“If Ofcom decides that Wikipedia is not a Category 1 service, then no further issue will arise” | …Wikipedia OSA Judgement kicked into the long grass
https://alecmuffett.com/article/114340
#AgeVerification #OnlineSafety #OnlineSafetyAct #anonymity #censorship #surveillance #wikipedia
#Freedom #Anonymity #Justice #ukpol Slowly fascism enters . Ethnicity disclosure ? Inherently racist . So let's be absolutely clear then, name and shame everyone in the public eye . No exceptions, Kemi, Sir Keith, Furtive Farage and Tice, you horrid , vile evil git. Exactly how young were your Grid Girls . I heard she was only 14. #justsaying . #AntiFa
“The thing I hate the most about advertising is that it attracts all the bright, creative and ambitious young people, leaving us mainly with the slow and self-obsessed to become our artists.. Modern art is a disaster area. Never in the field of human history has so much been used by so many to say so little.”
#banksy #advertising #intellectualproperty #anonymity
Article on TOR (The Onion Router).
"Today, privacy technologies like Tor underpin our digital society. From VPNs and encrypted messengers like WhatsApp to the basic security features in our digital systems, they’re essential tools for defending against cybercrime."
Open Access Book [ https://direct.mit.edu/books/oa-monograph/5761/TorFrom-the-Dark-Web-to-the-Future-of-Privacy ]
The Internet Wants to Check Your I.D. | The New Yorker
New safety rules require users to verify their identities before gaining access to sites. This spells the end of the relative #anonymity that we’ve come to expect online.
#id #privacy #ageverification
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/infinite-scroll/the-internet-wants-to-check-your-id
@adisonverlice even if an #MVNO isn't demanding any #KYC whatsoever (i.e. #prepaid are offered OTC in most juristictions) it's NOT "#Anonymous" but merely #pseudonymous as it's trivial for governments to utilize existing and mandtory "#LawfulInterception" appliances to create that #PII chain.
#PhoneNumber <=> #ICCID (#SIMcard) <=> #IMSI (SIM profile) <=> #IMEI (Phone/...).
So if #Anonymity is important, NONE of these details have to be linked somehow even circumstantial.
Bought/paid for the phone/SIM/ a single top-up with ec/CC/PayPal/SEPA/… = busted due to circumstantial connection.
Use the SIM in any device? Consider them circumstantially connected forever: #ICCID <=> #IMEI.
Add to the fact that most places have #CCTV, and assume that they'll keep recordings for the maximum permissible duration if not longer and oftentimes even use questionable cloud services and you get the picture.
*104*1234567890123456# )...So any #privacy-based service should never ever & under no circumstances demand a Phone Number!
Instead any privacy-focussed service should use #OnionServices, host their own #OnionService or at least #DontBlockTor and allow users to use it via @torproject / #Tor to use and signup. (But don't forget circumstantial connections there either!)
Also the less details they want or store and the least traffic they generate the harder it is to correlate traffic & users.
"Hosting a Tor hidden service — also known as an onion site — typically requires in-depth technical skills and manual configuration. With TorServ, you can host a static website anonymously in seconds, without touching any config files."This software deserves some attention. It could be useful for at-risk people who need to publish while protecting identity.
Looking at the immediate effects of the #UK new #OnlineSafetyAct I can’t help wonder who, exactly, wanted this. It’s an #infosec nightmare come to life, with massive damage being done to individual #safety, #privacy and #security.
No children will be safer by this, none. No citizen. Only those currently in power, when #anonymity is destroyed.
If the #EU persists in pushing for like legislation, the #Internet will truly have been destroyed, with all the economic value it holds.
This is no surprise, so the remaining question is ”Who benefits?”, as always.
Show Your Papers: The #Internet Is About to Change Forever — Ludlow Institute
A dangerous shift is happening online. All around the world, governments are quietly rewriting the rules of internet access. Soon, #privacy and #anonymity online may become relics of the past.
#surveillance #yourpapers #yourpapersplease
https://www.ludlowinstitute.org/articles/show-your-papers-the-internet-is-about-to-change-forever
"The prosecution’s flailing attempts to navigate around the Blanche memo exemplify the incoherence of the Trump administration’s approach to cryptocurrency enforcement: sweeping regulatory rollbacks that primarily benefit wealthy crypto operators, while simultaneously pushing ahead with aggressive prosecutions of developers like Storm to avoid the appearance of being soft on North Korea or cybercrime more broadly. The result is a prosecution that must somehow prove that Storm failed to implement specific compliance controls, without being able to point to any regulations outlining these controls that he supposedly failed to follow.
With their legal theory in shambles, prosecutors have resorted to tenuous guilt-by-association arguments and mischaracterized evidence. They’ve tried to hold Storm responsible for scams that may not have even touched Tornado Cash, argued that he should be culpable for not helping scam victims in ways that would not have been technically possible, and built a case for intent around chat messages that turned out to be forwarded news inquiries rather than evidence of criminal conspiracy. What remains is less a coherent prosecution than a cautionary tale about the dangers of letting political imperatives drive criminal cases."
https://www.citationneeded.news/tornado-cash-roman-storm-prosecution/
#Anonymity, forgetfulness, and forgiveness are essential aspects of digital #privacy and #security.
They are every bit as essential to the functioning of a healthy society as the traditional "Three A's" of information security: access controls, authentication of identity, and accounting (or accountability, if you prefer).
Hello instance!
Social media never looked interesting before but I'm having more and more the need to interact with people outside my physical bubble, both for diversity and for interest sharing, and mastodon looks great for that. At least I already found interesting people to follow.
I'm very keen on #anonymity, #privacy, #freedom and #empathy they are the cornerstones of a fair (even if not equal) society, IMO.
New Russian law criminalizes online searches for controversial content
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/07/17/russia-internet-censorship/
Security Vulnerabilities in ICEBlock – Source: www.schneier.com https://ciso2ciso.com/security-vulnerabilities-in-iceblock-source-www-schneier-com/ #rssfeedpostgeneratorecho #SchneierOnSecurity #SchneieronSecurity #CyberSecurityNews #vulnerabilities #Uncategorized #anonymity #privacy #ios
Honestly this is evil enough Mastodon
itself should issue regular warnings.
Including importantly to new users,
during the setup and joining process.
Security Vulnerabilities in ICEBlock
The ICEBlock tool has vulnerabilities:
The developer of ICEBlock, an iOS app for anonymously reporting sightings of US I... https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2025/07/security-vulnerabilities-in-iceblock.html
Security Vulnerabilities in ICEBlock https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2025/07/security-vulnerabilities-in-iceblock.html #vulnerabilities #Uncategorized #anonymity #privacy #iOS
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