⊥ᵒᵚ⁄Cᵸᵎᶺᵋᶫ∸ᵒᵘ ☑️ @falken@qoto.org

People in Internet security circles are sounding the alarm over the issuance of three TLS certificates for 1.1.1.1, a widely used DNS service from Cloudflare. The three improperly issued certs escaped notice for 4 months.

https://arstechnica.com/security/2025/09/mis-issued-certificates-for-1-1-1-1-dns-service-pose-a-threat-to-the-internet/

Worried about the future of installing your own software on your Android device? @conservancy is hosting a Q&A to update you about sideloading software as well as other tips about how to ensure your phone runs the software you want, without any artificial restrictions. Join us on BigBlueButton this Friday September 5th at 15:00 UTC (08:00 US/Pacific, 11:00 US/Eastern, 17:00 CEST)

https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2025/sep/3/sfc-qa-on-how-to-keep-your-sideloading/

Your mother paints roundabouts and your father shouts at hotels.

Ooh, interesting data protection news: the first (as far as I can recall) CJEU challenge to the EU/USA Data Privacy Framework (replacement for safe harbour, then privacy shield) has failed.

(Case T-553/23 | Latombe v Commission)

#DataProtection #GDPR

@hazelweakly @risottobias
It's like the adage that since debugging is twice as hard as coding, if you write code as cleverly as you can you're not clever enough to debug it, only worse.

Testing the code an AI generates is 100x as hard as prompting it: since AI output is massively under-specified by a natural language prompt it's like building Lego wearing oven gloves, and prompt complexity increases faster than precision of control of the output.

So nobody is clever enough to test the code.

UK sought broad access to Apple customers’ data, court filing shows | FT
https://alecmuffett.com/article/114735
#EndToEndEncryption #HomeOffice #apple #icloud #privacy #surveillance #tcn

Look, Jeff Atwood, it is difficult to take you seriously when you write authoritatively on a subject you clearly don’t understand.

GDPR doesn’t mandate cookie notices.

Cookie notices are *malicious compliance* by the surveillance-driven adtech industry.

If you’re not tracking people, you do not need a cookie notice, period.

If you’re only using first-party cookies for functional reasons, you do not need a cookie notice, period.

If you’re using third-party cookies to track people – i.e., if you’re sharing their data with others – then *you must have their consent to do so*. Because, otherwise, you are violating their privacy. Even then, the law doesn’t mandate a cookie notice.

How would you conform to EU law without a cookie notice if your aim wasn’t malicious compliance?

You would not track people by default and you would make it so they have to go your site’s settings to turn on third-party tracking if, for some inexplicable reason, they wanted that “feature”.

Boom!

No cookie notice necessary.

What’s that?

But that would destroy your business because your business is founded on the fundamental mechanic of violating people’s privacy?

Good.

Your business doesn’t deserve to exist.

Because the real bullshit here isn’t EU legislation that protects the human right to privacy, it’s the toxic Silicon Valley/Big Tech business model of farming people for data that violates everyone’s privacy and opens the door to technofascism.

https://infosec.exchange/@codinghorror/115120175033311443

@codinghorror As for why this isn't a browser feature, it was and is! It is a *choice* by your industry to disregard this, by ignoring DNT and not implementing GPC in major browsers. Did your site honour DNT? Does it honour GPC in places where it is not legally obliged to?

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Reference/Headers/DNT
https://globalprivacycontrol.org/

@codinghorror

True, but my point remains. This shitty experience we're collectively having here this isn't "the EU forcing cookie notification on people", it's "the malicious compliance of companies that profit from user tracking."

Every company that shows you an cookie popup has made the choice to put a few fractions of pennies of possible future profit ahead of your experience.

https://gdpr.eu/cookies/

Gaussfest, and an electrical day in London on the 7th September (Next Sunday) @ The London Museum of Water and Steam (Brentford)

https://www.extremeelectronics.co.uk/the-gaussfest/

High voltage, tesla coils, electrostatic machine demonstrations and a Victorian/Edwardian pumping station to look around, plus a chance of seeing a working mercury rectifier(s)

I can't think of a better day out :)

Please retoot for reach.

Tickets https://lmws.digitickets.co.uk/event-tickets/68513?catID=65283&

GREETINGS PROGRAMS! IT'S OFFICIAL! Don't tell Mrs Wife I'm dipping into the savings!

Tron and Tron: Legacy coming to 4K disc on September 16th (US)!!

END OF LINE.

https://thedigitalbits.com//columns/bill-hunt/my-two-cents/item/3205-breaking-on-the-bits-disney-sets-tron-1982-tron-legacy-2010-for-4k-ultra-hd-release-on-9-16

#4chan and #KiwiFarms Sue the #UK Over its #AgeVerification Law

https://www.404media.co/4chan-and-kiwi-farms-sue-the-uk-over-its-age-verification-law/

#privacy #politics #OSA #politics

Rebooting WarGames WOPR with a Pi and Gemini.

WarGames fans, rejoice: [Nick Bild] has rebooted WOPR for real. In his latest hack, he recreates the iconic AI from the 1983 film using a Raspberry Pi 400, a vintage SP0256-AL2 speech chip from General Instrument and Google’s Gemini LLM. A build to bring us back to the Reagan-era.

https://youtu.be/CZiND41tn_8

#war #games #hacker #movie #wopr #ai #llm #retro #gaming #engineer #artist #media #raspberrypi #python #script #programming #tech #art #news

The US government drops its CHIPS Act requirements for Intel
https://www.engadget.com/big-tech/the-us-government-drops-its-chips-act-requirements-for-intel-133049932.html?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into Gear @gear-Engadget

Tony Blair invented New Labour.

Keir Starmer's invented New UKIP.