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The Troldesh folks (developers of Shade Ransomware) closed up shop and decided to release the keys for 750k victims. This article is a follow up, as Kaspersky has developed a tool …

I am also not quite ready to concede that a Chrome/Blink base is the only way a browser can be successful. I'm sure the day is coming, and I'm not sure that we can ever go back whe…

The EFF has a good breakdown of their concerns with Washington Privacy Act: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/03/tech-lobbyists-are-pus... ACLU WA openly opposed the bill: https:/…

Here is the team's GitHub: https://github.com/shade-team/keys What a bizarre situation. I'm wondering what the motivation would be to just apologize and dump decryption keys. >Kasp…

While I don't work on a red team, it does seem to me that an organization should vet software used by their red teams via the same processes that they use to make risk determinatio…

What is the significance of SoftBank financing this business?

I don't necessarily disagree, but can one do anything that puts them past a point where society should afford them a chance at redemption? Does an individual always deserve to be g…

>people's lives can be ruined, or at least set back years or decades by controversy that stems from private information getting into the wrong hands Private information "getting in…

When I read your comment, I realized I intuitively view open access to surveillance systems like this as more desirable than limited access, and I don't know how to articulate that…

I had a "I feel like this already happened" moment reading the article. This clears it up.