Like many services, as Signal grows, it becomes a more appealing place for scammers to try and cause harm.

We've put together tips to help you protect yourself from phishing, scams, & impersonation attempts. Plus info about how Signal support communicates.

support.signal.org/hc/en-us/art...

Somebody please create a social networking service where people can’t see who follows them, not even how many. Same for likes.

We are alarmed by reports that Germany is on the verge of a catastrophic about-face, reversing its longstanding and principled opposition to the EU’s Chat Control proposal which, if passed, could spell the end of the right to privacy in Europe. signal.org/blog/pdfs/ge...

My cartoon for this week’s @theguardian.com books

New post! Stop trying to solve revocation, we already have the answer. dadrian.io/blog/posts/r...

Windows Hello tells me that I need to get a new finger because I already used the old one with an account that was previously deleted. 🤔

This April 1st, we're serious: Tailscale supports Plan 9 from Bell Labs!
Secure peer-to-peer networking on the OS that inspired it all ➡️ tailscale.com/blog/tailsca...

I’m available for weddings,,, only at this chapel in the woods ⛪️🌲

We talk a lot about our huge dependence on American clouds, but what exactly are we talking about? And is Europe equally dependent on all types of cloud? This article is aimed at policy makers, but it may also provide some clarity about the landscape to actual cloud users:
berthub.eu/articles/pos...

Welcome to the public domain, HELL’S BELLS (1929). If you ❤️ THE SKELETON DANCE, you’ll 💕 this Silly Symphony’s animated underworld #PublicDomainDaye#InternetArchiveky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky">of musical devils & demons. 🎞️🎶🔥

Learn more. ➡️ blog.archive.org/2025/01/01/w...

#PublicDomainDay #InternetArchive <a href="/hashtag/Disney" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link">#Disney

Sometimes people think #curl is simple little HTTP tool, while in reality there's a whole internet transfer machine in there supporting 28 protocols.

CVSS is dead to us daniel.haxx.se/blog/2025/01... #curl

We sat down with Nicholas Carlini and talked about his work attacking the mathematical underpinnings of LLMs, including remote oracle attacks that extract weights from closed foundation models. Crypto-type exploits that are not about cryptography:

securitycryptographywhatever.com/2025/01/28/c...

Coming soon: When you add a linked device (Desktop or iPad), bring your whole chat history + last 45 days of media. The transfer process is end-to-end encrypted & completely optional.

Don't want to leave the past behind? We leave you to your own devices. signal.org/blog/a-synch...

Look I am still in favour of the Zuck/Elon cage match occurring and Zuck kicking Elon's spine entirely out of his back, but I do also want to make it clear that I then want Zuck to trip over on his way out of the cage and end up in a unrecoverable coma

My new year’s resolution generator for @theguardian.com. Let me know what you get!

What I actually want is a site where I can buy any music or movie or tv show I want, but there’s zero fulfillment mechanism. Just send the money to the artists and I’ll go pirate it myself but now it’s legal because I paid for it. Eliminate the middle man stupid streaming services.

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NEW EPISODE!

Our esteemed guests @justinschuh.com and @matthewdgreen.bsky.social joined us to debate whether
`Dual_EC_DRBG` was intentionally backdoored by the NSA or 'just' a major fuckup:

securitycryptographywhatever.com/2024/12/07/d...

www.youtube.com/watch?v=i0eo...

I love Mad Magazine

Protecting you if things go wrong.

The new Product Liability Directive enters into force.

From today, as a 🇪🇺 consumer, you have more rights if something goes seriously wrong because of a product you bought.

A win-win for European consumers and for business ↓

europa.eu/!NFwbfG

A simple experiment you can do is buy a server, set up a website with nothing on it, then look at the access logs. All day, every day, there are random systems just blasting vulnerabilities at every device on the internet. Analysts call it "background noise", executives call it "cyber attacks".

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