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Alex Stamos

@alex.stamos
36 posts
2024-09-28
BTW @mosseri the appeal flow is broken, it crashed before I could finish it and there seems no way to reenter.
2024-09-28 View on X
Washington Post

Meta will also block sharing of Ken Klippenstein's newsletter and other sources with the JD Vance dossier, citing foreign meddling and hacked materials policies

Here's the latest on how the social media titans who said it was wrong to “censor” the Hunter Biden laptop story in 2020 are justifying doing the same thing to the Vance dossier to...

Fascinating, my quote reply of @kevincolliernbc's post linking to Klipperstein's Substack was taken down for... inauthenticity?  Well, I've never had a chance to file a Review Board appeal, and since I saw several of their staff members at the Trust and Safety Research Conference today seems like a good day to do it! …
2024-09-28 View on X
Washington Post

Meta will also block sharing of Ken Klippenstein's newsletter and other sources with the JD Vance dossier, citing foreign meddling and hacked materials policies

Here's the latest on how the social media titans who said it was wrong to “censor” the Hunter Biden laptop story in 2020 are justifying doing the same thing to the Vance dossier to...

2024-09-27
I would say that this is a real test for Substack, as the originating platform.  Post-L'Affair Laptop the consensus is that the second concentric circle of platforms should not downrank or block links to the story.  Let's see how consistent folks are in that belief.
2024-09-27 View on X
The Verge

X is blocking links to Ken Klippenstein's newsletter with a hacked JD Vance dossier and has suspended Klippenstein's X account for posting Vance's personal info

X is preventing users from posting links to a newsletter containing a hacked document that's alleged to be the Trump campaign's research …

Iran finally found a “journalist” who would publish.  The platform?  Substack.  —  RE: https://www.threads.net/...
2024-09-27 View on X
The Verge

X is blocking links to Ken Klippenstein's newsletter with a hacked JD Vance dossier and has suspended Klippenstein's X account for posting Vance's personal info

X is preventing users from posting links to a newsletter containing a hacked document that's alleged to be the Trump campaign's research …

2024-09-17
This will also anger some of the world's most wrong Substackers and a certain Moscow resident, to which I can only say...
2024-09-17 View on X
NBC News

Meta bans Russian media outlet RT from its apps globally, days after the Biden administration accused RT of acting as an arm of Moscow's spy agencies

U.S. officials on Friday accused RT of carrying out covert information warfare operations around the world as an arm of Russia's spy agencies.

This took guts and is the right decision.  —  https://www.nbcnews.com/...
2024-09-17 View on X
NBC News

Meta bans Russian media outlet RT from its apps globally, days after the Biden administration accused RT of acting as an arm of Moscow's spy agencies

U.S. officials on Friday accused RT of carrying out covert information warfare operations around the world as an arm of Russia's spy agencies.

I know who drove this decision from start to finish and it was not Mark Zuckerberg.
2024-09-17 View on X
NBC News

Meta bans Russian media outlet RT from its apps globally, days after the Biden administration accused RT of acting as an arm of Moscow's spy agencies

U.S. officials on Friday accused RT of carrying out covert information warfare operations around the world as an arm of Russia's spy agencies.

Yes, I think the people who drove this decision did so because they believe that RT is an agent of a foreign power that is actively messing with our elections and the reason this is a brave move is that the election is a toss up at the moment.
2024-09-17 View on X
NBC News

Meta bans Russian media outlet RT from its apps globally, days after the Biden administration accused RT of acting as an arm of Moscow's spy agencies

U.S. officials on Friday accused RT of carrying out covert information warfare operations around the world as an arm of Russia's spy agencies.

2024-08-11
It looks like foreign actors, possibly aligned with the Islamic State of Iran, hacked the email of the Trump campaign and have provided documents to Politico.  This is exactly the playbook the Russian GRU ran against the Clinton campaign in 2016. …
2024-08-11 View on X
Politico

Trump campaign says some of its internal communications were hacked, citing a Microsoft report that Iranian hackers “sent a spear phishing email” to a campaign

The campaign suggested Iran was to blame.  POLITICO has not independently verified the identity of the hacker or their motivation.

2024-06-23
One of the reasons the Irish DPA was the choice of US tech companies was their willingness to provide product feedback early in the cycle.  Due to the jealousy other EU countries had of the Irish they have centralized this decision making power in Brussels for the DMA/DSA …
2024-06-23 View on X
Bloomberg

Apple will withhold the release of Apple Intelligence, iPhone Mirroring, and more in the EU this year, citing concerns about DMA's interoperability requirements

After the news broke yesterday - on a Friday afternoon, no less … Lloyd Coombes / iMore : Apple's biggest iOS 18 and macOS features, including Apple intelligence, won't come to the...

