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It’s your source for curated news affecting democracy in the cyber arena with a focus on protecting democracy. That necessitates an opinionated Butlerian jihad against big tech as well as evangelizing for open-source and the Fediverse. Since big media’s journalism wing is flailing and failing in its core duty to democracy, this is also a collection of alternative reporting on the eternal battle between autocracy and democracy. We also cover the cybersecurity world. You can’t be free without safety and privacy.<\/p>\n
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DD comes out on Thursday and is updated through the end of day on Friday. Then we start over. So take your time in perusing it and check back in over the weekend.<\/p>\n
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FYI, my opinions will be in bold. And will often involve cursing. Because humans. Especially tech bros. And fascists.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n After a month of holiday and hurricane evacuations we are back on schedule.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Cory Doctorow writes:<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Making up words is a perfectly cromulent passtime, and while most of the words we coin disappear as soon as they fall from our lips.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n But every now and again, you get a word that just kills<\/em>. That brings me to “enshittification,” a word I coined in 2022.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n The word rattled around my mind for five months before attaching itself to my detailed theory of platform decay. But it was that detailed critique, coupled<\/em> with a minor license to swear, that gave “enshittification” a life of its own. How do I know that the theory was as important as the swearing? Because the small wave of amusement that followed my first use of “enshittification” petered out in less than a day. It was only when I added the theory that the word took hold.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Pluralistic: Dirty words are politically potent (14 Oct 2024)<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Radio Free Europe reports:<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n EU Approves New Sanctions On Iran Over Missile Transfers To Russia<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n EU Sanctions Pro-Russian Governor, Others For Meddling In Moldova<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n NPR reports:<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Ukraine is amping up drone production to get an edge in the war against Russia<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Tech Policy has:<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n AI for Activism<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n The Quest for European Technological Sovereignty: Building the EuroStack<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n EuroNews reports:<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Are AI companies complying with the EU AI Act? A new \u2018LLM Checker\u2019 can find out<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n TechCrunch reports:<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n White House considers expanding Nvidia\u2019s and AMD\u2019s AI chip export limits to additional countries<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n The Verge reports:<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n The FTC is finally making it easier to cancel your gym membership<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Bleeping Computer reports:<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n US disrupts Anonymous Sudan DDoS operation, indicts 2 Sudanese brothers<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n The Center for Democracy and Technology reports:<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Companies, Civil Society, Academics Announce Voluntary Principles to Combat Image-Based Sexual Abuse<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Tech Policy has:<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Election Meddling, Censorship, and More Bad News in 2024 Freedom on the Net Report<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Cory Doctorow has:<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Lina Khan\u2019s future is the future of the Democratic Party \u2014 and America<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n EuroNews reports:<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Dutch prosecutor and police investigate Telegram’s lack of cooperation<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n DarkReading reports:<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Cyberattackers Unleash Flood of Potentially Disruptive Election-Related Activity<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n The Guardian reports:<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u2018It\u2019s not me, it\u2019s just my face\u2019: the models who found their likenesses had been used in AI propaganda<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Radio Free Europe reports:<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Threatening E-Mails Sent To Ukrainian Organizations After RFE\/RL Investigation<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n NBC reports:<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n This is how a Russian disinformation campaign starts.<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n EuroNews reports:<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Council of Europe declares Russian destruction of Ukrainian cultural heritage ‘genocide’<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Bleeping Computer reports:<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Malicious ads exploited Internet Explorer zero day to drop malware<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n 404 Media reports:<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n TikTok’s Pro-North Korea Supplement Ads<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Even the dipshits on TikTok aren’t dumb enough to fall for this.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Hackers Advertise Stolen Verizon Push-to-Talk \u2018Call Logs\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Ars Technica reports:<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n North Korean hackers use newly discovered Linux malware to raid ATMs<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n CNN reports:<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Chinese hackers access US telecom firms, worrying national security officials<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n DarkReading reports:<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Iran’s APT34 Abuses MS Exchange to Spy on Gulf Gov’ts<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Joan Westenberg reports:<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n NYT\u2019s Latest Miss: The Harris Book Fake Controversy<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n 404 Media reports:<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n AI-Powered Social Media Manipulation App Promises to ‘Shape Reality’<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n The Center for Democracy and Technology reports:<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Report \u2014 Rules of the Road: Political Advertising on Social Media in the 2024 U.S. Election<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n This week in Musk c^ntness.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n The Kyiv Independent reports:<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Russia’s illegal use of Starlink terminals hastened fall of Vuhledar, WP reports<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n The Verge reports:<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n X blocked hacked JD Vance dossier links after the Trump campaign flagged it<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n NBC News reports:<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n An AI-powered bot army on X spread pro-Trump and pro-GOP propaganda, research shows<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n BBC reports:<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Twitter, now X, to remove blocking feature – Musk<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Look for large growth in federated social media this week.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n The Guardian reports:<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Revealed: International \u2018race science\u2019 network secretly funded by US tech boss<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n The Markup announces:<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Launching Blacklight Query, a Tool to Scan Websites for Privacy at Scale<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Dark Reading has:<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Why Your Identity Is the Key to Modernizing Cybersecurity<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Even Orgs With SSO Are Vulnerable to Identity-Based Attacks<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Bleeping Computer reports:<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Amazon says 175 million customers now use passkeys to log in<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Critical Kubernetes Image Builder flaw gives SSH root access to VMs<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n USDoD hacker behind National Public Data breach arrested in Brazil<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Bom.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n The Register reports:<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Internet Archive wobbles back online, with limited functionality<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n The Fediverse Report has:<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Last Week in Fediverse \u2013 ep 88<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Tech Policy reports:<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Online Safety and the \u201cGreat Decentralization\u201d \u2013 The Perils and Promises of Federated Social Media<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Newsmast says:<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n “We can have a different web, if we want it”<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Soatok has:<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Ambition, The Fediverse, and Technology Freedom<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Elena Rossini continues a series:<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Beyond technical features: why we need to talk about the values of the Fediverse (part 2)<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n The Nexus of Privacy looks at:<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n The Social Web Foundation and the elephant in the federated room<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n 1. 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\n\nThe response to Russia\u2019s War Crimes and other douchebaggery<\/h2>\n
\n\nThe Evil Empire Strikes Back<\/h2>\n
Pariah States<\/h3>\n
Big Media<\/h3>\n
Big Tech<\/h3>\n
Terrorists<\/h3>\n
\n\nCybersecurity\/Privacy<\/h2>\n
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Other Federated Social Media<\/h3>\n
\n\nCTAs (aka show us some free love)<\/h2>\n
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