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SignalRight now there are a lot of new eyes on Signal, and not all of them are familiar with secure messaging and its nuances. Which means there’s misinfo flying around that might drive people away from Signal and private communications. 1/

JA Westenbergpeople say “you can’t tax the rich, they’ll just leave” like that’s not the best possible outcome

evacideOne of the first things that I tell survivors of domestic abuse who are concerned about the safety of their devices to do is to check the security of their accounts. Techcrunch has a guide on how to do that.<a href="https://techcrunch.com/2025/03/25/how-to-tell-if-your-online-accounts-have-been-hacked/?guccounter=1" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://techcrunch.com/2025/03/25/how-to-tell-if-your-online-accounts-have-been-hacked/?guccounter=1</a>

Zach Leatherman :11ty:bribecoding is a new phenomenon where you pay open source developers a living wage to work on projects that your business uses

Aral Balkan🚨 Let’s Encrypt at risk from Trump cuts to OTF: “Let’s Encrypt received around $800,000 in funding from the OTF”Dear <a href="https://ec.social-network.europa.eu/@EUCommission" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@EUCommission</a>, get your heads out of your arses and let’s find <a href="https://infosec.exchange/@letsencrypt" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@letsencrypt</a> €1M/year (a rounding error in EU finances) and have them move to the EU.If Let’s Encrypt is fucked, the web is fucked, and the Small Web is fucked too. So how about we don’t let that happen, yeah?(In the meanwhile, if the Let’s Encrypt folks want to make a point about how essential they are, it might be an idea to refuse certificates to republican politicians. See how they like their donation systems breaking in real time…)CC <a href="https://social.nlnet.nl/@nlnet" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@nlnet</a> @NGIZero@mastodon.xyz <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/USA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#USA</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#fascism</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/OpenTechFund" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#OpenTechFund</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/LetsEncrypt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#LetsEncrypt</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/SSL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SSL</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/TLS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TLS</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/encryption" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#encryption</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/EU" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#EU</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/web" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#web</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/tech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#tech</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/SmallWeb" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SmallWeb</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/SmallTech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SmallTech</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/@publictorsten/114223873439053263" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://mastodon.social/@publictorsten/114223873439053263</a>

BenRiceMI’m seeing a lot of “WWDC was announced!” And not a lot of “Don’t come to the US because it’s incredibly unsafe for anyone who’s non-white or queer”And absolutely zero “we understand the difficulties faced by our developers overseas so we’re hosting events around the world so everyone can take part”

MistyWow, this Pixelfed bug is *nasty*. Allowed users to access private posts of remote users they're not following so long as another user on the same Pixelfed server legitimately followed that account.If you're running a Pixelfed server, definitely upgrade immediately now that the vulnerability is publicly known.<a href="https://fokus.cool/2025/03/25/pixelfed-vulnerability.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://fokus.cool/2025/03/25/pixelfed-vulnerability.html</a>

George Takei :verified: 🏳️‍🌈🖖🏽“I love poorly uneducated.” — Donald Trump

James Gleick 🇺🇦As the day ends, the Trump gang is not backing off an inch from its use of Signal, in blatant violation of the Federal Records Act. Democrats haven't yet focused on it; nor has most of the press.But Josh Marshall gets it: "These are disappearing communications. They won’t be in the National Archives. Future administrations won’t know what happened. There also won’t be any records to determine whether crimes were committed."<a href="https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/signalgate-is-bad-but-opsec-isnt-even-the-worst-part-of-it" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/signalgate-is-bad-but-opsec-isnt-even-the-worst-part-of-it</a>

Security Writer :donor:A website guiding users to disable their adblocker is no different than a phishing email asking users to disable their security software.Both intend to do you harm.

