Proton has launched a new tool called Lumo, offering a privacy-first AI assistant that does not log user conversations and doesn't use their prompts for training.
Is kinda sad, this person could have chosen any other profession, yet they chose to be an ineffective low level operative for an authoritarian regime. I feel a mix of pity and disgust. I hope you eventually feel shame.
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The ruling is the first in a series of attempts by US President Donald Trump to release more information related to the Epstein case, as he faces growing pressure from his MAGA supporters.
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Mexico's Naval Ministry has major investments lined up for the ports of Ensenada, Manzanillo, Lázaro Cárdenas, Acapulco, Veracruz, Progreso, Guaymas, Topolobambo and Altamira.
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The Supreme Court has allowed the Trump administration to remove three Democratic members of the Consumer Product Safety Commission, who had been fired by President Donald Trump and then reinstated by a federal judge.
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So they keep saying hegseth is doing and saying things that aren't policy, that end up being policy. His wrongs seem to be leaking the policies. Is that about it?
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According to a statement from Iran's military, the US warship approached waters monitored by Iran, prompting a rapid-reaction helicopter from the Third Naval Region of the Iranian Army's Navy (NEDAJA) to deploy.
The helicopter hovered over the destroyer and delivered a clear radio warning to steer clear of Iranian-monitored waters.
In the ensuing standoff, the crew of the USS Fitzgerald threatened to engage the helicopter if it remained in proximity.
Iran’s Army Air Defense Command then intervened, declaring the helicopter under full air defense protection and ordering the American destroyer to change its course.
According to the statement, the USS Fitzgerald complied, heading south away from the disputed area.
An Iranian Navy helicopter has intercepted the US destroyer USS Fitzgerald in the Sea of Oman, issuing escalating warnings and ultimately compelling the American vessel to alter its course southward.
Only one major military does this in every single ocean of the world on every single nation's naval borders and only one does so weeks after dropping bunker busters on nuclear sites in an unprovoked preemptive strike.
Sorry, I didn't realise it was paywalled. It didn't prompt me to pay when I opened it. It's not a source I usually use, but I couldn't find an alternative unless from much less reputable sites.
I’m not a fan of the laws regardless, but if we pretend for a second they’re justified, it’s worth considering how they should work in a case like Wikipedia. Wikipedia has quite strong protections against problem content already, and that’s because it has a shared global view of content with effective moderation tools and a wide moderator base that respects the rules. That reality should be taken into account in the governments new rules. On the other hand, anyone who understands how this all works was already against this stupid law, so I guess they didn’t get any useful feedback internally
Researchers from Carnegie Mellon University’s Robotics Institute (RI) have developed an AI-powered vision system that helps drones safely detect and avoid other aircraft in crowded skies, without relying on bulky, expensive sensors.
Protection, flush with billions in new funding, is seeking “advanced AI” technologies to surveil urban residential areas, increasingly sophisticated autonomous systems, and even the ability to see through walls.
A CBP presentation for an “Industry Day” summit with private sector vendors, obtained by The Intercept, lays out a detailed wish list of tech CBP hopes to purchase, like satellite connectivity for surveillance towers along the border and improved radio communications. But it also shows that state-of-the-art, AI-augmented surveillance technologies will be central to the Trump administration’s anti-immigrant campaign, which will extend deep into the interior of the North American continent, hundreds of miles from international borders as commonly understood.
Wouldn't surprising me if they already do. They got all kinds of stuff at their check points and you have few constitutional rights there (even less so in this admin)
"When the students poured into Tiananmen Square, the Chinese government almost blew it. Then they were vicious, they were horrible, but they put it down with strength. That shows you the power of strength. Our country is right now perceived as weak."
Is this real? This can't be real. Then, on the other hand, it's the American president. The guy who said that ancient Rome and the US have always been allied.
Judge rules Epstein grand jury records will remain sealed ABC News 3–4 minutes
The records were related to grand juries convened in West Palm Beach.
A federal judge in Florida denied a Justice Department request to unseal grand jury records tied to federal investigations into Epstein, according to a public order released Wednesday.
The request is one of three made by the Justice Department to judges in New York and Florida seeking to unseal records from federal investigations into Epstein.
This photo provided by the New York State Sex Offender Registry shows Jeffrey Epstein, March 28, 2017.
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According to the order by District Judge Robin Rosenberg, the records the department sought to unseal related to grand juries convened in West Palm Beach in 2005 and 2007 that had investigated Epstein.
Judge Rosenberg faulted the Justice Department for failing to outline sufficient arguments to justify the unsealing of the records, which are normally protected under strict secrecy rules.
Rosenberg's opinion states her "hands are tied" given existing precedent in the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals which only permits the disclosure of such grand jury materials under narrow exceptions.
She further denied a request to transfer the issue into the jurisdiction of the Southern District of New York, where two judges are separately mulling over similar motions from the department seeking to unseal grand jury records tied to Epstein and his longtime associate Ghislaine Maxwell.
