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Hacktivists tried to find a workaround to Discord’s age-verification software, Persona. Instead, they found its frontend exposed to the open internet, and that was just the beginning. https://www.therage.co/persona-age-verification/

The most monstrous lie that I regularly tell myself is "I'll get that work done while I'm on the plane."

This is your regular reminder that I do not owe you an argument defending a position that you have decided that I hold. Indeed, I do not owe you an argument about anything.

Sometimes I read the threads that experienced activists write about how to behave at protests because it reminds me that the kinds of replies I get when I give digital privacy/security advice aren't just for me.

We are 9 days into 2026 and my New Years' Resolution to just let people be wrong on the internet is already is truly testing the limits of my willpower.

If you don't want ICE to know you were at a protest, taking a burner phone is not going to help you stay anonymous if you go home afterwards. https://www.404media.co/inside-ices-tool-to-monitor-phone…

NYT reports that the TSA is giving ICE a list of every person who's to be taking a domestic flight inside the US so ICE can run it through their database looking for targets. I'm not a lawyer, but I feel like the 4th Amendment has something to say about this. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/12/us/politics/immigratio…

I don't dress for the male gaze. I dress for a women who are old enough to be my mother, wear oversized jewelry, and say things like "I'd dye my hair that color."

"A soldier knows what to do when they encounter another soldier. But an air-humping frog?" @sarahjeong.bsky.social on the shitposting/aura farming era of American politics. https://www.theverge.com/policy/798491/frog-portland-trum…

As the prophecy foretold, a major platform's third-party age verification system has been hacked and hackers had access to the government ID images of Discord's users. https://www.tomsguide.com/computing/online-security/disco…

I take it all back, there ARE violent criminals on the streets of San Francisco. They're grabbing people off the street and pepper spraying journalists. https://sf.gazetteer.co/i-reported-from-an-ice-action-on-…

It is sometimes necessary, in these difficult times, to spend an hour scrolling through clothing sites, hoping that one of these gowns is going to give you the strength to fight fascism.

Even when I don't go to Vegas, the Vegas gossip comes to me.

Ron Deibert is absolutely the voice that the infosec industry needs to be listening right now. We are in a moment where fascism is consolidating power and most of the infosec industry is either playing along or is busy bragging about how much AI they've shoved into their products. https://techcrunch.com/2025/08/06/citizen-lab-director-wa…

Listen, we are in a terrible and difficult time where the horrors can often feel overwhelming. Lean into the things that bring you joy. If that means that sometimes you're wringing that last drop of dopamine out of watching bad people suffer as the result of their poor choices, you do you.

Writing the first draft of my FTC comments and wondering how many times I am allowed to write "fuck no, you shitweasel." https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2025/…

This is just to let you know I have taken the plums out of the icebox because fruit is better at room temperature

This is your regular reminder that if you are the smartest person in the room, go find another room. You are not going to run out of people or rooms.

I've spent not-insignificant amount of time at protests in the US, looking for signs of IMSI catchers and never found anything, so when I saw this, my ears perked up: https://san.com/cc/exclusive-evidence-of-cell-phone-surve…

I was feeling entirely too confident and capable, so I decided to train press-up to handstand and now I am going to be suffering through these drills and progressions for a good long time.