threat landscape shift? Don't worry, we @lucyparsonslabs.com got you. PDF: goldframes.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/LPL_ICEinvas...

The first release candidate for Dangerzone 0.10.0 is out, and we’re looking for feedback from users, especially on macOS and Windows. Thanks! https://dangerzone.rocks/news/2025-11-03-0.10.0-call-for-testing/

Dangerzone

Take potentially dangerous PDFs, office documents, or images and convert them to a safe PDF.

dangerzone.rocks

i will be at mozfest with @trevortimm.bsky.social - come say hi!

Freedom of the Press Foundation@freedom.press · 9mo ago

👋 Come watch our Freedom of the Press Foundation talk on "lessons from a decade of building whistleblower tech" later this week at Barcelona's #MozFest. It's kicking off the conference at 9 a.m. local time on Friday.

I wrote about @iceblock.app, the developer's infuriating HOPE talk, and how it's unfortunately basically activism theater micahflee.com/unfortunatel...

Unfortunately, the ICEBlock app is activism theater

At this summer's HOPE conference, Joshua Aaron spoke about ICEBlock, his iPhone app that allows users to anonymously report ICE sightings within a 5 mile radius, and to get notifications when others r...

micahflee.com

NEW: ICE is legally required to publish detention statistics every 2 weeks. But the data is complex. That's why the interactive "ICE Detention Map" automatically scrapes & visualizes ICE's data, which shows, among other things, that 71% of detainees have no criminal record. san.com/cc/interacti...

Interactive ‘ICE Detention Map’ shows 71% of detainees have no criminal record

The detention map extracts immigration data that ICE is legally required to publish to let anyone see stats on detainees across the country.

san.com

Gave a talk with @yaelwrites.com and @micahflee.com at HOPE about breaking free from Big Tech

Cyd@cyd.social · 12mo ago

Interested in what Cyd is, how it works, and other Lockdown Systems projects? We gave a talk at HACKERS ON PLANET EARTH! Check it out www.youtube.com/watch?v=qnbw... @micahflee.com @redshiftzero.bsky.social @yaelwrites.com

In a just world, there would be an investigation and accountability for Israel committing this horrific crime. But we all know that's not going to happen, unless and until governments stop using platitudes and actually put an end to this travesty at once.

‘Silencing courageous voices’: Israeli killing of Gaza journalists slammed

Condemnation grows after targeted Israeli attack assassinates correspondent Anas al-Sharif and several other colleagues.

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Merged PR #2347: spec: add description of spend zk-SNARK statements https://github.com/penumbra-zone/penumbra/pull/2347

Obligatory dog pic