A Justice Department spokesperson did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the order.
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Meanwhile, a federal judge in New York denied Ghislaine Maxwell's request to review grand jury testimony related to Epstein.
"It is black-letter law that defendants generally are not entitled to access to grand jury materials," U.S. District Judge Paul Engelmayer wrote.
Attorney General Pam Bondi speaks during a news conference with President Donald Trump in the Brady Briefing Room of the White House, June 27, 2025, in Washington.
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Maxwell's lawyers requested access to the sensitive grand jury records to determine if Maxwell would take a position on the records' release.
Judge Engelmayer wrote that there is no "compelling necessity" for Maxwell to review the records. An objection from Maxwell into unsealing the records could further complicate the process of potentially releasing the records.
"She has not shown, or attempted to show, that the grand jury materials in her case are apt to reveal any deficiency in the proceedings leading to her indictment," he wrote.
Judge Engelmayer noted that he plans to "expeditiously" review the transcripts himself and would consider providing an excerpt or synopsis to Maxwell's lawyers.
Can’t Trump just issue an executive order like he has done for everything else? What’s so special about this? It can’t be because he doesn’t have authority because he didn’t have authority for most of the other EOs. It’s probably just smokescreen and there is no intention of releasing anything about his pedo mate Epstein.
...you're redirecting stderr to the stdout's destination while stdout is still sending output to the screen. So any permission errors encountered will go to the screen, not to rsa-keys.log.
From the bash manpage:
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Note that the order of redirections is significant. For example, the command
ls > dirlist 2>&1
directs both standard output and standard error to the file dirlist, while the command
ls 2>&1 > dirlist
directs only the standard output to file dirlist, because the standard error was duplicated from the standard output before the standard output was redirected to dirlist.
==================
Commands given to the shell are evaluated and processed in a specific order and fashion, and this is one quirk of that that many people are unaware of.
(...) If |& is used, command1's standard error, in addition to its standard output, is connected to command2's standard input through the pipe; it is shorthand for 2>&1 |. This implicit redirection of the standard error to the standard output is performed after any redirections specified by command1.
Just to be clear, because some seem to conflate Bash with Shell. If not specified, assume POSIX shell, that's how /bin/sh is handled as well. And that has no |&.
Grazie infinite a tutta la Redazione di Gazeta Destinacioni, che pubblicizza la mia ultima opera "Sorella di Perfezione" (LFA Publisher). È una sorpresa inaspettata, e sono al settimo cielo.
SORELLA DI PERFEZIONE da “Sorella di Perfezione” di Giuseppe Iannozzi – LFA Publisher Ringrazio. Piano chino il capo, come un bambino. Ringrazio la gentilezza e la bellezza che ti appartengono,…
I suppose it would have given a new meaning, or a different understanding, of the chaos in the film. Come to think of it (been a long time since I have seen the film) I can't remember if there was a slant to any one religion injected in the film. Seems like it was very vaguely worded, 'passing over to the other side,' 'angry spirits,' and the 'beast.'
Xbox controversially raised the base price of its mainline games to $80 in an announcement a few weeks ago. Now, it seems to be backtracking. Good, I say.
I was just wondering that, too. Wasn't the first one almost like an indie title? Not sure, how much I'm mixing it up with Outer Wilds, but Wikipedia tells me their teams were around a similar size anyways...
