No, I don't want to know your "skincare secrets." Your skincare secret is that you are fifteen years younger than I am.
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I did not have "unauthorized secret Lubovitcher tunnels" on my 2024 Bingo card, yet here they are: 
AP News
A secret tunnel in a NYC synagogue leads to a brawl between police and worshippers
A group of Hasidic Jewish worshippers were arrested amid a dispute over a secret tunnel built beneath a historic Brooklyn synagogue, setting off a ...
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.
404 Media
Verizon Gave Her Data to a Stalker. ‘This Has Completely Changed My Life’
A stalker haphazardly posing as a cop demanded sensitive data from Verizon. Verizon complied, and the stalker drove to an address armed with a knif...
Men, how often do you think about the Golden Path?
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
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.
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.
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.
Thorn sucks and Ashton Kutcher sucks, but now they will suck separately.
TIME
Ashton Kutcher Steps Down as Board Chair of Anti-Child-Sex-Abuse Organization
His resignation comes amid backlash over his support of Danny Masterson
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
“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.”
404 Media
I Tracked an NYC Subway Rider's Movements with an MTA ‘Feature’
“Obviously this is a great fit for abusers,” an expert on domestic violence and cybersecurity said.
Sometimes bad things happen to bad people and we are allowed to enjoy it, as a treat.
This is your regular reminder that the data broker industry is absolutely out of control and needs strong regulation:
404 Media
The Secret Weapon Hackers Can Use to Dox Nearly Anyone in America for $15
Most Americans have very little choice but to provide their personal information to credit bureaus. Hackers have found a way into that data supply ...
Survivors often come to me for advice about speaking out against their abuser. Now there’s an excellent toolkit for that.
National Women's Law Center
Survivors Speaking Out: A Toolkit About Defamation Lawsuits and Other Retaliation by and for People Speaking Out About Sex-Based Harassment - National Women's Law Center
This toolkit was written to help survivors understand their rights, risks, and options when deciding whether to speak out and, if so, how to do it ...
San Franciscans: We need some sort of disaster to befall the city so that people leave and rents go down.
Also San Franciscans: No, not like that!
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/
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/
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.
“What do you do for a living?”
“I sneakily try to turn security engineers into privacy engineers.”
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/