britone
@britone.bsky.social
Reposted by britone
Teach like a Luddite! In which I join @philnichols.bsky.social and @anterobot.bsky.social to argue for a Luddite praxis in education grounded in three elements: embracing strategic playfulness; developing localized tactics; and building networks of resistance. Read the article at Kappan:
Teach like a Luddite - Kappan Online
Embracing new technologies that don’t advance teaching and learning is a mistake. Educators must ask questions — and resist when necessary.
kappanonline.org
December 9, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Teach like a Luddite! In which I join @philnichols.bsky.social and @anterobot.bsky.social to argue for a Luddite praxis in education grounded in three elements: embracing strategic playfulness; developing localized tactics; and building networks of resistance. Read the article at Kappan:
Reposted by britone
Every future imagined by a tech company is worse than the previous iteration.
Khan Academy CEO predicts AI in the classroom will be like 5 'amazing graduate students' assisting teachers
Founder and CEO Sal Khan believes AI agents will act like a team of grad students, helping teachers adjust lesson plans to improve student engagement.
www.businessinsider.com
June 25, 2025 at 11:26 AM
Every future imagined by a tech company is worse than the previous iteration.
from where I read Arundathi Roy’s Field Notes on Democracy #photography
May 27, 2025 at 12:18 PM
from where I read Arundathi Roy’s Field Notes on Democracy #photography
Reposted by britone
That's right! You can read about Kagi's Tor onion service here: help.kagi.com/kagi/privacy...
More info about Privacy Pass & Tor: blog.kagi.com/kagi-privacy...
More info about Privacy Pass & Tor: blog.kagi.com/kagi-privacy...
April 9, 2025 at 2:29 AM
That's right! You can read about Kagi's Tor onion service here: help.kagi.com/kagi/privacy...
More info about Privacy Pass & Tor: blog.kagi.com/kagi-privacy...
More info about Privacy Pass & Tor: blog.kagi.com/kagi-privacy...
Reposted by britone
Here's how to set up ~$30 worth of gear to detect cell-site simulators, which are used by police and ICE to spy on phones in a physical location, using @eff.org's new tool Rayhunter micahflee.com/hunting-stre...
Hunting street-level cell phone surveillance with Rayhunter
Things are scary in the US right now. ICE is disappearing students for protesting genocide and kidnapping innocent people off the streets to enslave in El Salvador. All over the country, people are ta...
micahflee.com
April 9, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Here's how to set up ~$30 worth of gear to detect cell-site simulators, which are used by police and ICE to spy on phones in a physical location, using @eff.org's new tool Rayhunter micahflee.com/hunting-stre...
Reposted by britone
This is inaccurate. There is no known vulnerability with Signal's core tech. The memo was discussing phishing attempts, which Signal has worked to mitigate. And it was hastily reported.
It's important not to spread misinfo that can confuse people into moving away from meaningfully private comms.
It's important not to spread misinfo that can confuse people into moving away from meaningfully private comms.
In case you missed it: the Pentagon--that's Hegseth--got warned about using Signal a week ago.
March 26, 2025 at 1:40 PM
This is inaccurate. There is no known vulnerability with Signal's core tech. The memo was discussing phishing attempts, which Signal has worked to mitigate. And it was hastily reported.
It's important not to spread misinfo that can confuse people into moving away from meaningfully private comms.
It's important not to spread misinfo that can confuse people into moving away from meaningfully private comms.
Reposted by britone
"we conduct the first systematic analysis of 52 wireless-scanning SDKs, revealing their data collection practices"
Interesting paper on third-party software embedded in mobile apps that scans for nearby Bluetooth+WiFi devices, often for profiling and geolocation tracking:
arxiv.org/pdf/2503.152...
Interesting paper on third-party software embedded in mobile apps that scans for nearby Bluetooth+WiFi devices, often for profiling and geolocation tracking:
arxiv.org/pdf/2503.152...
March 20, 2025 at 8:34 PM
"we conduct the first systematic analysis of 52 wireless-scanning SDKs, revealing their data collection practices"
Interesting paper on third-party software embedded in mobile apps that scans for nearby Bluetooth+WiFi devices, often for profiling and geolocation tracking:
arxiv.org/pdf/2503.152...
Interesting paper on third-party software embedded in mobile apps that scans for nearby Bluetooth+WiFi devices, often for profiling and geolocation tracking:
arxiv.org/pdf/2503.152...
Reposted by britone
Seems my #38c3 talk State of Surveillance: a year of digital threats to civil society is out already in the recordings: media.ccc.de/v/38c3-state...
State of Surveillance: A year of digital threats to civil society
The digital arms race between activists and government spies continues to shift and evolve. Through a series of cases studies, researcher...
media.ccc.de
December 29, 2024 at 5:04 PM
Seems my #38c3 talk State of Surveillance: a year of digital threats to civil society is out already in the recordings: media.ccc.de/v/38c3-state...
Reposted by britone
For the final @techpolicypress.bsky.social podcast of the year, I spoke to Dr. Ruha Benjamin (@ruha9.bsky.social). We discussed her latest book, Imagination: A Manifesto, published this year by Norton. We talked about the role of technology in collective imagination, and more:
Imagining 2025 and Beyond with Dr. Ruha Benjamin | TechPolicy.Press
Dr. Ruha Benjamin is the author of Imagination: A Manifesto (Norton Shorts, 2024).
www.techpolicy.press
December 22, 2024 at 7:26 PM
For the final @techpolicypress.bsky.social podcast of the year, I spoke to Dr. Ruha Benjamin (@ruha9.bsky.social). We discussed her latest book, Imagination: A Manifesto, published this year by Norton. We talked about the role of technology in collective imagination, and more:
Reposted by britone
My strategic privacy analysis. Is Google undoing a decade of progress on privacy? Their new policy allows invasive device fingerprinting for tracking user activity. Here’s my deep dive into what this means for privacy—and the future of AI. blog.lukaszolejnik.com/biggest-priv...