2024-06-13
A question for the legal minds: now that likes are private, would leaking the likes of somebody to cause embarrassment (and without any legitimate purpose recognized by 2703) be an ECPA violation?
2024-06-13 View on X
Engadget

X says Likes are now private for everyone, meaning users are no longer able to see who liked someone else's post

I wonder if they've made bookmarks easier to find in the UI. Kylie Robison / The Verge : X is about to start hiding all likes Threads: @bobbyallyn : now that Twitter likes are priv...

2024-05-27
I strongly recommend not amplifying any claims about Google's AI output without trying the query yourself, as lots of fake screenshots are circulating.  Even The NY Times fell for it:
2024-05-27 View on X
Business Insider

Google says the vast majority of AI Overviews provide high-quality information and many of the viral examples have been uncommon queries or have been doctored

2024-05-26
I strongly recommend not amplifying any claims about Google's AI output without trying the query yourself, as lots of fake screenshots are circulating.  Even The NY Times fell for it:
2024-05-26 View on X
Business Insider

Google says the vast majority of AI Overviews provide high-quality information and many of the viral examples have been uncommon queries or have been doctored

Step 1: Google rolls out a new AI-powered product.  Step 2: Users quickly find the product's flaws and point them out with social-media posts, which become news stories.

2024-05-25
I strongly recommend not amplifying any claims about Google's AI output without trying the query yourself, as lots of fake screenshots are circulating.  Even The NY Times fell for it:
2024-05-25 View on X
Business Insider

Google says the vast majority of AI Overviews provide high-quality information and many of the viral examples have been uncommon queries or have been doctored

Step 1: Google rolls out a new AI-powered product.  Step 2: Users quickly find the product's flaws and point them out with social-media posts, which become news stories.

2024-04-01
This back door is the most interesting hack of the year and proves what everybody suspected about the supply-chain risks of OSS.  Should hopefully drive some serious investment by the companies that profit from open-source to look for back doors using scalable means. https://boehs.org/...
2024-04-01 View on X
Security Boulevard

Microsoft engineer Andres Freund accidentally found the malicious code in versions of the XZ Utils compression tool, likely preventing thousands of infections

Yesterday's discovery of the xz backdoor was an accident.  But what a fortunate accident it was.

2024-03-19
If you are following the Murthy vs Missouri arguments you might be interested in all the factual misstatements by the plaintiffs regarding the 1st Amendment protected academic research of Stanford, the University of Washington, and others. …
2024-03-19 View on X
Reuters

After hearing oral arguments, SCOTUS appeared wary of curbing US government contacts with social media platforms to remove posts deemed misinformation

2024-03-14
We are in a daily struggle against the intelligence services and private hacking teams of the People's Republic of China.  The PRC continues to utilize offensive cyber capabilities to steal intellectual property, support their domestic champions in key fields like AI and semiconductors and, most recently, to create backdoors that would allow the PLA to cripple the ability of the US to respond to a crisis in the Pacific.
2024-03-14 View on X
Washington Post

The US House passes a bipartisan TikTok bill that forces a sale or ban of the app; the legislation faces an uncertain Senate path without a companion measure

That's why it's incredibly important to get this TikTok bill right.  The focus on speech instead of privacy, the specific naming of Bytedance when neutral criteria would clearly suffice, and the pulling in of American tech companies via the app store provisions are all serious weak points.  A Federal privacy bill that protects users' data and also controls data flows to our adversaries would be more defensible and more comprehensive.
2024-03-14 View on X
Bloomberg

Memo: TikTok is “disappointed” that the US House passed the TikTok divestment bill, and reiterates its plans to lobby the Senate not to pass the legislation

TikTok told employees the company isn't planning to change its approach to protecting user data even after US lawmakers passed …

That's why it's incredibly important to get this TikTok bill right.  The focus on speech instead of privacy, the specific naming of Bytedance when neutral criteria would clearly suffice, and the pulling in of American tech companies via the app store provisions are all serious weak points.  A Federal privacy bill that protects users' data and also controls data flows to our adversaries would be more defensible and more comprehensive.
2024-03-14 View on X
Washington Post

The US House passes a bipartisan TikTok bill that forces a sale or ban of the app; the legislation faces an uncertain Senate path without a companion measure

We are in a daily struggle against the intelligence services and private hacking teams of the People's Republic of China.  The PRC continues to utilize offensive cyber capabilities to steal intellectual property, support their domestic champions in key fields like AI and semiconductors and, most recently, to create backdoors that would allow the PLA to cripple the ability of the US to respond to a crisis in the Pacific.
2024-03-14 View on X
Bloomberg

Memo: TikTok is “disappointed” that the US House passed the TikTok divestment bill, and reiterates its plans to lobby the Senate not to pass the legislation

TikTok told employees the company isn't planning to change its approach to protecting user data even after US lawmakers passed …