Dutch avoid endorsing Hungary’s approach to EU child sexual abuse regulation | Euractiv https://alecmuffett.com/article/110441#ChatControl#EndToEndEncryption

Dutch avoid endorsing Hungary’s approach to EU child sexual abuse regulation | Euractiv

The Dutch Secret Service opposed [ChatControl] because [it…] “…would be a complex & extensive system that would introduce risks to digital resilience”

Digital Breakup Assistant | Certo Software https://alecmuffett.com/article/110440#InformationSecurity#certo#privacy

Digital Breakup Assistant | Certo Software

This is some pretty solid information security & privacy advice for people who need it; I went through it as a speculative user, it seemed thorough & helpful: This free tool is designed to …

Hurrah for Switzerland https://alecmuffett.com/article/110439#ChatControl#EndToEndEncryption

Hurrah for Switzerland

The Swiss Parliament voted to adopt a motion (144 yes vs 24 no) to protect Swiss Internet users from indiscriminate scanning of private messages proposed by the EU Commission

Wouldn’t it be easier to make it illegal to trick, mislead, or defraud people? https://alecmuffett.com/article/110438#LinaKhan#ai#cyber

Wouldn’t it be easier to make it illegal to trick, mislead, or defraud people?

The reaction against AI is a microcosm of the “cyber” prefix debacle, the broad and largely erroneous assumption that “people doing bad things to other people by means of {AI, the…

“Protocol: All messages are encoded as JSON objects and terminated with a single NUL byte” https://alecmuffett.com/article/110436#systemd#varlink

“Protocol: All messages are encoded as JSON objects and terminated with a single NUL byte”

“What could possibly go wrong?”

Today in "Wait, WHAT?" I learned that Gene Wolfe — recondite, abstruse SF/F author Gene Wolfe — invented the machine that makes Pringles potato chips. It's on the company's own FAQ, which also implies his signature mustache may have inspired their ad mascot. www.pringles.com/en-us/faq.html

Cryptography 101 with Alfred Menezes https://alecmuffett.com/article/110432#cryptography

Cryptography 101 with Alfred Menezes

Video lectures, notes, and exercises in all areas of applied cryptography

Wow, Conservative leadership candidates are advertising on X/Twitter https://alecmuffett.com/article/110429#OnlineSafety#TargetedAdvertising

Wow, Conservative leadership candidates are advertising on X/Twitter

I suppose they know where their party members live.

…though strangely I'm pretty sure that it wouldn't be popular on this platform to start expressing sympathy for anyone with a household income of £100k. Funny how social media works.

ps: having something continuously tell you what voltage your house is being fed can be really nerdily interesting: eventually the pattern that I was only getting 195..210V not 240V led to an engineer visit and being shifted to a different phase, gratis, because underperforming.