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ACA

#anarchism #opsec

Three images of Winnie the Pooh, each with text next to them.

Top image: Winnie the Pooh sitting on a couch holding a smartphone. The text reads: "Bringing your phone everywhere."

Middle image: Winnie without a phone wearing a tuxedo. The text reads: "Leaving your phone at home for mental health."

Bottom image: Winnie with a black-and-red mask covering the bottom of his face an. A keffiyeh tied on his head. The text reads: Leaving your phone at home so the police don't know what you're up to. — Three images of Winnie the Pooh, each with text next to them. Top image: Winnie the Pooh sitting on a couch holding a smartphone. The text reads: "Bringing your phone everywhere." Middle image: Winnie without a phone wearing a tuxedo. The text reads: "Leaving your phone at home for mental health." Bottom image: Winnie with a black-and-red mask covering the bottom of his face an. A keffiyeh tied on his head. The text reads: Leaving your phone at home so the police don't know what you're up to.

ACA

@acollectiefantwerpen@mastodon.social · 6 days ago

#anarchism #opsec

mkb boosted

const_data

@const_data@mastodon.social · 6 days ago

#infosec #opsec #mentalhealth

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

const_data

@const_data@mastodon.social · 6 days ago

#infosec #opsec #mentalhealth

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

evacide

@evacide@hachyderm.io · last week

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:

https://rebeccawilliams.info/burner-phone-101/

Wulfy

@n_dimension@infosec.exchange replied · last week

@evacide

"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.

#opsec #surveillance

https://www.comparitech.com/blog/vpn-privacy/stop-mobile-phone-tracking/

Ulrike Hahn

@UlrikeHahn@fediscience.org · 4 months ago

@eloquence "That is unhelpful; it occludes awareness of capabilities that are actually improving (and can present real #opsec and surveillance risks in this case)."

indeed! downplaying of capability means downplaying of risk and is as undesirable as hype

Erik Moeller

@eloquence@social.coop · 4 months ago

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