evacide
@evacide.bsky.social
Director of Cybersecurity @eff.org
Co-founder of @stopstalkerware.bsky.social
These opinions are my own, not my employers’
I did a TED talk once
Co-founder of @stopstalkerware.bsky.social
These opinions are my own, not my employers’
I did a TED talk once
MIT Technology Review profiles @rondeibert.bsky.social, who understood that civil society needed digital defense long before just about anyone else and has been doing it ever since.
www.technologyreview.com/2025/12/24/1...
www.technologyreview.com/2025/12/24/1...
Meet the man hunting the spies in your smartphone
Ronald Deibert and his research group, the Citizen Lab, have rigorously worked to unveil alarming digital threats for the past two decades. Now, he warns, this kind of work is under threat.
www.technologyreview.com
December 24, 2025 at 9:44 PM
MIT Technology Review profiles @rondeibert.bsky.social, who understood that civil society needed digital defense long before just about anyone else and has been doing it ever since.
www.technologyreview.com/2025/12/24/1...
www.technologyreview.com/2025/12/24/1...
If you happen to be looking for bad redactions in a large set of data files today for some reason, there's an open source tool for that.
Y’all know we have a tool for finding exactly these kinds of bad redactions, right? free.law/open-source-...
December 23, 2025 at 6:31 AM
If you happen to be looking for bad redactions in a large set of data files today for some reason, there's an open source tool for that.
Today is a good day to pick up Micah's book. If you don't already have these skills, let me tell you they are going to be very useful in the near future.
Here's a good book on the skills I think will be useful to journalists and citizen-researchers of the future, written by my colleague @micahflee.com
December 23, 2025 at 4:48 AM
Today is a good day to pick up Micah's book. If you don't already have these skills, let me tell you they are going to be very useful in the near future.
My whole timeline is made up of folks watching a 60 Minutes report the Trump administration tried to kill and unredacting Epstein files that weren't supposed to have been posted yet. Can't stop the signal.
December 23, 2025 at 4:22 AM
My whole timeline is made up of folks watching a 60 Minutes report the Trump administration tried to kill and unredacting Epstein files that weren't supposed to have been posted yet. Can't stop the signal.
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EFF obtained datasets representing more than 12 million searches logged by more than 3,900 agencies between 2024 and 2025. The data shows that agencies logged hundreds of searches related to the 50501, Hands Off, and No Kings protests, among other protests in between. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...
How Cops Are Using Flock Safety's ALPR Network to Surveil Protesters
Through an analysis of 10 months of nationwide searches on Flock Safety's servers, we discovered that more than 50 federal, state, and local agencies ran hundreds of searches through Flock's national
www.eff.org
December 19, 2025 at 7:03 PM
EFF obtained datasets representing more than 12 million searches logged by more than 3,900 agencies between 2024 and 2025. The data shows that agencies logged hundreds of searches related to the 50501, Hands Off, and No Kings protests, among other protests in between. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...
Just to recap:
The TikTok ban? Bad.
The SCOTUS ruling upholding the TikTok ban? Also bad.
Trump choosing not to enforce the ban? More bad.
The Trump-backed mostly-US consortium taking over US Tiktok? You guessed it...bad.
The TikTok ban? Bad.
The SCOTUS ruling upholding the TikTok ban? Also bad.
Trump choosing not to enforce the ban? More bad.
The Trump-backed mostly-US consortium taking over US Tiktok? You guessed it...bad.
December 19, 2025 at 6:40 AM
Just to recap:
The TikTok ban? Bad.
The SCOTUS ruling upholding the TikTok ban? Also bad.
Trump choosing not to enforce the ban? More bad.
The Trump-backed mostly-US consortium taking over US Tiktok? You guessed it...bad.
The TikTok ban? Bad.
The SCOTUS ruling upholding the TikTok ban? Also bad.
Trump choosing not to enforce the ban? More bad.
The Trump-backed mostly-US consortium taking over US Tiktok? You guessed it...bad.
If you are so delicate that you cannot stand to hear me point out that the TikTok ban passed with bipartisan support because heaven forbid I should besmirch some Democrats by pointing out what they voted for, I have terrible news for you about all of my other opinions.
December 19, 2025 at 2:29 AM
If you are so delicate that you cannot stand to hear me point out that the TikTok ban passed with bipartisan support because heaven forbid I should besmirch some Democrats by pointing out what they voted for, I have terrible news for you about all of my other opinions.