Nel tentare (in parte invano, ma in parte no, dai) di alleviare le mie sofferenze giornaliere, dovute alle solite impossibilità di incartamento, eccomi qui di nuovo ad uscirmene fuori dal letterale nulla con un nuovissimo dei miei toolini pazzurdi… Ma a ‘sto giro ho davvero poca voglia di scherzare, quindi, per una buona volta, metto […]
il cartafacenzio di octo e la foglianza interattiva!!! (Papiellify, nuova app per creare fogli decorati)
Nel tentare (in parte invano, ma in parte no, dai) di alleviare le mie sofferenze giornaliere, dovute alle solite impossibilità di incartamento, eccomi qui di nuovo ad uscirmene fuori dal letterale nulla con un nuovissimo dei miei toolini pazzurdi… Ma a ‘sto giro ho davvero poca voglia di scherzare, quindi, per una buona volta, metto la fine della storia all’inizio: l’aggeggio di questa volta è caricato su https://hub.octt.eu.org/Papiellify/ (ed era da tanto che non mettevo una roba nuova lì sopra…), ed in poche parole è nientedimeno che un (o meglio, il; credo sia l’unico al mondo) fogliatore… 🍀
In pratica, ero qui di nuovo a voler stampare fogli con grafichine personalizzate, come mostrai qualche altra volta, ma il solo pensiero di dovermi ancora mettere a fare tutta quella roba strana in programmi tipo Office (di qualsiasi vendor; io uso Libre, ma non cambia) — assolutamente non fatti per questo tipo di cose, nonostante stranamente usati da tutti per questo tipo di cose — piazzando nei bordi le immagini, poi le righe, e infine non ne parliamo di layout un pochino più complessi… mi fa venire subito la nausea e dunque addio alle intenzioni spassose. Ovviamente, come all’assoluto solito, sono una ragazza magica, e quindi, piuttosto che avvilirmi, è spuntato fuori il momento di mettermi all’opera, con la programmazione… e questa qui è la primissima versione abbastanza utilizzabile da essere pubblicata, gnam! 🥰
Ho avuto rubamenti di tempo vari adesso eh, quindi ci ho messo qualche giorno in più che normalmente non avrei impiegato per arrivare al punto di qualcosa che già mi sta essendo di enorme utilità, ma la app per ora è ancora abbastanza semplice, pure se non sembra… Ci sono tanti controlli a schermo, si, e si possono già creare infiniti layout sfiziosi semplicemente maneggiando con questi form, certo, però questo ancora non è niente rispetto a quello che potrebbe essere… neanche il tempo di saltellare per i progressi già fatti finora, infatti, e già sento la mancanza di una gestione multi-pagina, o di più preset di stile impostabili, ma vedrò di adoperarmi man mano che le necessità spunteranno fuori (a me, o ad altri… vi scongiuro, apprezzate il mio lavoro cartiaco…) 😳
Io invito come sempre a provare per credere (e sennò che cazzo li metto online a fare i miei tool…), ma in buona sostanza questo è come funziona la app: sfruttando non casualmente, ma proprio esattamente (cioè, usare altro di base mi avrebbe richiesto infinitamente più lavoro), le funzioni di layout intrinseche della piattaforma web (il CSS, bono!), permette di gestire dei livelli (che nella pagina sono non altro che elementi HTML con applicati particolari stili), che sono definiti da immagini caricabili o pattern preprogrammati (come codici SVG), e sono personalizzabili in una marea di criteri tra cui dimensioni, spaziature, slittamenti, e per i pattern cose come spessore del tratto, colori e vattelappesca — tutto impostabile precisamente, e altamente risminchiabile, senza scrivere codice! 😜 Qui, per esempio, ho creato due diversi papielli (ovviamente stampabili, e che goduria) per provare un po’ il tutto: il primo, a righe azzurre spaziate a 8mm e con una decorazione di Sailor Moon in basso a destra (dimensionata in modo ideale per l’A5, ma ovviamente modificabile); ed il secondo, con una griglia a puntini di 10mm decorata ogni 4 con dei cuoricini… ed entrambi usano solo due livelli, quindi si può fare solo di meglio. Questi esempi, ed eventualmente altri che creerò, li ho salvati in JSON con l’apposita funzione del menu in-app, e chiunque voglia usarli può semplicemente caricarli nell’applicazione, sono scaricabili qui: memos.octt.eu.org/m/gnwNvbS4zv…. 💖
Un bonus per me, per concludere, è che ho notato che sui browser web mobile questa app funziona a metà… e detto così sembra qualcosa di negativo, ma io ero partita dal presupposto che la UI di questa app dovesse essere così intricata da essere virtualmente inutilizzabile su smartphone; quindi, scoprire che in realtà si riesce realisticamente ad usare (forse anche grazie al fatto che il pannello delle opzioni si può restringere, e viceversa quello dell’anteprima) mi fa piacere. Il problema tuttavia è che, sia da Firefox che da Chromium, su Android (almeno, sul mio Xiaomi del cazzo…), l’esportazione su PDF o in stampa è rotta, e la pagina esce vuota… quindi poi dovrò usare qualche libreria JavaScript strana per esportare dal lato del mio codice, anziché delegare al browser, che abbiamo capito fa cagare. Una cosa comunque è certa: con tutte queste caselle di input, slider per i numeri, ed alcune opzioni forse relativamente criptiche, non è un software adatto agli utonti deboli di cuore… ma, il suo lo fa al top (credo). 😺
You think AOC is to blame here? Really? You think AOC is sneaking into rooms with republicans where they all agree not to talk about Israel’s weapons? That’s your truth?
The Legend has that if you fire up visual studio 2018 with intellicode enabled, start typing "Priv" and only select the predictions it will write a production ready VB6 program for plant management.
This and autocorrect are the first crap I desactivated on all my devices. It¡s annoying and insulting to have a text undelined in red every word which are not in the poor dictionary of this "feature", or changing FloC with fuck (well, anyway not so different)
Yeah I have autosuggest but not autocorrect. When the word pops up on the 3 choices above the keyboard, they might be useful but they can almost never predict full sentences from what my thought process is.
I find it so bizarre, too. I've been using quite a similar autosuggestion feature as part of Fish shell for a few years now. But when an LLM keeps spewing words at me, that's a whole different shtick. It genuinely just inhibits my thinking, which is a feeling I never had with Fish.
