Oh, you know, just a normal Friday.
Cory Doctorow
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If you have a bit of time to spare, I strongly recommend watching this interview with @pluralistic
https://youtube.com/watch?v=P1EKQidRooc
"As every good American, I am Canadian" - what a legend!
Time well spend!
If you have a bit of time to spare, I strongly recommend watching this interview with @pluralistic
https://youtube.com/watch?v=P1EKQidRooc
"As every good American, I am Canadian" - what a legend!
Time well spend!
Evan Prodromou
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Join the Electronic Frontier Foundation in honoring the heroes of digital freedom at the 2025 EFF Awards! 🎉 Celebrate the innovators, activists, and technologists shaping a better digital future.
📅 Wed, Sept 10
🕕 6:00 PM PT reception (awards at 7:30, post-mingle at 8:30)
📍 SF Design Center Galleria — 101 Henry Adams St, SF
ℹ️ https://www.eff.org/event/eff-awards-2025
Join the Electronic Frontier Foundation in honoring the heroes of digital freedom at the 2025 EFF Awards! 🎉 Celebrate the innovators, activists, and technologists shaping a better digital future.
📅 Wed, Sept 10
🕕 6:00 PM PT reception (awards at 7:30, post-mingle at 8:30)
📍 SF Design Center Galleria — 101 Henry Adams St, SF
ℹ️ https://www.eff.org/event/eff-awards-2025
Jess Mahler
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Watch Louis Rossmann’s powerful and urgent video: "GDPR meant nothing: chat control ends privacy for the EU"
on YouTube: https://youtu.be/3NyUgv6dpJc
or Google-free on Odysee: https://odysee.com/@rossmanngroup:a/gdpr-meant-nothing-chat-control-ends:8
HOW TO FIGHT BACK:
If you are in the EU or a citizen of it, now is the time to act:
- Use https://fightchatcontrol.eu/ to email your MEPs in seconds. The site provides pre-written templates and contact details—just click and send!
- Spread the word: Share, post on social media, and talk to friends. Awareness is our best weapon.
- Support orgs fighting back: #EDRihttps://edri.org/, #EFFhttps://www.eff.org/, #Tutahttps://tuta.com/, #Wirehttps://wire.com/.
#Germany and #France are CRUCIAL—if they oppose, the law fails. Pressure them now!
This isn’t just about “privacy for criminals.” It’s about whether liveinng in a free society or a surveillance state.
Encryption protects everyone—dissidents, journalists, abuse survivors, and YOU.
Act now before it’s too late.
Big thanks to the unknown heroes behind @chatcontrol and @fightchatcontrol.
#tracking #surveillance #digitalrights #privacy #cybersecurity #freedom#StopChatControl#ChatControl#FightChatControl#EU #encryption#NoMassSurveillance#SavePrivacy#Germany#France#TechPolicy#HumanRights#ActNow #digital #spying #corporate #corporategovernance #data
Watch Louis Rossmann’s powerful and urgent video: "GDPR meant nothing: chat control ends privacy for the EU"
on YouTube: https://youtu.be/3NyUgv6dpJc
or Google-free on Odysee: https://odysee.com/@rossmanngroup:a/gdpr-meant-nothing-chat-control-ends:8
HOW TO FIGHT BACK:
If you are in the EU or a citizen of it, now is the time to act:
- Use https://fightchatcontrol.eu/ to email your MEPs in seconds. The site provides pre-written templates and contact details—just click and send!
- Spread the word: Share, post on social media, and talk to friends. Awareness is our best weapon.
- Support orgs fighting back: #EDRihttps://edri.org/, #EFFhttps://www.eff.org/, #Tutahttps://tuta.com/, #Wirehttps://wire.com/.
#Germany and #France are CRUCIAL—if they oppose, the law fails. Pressure them now!
This isn’t just about “privacy for criminals.” It’s about whether liveinng in a free society or a surveillance state.
Encryption protects everyone—dissidents, journalists, abuse survivors, and YOU.
Act now before it’s too late.
Big thanks to the unknown heroes behind @chatcontrol and @fightchatcontrol.
#tracking #surveillance #digitalrights #privacy #cybersecurity #freedom#StopChatControl#ChatControl#FightChatControl#EU #encryption#NoMassSurveillance#SavePrivacy#Germany#France#TechPolicy#HumanRights#ActNow #digital #spying #corporate #corporategovernance #data
Truly an amazing time at #DEFCON33 as we launched #TechReclaimers ! Thanks to the incomparable @thegibson and the entire family at #HackersTown , friends at #EFF and #CdC for the extra magic! Video of our presentation hopefully up soon enough ...
