Jon Callas
@joncallas.bsky.social
Boffin, flâneur. Kubrick homage self-portraitist. Also cryptography, human rights, and stuff. Founded PGP, Blackphone, others; worked for DEC, Apple, SRI, ACLU, EFF, others. Was ShmooCon program chair for all twenty conferences.
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Nighttime prayer:
“Dear Lord, you've taken my favorite comedian, Rob Reiner, my favorite actor, Robert Redford, and my favorite musician, Bob Weir. I just wanted to let you know my favorite politician is Donald Trump.”
“Dear Lord, you've taken my favorite comedian, Rob Reiner, my favorite actor, Robert Redford, and my favorite musician, Bob Weir. I just wanted to let you know my favorite politician is Donald Trump.”
January 13, 2026 at 2:57 AM
Nighttime prayer:
“Dear Lord, you've taken my favorite comedian, Rob Reiner, my favorite actor, Robert Redford, and my favorite musician, Bob Weir. I just wanted to let you know my favorite politician is Donald Trump.”
“Dear Lord, you've taken my favorite comedian, Rob Reiner, my favorite actor, Robert Redford, and my favorite musician, Bob Weir. I just wanted to let you know my favorite politician is Donald Trump.”
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Ask your employer tomorrow why they operate an official account on the Twitter/X web service that built a child sexual assault materials generation machine & why they tacitly approve of pedophilia. Have your fellow employees ask the same question.
January 7, 2026 at 2:05 AM
Ask your employer tomorrow why they operate an official account on the Twitter/X web service that built a child sexual assault materials generation machine & why they tacitly approve of pedophilia. Have your fellow employees ask the same question.
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Ask your employer, your politician, your professional organisation, your religious leader: ask anyone who claims authority, moral or otherwise
Ask your employer tomorrow why they operate an official account on the Twitter/X web service that built a child sexual assault materials generation machine & why they tacitly approve of pedophilia. Have your fellow employees ask the same question.
January 7, 2026 at 2:59 AM
Ask your employer, your politician, your professional organisation, your religious leader: ask anyone who claims authority, moral or otherwise
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December 28, 2025 at 7:09 PM
I also support Aaron’s work and pay for a subscription. It is always worth reading, always informative. Thanks, @atrupar.com for your tirelessness.
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I love it when you're having a discussion online with someone and they forget to cut this bit from their reply...
December 7, 2025 at 7:14 PM
I love it when you're having a discussion online with someone and they forget to cut this bit from their reply...
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Failing to protect the rear end from the back end.
When your toilet has a camera and its "end-to-end data encryption" turns out to be sharing the data with the manufacturer over HTTPS. 🤷♂️ And by the way the manufacturer may use your data to train its toilet AI. varlogsimon.leaflet.pub/3m6zrw6k2bs2p
Kohler Can Access Data and Pictures from Toilet Camera It Describes as “End-to-End Encrypted” - /var/log/simon
Claimed end-to-end privacy doesn’t fully conceal your rear-end data
varlogsimon.leaflet.pub
December 5, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Failing to protect the rear end from the back end.
Should someone want to subscribe to Paulina's Patreon, here it is: www.patreon.com/c/paulinabor...
November 27, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Should someone want to subscribe to Paulina's Patreon, here it is: www.patreon.com/c/paulinabor...
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It happened! The @nytimes.com profiled Paulina!
The Writer Who Dared Criticize Silicon Valley
Paulina Borsook’s “Cyberselfish,” which offered dire predictions about the tech world’s love for libertarianism, is finding fans. It only took 25 years.
Gift Link:
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/27/t...
The Writer Who Dared Criticize Silicon Valley
Paulina Borsook’s “Cyberselfish,” which offered dire predictions about the tech world’s love for libertarianism, is finding fans. It only took 25 years.
Gift Link:
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/27/t...
November 27, 2025 at 4:39 PM
It happened! The @nytimes.com profiled Paulina!
The Writer Who Dared Criticize Silicon Valley
Paulina Borsook’s “Cyberselfish,” which offered dire predictions about the tech world’s love for libertarianism, is finding fans. It only took 25 years.
Gift Link:
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/27/t...
