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16 Nov, 5 tweets, 2 min read
Danish military intelligence helped the NSA spy on Denmark’s finance and foreign ministries, military contractors for commercial gain, and other Nordic countries, as well as Germany using a dedicated NSA data center built for XKEYSCORE in DK 🤯 dr.dk/nyheder/indlan…
Beyond prosecuting those responsible within the military intelligence unit, Denmark must shut down that NSA spy post immediately. Terminate all collaboration. Beyond outrageous that Denmark would supply foreign spies the land, tooling, and collaboration to harm itself. WTF?!
Also, how insanely brazen that this machinery was being used by the NSA to spy on Danish military contractors in order to win business for American fighter planes. A disgrace that Denmark will continue to fly the F35 after this revelation. Vassal state humiliation to the extreme.
Also, just to tie some storylines here. You don’t think XKEYSCORE - or something like it - is pulling in the UNENCRYPTED details on which apps you open when and where? Of course it does. Every open data tap is being pulled in, registered, linked to your IP, and used against you.
Fictional(??): “We know the finance minister was using Signal from her computer at 18:49 last night. The Swedish minister was doing the same. Then she opened Excel. Some spreadsheets were clearly sent. Can we intercept via the iCloud backup access?”

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16 Nov
Following the revelations about Apple’s phone-home program on app openings, the company has just announced it’ll stop logging IPs (but anyone listening on the line still can), improve security with encryption, and allow opt out! 👍 support.apple.com/en-us/HT202491 Image
This is a very welcome admission by Apple that the current system is deeply flawed, and the changes promised are solid improvements. But why does shit like this always have to be let out to back door with an obscure update to an Apple help site article? Anyway 👏. Sunlight!
The whole process of having Apple mix these “protections against malware” into a system that’s also a “protection of our business model” remains deeply problematic. Apple is clearly positioning the App Store to soon be the only “trusted” default. Locking the Mac as with iOS.
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15 Nov
I don’t see how this makes anything better? Sending a global unique hash of the developer certificate in the clear still allows both Apple to keep a log and anyone the power to snoop. This is fundamentally busted. Apple should send ban lists to the user. blog.jacopo.io/en/post/apple-…
The developer certificate for, say, Signal the developer will still make it perfectly clear that you’re running Signal the app. Sending that in the clear, with a time stamp, with IP address tracing, leaks all sorts of metadata that can be combined with other data sources.
Further more, Apple has shown itself to be a bullying, vindictive operator of its platform powers. While you might think they used that power “for good” locking Facebook out of their own internal iOS apps by revoking their dev certificate, it’s an incredibly scary superpower.
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13 Nov
“This means that Apple knows when you’re at home. When you’re at work. What apps you open there, and how often. They know when you open Premiere over at a friend’s house on their Wi-Fi, and they know when you open Tor Browser in a hotel.” 😞 sneak.berlin/20201112/your-…
Worth noting the technical reason here. I don’t think Apple is gathering this data because they want to sell it to advertisers (like a Google or Facebook would). Completely believe that the creators of this system thought they were doing right by users. But that’s the conceit...
Apple is late to rendering its actions and intentions through the lens of a two-trillion dollar conglomerate with a proven record of using its systems and dominance for anti-competitive behavior. You can’t simply go on good intentions any more! Don’t think Apple employees realize
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10 Nov
"Apart from the obvious, which is the climate, there is the quality and rhythm of life, our open and hospitable character, distances are short, and we are relatively close to Europe", Canary Islands wants to be home for remote work, and I can only say YES! english.elpais.com/economy_and_bu…
We first moved to southern Spain in 2012, and lived there, on-off, for the following six years. It's an absolutely wonderful country to be an expat in. Incredible food, awesome healthcare, welcoming locales. I miss living there all the time.
Marbella, where we were, isn't exactly the hub of anything except a rush of tourists in the summer, a lot of expat retirees, but so damn what? Remote life is all about picking the place you want to live, unconstrained by where the office is.
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9 Nov
Bought a book in Danish from Saxo.com. They're just a retailer. No vertically integrated hardware. So OF COURSE the ebook format is simply ePub, which you own and can use everywhere, and OF COURSE the audiobook format is MP3, which you can own an use everywhere 😍
Then I learned that the reigning monopolist, Amazon, doesn't even fucking support ePub on the Kindle. Because why would you allow an open format when you squat on the gates of all book content in the US.
Vertical integration is utterly toxic when its combined with a dominant market position. It's how choice is locked up, and the key is held for ransom. Regulators used to know this. Studios couldn't own cinemas. Car makers couldn't own repair shops. Yet somehow we forgot!
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8 Nov
Speaking of believing the virus is a scam: Central Copenhagen was utterly packed to the gills last night. People in the streets. Crammed into restaurants and bars. No fucking masks anywhere in these establishments. Thoroughly, depressingly disappointing.
Danes are very damn good about following official decrees. Mask compliance in public transportation is 100%. Inside department and grocery stores 100%. But anything that isn’t specifically written down? WOOOO!!!
Given what’s happening in basically all the rest of Europe, it’s simply astounding that Danes continue to act like that could never happen here. Or maybe they’ve simply handed over all thinking to Lord Mette. In that case, please, Lord Mette, stop this madness.
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