The push for the TikTok ban was bipartisan and stupid. But the Trump administration's goals for the ban have always been crystal clear: to place control of TikTok in the US in the hands of people chosen by and indebted to Trump.
December 19, 2025 at 12:32 AM
The push for the TikTok ban was bipartisan and stupid. But the Trump administration's goals for the ban have always been crystal clear: to place control of TikTok in the US in the hands of people chosen by and indebted to Trump.
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Again. It would be cold comfort had TikTok been sold to Someone-Awesome rather than Ellison, Kushner, and Abu Dhabi. The doctrinal damage -- which we will tie up First Amendment challenges to bad speech laws for far longer than this thing called TikTok will be around -- was already done.
As I've said before, the TikTok ban fight was never just about TikTok. It was about under what conditions the government can avoid precision-demanding constitutional scrutiny when it seeks to control editorial policies and speech. SCOTUS said a potentially pretextual other goal was OK. Our big loss.
December 18, 2025 at 11:08 PM
Again. It would be cold comfort had TikTok been sold to Someone-Awesome rather than Ellison, Kushner, and Abu Dhabi. The doctrinal damage -- which we will tie up First Amendment challenges to bad speech laws for far longer than this thing called TikTok will be around -- was already done.
The US TikTok sale has been signed. The company will be controlled by a joint venture including Oracle, Silver Lake, Andreessen Horowitz, Abu Dhabi-based MGX. Adding a UAE company really makes it clear that this was never about national security concerns.
www.axios.com/2025/12/18/t...
www.axios.com/2025/12/18/t...
Scoop: TikTok signs deal for sale of U.S. unit after yearslong saga
The deal would end a yearslong saga to force TikTok's Chinese parent ByteDance to sell the company's U.S. operation.
www.axios.com
December 18, 2025 at 11:35 PM
The US TikTok sale has been signed. The company will be controlled by a joint venture including Oracle, Silver Lake, Andreessen Horowitz, Abu Dhabi-based MGX. Adding a UAE company really makes it clear that this was never about national security concerns.
www.axios.com/2025/12/18/t...
www.axios.com/2025/12/18/t...
This year I took my vacation in a war zone and I served on a jury in a domestic violence case and the deeply traumatic experience I would never want to repeat was jury duty.
December 17, 2025 at 5:10 AM
This year I took my vacation in a war zone and I served on a jury in a domestic violence case and the deeply traumatic experience I would never want to repeat was jury duty.
Sometimes I love SF so much my eyes get suspiciously watery:
The faith leaders, wearing religious garb from various denominations, had earlier stood in front of the courthouse doors, singing, “If you come for them, you’ll have to go through us.”
missionlocal.org/2025/12/fait...
The faith leaders, wearing religious garb from various denominations, had earlier stood in front of the courthouse doors, singing, “If you come for them, you’ll have to go through us.”
missionlocal.org/2025/12/fait...
42 faith leaders arrested after chaining themselves to S.F. immigration court
About 20 protesters were arrested by federal police after chaining themselves to San Francisco's immigration court.
missionlocal.org
December 17, 2025 at 12:11 AM
Sometimes I love SF so much my eyes get suspiciously watery:
The faith leaders, wearing religious garb from various denominations, had earlier stood in front of the courthouse doors, singing, “If you come for them, you’ll have to go through us.”
missionlocal.org/2025/12/fait...
The faith leaders, wearing religious garb from various denominations, had earlier stood in front of the courthouse doors, singing, “If you come for them, you’ll have to go through us.”
missionlocal.org/2025/12/fait...
I can't believe I have to say this, but please do not take revolutionary OPSEC advice from YA novels Cory Doctorow wrote almost twenty years ago.
December 16, 2025 at 12:54 AM
I can't believe I have to say this, but please do not take revolutionary OPSEC advice from YA novels Cory Doctorow wrote almost twenty years ago.
Now begins the time of year when I argue with my family of strict latke fundamentalists over what qualifies as a latka.
December 14, 2025 at 10:56 PM
Now begins the time of year when I argue with my family of strict latke fundamentalists over what qualifies as a latka.
Analysis of my 2025 clothing spreadsheet indicates that I have purchased zero gowns this year, which I would normally consider to be a sign of deep distress. However, I did buy an extravagant vintage fox fur stole at a market in Berlin this spring, so I'm probably ok.
