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Jun 10 • 4 tweets • 3 min read
Oh God, please, no. Cc: @glynwintle

channel4.com/press/news/cha…
Could be the attached, but my suspicion is that this is going to be another CYBER! DARKWEB! CYB3R! SYBER! CAMBRIDGE ANALYTICA‼️BRAIN CONTORL! YOU SAW AN ADVERT AND SO A RUSSIAN ARTIFISHIAL INTELLIGENCE APP MADE YOU VOTE FOR UKIP! … thing.

READING BETWEEN THE LINES:

Plucky spooks in Cheltenham but dressed for speed-dating in 2015-era Shoreditch, battle "Russian influence operations" that Nadine Dorries will soon cite as rationale for the #OnlineSafetyBill.

Token American subplots help sell the series to the US.
Oh dear, apparently a Government which seems incapable of seeing that "creating impediments to foreign trade, might negatively impact foreign trade" is meant to be defending @Tesco's logistics pipeline.

I hope the culprit is a kid in a basement in Penge.

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Jun 2
Back in 1991 I published an open-source password cracking tool which defined the state of the art for the next 5+ years, so much so that echoes of it can be found in all major password crackers of today.

Some folk criticised me for doing this, choosing words like these to do so: Image
I know that in general it's bad form to take a single quote out of context and use it to critique an entire essay (concerned.tech) — but I do feel that this time it's deserved.
The concerned-dot-tech essay has had extensive technical debunking, e.g.:

1/ prestonbyrne.com/2022/06/01/deb…

2/

…but that's not what bothers me.
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May 11
Elsewhere in EU regulatory pipe-dreams authored by people who apparently have more good intention than understanding, the #DMA means that @WhatsApp and @signalapp should both adopt #XMPP and thereby deliver a unified "inbox" of messages.
@WhatsApp @signalapp Not making this up: ImageImage
> With a constant onslaught of messages pinging our phones and computers, who wouldn’t want that?

Well, for one, "people who use different applications to deliver different functionality and security profiles"

WhatsApp: family
Messenger: neighbours
Signal: infosec nerds
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May 10
Well, this is some interesting reading for the afternoon.

alecmuffett.com/alecm/tmp/eu-c…
"We want a backdoor, but we don't want just *anyone* to be able to use it. Only us good guys."
May be of interest to, oh, I dunno, @alexhern @jamesrbuk @tim @lorenzofb @josephfcox @MikeIsaac
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Mar 8
This is possibly the most important and long-awaited tweet that I've ever composed.

On behalf of @Twitter, I am delighted to announce their new @TorProject onion service, at:

…zg5vztmjuricljdp2c5kshju4avyoid.onion
I'm delighted to have assisted @Twitter engineers in their adoption of #OnionServices & #OnionNetworking from @TorProject — providing greater privacy, integrity, trust, & "unblockability" for people all around the world who use @Twitter to communicate.

help.twitter.com/en/using-twitt…
I am also honoured that they've chosen to adopt EOTK (the Enterprise Onion Toolkit) to power their onion platform, albeit with considerable though reasonable modification to meet their extraordinary production requirements:

github.com/alecmuffett/eo…
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Oct 25, 2021
1/ Oh this is glorious: *NOW* Frances Haugen says that she supports end-to-end encryption… buuuuut:

2/ …but: now she wants to enforce a

"1 Human Being" = "1 Instagram Account"

...real-name, real-identity policy, in order to "protect the children" by stopping them doing and seeing bad things.

3/ …and that if you cannot prevent something, you are therefore encouraging it:



Frances Haugen apparently wants to kill online anonymity, and require us all to have fixed and singular online identities.
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Oct 25, 2021
1/ So @StevenLevy has written at length about the "Badge Posts" - the goodbye, final messages posted for other employees to read as they leave the company.

You'll find his article here:

wired.com/story/facebook…
2/ But these are not just "human interest" stories; some are meant to achieve something, and in my case the goal was to move Facebook away from implementing national identities & censorship within the Facebook platform.

I wrote a response to Steven:

alecmuffett.com/article/14994
3/ But I felt that that was not enough to explain what was going on, how Facebook may be changed, and the critical importance of fostering frank and constructive engagement in order to make effective change.
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