I know how to fight a long fight. I know how to triage and do harm reduction and how to play defense. But I am also very, very tired and I am going to need a minute before I can get back to work.
Looking through my closet for something to wear to the EFF Awards this week, I ruled out my sequined jumpsuit because I've worn it to a work event before. Then I remembered that the work event in question was in December of 2017.
I am waiting on analysis from Brazilian lawyers before I weigh in on how legal Brazilian court's decision to block X is, but I can safely say that the fines for individual users accessing the site over a VPN are crazypants.
This is your regular reminder that Google spent billions of dollars a year making their search engine the default while Google search results became increasingly tainted, nonsensical, and useless.
After years of being informed that I am in the pocket of Big Tech (alas, without making a Big Tech salary), I would like to announce that, like the Olympians, I am ready to be sponsored by Parmesan cheese.
I have been tremendously lucky in my career, but I have absolutely seen men get paid more for the same or less work with the same or fewer qualifications and I have seen men praised as geniuses for behavior that gets me called a bitch.
Threat models matter.
When a platform/service/app tells you they are “private” or “secure” always ask “from whom?”
Criminals, domestic abusers, law enforcement, data brokers, and intelligence agencies are all different attackers with very different capabilities.
When I talk about digital privacy, there is always some smug genius who shrugs and tells me, "Who cares? We all know we don't have any privacy anyway." Nothing could be more wrong. Convincing you that the fight is already over to the way people in power get you to stop resisting.
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.
If you're the person who stole the package from my foyer, I hope you're enjoying Police and the Empire City: Race and the Origins of Modern Policing in New York.
This website says you should send it a photo of your partner's penis and they will tell you if they have an STD, using the power of AI.
This is so misleading, inaccurate, dangerous, YIKES, that I assume it is an elaborate joke.
https://www.calmara.ai
If you give privacy/security advice without an explicit threat model, all that you're doing is using an implicit threat model that may not match the needs of the person you're trying to help.
I need to film a video,write two keynotes, and work on a book digital surveillance and authoritarianism but my brain keeps trying to write an urban fantasy novel set in San Francisco in the 80's.
If you're mad at EFF for making it possible to use Chrome with less tracking instead of yelling at people to use a different browser, then I assume you have never heard of harm reduction. Giving people digital privacy and security advice means meeting people where they're at. Otherwise, you're just running your mouth to make yourself feel smart.
Dedicated troll accounts don't target my posts on the bird site as often as one might think. When this happens, the only right move is to block immediately. But sometimes they call me an antisemite and for a split second I am tempted to respond.
I will not be reading anything about Russell Brand or people defending Russell Brand because I have seen enough faux-leftist scumbags and their enablers to last me a lifetime.
Sometimes my life is gowns and keynotes and sometimes my life is getting selected for extra screening every time I’ve returned to the US for the last two years.
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