I guess, one difference is that Fish uses real intelligence, a.k.a. my shell history. If it has a suggestion, the chance is high that it's actually what I want to do or close to it. And it also shuts the hell up when there's no good suggestion. I don't have to be constantly vigilant that what it suggests might be complete garbage.
And the other difference is probably that it's *my* intelligence, *my* shell history. I will have thunk the thoughts before which lead to the command it suggests, which brings the brain load much further down again. Occasionally, it'll suggest something where I have no recollection of having run that command before, but knowing that I have, is still really useful and this only happens for niche commands anyways. Most of the suggestions are just stuff which I've run a few minutes ago or last week or such, where I won't have to think about it.
I guess, it probably also helps that commands have simple formatting, with only a single line and you can mostly read the flags in any order...
New research from the University of Waterloo's Cybersecurity and Privacy Institute demonstrates that any artificial intelligence (AI) image watermark can be removed, without the attacker needing to know the design of the watermark, or even wheth…
I think maybe an update to the image format standards, where it like somehow includes a hash of the instrument that has taken the photo and video, and thus, only such media that can be verified to have been taken by a physical instrument can be used in like legal matters, or reporting or journals.
Either this hash can be verified by some algorithm, or maybe the media could depend on this hash in such a way that the media is corrupted if it gets altered.
There are already plans for metadata signing. I think some high end Canon cameras might do it already. It basically allows proof (via public private key of the hash) that a particular camera took that photo.
The idea is that you can create a chain of custody with an image. Each edit requires a new signature, with each party responsible for verifying the previous chain, to protect their own reputation.
It's far from perfect, but will help a lot with things like legal cases.
Depends on the hash - some are tracable to a crypotographic public key and thus cannot be faked. Most are not but there are options that can be. Normally we refer to such things as signed not a hash but same thing to the layman who doesn't understand this.
In order for it to be traceable with a public key, it needs to be signed with the private key. That means the private key has to be on the camera. That means it can be extracted from the camera and leaked.
Maybe. There are ways to assign a private key that is not easy to extract. a chip that creates a private key on first poweron and then saves to internal memory for example.
Not easy to extract sure, but is it secure enough for you to claim that it hasnt been leaked and so forms a secure chain of custody? Once one has been leaked then that can be used to sign any fake pictures you like. I woudnt buy that for anything for serious than is this meme picture real.
The obvious limitation being that you can take a real photo with attestation with a real camera of a real computer screen displaying any fake shit you can imagine, then you have an officially hashed photo of anything.
Leica, Sony, Nikon, and Canon have backed an Adobe-created digital signature solution for authentication of photos directly in the camera, including metadata like time/date stamps. But that's mainly for journalism and professional grade cameras, not the cell phones that 90+% of new images are created on.
There is a solution, but y'all aren't going to like it.
The solution is blockchain. Actually, it's even worse, the solution is NFT's.
Not the scammy, crypto bro, nonsense it has been used for; but the actual technology.
A cryptographically secure digital token that can track where something was made, where it's being used, who has the rights to it, and ensures that it's authentic and not some copy made with AI.
Unfortunately, thanks to crypto bros, the technology has become so tainted by scams that most people get upset just hearing the letters NFT, so adoption isn't likely.
I don't think this is that controversial. If you take out NFTs, it's using the block chain as a hash. I think that works, but at that point you might as well use regular hashes to verify the integrity of your video
There are other privacy issues with having an indelible marker as to the origin and chain of custody of every digital artifact. And other non-privacy issues.
So the idea here is that my phone camera attaches a crypro token to the metadata of every photo it takes? (Or worse, embeds it into the image steganographically like printer dots.) Then if I send that photo to a friend in signal, that app attaches a token indicating the transfer? And so on?
If that's a video of say, police murdering someone, maybe I don't want a perfect trail pointing back to me just to prove I didnt deep fake it. And if that's where we are, then every video of power being abused is going to "be fake" because no sane person would sacrifice their privacy, possibly their life, to "prove" a video isnt AI generated.
And those in power, the mainstream media say, aren't going to demonstrate the crypto chain of custody on every video they show on the news. They're going to show whatever they want, then say "its legit, trust us!" and most people will.
These are the fundamental issues with crypto that people actually don't understand: too much of it is actually opt-in, it's unclear to most people what's actually proved or protected, and it doesn't actually address or understsnd where trust, authority, and power actually come from.
Sorry for blowing this on you, but fuck blockchain, fuck NFTs.
What we need is better understanding of cryptography.
PGP has solved this problems decades ago, and crypto has just borrowed some parts, but made it worse in every possible way and into incomprehensible depths.
