Alec Muffett’s Tweets

Mar 8

This is possibly the most important and long-awaited tweet that I've ever composed. On behalf of

@Twitter

, I am delighted to announce their new

@TorProject

onion service, at: zg5vztmjuricljdp2c5kshju4avyoid.onion

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India accidentally fired a missile to Pakistan on 9th March 2022....

This is NOT the kind of shit that we need right now, India:

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Posted in r/interestingasfuck by u/Fancy-Aide4904 • 6,106 points and 447 comments

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Strong online privacy is only necessary for foreigners who don't have the good fortune of living in [insert name of your own/preferred nationalist utopia here]

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Guy Herbert

@guy_herbert

· 1h

Replying to @AlecMuffett @DanMilmo and 3 others

I deeply doubt HMG [other govt] is really going to stop attacking privacy in Britain [there] just because it has suddenly discovered it might be good for Ukrainians. "But OUR state agents are all goodies" applies.

Notes for interview with @DanMilmo in saturday’s @Guardian regarding @Twitter, @TorProject and...

Notes for interview with

in saturday's

regarding

and bypassing censorship

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Dan asked me some questions in respect of an upcoming article, and this is what I wrote in response, as well as one additional postscript which I added for Dan, and another postscript from another …

Do I know anyone who has an "Amazon Fire for Kids" tablet (7 inch edition) - and if so can you copy arbitrary MP4 videos to it for watching offline?

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peter honeyman

@peterhoneyman

· Mar 3

Replying to @SeismoAllegra

try uucico -r1 -x9 -s kremvax for max verbosity

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: "Fake data was uploaded by a single receiver. It was quickly discovered and the feed deactivated. We’re constantly working on improvements to our system to discover and resolve any data issues that may occur either through malicious activity or error."

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Peter Aldhous

@paldhous

· Mar 11

Just because it shows up on flight tracking sites, doesn't mean it's real: Destroyed An-225, formerly the world's largest cargo plane, is showing on @flightradar24, callsign FCKPUTIN, circling Kyiv at 4,500ft. flightradar24.com/multiview/2b19

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Internet policy is broken | Open Rights Group

Peter Aldhous

@paldhous

Mar 11

Just because it shows up on flight tracking sites, doesn't mean it's real: Destroyed An-225, formerly the world's largest cargo plane, is showing on

@flightradar24

, callsign FCKPUTIN, circling Kyiv at 4,500ft. flightradar24.com/multiview/2b19

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Aside: there is a tiny digital footprint for #FIREGUARD, which in any case has been replaced by #LOGFIRE. "Cannot be reverse engineered", indeed.

Step 1: build a public perception that "AI" is a near tangible thing which can be bolted onto practically any problem, and which needs to be overseen by a beneficent state. Mm.

So it would work something like this: they try to convince all the platforms to have hooks into which a classifier can be injected - at the state's behest. It'd be presumably MADE hard to work backwards to determine the training set, but would implement the required backdoors.

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Sometimes I wonder if

@GCHQ

is attempting - with all this #AI blurb - to lay groundwork for something like

@CESG_HMG

's #FIREGUARD password hashing algorithm: a freely integratable and unclassified piece of code, that suddenly becomes classified when seeded with $MAGICDATA

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GCHQ

@GCHQ

· Mar 11

We use #AI responsibly to grow our capability to protect the UK from a range of threats, from state-backed disinformation campaigns to cyber-attacks on key infrastructures

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The government’s proposals for the Online Safety Bill are getting worse, rather than better.

Will Cathcart

@wcathcart

Mar 10

NEW: You can now use a tool called Code Verify to automatically check that the code for

@WhatsApp

Web has not been tampered with. Learn more, including how to install this browser extension here: engineering.fb.com/2022/03/10/sec

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