Bill Budington

Opinion: Students’ tech skills should be nurtured, not punished Subjecting students to the criminal justice system for tech pranks is unjustified and only squelches the kind of curiosity that educators should seek to encourage in students.

Catching a student using a Flipper Zero should be a teachable moment, not a crime, EFF’s @legind.bsky.social and @zoracon.bsky.social wrote in an op-ed for Deseret.

Remember when what’s his name took over Twitter and remade it into American History X

Hacking group claims to have stolen billions of personal records. How to protect yourself National Public Data, a company that provides background checks and fraud prevention, said "a third-party bad actor" tried to hack into its data with some potential leaks.

"If this information is disclosed…it means that a malicious actor could glean information on you to open new lines of credit, or impersonate you," EFF’s @legind.bsky.social told Sacramento's KCRA3. "Taking some precautions is prudent right now."

Split image. Top: Amazon One device at a market, allowing one to pay with their palm. Bottom: Alien from Star Trek: The Next Generation “Darmok”

Palm pay
Pompay
Pompeii

When the firewalls fell!

I/O 2024: What’s new in Android security and privacy Posted by Dave Kleidermacher, VP Engineering, Android Security and Privacy Our commitment to user safety is a top priority for Android. ...

(1/3) News about what I've been working on for the last ~3 years to improve cellular security @ Android!

Android now newly supports notifications if your phone connects to a network without encryption, or if your IMSI/IMEI/SUCI are disclosed in the clear (can help detect IMSI-catcher attacks).

Panel 1: Emperor Palpatine in his storyteller role: “Did you ever hear the story of the Year of the Linux Desktop?” Panel 2: the Mastodon mascot shrugging its arms: “Hmm?” Panel 3: Emperor Palpatine, smirking: “It’s not a story the open source people would tell you. It’s a Slashdot shitpost. Linux had the best technology, but it despised users so much it refused to improve their experience. Ironic. It could present humanity with freedom, but couldn’t present itself.” Panel 4: the mascot showing him a thumbs-up gesture: “That’s a cool story, grandpa. Sorry, just saw some people joining the default mastodon instance. Gotta go tell at them they’re using it wrong and they should migrate to an instance that best matches their interests. Bye!”

Since we’re talking about the Mastodon experience again:

Keeping Your Smart Home Secure & Private Here at EFF, we fight hard to ensure your security and privacy rights are maintained in the digital world. Back when we were founded in 1990, a dream of a world united by the internet was accompanied

Since we're talking about compromised internet-connected cameras in homes, you may be interested in EFF's advice on how to keep your smart home private and secure, written by @legind.bsky.social: www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...

A word association game with the term “ML” is the quickest way to tell if someone is primarily a leftie, a techie, or a normie.

Seems Napoleonic,
How very ironic,
When half a million French men freezed
In that same Russia Wagner seized

Us 10 years ago:

You’ll USE Pidgin with the OTR plugin over XMPP and you’ll LIKE it

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