I thought GPG was bad? I don't have enough personal experience with it to quickly summarize or opine on the merits of either of these two articles, but:
I do agree with "fuck NFTs" though, and mostly agree with "fuck cryptocurrency" (mostly because porn and drugs are in my view legitimate use cases for at least a hypothetical non-environmentally-destructive cryptocurrency).
It’s been more than five years since The PGP Problem was published, and I still hear from people who believe that using PGP (whether GnuPG or another OpenPGP implementation) is a thing they should be doing.
It isn’t.
I don’t blame individual Internet users for this confusion. There is a lot of cargo-culting around communication tools in the software community, and the evangelists for the various projects muddy the waters for the rest of us.
The part of the free and open source software community that thinks PGP is just dandy, and therefore evangelize the hell out of it to unsuspecting people, are the same kind of people that happily use XMPP+OMEMO, Matrix, or weird Signal forks that remove forward secrecy and think it’s fine.
Not to mince words: The same people who believe PGP is good are also famously not great at cryptography engineering.
I’m not here to litigate the demerits of PGP. The Latacora article I linked above makes the same arguments I would make today, and is a more entertaining read.
It is of my opinion as a security engineer that specializes in applied cryptography that nobody should use PGP, because there’s virtually always a better tool for the job you want to use PGP for.
(And for the uncommon use cases, offering a secure, purpose-built replacement is a work-in-progress.)
Note: I’m deliberately being blunt in this post because literally more than a decade of softspokenness from cryptography experts has done nothing to talk users off the PGP cliff. Being direct seems more effective than being tactful.
If you want a gentler touch, ask your cryptographer. If you don’t have a cryptographer, hire one.
Instead, let’s examine the “use cases” of PGP and what you should be using instead. (Some of this is redundant with the Latacora article, but I’m also writing it 5 years later, so some things have changed.)
This section contains specific tools to solve the same problems that PGP tries to solve, but better.
What makes these recommendations better than PGP?
Simply, they don’t make cryptographers want to run the other way screaming when they look under the hood. PGP does.
Some people are forced to use PGP because they work for a government that legally requires them to use PGP. In that corner case, your hands are tied by lawyers, so you don’t need to bother with what cryptographers recommend.
Note that this is an ecosystem-wide consideration, not something that specific individuals must manually opt into for each of their hobby projects. The only downside to Sigstore is it hasn’t been widely adopted yet.
If you’re a Python developer, you can just use PEP 740 to get attestations with Trusted Publishers, which gives you Sigstore for free. For most developers, this is as simple as setting up a GitHub Action to publish to PyPI.
This is a developing trend: Other programming language and package management ecosystems are following suit. I expect to see Sigstore attestations baked into NPM and Maven before the next US presidential election. With any luck, your favorite programming language could be on this list too.
Sigstore doesn’t just give you a signature that you check with a long-lived public key, nor does it require you to do the Web Of Trust rigamarole.
Rather, Sigstore gives you a lot for free. Sigstore was designed around ephemeral signing certificates rather than a long-lived private key. It was purpose-built for preventing supply-chain attacks against open source software.
Alternatively, use minisign. If your package ecosystem doesn’t support Sigstore yet, you can get by with minisign (which is signify-compatible) until they modernize.
You can also use SSH signatures, if you’d prefer. (More on that below.)
There are a lot of other encrypted backup tools that work fine, if you don’t want to give Colin Percival your business. I don’t have a financial stake in any of them, nor have I audited them thoroughly.
Borg uses reasonable cryptography, but I haven’t had the time to review it carefully.
Kopia looks fine, but I really hate that they misuse “zero knowledge” to describe an encryption protocol (rather than a proof system). We should not reward this misbehavior by marketers.
The point is: You’ve got options.
Too many options, in my opinion, to settle for PGP.
Not a lot to say here. I’ve written a lot about this over the years. Misuse-resistant cryptography libraries–especially ones that make key management less painful for users–are the way to go.
Some PGP proponents will insist that AEAD is possible now, but as long as the installed base of PGP remains backwards compatible with the lowest common denominator, that’s what your software uses.
Just use age. Or rage, if you’re a Rust enthusiast.
(And if you have concerns about “which age key should I trust?”, I’m already planning an age-v1 extension for the Public Key Directory project. More on that below.)
Security teams around the world insist that they need PGP for bug bounty submissions or security operations, but Signal does this job better than PGP ever did.
Once upon a time, you needed to give people a phone number to use Signal, but that hasn’t been the case for a long time. Still, many people have missed that memo and think it’s a requirement.
My Signal username is soatok.45. Go ahead and message me. You won’t learn my phone number that way.
If you want the ability to vend a transparently verifiable public key for a given user, that’s one of the use cases for the Public Key Directory I’m designing in order to build end-to-end encryption for the Fediverse.
Although this is purpose-built for the Fediverse, I’ve deliberately included support for Auxiliary Data messages, whose formats will be specified by protocol extensions.