Biggest Privacy Erosion in 10 Years? On Google’s Policy Change Towards Fingerprinting
While I once hoped 2017 would be the year of privacy, 2024 closes on a troubling note, a likely decrease in privacy standards across the web. I was surprised by the recent Information Commissioner’s O...
blog.lukaszolejnik.com
December 20, 2024 at 6:13 PM
My strategic privacy analysis. Is Google undoing a decade of progress on privacy? Their new policy allows invasive device fingerprinting for tracking user activity. Here’s my deep dive into what this means for privacy—and the future of AI. blog.lukaszolejnik.com/biggest-priv...
Reposted by britone
VPN vendors have huge budgets to advertise on your favorite podcasts.
We don't have marketing for the IETF, browser and OS security teams, CAs (Let's Encrypt), CDNs, researchers, open source authors, website builders, digital rights activists...
We made the web secure and didn't tell anyone.
We don't have marketing for the IETF, browser and OS security teams, CAs (Let's Encrypt), CDNs, researchers, open source authors, website builders, digital rights activists...
We made the web secure and didn't tell anyone.
Man-in-the-middle attacks on Public WiFi networks haven't been a realistic threat in a decade. Almost all websites use encryption by default, and anything of value uses HSTS to prevent attackers from downgrading / disabling encryption. It's a non issue.
They are useful to prevent man in the middle attacks where someone uses a pineapple to spoof a public wifi signal.
December 20, 2024 at 3:46 AM
VPN vendors have huge budgets to advertise on your favorite podcasts.
We don't have marketing for the IETF, browser and OS security teams, CAs (Let's Encrypt), CDNs, researchers, open source authors, website builders, digital rights activists...
We made the web secure and didn't tell anyone.
We don't have marketing for the IETF, browser and OS security teams, CAs (Let's Encrypt), CDNs, researchers, open source authors, website builders, digital rights activists...
We made the web secure and didn't tell anyone.
Reposted by britone
we are not paying enough attention to commercially available phone-cracking and spyware being sold to any government who will buy it
Very scary report out of Serbia: Cellebrite is now being used by cops to unlock the phones of journalists they take into custody, and to then infect those phones with tracking malware
www.404media.co/cellebrite-u...
www.404media.co/cellebrite-u...
Cellebrite Unlocked This Journalist’s Phone. Cops Then Infected it With Malware
A new report from Amnesty International reveals multiple cases where Serbian authorities used Cellebrite devices to access targets' mobile phones before loading them with spyware.
www.404media.co
December 16, 2024 at 5:11 PM
we are not paying enough attention to commercially available phone-cracking and spyware being sold to any government who will buy it
Kenya government is messing with health system plus involuntarily registering us onto non-functioning insurance plans
December 16, 2024 at 5:25 PM
Kenya government is messing with health system plus involuntarily registering us onto non-functioning insurance plans
Reposted by britone
🚨 BREAKING: Amnesty’s latest report on digital surveillance in Serbia: new *NoviSpy* spyware discovered; zero days identified and patched; and first evidence showing use of Cellebrite UFED forensic products to unlock phones to then infect with spyware. 🧵
securitylab.amnesty.org/latest/2024/...
Serbia: Authorities using spyware and Cellebrite forensic extraction tools to hack journalists and activists - Amnesty International Security Lab
Serbian police and intelligence authorities are using advanced phone spyware alongside Cellebrite mobile phone forensic products to unlawfully target journalists, environmental activists and other ind...
securitylab.amnesty.org
December 16, 2024 at 9:58 AM
🚨 BREAKING: Amnesty’s latest report on digital surveillance in Serbia: new *NoviSpy* spyware discovered; zero days identified and patched; and first evidence showing use of Cellebrite UFED forensic products to unlock phones to then infect with spyware. 🧵
securitylab.amnesty.org/latest/2024/...
Reposted by britone
Dear computer vision researchers, students & practitioners🔇🔇🔇
Remi Denton & I have written what I consider to be a comprehensive paper on the harms of computer vision systems reported to date & how people have proposed addressing them, from different angles.
PDF: cdn.sanity.io/files/wc2kmx...
Remi Denton & I have written what I consider to be a comprehensive paper on the harms of computer vision systems reported to date & how people have proposed addressing them, from different angles.
PDF: cdn.sanity.io/files/wc2kmx...
December 16, 2024 at 4:52 PM
Dear computer vision researchers, students & practitioners🔇🔇🔇
Remi Denton & I have written what I consider to be a comprehensive paper on the harms of computer vision systems reported to date & how people have proposed addressing them, from different angles.
PDF: cdn.sanity.io/files/wc2kmx...
Remi Denton & I have written what I consider to be a comprehensive paper on the harms of computer vision systems reported to date & how people have proposed addressing them, from different angles.
PDF: cdn.sanity.io/files/wc2kmx...
Reposted by britone
best minds of my generation are working on
~~ads~~
~~agi~~
agi with ads
~~ads~~
~~agi~~
agi with ads
December 8, 2024 at 10:52 PM
best minds of my generation are working on
~~ads~~
~~agi~~
agi with ads
~~ads~~
~~agi~~
agi with ads