And now, to work!
You can sign up for notices from Tech Reclaimers as we gear up for sociotechnical change at: @TheBulletin
Cory Doctorow
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You can’t fight, but WE can… https://pluralistic.net/2025/07/31/unsatisfying-answers/ @pluralistic #eff
You can’t fight, but WE can… https://pluralistic.net/2025/07/31/unsatisfying-answers/ @pluralistic #eff
alcinnz
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🔐 A VPN can improve your privacy, or just give you a false sense of it. The EFF’s guide is a solid reminder that choosing a VPN is less about speed or price, and more about who runs it, what they log, and whether they actually deliver the protection they claim.
TL;DR
🧠 VPNs don’t guarantee anonymity
📜 “No logs” claims often lack proof
👤 Your threat model shapes your VPN needs
🔎 Look into ownership and reputation
https://ssd.eff.org/module/choosing-vpn-thats-right-you
#cybersecurity #privacy #vpn #digitalrights #security #privacy #cloud #infosec#EFF @eff
🔐 A VPN can improve your privacy, or just give you a false sense of it. The EFF’s guide is a solid reminder that choosing a VPN is less about speed or price, and more about who runs it, what they log, and whether they actually deliver the protection they claim.
TL;DR
🧠 VPNs don’t guarantee anonymity
📜 “No logs” claims often lack proof
👤 Your threat model shapes your VPN needs
🔎 Look into ownership and reputation
https://ssd.eff.org/module/choosing-vpn-thats-right-you
#cybersecurity #privacy #vpn #digitalrights #security #privacy #cloud #infosec#EFF @eff
For a VPN, mullvad is the most frequently recommended.
An independent US consumer review non-profit said mullvad, IVPN, and mozilla (which is resold mullvad) were best, made reasonable claims, and had independent audits.
After lastpass messed up a compromise my work did a comparison between 1password and bitwarden, then thought both were good and but went with 1password for it's enterprise options. The people who did the review thought bitwarden was good too though.
And browsers are a world of hurt because they're all too complicated and expensive to maintain.
to turn off the ai chat stuff in firefox.
go into about:config
click through the warning
search for browser.ml.chat.enabled and set it to false.
Also seriously install ublock origin. if you can find the ublock configuration page and turn on the annoyances filters that can kills a bunch of cookie banners too.
And because of ublock origin, firefox or one of its' descendants is probably your best available browser options.
@alienghic @DL_Draco_Rex hundred percent what Dianne recommended. Also consider adding #privacybadger from the #EFF.
jaz :twt: :wales_flag:
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remember that Creative Commons has fallen for NFT and shitcoin grifts before, when they let Filecoin bribe them into NFT land
https://davidgerard.co.uk/blockchain/2021/11/26/creative-commons-is-shilling-nfts/
and EFF was crawling up coiners' arses at the same time too, reminding us that these are Silicon Valley libertarian organisations that are extremely into the corporate funding
@davidgerard
i was creeped out by #eff #podcast being in favour of ai slop, comparing opposition to being against remixing and sampling. https://www.eff.org/how-to-fix-the-internet-podcast
i was creeped out by #eff #podcast being in favour of ai slop, comparing opposition to being against remixing and sampling. https://www.eff.org/how-to-fix-the-internet-podcast
pospi
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Oh, and the EFF leans the same way on "screw your creativity, big tech is right on GenAI".
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/04/how-we-think-about-copyright-and-ai-art-0
Which probably shouldn't be surprising given some of their previous "screw the humans, let's be absolutist" stances on other legal arguments.
Oh, and the EFF leans the same way on "screw your creativity, big tech is right on GenAI".
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/04/how-we-think-about-copyright-and-ai-art-0
Which probably shouldn't be surprising given some of their previous "screw the humans, let's be absolutist" stances on other legal arguments.
So ... let me get this straight. You can't ban an obviously dangerous for-profit activity that's already killed someone. That we leave to "personal responsibility".
But you *can* ban kids from using social media? Rather than leaving them and their parents to exercise personal responsibility over whether and how they use it. You can also maintain a ban on recreational use of cannabis, despite no evidence of anyone dying from it in thousands of years of use.
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@strypey
Do not believe this " banning kids from social media" crap.
It's real-ID to use the Internet #authoritarian #fascist nonsense.
The fascists in power everywhere wan to do the #nazi "Papers Please"
Think through the tech implementation.
It's ID or no internet for EVERYONE!