⊥ᵒᵚ Cᵸᵎᶺᵋᶫ∸ᵒᵘ ☑️ @falken@qoto.org

And now Trump himself is trying to blame this on Signal: "I think Signal could be defective, to be honest with you."

Don't shoot the (encrypted) messenger.👇https://www.wired.com/story/signalgate-isnt-about-signal/

The key takeaway from the Signal scandal is that no matter where in this planet or which industry you work, incompetent men incessantly fail upwards while being excused for their most awful mistakes, while top performing women get harassed for sending emails.

Karl is really mad, too. Although, I think maybe that anger is misdirected. Karl's response is typical LinkedIn Reply Guy whataboutism stuff ("where were you when Hunter Biden's laptop..")

Karl's profile says he is a f/t cybersecurity program architect for Microsoft's Asia/Pacific region. I feel safer already.

the single greatest Signal message ever sent

The White House are bringing in Elon Musk, not Mandiant, to look at how a reporter ended up in the Signal chat.

Elon has publicly tweeted many times that Signal isn’t secure, and told people to use Telegram (lol) - so basically, Signal, CISA and likely the reporter are going to get thrown under the misinformation bus next week. Elon is absolutely clueless about everything security.

@jerry

Th BBC have an article all about Signal now so I guess the old saying that there is no such thing as bad publicity might still be somewhat valid 🙂🤷‍♂️

The most obvious lesson to draw from the leaked Signal chat is that these people really are morons. It's not a public act, it's not a schtick, there's not some secret back room where they drop the facade. They are genuinely stupid, incompetent people.

Really good post on long term storage of data
Me: I have a directory tree snapshot of all our family photos on 2 HDDs in a rarely spun up server, and a copy on iCloud. Thinking of a family 2 TB google store too. Oh, and the same content on to SSDs

I also have a box of multiple laptops from 20 years ago, which contain tarballs of home dirs themselves with tarballs of home dirs. Eventually I get to 16 bit windows apps with RCS revision control. I need to make sure thats all in cloud too

https://blog.dshr.org/2025/03/archival-storage.html

https://blog.dshr.org/2025/03/archival-storage.html

an ominous I-am-under-NDA-coded warning to immediately uninstall atop has been posted by a reputable tech blogger. https://rachelbythebay.com/w/2025/03/25/atop/

I'm really looking forward to the Labour Party chancellor announcing plans to renew the UK economy by ensuring a fair income for all, for decency and so they can spend that money on local goods and services, funded by tax rises on unearned wealth, non-doms and those who hoard their unproductive wealth overseas. Can't wait!

@signalapp
The technical level of security of Signal is irrelevant. Even using its vulnerability as an argument against it for secure government communications is merely a red herring, since the main issue is not the security breach, but the the Trump administration skirting government accountability and effectively creating an unaccountable shadow government outside the normal intelligence community..

Very relevant note: yeah the opsec is terrible, but the rationale of using Signal was to hide from the official record, and that's worse.
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/signalgate-is-bad-but-opsec-isnt-even-the-worst-part-of-it

Well the good news is, the Trump regime definitely doesn't have any immediate plans to invade Greenland. Because if those did exist, Pete Hegseth would have drunk texted those plans directly to the editor of Teen Vogue or some shit.

After Trump's decree: fight for US funding for Tor, F-Droid and Let's Encrypt

Following a decree by US President Trump, the Open Technology Fund is no longer receiving funding. That is why the organization is now going to court.

https://www.heise.de/en/news/After-Trump-s-decree-fight-for-US-funding-for-Tor-F-Droid-and-Let-s-Encrypt-10328335.html?wt_mc=sm.red.ho.mastodon.mastodon.md_beitraege.md_beitraege&utm_source=mastodon

#Netzpolitik #OpenSource #Recht #Software #Subventionen #DonaldTrump #news

The State Department admits the window for peace is "closing fast," but is either reprehensibly unwilling or incompetently unable to apply the necessary pressure to achieve it. Trump's talks with Putin are the essence of empty, performative diplomacy.

This is the most helpfully packaged box of screws I've ever seen, by a large margin. I just wanted to take a moment to appreciate whomever was responsible for such a triumph of utility and empathy.

Vegas and Disney are gross and overrated and, oh yeah, you can BE DISAPPEARED HERE NOW with zero legal recourse because nearly every person or agency charged with enforcing the law supports the suspension of the law if a designated obersturmfuhrer tells them to disappear someone. That's how it works now. It's not worth some fucking teacup ride or whatever. Have fun that keeps your money in your community.

Keep this in mind when people claim cars mean business — closing Central #Madrid to cars over holidays resulted in a 9.5% boost in retail spending on its main shopping street: STUDY. There was also a 71% drop in air pollution. Via @carltonreid.com in @forbes.com. #citymakingmath #citiesforpeople

Closing Central Madrid To Cars...