This take is pretty myopic; the WeChat discussion needs far more depth. This stance ignores the ACLU’s long standing precedents on the NSA, surveillance, and privacy. Yet, the stakes of NSA surveillance and MSS surveillance are a world apart — with Americans potential victims too
WeChat is a product that is architected to constrict freedom of speech. Messages sent from the U.S. are algorithmically surveilled, and that data constricts speech in China. Do those Chinese matter less than Americans? citizenlab.ca/2020/05/we-cha…
If WeChat was a product that was end-to-end encrypted, with the White House merely targeting Chinese market access, these discussions would be different. But with all we know about Chinese technology, in China, it is unbelievable that the ACLU can rationalize a free market stance
WeChat is a spoke in the wheel of the system that the Chinese government uses to oppress its people. This does not stop at Chinese borders. You cannot mention WeChat’s role in the 1st Amendment without also discussing its history of coercion and threats. codastory.com/authoritarian-…
There is history with WeChat, w/ its role in the modernization of authoritarianism, its role in human rights violations: the predominant social graph and window beyond, a noose. It is leveraged in the cultural genocide of Uyghurs, & stifles human rights advocacy & dissent abroad.
How we can enact solutions to the WeChat problem is a real, necessary discussion. A game of whack-a-mole does not answer to this complexity. But we cannot sit from the comfort of the United States and blanket defend the indefensible role of WeChat globally.
WeChat is the ‘only’ means of communication for diaspora and Chinese abroad because the Chinese government has made that so — has seen the power of surveillance and control, and rewritten laws and market demands to strengthen that panopticon.
Western alliances can create frameworks to demand technological trust & assurances of products like WeChat, but their role can only go so far — with disillusionment the moment messages & keys hit Beijing’s wires. Some day, we may arrive back here w/ few paths but a clean break.
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The plates for that Citizen 'Private Patrol' do match this vehicle from losangelesprofessionalsecurity.com, which describes itself as a "Subscription Law Enforcement Service." It apparently does everything from Apple Watch fall detection monitoring for the elderly, to alarm response.
After seeing the Instagram for 'LAPS,' which features this kitted out Model Y, I have so many more questions. instagram.com/p/CPBp2YKndZe/
"25 percent of kids 9-17 reported having had a sexually explicit interaction with someone they thought was 18 or older" platformer.news/p/the-child-sa…
"57 percent of youth who identify as LGBTQ+ said they have had potentially harmful experiences online, compared to 46 percent of non-LGBTQ+ youth. They also had online sexual interactions at much higher rates than their peers" @platformer
"The platforms with the highest number of minors reported potential harm were Snapchat (26 percent), Instagram (26 percent), YouTube (19 percent), TikTok (18 percent), and Messenger (18 percent)."
Triller has lost its mind: “Triller will pursue the full $150,000 penalty per person per instance for anyone who doesn't do the right thing and pay before the deadline” reut.rs/3b2bvCy
“Triller filed legal action on April 23 in U.S. District Court of Central California against the owners of the H3Podcast website for piracy of the event, and a dozen other sites that restreamed and profited from as many as hundreds of thousands of users each”
Triller has secured itself as a dead meme of an app. The ‘rebroadcast’ angle is a clear cut example of acceptable fair use. They’re targeting the YouTube couple that literally represents the landmark fair use ruling of Hosseinzadeh v. Klein
I slept through the opench.aix.uy drama, but the synopsis of this — and someone can correct me if I miss anything — is that ai-eks used their Clubhouse user token and had a bot join every room, collect the Agora tokens, and plug them into a browser client.
This technical breakdown shows how Clubhouse works. It's a scrappy startup, & there are 3 legs. Clubhouse has their own API for user management. It relies on Agora for RTC audio streams. And less spoken is that the room interactions flow over PubNub events theori.io/research/korea…
Unless I missed something, Clubhouse conversations weren't being recorded by the opench.aix.uy experiments. But, the metadata was indeed being scraped & relayed over the flask service. That's of course a cause for concern for the intimate, ephemeral network.
iOS release notes are always comforting when you have firsts like this. 3 zero-days actively exploited in the wild. 2 involving WebKit. "Apple said additional details would be available soon" techcrunch.com/2021/01/26/app…
The bricked state I encountered didn't end up having to do with the battery, at least obviously so. After a day of wrestling with DFU mode, it was successfully restored. If it attempted to boot, it would endlessly loop; breaking that cycle was hard.
The morning following the mobile Chrome stuttering, the device was very warm — like you would expect from an iCloud Photos daemon. Springboard worked, albeit dropping frames, but third party apps (I didn't test first party) began failing to boot. Upon shutdown, it was bricked.