evacide

Director of Cybersecurity
@EFF
/ Co-founder of
@stopstalkerware
/ These are my opinions, not my employers’ / I did a TED talk once

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Last Notes

2024-09-04 20:26:47

If you hear a scream across the internet right now, it is the sound I am making while reading the Internet Archive v. Hachette Books appeal, which IA has lost: https://www.wired.com/story/internet-archive-loses-hachette-books-case-appeal/

2024-08-02 00:13:34

Mostly the internet is a garbage fire, but sometimes it brings me cheese puns.

2024-06-15 17:14:48

I have been tremendously lucky in my career, but I have absolutely seen men get paid more for the same or less work with the same or fewer qualifications and I have seen men praised as geniuses for behavior that gets me called a bitch.

2024-06-09 02:14:44

Let there be no doubt that NSO Group is using the courts to harass the security researchers who have done the most to shed light on their years of misdeeds and lies.
https://theintercept.com/2024/05/06/pegasus-nso-group-israeli-spyware-citizen-lab/

2024-05-31 19:05:49

Who are the "supersharers" of fake news on Twitter? Republican Middle-aged white women living in Arizona, Florida, and Texas.
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adl4435

2024-05-28 22:02:20

If you, a white person, feel the need to disguise yourself as a black person for any goddamn reason, how about you just don't?

2024-05-22 06:18:55

One day I will do a massive thread of just the worst digital privacy and security advice that people have given in my mentions.

2024-05-16 21:28:38

Threat models matter.
When a platform/service/app tells you they are “private” or “secure” always ask “from whom?”
Criminals, domestic abusers, law enforcement, data brokers, and intelligence agencies are all different attackers with very different capabilities.

2024-05-16 19:42:51

When I talk about digital privacy, there is always some smug genius who shrugs and tells me, "Who cares? We all know we don't have any privacy anyway." Nothing could be more wrong. Convincing you that the fight is already over to the way people in power get you to stop resisting.

2024-05-15 20:29:02

"Cisgender is a slur" has some real "people pointing out racist behavior are the real racists" energy to it.

2024-05-14 23:46:13

If you own a Tesla, your car is covered in cameras that take images reviewed by Tesla employees, who share them with each other, joke about them, and make them into memes.
https://www.reuters.com/technology/tesla-workers-shared-sensitive-images-recorded-by-customer-cars-2023-04-06/

2024-05-14 19:42:16

I see that everything is going fine over at the Hellsite.
https://media.hachyderm.io/media_attachments/files/112/441/143/269/589/043/original/90ef70fec1df7738.png

2024-05-08 17:39:43

This is your regular reminder that most communications on Telegram are not end-to-end encrypted. Channels and groups are never end-to-end encrypted and 1-on-1 messages are only end-to-end when explicitly enabled.

2024-05-07 18:25:40

Buying a new car in 2024 is a goddamn privacy nightmare, part 3591 of an endless series: https://sherwood.news/tech/how-to-opt-out-of-the-privacy-nightmare-that-comes-factory-installed-in-new/

2024-04-15 20:21:56

If you're the person who stole the package from my foyer, I hope you're enjoying Police and the Empire City: Race and the Origins of Modern Policing in New York.

2024-03-19 18:39:24

This website says you should send it a photo of your partner's penis and they will tell you if they have an STD, using the power of AI.
This is so misleading, inaccurate, dangerous, YIKES, that I assume it is an elaborate joke.
https://www.calmara.ai

2024-01-12 21:14:34

You know what I absolutely do not want? A humanoid robot stumbling around my house, using the power of AI to confidently but incorrectly do my chores.
#tormentnexus
https://thenextweb.com/news/1x-humanoid-robot-neo-investment

2024-01-11 18:55:15

No, I don't want to know your "skincare secrets." Your skincare secret is that you are fifteen years younger than I am.

