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The museum Louvre in France was recently the victim of a heist worth over €88 million. In broad daylight.
A previous security audit revealed the following weaknesses with their security system:
1. Their password was “louvre”
2. Their security system was running on Windows 2000
Ouch.
#Louvre #France #Heist #Museum #OpSec #Security #Password123
Someone asked me to hand-translate a publicly posted Chinese technical report about NSA shenanigans on the Chinese Center for Time-Keeping network. It took me a while, because it turns out translating technical corporatese from your third language is very hard when chronically sleep deprived, but it is done.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1gk1fDLKrN3m5jOSk7QbpGL1SBcLvrm0FTN3H-5ZJZcY/edit?usp=sharing
Someone asked me to hand-translate a publicly posted Chinese technical report about NSA shenanigans on the Chinese Center for Time-Keeping network. It took me a while, because it turns out translating technical corporatese from your third language is very hard when chronically sleep deprived, but it is done.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1gk1fDLKrN3m5jOSk7QbpGL1SBcLvrm0FTN3H-5ZJZcY/edit?usp=sharing
Someone asked me to hand-translate a publicly posted Chinese technical report about NSA shenanigans on the Chinese Center for Time-Keeping network. It took me a while, because it turns out translating technical corporatese from your third language is very hard when chronically sleep deprived, but it is done.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1gk1fDLKrN3m5jOSk7QbpGL1SBcLvrm0FTN3H-5ZJZcY/edit?usp=sharing
Pluralistic: The mad king’s digital killswitch (20 Oct 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
A powerful piece from pluralistic on Apple/Google/Microsoft’s capitulation to Trump, the profound, unfolding dangers of continuing to use their software and what we collectively need to do about it.
A powerful piece from pluralistic on Apple/Google/Microsoft’s capitulation to Trump, the profound, unfolding dangers of continuing to use their software and what we collectively need to do about it.
when proprietary platforms ask me to fill in my details
Me: 
#opsec #cybersecurity #osint #privacy #anonymity #humor #vforvendetta #tech #technology #surveillance #advertising #ads
when proprietary platforms ask me to fill in my details
Me:
#opsec #cybersecurity #osint #privacy #anonymity #humor #vforvendetta #tech #technology #surveillance #advertising #ads
Pluralistic: The mad king’s digital killswitch (20 Oct 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
A powerful piece from pluralistic on Apple/Google/Microsoft’s capitulation to Trump, the profound, unfolding dangers of continuing to use their software and what we collectively need to do about it.
A powerful piece from pluralistic on Apple/Google/Microsoft’s capitulation to Trump, the profound, unfolding dangers of continuing to use their software and what we collectively need to do about it.
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Bitte nutzt #TorBrowser, wir wollen nicht wissen wer ihr seid. 🤫
Es winkt #Demogeld als Prämie ✨😎
Proton Pass vs BitWarden. Experience/opinions please?
Proton Pass vs BitWarden. Experience/opinions please?
Don't ever mistake my silence for ignorance, my calmness for acceptance or my kindness for weakness. Compassion and tolerance are not a sign of weakness, but a sign of strength.
Dalai Lama
Don't ever mistake my silence for ignorance, my calmness for acceptance or my kindness for weakness. Compassion and tolerance are not a sign of weakness, but a sign of strength.
Dalai Lama
There is a lot of disagreement about what qualifies as a "burner phone," but learning to put together a device that protects your most sensitive data from surveillance and seizure by govts and law enforcement is good, actually, so here is a guide from ACLU's Rebecca Williams:
"We also explained that a fully powered-down phone should not be transmitting data to towers"
AFAIK this is not true. If you are a person of interest your phone can still be used for tracking.
This article linked below, is pretty good and includes a chapter on tracking while phones are off.
Therefore I consider the article linked above dangerously incomplete.
https://www.comparitech.com/blog/vpn-privacy/stop-mobile-phone-tracking/
🚨 Tor Browser opsec discovery: The security level slider cannot be relied upon without a full browser restart: https://www.privacyguides.org/articles/2025/05/02/tor-security-slider-flaw/
If you frequently switch between security levels in Tor Browser (or Mullvad Browser!), make sure you are fully restarting the browser every time, otherwise you could still unexpectedly have dangerous JS features enabled!
This requirement is not publicly documented anywhere. Hopefully @torproject will add a prompt to restart after modifying this setting in a future Tor Browser release.
#Opsec #TorBrowser #Security #MullvadBrowser #Privacy #PrivacyGuides #PSA
indeed! downplaying of capability means downplaying of risk and is as undesirable as hype
Pretty good breakdown of OpenAI o3's (quite good) performance at guessing locations based on photos, by way of the "GeoGuessr" game (metadata stripped). It scored better than a very highly ranked human.
A tendency of some AI critiques is to treat all such evidence as "smoke and mirrors". That is unhelpful; it occludes awareness of capabilities that are actually improving (and can present real #opsec and surveillance risks in this case).
https://sampatt.com/blog/2025-04-28-can-o3-beat-a-geoguessr-master
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