Rather than trying to grok the Web-of-Trust, you can simply have your software check that multiple independent Public Key Directories have verified the record, since its inclusion is published in an append-only transparency log, secured by a Merkle tree.
My design doesn’t preclude any manual key verification, or key-signing parties, or whatever other PGP cultural weirdness you want to do with these public keys. It just establishes a baseline trustworthiness even if you’re not a paranoid computer nerd.
My project isn’t finished yet. In the meantime, you can manually check public keys when using the other recommendations on this page.
Email is insecure. Even with PGP, it’s default-plaintext, which means that even if you do everything right, some totally reasonable person you mail, doing totally reasonable things, will invariably CC the quoted plaintext of your encrypted message to someone else (we don’t know a PGP email user who hasn’t seen this happen). PGP email is forward-insecure. Email metadata, including the subject (which is literally message content), are always plaintext.
There isn’t a recommendation for encrypted email because that’s not a thing people should be doing.
Now, there exists a minority of extremely technical computer user for which Signal is a nonstarter (because you need a smartphone and valid phone number to enroll in the first place).
Because those people are generally not the highest priority of cryptographers (who are commonly focused on the privacy of common folk–including people in poor and developing countries where smartphones are more common than desktop computers), there presently isn’t really a good recommendation for private messaging that meets their constraints.
If you find someone insisting that they “need” encrypted email, read up on the XY Problem. In a lot of cases, that’s what’s happening here.
Do they ipso facto need email (as in, specifically the email protocols and email software)?
And do they care more about this constraint, or the privacy of their communications?
Because if their goal just to communicate privately, see above.
If the tool they’re using being email is more important than privacy, they should consider sending empty messages with an attachment, and use age to encrypt the actual message before attaching it.
That’s serviceable, just beware that everything Latacora wrote about encrypted emails still applies to your use case, so expect someone to CC or forward your message as plaintext.
(Unless you’re legally required to use PGP because of a government regulation… in which case, why do you care about my recommendations if you’re chained by the ankle to your government’s bad technology choices?)
Finally, miss me with the “but someone can screenshot Signal” genre of objections.
As Latacora noted, people accidentally fuck up PGP all the time! It’s very easy to do.
Conversely, you have to deliberately leak something from Signal. There is no plaintext mode.
PGP fails to be a Signal competitor, in ways that are worse than Threema, Matrix, or OMEMO.
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With all that said, I am actually designing an encrypted messaging protocol that will have an email-like user experience, except:
Everything is always end-to-end encrypted, with forward secrecy.
It’s not backwards compatible with insecure email.
It doesn’t use PGP, or any 1990’s era cryptography.
I can’t promise a release date yet. I’m prioritizing end-to-end encryption for the Fediverse before I write the specification for that project (tentatively called AWOO, but the cryptography underpinning both projects should be similar).
Maybe 2026? We’ll see!
If someone beats me to the punch, and their design is actually good, I’ll update the post and replace this with a specific recommendation.
I hate typing 'asymmetric key cryptography', and GPG is just three letters.
Those blog posts explain a lot, but one use case is missing (at least I don't see it apart from git commit signing), and that is verifying the source of a public message.
And I do wish we tried using the private keys more. Specially now when anyone can deepfake anything.
If I ever release my nudes, never trust them unless they are signed and you can check them with public key in my profile.
The tech would have been great for bestowing ownership over the digital goods bought with microtransactions, but never would have gotten there since corpos have the rule of law under their thumb.
You can have whatever token you want with all the metadata, licensing and ownership information you want...
...unless you plan on only seeing images in your own platform, nobody gives a shit, people will take screenshots and image files and share and use them however they want. There's no world in which you load a full DRM plugin or do 4 different types of handshake with a full blockchain just to load a jpeg into a comment.
Last week, we warned of a coming anti-democratic backslide. Now, we see it happening.
Under the new law, the prosecutor general, a notoriously non-independent figure, will now oversee anti-corruption investigations — in a complete overturn of the system that was set up to be independent from other law enforcement bodies.
In reality, it means that Zelensky’s office will be able to stop investigations with a phone call.
It also closely follows an escalated prosecution of Ukraine’s best-known anti-corruption activist, an outspoken critic of Zelensky.
Editor’s note: This editorial has been updated to reflect the fact Zelensky signed the bill into law on the evening of July 22, as shown on the Parliament's website.
Last week, we warned of a coming anti-democratic backslide.
Before you straight up downvote this after reading just the headline you should know that Kyiv Independent is highly credible and staffed with reputable journalists.
mediabiasfactcheck.com/kyiv-in… (not that I personally think MBFC is a reputable references, but the people who would downvote this, for the most part, do)
LEFT-CENTER BIAS These media sources have a slight to moderate liberal bias. They often publish factual information that utilizes loaded words (wording that attempts to influence an audience by appeals to emotion or stereotypes) to favor liberal cau…
Hey, they also react on who post this and the source, when the same info just with way less inflammatory headline was posted by someone who is not western shill from something that isn't just CIA media front, it was like -30 votes lol.
