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yeah... a lot of ink has been spilled over there should be a Warrent requirement for the FBI but imo the data broker loophole is the bigger issue. NSA buys netflow data in bulk for…

Section 702 is expiring at the end of the month but whether or not it gets re-authorized by a bill called RISSA is likely going to the floor of the house NEXT WEEK. IF you care abo…

> Risky Biz (and really anything Patrick Gray touches) is awesome. Would recommend. Patrick Gray is a good interviewer and news source but he is also a big booster of the American …

Its less "Looks like we need new powers again!" and more "Please dont take away our post-9/11 powers (702), and not because we forgot how to do our jobs without them we actually do…

This whole thing was a shit show. Very happy Restore the Fourth signed the open letter calling for House Intelligence chair to step down. https://www.freedomworks.org/wp-content/up…

This is a big deal. If you care about your privacy, its not enough to use good op-sec. You need to address the source of the problem: the governent is abusing its power, and it nee…

Nope. "If Alice registers number X and enables reglock, but Bob later proves ownership of number X (by registering and completing the SMS code), then Alice will be unregistered." I…

This is probably going to be a bit of a mini rant, been thinking bout this for a while (10 years in fact). > Although it is physically impossible for the single guard to observe al…

I really hope this eventually leads to a situation where an adversary cant forcibly de-link you from your signal account by taking control of your phone number or intercepting an s…

For a lot of people, signal is not simply a User-User "texting" type application, but much more akin to slack or discord or matrix. Many, Many reporters put their signal number in …

I mean, I dont agree with the person you are replying to, but signal absolutely is a social network. Its a network you use to communicate socially. You can argue its not social med…

Nowadays my go-to source for unbiased (or perhapes better to say "non-partison"), easily digestible information on incredibly complicated topics is CRS: https://crsreports.congress…

First Draft of UN Cybercrime Convention Drops Troubling Provisions, But Dangerous And Open-Ended Cross Border Surveillance Powers Are Back on the Table

Good day to be a Minnesota hacker.

Perhaps they misspoke, or perhaps they misunderstood, or perhaps their usage of the term is different then yours or mine. I understood them to mean it in the sense that the FDA hol…

While I agree with the headline (section 702 is a big deal, its the legal loophole authorizing vast swaths of American mass surveillance, and it expires this year), I don't think i…

I feel like thats a deliberate misreading of the parent comment. Of course the FDA is not, itself, a democratic instution. But then neither is your local police department or NASA.…

with the caveat that I dont personally use bitcoin, I still think the above description is simpler then using gift credit cards, for a couple of reasons: - gift cards involves gett…

The bill is quite similar to the EARN-IT act.

> The conclusion I came to is that a lot of people complain about the impending end of E2EE but very few people are actually willing to do anything about it except whine. The conne…