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"A hacker has breached and stolen customer data from TeleMessage, an obscure Israeli company that sells modified versions of Signal and other messaging apps to the U.S. government to archive messages, in c/cybersecurity@fedia.io

[–] Dss@infosec.exchange 6 points 2 days ago

@remixtures@tldr.nettime.org who in their right mind would trust a secure messaging app "modified" by the Israelis!?

"Last week, EFF, along with the Criminal Defense Attorneys of Michigan, ACLU, and ACLU of Michigan, filed an amicus brief in People v. Carson in the Supreme Court of Michigan, challenging the in c/privacy@fedia.io

[–] Dss@infosec.exchange 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

@remixtures@tldr.nettime.org So, he did commit the crime. Pick a better poster boy, perhaps?

"A pseudonymous coder has created and released an open source “tar pit” to indefinitely trap AI training web crawlers in an infinitely, randomly-generating series of pages to waste their time and in c/cybersecurity@fedia.io

[–] Dss@infosec.exchange 1 points 3 months ago

@laurelraven We had cable internet, 30 years ago in Preston. 30mbps and it was far faster than the 750mbps we have now!
A few years ago the average webpage was larger than the whole of Doom. What they are now, who even knows?

"A pseudonymous coder has created and released an open source “tar pit” to indefinitely trap AI training web crawlers in an infinitely, randomly-generating series of pages to waste their time and in c/cybersecurity@fedia.io

[–] Dss@infosec.exchange 8 points 3 months ago (2 children)

@remixtures@tldr.nettime.org they seem to repeatedly and endlessly hammer certain pages on sites, too, for no reason. Some of the stories on here are horrendous - openAI &tc effectively DDOSing entire sites!

"The European Commission is proposing regulation under its initiative for digitalising travel documents. We are responding to a consultation that is open to the public and highlighting problems with in c/privacy@fedia.io

[–] Dss@infosec.exchange 2 points 4 months ago

@remixtures@tldr.nettime.org It's a terrible idea. Revocation on a whim or a bug, it shouldn't be legal to revoke without due process, but this allows that.