Q&A with Pavel Durov on Telegram, his arrest, censorship, not using a phone, Romanian elections, VK, encryption, Edward Snowden, spring 2018 poisoning, and more
- Watch the full YouTube version of the podcast — Table of Contents — Here are the loose “chapters” in the conversation.
Elon Musk says Twitter has temporarily limited verified accounts to reading 10K posts/day, unverified 1K, and new unverified 500, due to “extreme” data scraping
Censorship Expert Says Musk ‘Has Stepped on a Rattlesnake’ Jonas Mäki / Gamereactor UK : Twitter stops data collection by adding lots of restrictions Brayden Lindrea / Cointelegraph : Elon Musk impose...
On the 10th anniversary of his revelations, Edward Snowden says he has “no regrets” and “2013 seems like child's play” versus current surveillance capabilities
of lying to Congress notoriety—the Snowden Revelations pulled forward the adoption of encryption on the internet by 7 years. Snowden: “That's one of the nicest things anyone's ever said about me.” [vi...
On the 10th anniversary of his revelations, Edward Snowden says he has “no regrets” and “2013 seems like child's play” versus current surveillance capabilities
But whistleblower says 2013 surveillance 'child's play' compared to technology today
Decentralized social network app Damus debuts on the App Store with E2EE for DMs; Damus uses the Nostr protocol, to which Jack Dorsey donated ~14 BTC in 2022
and what can be heard—#nostr is an open protocol. If a platform is a silo, a protocol is a river: no one owns it, and everyone is free to swim. https://t.co/NOW06ouJIw @onelikeapp : Another decentrali...
An investigation shows how, despite US sanctions on the NSO Group, government spyware use is booming, including the DEA's secret deployment of Graphite spyware
which employ former Israeli cyberintelligence veterans. After questions from The New York Times, the Greek government admitted that it gave one of them, Ronen Bergman / @ronenbergman : Congress and th...
Stable Diffusion 2.0 makes it harder to mimic some artists' styles or generate NSFW output; Stability AI says NSFW images were removed from its training data
Or Wanted Bilawal "Billyfx" Sidhu : 🧠 Stable Diffusion 2.0 Out, Adding a New Dimension of Depth — Here's Why It Matters 🎨 Tweets: @stabilityai : We are excited to announce the release of Stable Diffus...
Adapted excerpt from the book Dark Mirror by Barton Gellman, one of the reporters who received top-secret documents from Snowden about NSA's mass surveillance
Barton Gellman / Washington Post : Tweets: @freedomofpress , @carolleonnig , @eff , and @washingtonpost Tweets: @freedomofpress : Powerful retelling of the Snowden revelations from @bartongellman, on...
Civil liberties advocates say a data-driven approach to pandemic response is compatible with individual rights, but with limits and justifications at every step
In less than a decade, whistleblowers like the NSA's Edward Snowden and Cambridge Analytica's Christopher Wylie helped spur …
Declassified study: NSA system to analyze American domestic call and text logs cost $100M from 2015 to 2019 and yielded only one significant investigation
Earlier today, the House Committee … Bruce Schneier / Schneier on Security : Newly Declassified Study Demonstrates Uselessness of NSA's Phone Metadata Program Richard Lawler / Engadget : NYT: $100 mil...