Also, it's starting, Zelensky's getting demythologised by even western aligned media prior to his inevitable downfall. Just like us commies said long ago, but libs were frothing at mouth then.
They're still frothing at the mouth, they're just changing targets. Libs are doing mental warmups for the incredible gymnastics they're gonna have to pull off to pretend that this was unforeseen and tAnKiEs got it all wrong anyway.
So, unnamed journalists, or perhaps the owner, or...? No leader is perfect, but wartime and holding your own against Putin is no easy feat. You could do 1000x worse than him and now you're nitpicking during war time? I guess I'm jealous that you feel like you can when our trainwreck is still building concentration camps to enrich his buddies.
The last few lines are getting closer,
Ukraine’s democracy can still be salvaged. In peacetime, that responsibility would fall on the Ukrainian people.
But today, Ukrainians are fighting — and dying — for Europe and the whole free world.
This is wikipedia, so it's probably a little biased. Biased in what way is something I don't know enough to say. This does tell us something though, they want to hold everyone's feet to the fire. I understand why journalists want to do this is normal times, but when there is a war going on, you need people to be behind you. Also, most people are ignorant and need to be spoon fed, especially during war time. They have other shit on their mind and they need a hero in their lives.
The Kyiv Independent
In October 2021, disputes arose between employees of the Kyiv Post and the owner of the newspaper. Journalists at the newspaper believed that even under the presidency of Volodymyr Zelenskyy, their previous critical reporting was adversely affecting the business of the owner, who had bought the barely-profitable newspaper from Mohammad Zahoor in March 2018, and invested significant funds in it. The owner of the Kyiv Post at the time was the Syrian-born investor Adnan Kivan (Kadorr Group, which owns Channel Odesa 7). Brian Bonner, the former CEO of the Kyiv Post, said in April 2022 that the newspaper's "fragmentary reporting" had brought it into conflict with every Ukrainian government it dealt with so far, including Zelensky's. According to Bonner, Zelenskyy had tried to portray himself as a reformer to Western governments, and alleged that critical reporting had been seen as undermining that message. The government, Bonner said, had begun to lean on Kivan, who had seen ownership of a "crusading media outlet" as more trouble than it was worth.[2]
[3]The president's office denies it, the prosecutor's office denies it, Kivan denies it - but I know we were under pressure ... The Kyiv Post survived [former presidents] Kuchma, Yushchenko, Yanukovych, and Poroshenko, but died under Zelenskyy. That was a big surprise to me.[2]
Edit: I'm going to add this, they are owned by journalists and a media company apparently
The Kyiv Independent is an English-language Ukrainian online newspaper founded in November 2021, three months before the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, by former staff of the Kyiv Post and media consultancy Jnomics Media. The online newspaper is also active on Twitter, Bluesky and Reddit.[1]
Wikipedia is an imperialist propaganda outlet and disinformation website presenting itself as an encyclopedia launched in 2001 by bourgeois libertarians Jimmy Wales...
The Ukrainian revolution had from the very start an anti corruption message. Politicians have both taken advantage and undermined it. This week is not unexpected. Zelenskyy backtracking today is not unexpected. Him using smoke and mirrors, in his new idea, to avoid undermining political allies will not be unexpected next month.
It is utterly predictable that this newspaper will issue similar editorial later.
One day there will be not so much corruption in the life blood of Ukrainian politics. But not soon. Maybe in a generation?
yeah I sorta wish the news communities did not allow editorials. I mean im pretty sure they would not allow people to just post about their opinion of some news.
I can see that, but I disagree. If Bernie Sanders wrote an editorial about cleaning up politics, I would want to read that. I probably wouldn't want to read about /u/ilovetits's take on it.
I’m just surprised (well not really surprised, disappointed) that it took this long to resume reporting on one of the most corrupt countries in the world. It was well known that corruption had reached obscene levels in Ukraine, until they were invaded; Then seemingly everyone forgot.
No, western media (and aligned to them) just hushed all mentions of corruption in Ukraine, or else someone might ask why they are sending so much money and weapons to such corrupted country. Now when the money stream dies off and USA is preparing to pivot from Ukraine to Asia, western media are again allowed to express criticism toward Ukraine.
Because they paid for them, why do so many people think these weapons deals are charity.... They're paying for them and the payments are either for trade agreements or seized Russian assets dispersed to the country Russia is currently invading.
It just doesn't really matter right now, do you have a credible claim of corruption that is more urgent then the need for Ukraine to not be annexed? No then what's your point and why can't it be solved when they don't have literal murderous invaders wandering about.
Poland has begun to deport Ukrainian refugees.Since the beginning of the year, the Border Guard Service has made 127 decisions on deportation. Of these, 107 have already been fulfilled, and almost all concern the citizens of the Square.The...
