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Oct
Just say no to OpenAI and Anthropic
I recently read End Times Fascism and the Fight for the Living World by Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor. It&
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16
Sep
Flock cameras are riddled with security vulnerabilities and hard-coded credentials
This morning, DDoSecrets published an exciting new dataset: Filesystem images of the partitions from an in-use Flock ALPR camera.
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29
Aug
The Server Called Paranoia: Defend Autistici/Inventati
For twenty-five years, an Italian hacker collective has built communications infrastructure designed to survive censorship, surveillance and police raids. On August 26, the United States designated it a terrorist organization. On September 25, the wind-down period ends.
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27
Aug
Sandboxing coding agents
At the beginning of the month I wrote about how I've been using coding agents to write high
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03
Aug
Agentic coding techniques
Since LLMs have been available, I've been doing a lot of coding using agents. Unlike shoving AI into
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13
Jul
Mandatory Update: A Short Story
Guess what? Lately I've been nerding out on creative writing. I even joined a local fiction writers group
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20
May
Read Cindy Cohn's new book, Privacy's Defender: My Thirty-Year Fight Against Digital Surveillance
I just finished reading Privacy's Defender: My Thirty-Year Fight Against Digital Surveillance, by my friend Cindy Cohn.
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01
Mar
"Why hack the DHS? I can think of a couple Pretti Good reasons!"
Today, DDoSecrets published data about ICE contracts hacked from DHS's Office of Industry Partnership. The hacker group, Department
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30
Jan
Is everyone in your Signal groups named something like "E" or "🥑"? Nicknames can help!
As ICE continues its invasion of American cities, kidnapping and murdering the people who live there, observers on the ground
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29
Nov
Jeffrey Epstein Bought Books About Pedophilia, Woody Allen, and Trump
The disgraced financier’s Kindle library reveals his interests in Lolita, how the elite avoid accountability, and Trump’s many scandals.
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