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Erik Nygren :verified:AAAARGH! I'm not at all surprised, but NIST's excellent whitepaper on Inclusive Language (NIST.IR.8366) has been withdrawn:<a href="https://nvlpubs.nist.gov/nistpubs/ir/2021/NIST.IR.8366.pdf" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://nvlpubs.nist.gov/nistpubs/ir/2021/NIST.IR.8366.pdf</a>This was an excellent resource that I reference all the time. I feared it would go away so I made a snapshot a few weeks back that I uploaded here: <a href="https://nygren.org/archived/NIST.IR.8366.pdf" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://nygren.org/archived/NIST.IR.8366.pdf</a><a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/InclusiveLanguage" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#InclusiveLanguage</a>

mccThe government is taking dramatic steps in response to Teslas catching on fire and what's weird about this is they only care when there are *not* people in the car. If a Tesla catches on fire while it is empty that is a big deal to the government and they investigate it as terrorism and hate crimes. But if a Tesla catches on fire while people are driving it that is normal and the government sees nothing there to investigate

NonilexHoly shit<a href="https://masto.ai/tags/DeSantis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DeSantis</a> admits that the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/WorkerShortages" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WorkerShortages</a> created by anti-<a href="https://masto.ai/tags/immigrant" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#immigrant</a> laws need to be eased by putting teenagers to work by relaxing <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/ChildLabor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ChildLabor</a> protection standards.<a href="https://masto.ai/tags/USpol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#USpol</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#law</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/immigration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#immigration</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/economy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#economy</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Trump</a> <a href="https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/immigration/article302704319.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/immigration/article302704319.html</a>

Gil DuranLast week, a board member of Politico’s parent company blasted its reporters for alleged bias. Meanwhile, Peter Thiel quietly invested $50M in the son of Axel Springer CEO Mathias Döpfner. The younger Döpfner's nickname? “The German JD Vance.”Let's talk about it 👇 <a href="https://www.thenerdreich.com/politico-peter-thiel-problem-dopfner-jd-vance/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.thenerdreich.com/politico-peter-thiel-problem-dopfner-jd-vance/</a>

Dio9sysMy husband is looking to get <a href="https://haunted.computer/tags/fedihired" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#fedihired</a>. Anybody have job openings?Here's his credentials: * Master's in Library Sciences from UNC Chapel Hill* Over a decade in project management experience, with significant experience in overseas projects in the UK* Over a decade of experience working with government and municipal clients, knows how to fill out RFPs and RFQs like it's nobody's business* Salesforce admin experience. He migrated the CRM database for an entire company to Salesforce a few years ago* Javascript experience (related to Salesforce admin)* Database management* Subject matter expert on image file metadata and data preservation, wrote his master's thesis on data rot in hard drives and effective forms of cold storage* Effective communicator and organizer, very literally wrote the reference book that the library of congress uses to organize their east asian collections* Lots and lots of community connections with state libraries, presidential libraries, publishers and historical societies* Sales manager handling government and nonprofit sales contracts for the past 5 years* Extensive experience with categorizing and digitizing records, especially records that are hard to process with OCRRequirements: * Must be able to work remoteHe's worked at the same library sciences company for longer than I've known him, but company leadership at his job are currently going the Trump route and decrying any discussion of the defunding of libraries as "forbidden political talk" even though it directly affects the industry he works in, so he's trying to find something where he can use his skills in a more productive way.

Madeleine MorrisSo… Lemme get this straight. The Trump administration is so incontinent it can’t stop leaking the most secure of all defence plans, and…To try and get the news cycle past it, they’ve decided to dismantle the entire federal judiciary.Or, if that doesn’t fly, maybe they’ll decide to nuke Denmark?We are in the completely batshit crazy upside-down now, with a bunch of end of the worlders who just don’t fucking care.

Peter GleickCould Florida get any worse?Florida: Yes.<a href="https://edition.cnn.com/2025/03/25/business/florida-child-labor-laws" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://edition.cnn.com/2025/03/25/business/florida-child-labor-laws</a>

Kevin Beaumont. <a href="https://infosec.exchange/@kimzetter" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@kimzetter</a> is on the money here re Signal:

Andrea Junker :verified:1. Tulsi Gabbard was overseas while participating in the Signal chat. 2. Steven Witkoff was in Russia when he was added to the Signal chat. 3. Russia infiltrated Signal some time ago to use it against Ukrainians.It’s high time to Benghazi the shit out of Trump’s administration.

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