December 14, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Analysis of my 2025 clothing spreadsheet indicates that I have purchased zero gowns this year, which I would normally consider to be a sign of deep distress. However, I did buy an extravagant vintage fox fur stole at a market in Berlin this spring, so I'm probably ok.
I'm trying to take a no strings attached attitude towards 2026: if I don't ask anything of it, it can't break my heart. But I have also purchased the bottle of champagne I am going to pop when that one guy dies.
December 13, 2025 at 4:31 AM
I'm trying to take a no strings attached attitude towards 2026: if I don't ask anything of it, it can't break my heart. But I have also purchased the bottle of champagne I am going to pop when that one guy dies.
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.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/12/u...
I'm not a lawyer, but I feel like the 4th Amendment has something to say about this.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/12/u...
Immigration Agents Are Using Air Passenger Data for Deportation Effort
www.nytimes.com
December 12, 2025 at 11:18 PM
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.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/12/u...
I'm not a lawyer, but I feel like the 4th Amendment has something to say about this.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/12/u...
Some days, the cat eye sharp enough to kill a man is simply not achievable and I must settle for the messy raccoon eye that can probably hurt your feelings.
December 11, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Some days, the cat eye sharp enough to kill a man is simply not achievable and I must settle for the messy raccoon eye that can probably hurt your feelings.
The most *chef's kiss* part of this story is when Instacart says it's the stores that set the prices and then the stores point the finger right back at Instacart and say they don't set the prices on the platform.
truthout.org/articles/ins...
truthout.org/articles/ins...
Instacart Reportedly Using Secret AI-Powered Dynamic Pricing to Jack Up Prices
In an experiment, investigators found that the same grocery basket at a Seattle store cost between $114 and $124.
truthout.org
December 10, 2025 at 6:10 PM
The most *chef's kiss* part of this story is when Instacart says it's the stores that set the prices and then the stores point the finger right back at Instacart and say they don't set the prices on the platform.
truthout.org/articles/ins...
truthout.org/articles/ins...
"I used to think that the defining fight for our country was between the left and the right. Now, I am much more worried about the money at the top crushing everyone underneath."
I continue to be an @bedoyausa.bsky.social fangirl.
newrepublic.com/article/2011...
I continue to be an @bedoyausa.bsky.social fangirl.
newrepublic.com/article/2011...
How I Became a Populist
My time at the Federal Trade Commission—before Donald Trump fired me—totally changed the way I see our political divide.
newrepublic.com
December 10, 2025 at 1:12 AM
"I used to think that the defining fight for our country was between the left and the right. Now, I am much more worried about the money at the top crushing everyone underneath."
I continue to be an @bedoyausa.bsky.social fangirl.
newrepublic.com/article/2011...
I continue to be an @bedoyausa.bsky.social fangirl.
newrepublic.com/article/2011...
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“Mr. Zuckerman was clearly hoping that if he laid low for a few years, everyone would forget about the reasons why the FTC issued a ban not only against the company, but against him specifically,” EFF’s @evacide.bsky.social told @TechCrunch.com. techcrunch.com/2025/12/08/...
FTC upholds ban on stalkerware founder Scott Zuckerman | TechCrunch
Zuckerman, who used to run the stalkerware apps SpyFone and SpyTrac, claimed the ban is hurting his unrelated business.
techcrunch.com
December 10, 2025 at 12:03 AM
“Mr. Zuckerman was clearly hoping that if he laid low for a few years, everyone would forget about the reasons why the FTC issued a ban not only against the company, but against him specifically,” EFF’s @evacide.bsky.social told @TechCrunch.com. techcrunch.com/2025/12/08/...
Oh, you asked ChatGPT and it told you that an APT has compromised your phone? I will take that about as seriously as if you told me that you asked my cat or a passing pigeon.
December 9, 2025 at 11:16 PM
Oh, you asked ChatGPT and it told you that an APT has compromised your phone? I will take that about as seriously as if you told me that you asked my cat or a passing pigeon.
You will be visited by three spirits.
December 9, 2025 at 7:57 AM
You will be visited by three spirits.
I have spent many years training as an aerialist, which involves doing a lot of strict, slow pull-ups with full range of motion and perfect form. I am judging the hell out of these assholes.
December 8, 2025 at 11:28 PM
I have spent many years training as an aerialist, which involves doing a lot of strict, slow pull-ups with full range of motion and perfect form. I am judging the hell out of these assholes.