2024-01-09 19:14:47

I did not have "unauthorized secret Lubovitcher tunnels" on my 2024 Bingo card, yet here they are: https://apnews.com/article/brooklyn-synagogue-chabad-tunnel-2c03a40c9150bdf6d9d899436789d8cf

2023-12-20 22:17:59

I am continuously amazed at how bad criminals are at keeping their mouths shut about their crimes.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/jan-6-rioter-nabbed-bumble-dating-app-sting-pleads-guilty-assaulting-o-rcna130593

2023-12-19 19:49:16

There have been many stories of companies giving up user data to stalkers and other criminals pretending to be cops with emergency data requests, but this one stands out because it's so utterly shambolic. The stalker submitted his request using a protonmail address FFS.
https://www.404media.co/verizon-gave-her-data-to-a-stalker-this-has-completely-changed-my-life/

2023-12-17 02:28:27

Men, how often do you think about the Golden Path?

2023-11-17 20:50:03

OpenAI has just booted Sam Altman as CEO and removed him from the Board of Directors and they are not being shy about their reasons.
https://openai.com/blog/openai-announces-leadership-transition
https://media.hachyderm.io/media_attachments/files/111/427/856/783/735/436/original/9ce56c38ebb37deb.png

2023-10-17 23:56:33

The notion that charging new users $1 per year will stop bots is laughable.
https://fortune.com/2023/10/17/twitter-x-charging-new-users-1-dollar-year-to-tweet/

2023-10-10 21:20:19

If you give privacy/security advice without an explicit threat model, all that you're doing is using an implicit threat model that may not match the needs of the person you're trying to help.

2023-09-30 23:48:45

If you're mad at EFF for making it possible to use Chrome with less tracking instead of yelling at people to use a different browser, then I assume you have never heard of harm reduction. Giving people digital privacy and security advice means meeting people where they're at. Otherwise, you're just running your mouth to make yourself feel smart.

2023-09-25 17:58:29

There are mornings when I do not have the level of mental resiliency necessary to take on an inbox full of abuse cases and this is one of them.

2023-09-15 20:42:14

Thorn sucks and Ashton Kutcher sucks, but now they will suck separately.
https://time.com/6314436/ashton-kutcher-steps-down-thorn-danny-masterson/

2023-09-14 23:36:43

Adtech surveillance and spyware are merging in disturbing and surprising ways. Israeli companies are at the leading edge of undermining your privacy, as usual.
https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2023-09-14/ty-article-magazine/.highlight/revealed-israeli-cyber-firms-developed-an-insane-new-spyware-tool-no-defense-exists/0000018a-93cb-de77-a98f-ffdf2fb60000

2023-08-30 17:39:03

“Obviously this is a great fit for abusers who live with their victims or have physical access, however brief, to their wallets...Credit card info is not a goddamn unique identifier.”
https://www.404media.co/i-tracked-nyc-subway-rider-home-omny-mta/

2023-08-23 18:49:51

Sometimes bad things happen to bad people and we are allowed to enjoy it, as a treat.

2023-08-22 20:44:11

This is your regular reminder that the data broker industry is absolutely out of control and needs strong regulation:
https://www.404media.co/the-secret-weapon-hackers-can-use-to-dox-nearly-anyone-in-america-for-15-tlo-usinfosearch-transunion/

2023-08-15 18:46:01

I assume this change was implemented while wearing black robes, circled around an X logo, chanting "Freedom of speech but not freedom of reach."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/08/15/twitter-x-links-delayed/

2023-08-14 21:02:59

Now that we have "AI detection" meant to catch students who cheat by using AI to do their work, of course we have false positives.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/08/14/prove-false-positive-ai-detection-turnitin-gptzero/

2023-08-10 00:19:36

People in management who feel the need to loudly tell everyone how pro-labor they are give off strong Steve Buschemi "how do you do fellow kids" vibes.

2023-08-09 23:07:52

“What do you do for a living?”
“I sneakily try to turn security engineers into privacy engineers.”

2023-08-06 04:26:00

Man Famous For Not Paying His Bills And Making Empty Promises Offers to Pay Other People's Bills, Which is Totally Not an Empty Promise: https://www.reuters.com/legal/musks-x-fund-legal-bills-people-treated-unfairly-due-posting-platform-2023-08-06/

2023-08-05 19:36:54

Nothing has ever been less surprising than the news that the ad-sharing payments Elon promised will not be arriving on time.
https://www.theverge.com/2023/8/4/23820859/x-twitter-ad-sharing-payment-unpaid-delay-elon-musk

2023-07-19 01:56:36

We all knew infosec Twitter was dead, but here's a graph.
https://www.cyentia.com/the-death-of-infosec-twitter/