The Writer Who Dared Criticize Silicon Valley
Paulina Borsook’s “Cyberselfish,” which offered dire predictions about the tech world’s love for libertarianism, is finding fans. It only took 25 years.
Gift Link:
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/27/t...
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"Ms. Borsook predicted that when the tech world had amassed sufficient money and power, it would start imposing its beliefs on everyone outside the valley"
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/27/t...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/27/t...
The Writer Who Dared Criticize Silicon Valley
www.nytimes.com
November 27, 2025 at 7:51 PM
"Ms. Borsook predicted that when the tech world had amassed sufficient money and power, it would start imposing its beliefs on everyone outside the valley"
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/27/t...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/27/t...
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"Modern dentistry is great. But your dentist doesn’t insist you worship him.” www.nytimes.com/2025/11/27/t...
The Writer Who Dared Criticize Silicon Valley
www.nytimes.com
November 27, 2025 at 11:24 AM
"Modern dentistry is great. But your dentist doesn’t insist you worship him.” www.nytimes.com/2025/11/27/t...
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AI music dorks online, in a nutshell:
It used to take me ages and oodles of money to poorly execute a lame idea, now I can do it an hour!
It used to take me ages and oodles of money to poorly execute a lame idea, now I can do it an hour!
November 25, 2025 at 11:38 PM
AI music dorks online, in a nutshell:
It used to take me ages and oodles of money to poorly execute a lame idea, now I can do it an hour!
It used to take me ages and oodles of money to poorly execute a lame idea, now I can do it an hour!
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For folks (and journalists) who want to search the Oversight Committee email texts, I made a database for searching the 20k text files:
splendorous-chaja-f79791.netlify.app
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Epstein Document Search
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November 13, 2025 at 1:12 AM
For folks (and journalists) who want to search the Oversight Committee email texts, I made a database for searching the 20k text files:
splendorous-chaja-f79791.netlify.app
splendorous-chaja-f79791.netlify.app
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I am shooting my shot.
I love writing op-eds.
@teenvogue.com was my main outlet, but if there are any others (especially independently ran) that are looking for a contributing writer on race, gender, and the economy, I'd love to work with you.
Signed,
A Black woman who writes for the public
I love writing op-eds.
@teenvogue.com was my main outlet, but if there are any others (especially independently ran) that are looking for a contributing writer on race, gender, and the economy, I'd love to work with you.
Signed,
A Black woman who writes for the public
November 13, 2025 at 12:02 AM
I am shooting my shot.
I love writing op-eds.
@teenvogue.com was my main outlet, but if there are any others (especially independently ran) that are looking for a contributing writer on race, gender, and the economy, I'd love to work with you.
Signed,
A Black woman who writes for the public
I love writing op-eds.
@teenvogue.com was my main outlet, but if there are any others (especially independently ran) that are looking for a contributing writer on race, gender, and the economy, I'd love to work with you.
Signed,
A Black woman who writes for the public
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Not enough of you believe me right now, but "Rebuild The White House" is going to become one of the most popular slogans in American political history
October 22, 2025 at 9:29 PM
Not enough of you believe me right now, but "Rebuild The White House" is going to become one of the most popular slogans in American political history
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It’s essential that you find common ground with Trump supporters. For instance, you know that you have many flaws, and they believe you are less than human. Work with that.
—Ezra Klein, tomorrow in the New York Times
—Ezra Klein, tomorrow in the New York Times
October 4, 2025 at 7:05 PM
It’s essential that you find common ground with Trump supporters. For instance, you know that you have many flaws, and they believe you are less than human. Work with that.
—Ezra Klein, tomorrow in the New York Times
—Ezra Klein, tomorrow in the New York Times
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Today, my research group @ Georgia Tech released a paper on vulnerabilities in Tile --- the second largest device finding network after Apple's AirTags.
You can read about it in Wired, reporting by @kimzetter.bsky.social!
www.wired.com/story/tile-t...
You can read about it in Wired, reporting by @kimzetter.bsky.social!
www.wired.com/story/tile-t...
September 29, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Today, my research group @ Georgia Tech released a paper on vulnerabilities in Tile --- the second largest device finding network after Apple's AirTags.