I am aware, it ranges between stealing of passports and kidnapping, libs refer to them as "unconventional tactics", anyone with a working conscience refers to them as no less than bloodthirsty Western meatgrinder operations.
so he's being discarded after doing west's dirty job (and not even finishing it)? boy, saddam hussein and noriega are laughing right now in hell, saying "at least they gave us a little bit more time".
Sadly I think this was bound to happen. Zelenskyy has been not only fighting the physical war with Russia but also a prolonged propaganda war and the measures he's used to fight against the mass of disinformation flowing out of Putin's bullshit machine were bound to be corrupt by their very nature. You can see the paranoia that has set in as he was not only attacked by the east but now with Trump in office, he started getting it from the west as well. I fear that it's only going to be downhill from here.
Video - Rami Abou Jamous, a French-speaking journalist from Gaza, sent Le Monde a voice note describing the hellish struggle to find food and water as Israel has severely restricted access to humanitarian aid since March 2.
i keep seeing these people's experiences on tiktok and rednote and still can't imagine what life is like knowing that the entire world is going to do nothing but watch as you live out the last few hours/days of your life with the knowledge you're going to die slowly from starvation and that the lucky ones are the ones who die quickly from a missile strike or gunshot from an idf soldier.
you beg and you plead for help and an overwhelming majority just ignore you, with the few that will try to help are just as impotent as you are to help your situation.
WASHINGTON – Today, Congressman Greg Casar (D-Texas), joined by Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib (D-Michigan), introduced the Stop AI Price Gouging and Wage Fixing Act, the first federal proposal to ban companies from using Artificial Intelligence (AI) to…
Microsoft C++ Code Analysis has been updated in Visual Studio 2022 version 17.14 to provide better tracking, justification, and overall management of warning suppressions.
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- Reuters, 2014: Leaked audio reveals embarrassing U.S. exchange on Ukraine, EU
- Leaked recording between Nuland and Pyatt: | transcript
- Counterpunch, 2014: US Imperialism and the Ukraine Coup
- BBC, 2014: Ukraine underplays role of far right in conflict
- Human Rights Watch, 2014: Ukraine: Unguided Rockets Killing Civilians
- Consortium News, 2015: The Mess That Nuland Made Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland engineered Ukraine’s regime change without weighing the likely consequences.
- The Hill, 2017: The reality of neo-Nazis in Ukraine is far from Kremlin propaganda
- The Guardian, 2017: 'I want to bring up a warrior': Ukraine's far-right children's camp – video
- WaPo, 2018: The war in Ukraine is more devastating than you know
- Reuters, 2018: Ukraine’s neo-Nazi problem
- The Nation, 2019: Neo-Nazis and the Far Right Are On the March in Ukraine
- openDemocracy, 2019: Why Ukraine’s new language law will have long-term consequences
- Al Jazeera, 2022: Why did Ukraine suspend 11 ‘pro-Russia’ parties?
- Jacobin, 2022: A US-Backed, Far Right–Led Revolution in Ukraine Helped Bring Us to the Brink of War
- Consortium News, 2023: The West’s Sabotage of Peace in Ukraine Former Israeli Prime Minister Bennett’s recent comments about getting his mediation efforts squashed in the early days of the war adds more to the growing pile of evidence that Western powers are intent on regime change in Russia.
- Internationalist 360°, 2022–2024: History of Fascism in Ukraine: Part I, Part II, Part III, Part IV
- NYT, 2024: U.N. Court to Rule on Whether Ukraine Committed Genocide
NATO expansion:
- George Washington Univ., 2017: NATO Expansion: What Gorbachev Heard Declassified documents show security assurances against NATO expansion to Soviet leaders from Baker, Bush, Genscher, Kohl, Gates, Mitterrand, Thatcher, Hurd, Major, and Woerner
- Orinoco Tribune, 2022: Former German Chancellor Merkel Admits that Minsk Peace Agreements Were Part of Scheme for Ukraine to Buy Time to Prepare for War With Russia
- Al Mayadeen, 2023: Zelensky admits he never intended to implement Minsk agreements
- Jeffrey Sachs, 2023: The War in Ukraine Was Provoked—and Why That Matters to Achieve Peace
- Jeffrey Sachs, 2023: NATO Chief Admits NATO Expansion Was Key to Russian Invasion of Ukraine
NATO in general:
- The Intercept, 2021: Meet NATO, the Dangerous “Defensive” Alliance Trying to Run the World
- CounterPunch, 2022: NATO is Not a Defensive Alliance
- Noam Chomsky, 2023:
- Thomas Fazi, 2024: NATO: 75 years of war, unprovoked aggressions and state-sponsored terrorism
- Gabriel Rockhill, 2020: The U.S. Did Not Defeat Fascism in WWII, It Discretely Internationalized It
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