The English language needs a word for the rage I feel when the company that makes the pants I like discontinues them.
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Director of Cybersecurity
@EFF
/ Co-founder of
@stopstalkerware
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When you have laws with which it is impossible to comply, you end up with selective enforcement that only punishes the opponents of people in power. Just sayin'.
KUER
Utah’s online porn age verification law now includes VPNs. Critics say it won’t work
The new law, which took effect May 6, says adult content websites must verify the age of any users physically located in Utah, regardless of whethe...
As foretold by prophecy, LAPD used their "first responder" drones to spy on No Kings protests and anti-ICE protests: 
The Intercept
LAPD Deployed Drones to Spy on No Kings Protest
Flight records show that Los Angeles police dispatched drones 32 times over last month’s No Kings rally.
For people who are concerned about having their devices seized at US airports starting Monday when ICE "assists" the TSA, EFF has this guide: 
Electronic Frontier Foundation
A Journalist Security Checklist: Preparing Devices for Travel Through a US Border
We wrote this checklist to help journalists prepare for transit through a U.S. port of entry while preserving the confidentiality of your most sens...
The most monstrous lie that I regularly tell myself is "I'll get that work done while I'm on the plane."
Sometimes I read the threads that experienced activists write about how to behave at protests because it reminds me that the kinds of replies I get when I give digital privacy/security advice aren't just for me.
We are 9 days into 2026 and my New Years' Resolution to just let people be wrong on the internet is already is truly testing the limits of my willpower.
If you don't want ICE to know you were at a protest, taking a burner phone is not going to help you stay anonymous if you go home afterwards. 
404 Media
Inside ICE’s Tool to Monitor Phones in Entire Neighborhoods
404 Media has obtained material that explains how Tangles and Webloc, two surveillance systems ICE recently purchased, work. Webloc can track phone...
NYT reports that the TSA is giving ICE a list of every person who's to be taking a domestic flight inside the US so ICE can run it through their database looking for targets.
I'm not a lawyer, but I feel like the 4th Amendment has something to say about this.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/12/us/politics/immigration-tsa-passenger-data.html?unlocked_article_code=1.8E8.lG_B.SvLF8g3CXiKG&smid=bs-share
I don't dress for the male gaze. I dress for a women who are old enough to be my mother, wear oversized jewelry, and say things like "I'd dye my hair that color."
"A soldier knows what to do when they encounter another soldier. But an air-humping frog?"
@sarahjeong.bsky.social on the shitposting/aura farming era of American politics.
The Verge
American politics has devolved into shitposting and aura farming
The Frog is owning the president.
As the prophecy foretold, a major platform's third-party age verification system has been hacked and hackers had access to the government ID images of Discord's users.
Tom
Discord users suffer the first high-profile age-verification hack – and it
Critics of age verification laws warned this was inevitable
I take it all back, there ARE violent criminals on the streets of San Francisco. They're grabbing people off the street and pepper spraying journalists.
I reported from an ICE action on Sansome and all I got was a face full of pepper spray
Federal agents are stepping up their actions against protesters and, apparently, the press
It is sometimes necessary, in these difficult times, to spend an hour scrolling through clothing sites, hoping that one of these gowns is going to give you the strength to fight fascism.
Even when I don't go to Vegas, the Vegas gossip comes to me.
Ron Deibert is absolutely the voice that the infosec industry needs to be listening right now. We are in a moment where fascism is consolidating power and most of the infosec industry is either playing along or is busy bragging about how much AI they've shoved into their products.
TechCrunch
Citizen Lab director warns cyber industry about US authoritarian descent | TechCrunch
Ron Deibert, the head of the prominent digital human rights groups Citizen Lab, sounds the alarm at the Black Hat security conference about the "dr...
Listen, we are in a terrible and difficult time where the horrors can often feel overwhelming. Lean into the things that bring you joy. If that means that sometimes you're wringing that last drop of dopamine out of watching bad people suffer as the result of their poor choices, you do you.
This is just to let
you know
I have taken
the plums
out of the icebox
because fruit is better
at room temperature
This is your regular reminder that if you are the smartest person in the room, go find another room. You are not going to run out of people or rooms.
I've spent not-insignificant amount of time at protests in the US, looking for signs of IMSI catchers and never found anything, so when I saw this, my ears perked up:
Straight Arrow
Exclusive: Evidence of cell phone surveillance detected at anti-ICE protest
Mobile network anomalies consistent with cell phone surveillance were detected at a July 4 protest at an ICE field office in Washington state.