You can read about it in Wired, reporting by @kimzetter.bsky.social!
www.wired.com/story/tile-t...
You can read about it in Wired, reporting by @kimzetter.bsky.social!
www.wired.com/story/tile-t...
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I know that if we all completely stopped reacting to Alex Jones he probably won’t just die, but it seems to me we should give it a shot.
September 25, 2025 at 8:06 PM
I know that if we all completely stopped reacting to Alex Jones he probably won’t just die, but it seems to me we should give it a shot.
Paulina is an old friend, co-author, and indeed, someone needs to republish "Cyberselfish."
1/ A longtime Wired editor just wrote a mush-brained essay about how he totally missed the political rot of Silicon Valley (& still doesn't get it).
But in the late 1990s, a Wired journalist warned of a toxic ideology bubbling up from tech. Paulina Borsook has largely been erased. Let's change that
But in the late 1990s, a Wired journalist warned of a toxic ideology bubbling up from tech. Paulina Borsook has largely been erased. Let's change that
September 25, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Paulina is an old friend, co-author, and indeed, someone needs to republish "Cyberselfish."
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1/ A longtime Wired editor just wrote a mush-brained essay about how he totally missed the political rot of Silicon Valley (& still doesn't get it).
But in the late 1990s, a Wired journalist warned of a toxic ideology bubbling up from tech. Paulina Borsook has largely been erased. Let's change that
But in the late 1990s, a Wired journalist warned of a toxic ideology bubbling up from tech. Paulina Borsook has largely been erased. Let's change that
September 24, 2025 at 6:36 PM
1/ A longtime Wired editor just wrote a mush-brained essay about how he totally missed the political rot of Silicon Valley (& still doesn't get it).
But in the late 1990s, a Wired journalist warned of a toxic ideology bubbling up from tech. Paulina Borsook has largely been erased. Let's change that
But in the late 1990s, a Wired journalist warned of a toxic ideology bubbling up from tech. Paulina Borsook has largely been erased. Let's change that
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Love and thanks to everyone who has checked out my new album, “The Resurrection Game”. It’s been out for five days now!
10 love / loss/ deeply romantic indie folk songs with cinematic strings 💙
You can listen to it here:
ffm.to/pm4q3vm
10 love / loss/ deeply romantic indie folk songs with cinematic strings 💙
You can listen to it here:
ffm.to/pm4q3vm
September 17, 2025 at 8:46 PM
Love and thanks to everyone who has checked out my new album, “The Resurrection Game”. It’s been out for five days now!
10 love / loss/ deeply romantic indie folk songs with cinematic strings 💙
You can listen to it here:
ffm.to/pm4q3vm
10 love / loss/ deeply romantic indie folk songs with cinematic strings 💙
You can listen to it here:
ffm.to/pm4q3vm
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The threat of having to submit your ID to speak online is chilling, especially as we’re watching ideological capture and capitulation play out across traditional media and institutions. And it’s particularly gutting that sex workers and digital rights activists have been sounding alarms for years
July 30, 2025 at 11:45 PM
The threat of having to submit your ID to speak online is chilling, especially as we’re watching ideological capture and capitulation play out across traditional media and institutions. And it’s particularly gutting that sex workers and digital rights activists have been sounding alarms for years
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Always a pleasure to represent a righteous client.
Like others, I received a cease and desist letter [2] from Cloud Innovation regarding Emmanuel Vitus' Medium article "AFRINIC: Hope, Hijack, and the Harsh Lessons of African Multistakeholderism". 1/
July 9, 2025 at 9:36 PM
Always a pleasure to represent a righteous client.
A fun project I've been working on for a while is out now, In Formation Magazine, tagline: "Every day, computers are making people easier to use." I'm a contributing editor and columnist.
informationmagazine.com
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In Formation Magazine
Every day, computers are making people easier to use. The cult magazine about what tech is doing to us is back after 25 years.
informationmagazine.com
July 9, 2025 at 8:40 PM
A fun project I've been working on for a while is out now, In Formation Magazine, tagline: "Every day, computers are making people easier to use." I'm a contributing editor and columnist.
informationmagazine.com
informationmagazine.com
