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On @Channel4News talking about the UK Online Safety Bill’s mass surveillance provision. Pols wanting to regulate tech are instead promoting tech snake oil—doesn’t matter if it’s a backdoor, frontdoor or door that uses hashing: there’s no safe+private way to scan all our messages.
"No way to create a backdoor that only the good guys can walk through."
Signal President Meredith Whittaker says the Online Safety Bill will cause "unprecedented paradigm-shifting surveillance" - in a discussion with @cathynewman and former UK Tech minister Damian Collins.
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Amplify this folks. And if you’re not in the U.K. 1) we’d still appreciate you sharing this warning and 2) if this passes in the U.K. other countries may follow. This is a dangerous erosion of rights we will spend generations fighting to get back. Get loud now!
68 (UK affiliated) researchers working on security and privacy have raised alarms about provisions in the UK #OnlineSafetyBill: "our concern is that surveillance technologies are deployed in the spirit of providing online safety."
Read our letter here: haddadi.github.io/UKOSBOpenl…
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Zyxel warns of critical vulnerabilities in firewall and VPN devices - @billtoulas
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WordPress 6.2.2 Security Release. Update your WordPress installation - your website's security matters. #WordPress
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Our position remains clear. We will not back down on providing private, safe communications. Today, we join with other encrypted messengers pushing back on the UK's flawed Online Safety Bill.
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Here is the template email you can use to send to the House of Lords prepared by the @EFF act.eff.org/action/tell-the-…
Patch Now: Apple's iOS, iPadOS, macOS, and Safari Under Attack with New Zero-Day Flaw thehackernews.com/2023/02/pa…
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Windows Server 2012 and 2012 R2 will be EOL in 9 months good thing you moved off those years ago
Excellent post from the NCSC re clicking links ncsc.gov.uk/blog-post/tellin…
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Microsoft Edge version 109 will be the last one to support Windows 7 and Windows 8/8.1 after January 12, 2023.
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Cyber Essentials: technical controls grace period update from NCSC
Date extended for certification against the 2022 technical controls, and a look to 2023.
Full details here: ncsc.gov.uk/information/cybe…
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Dogmatic Approach to Standards | littlebobbycomic.com/project…
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Want to get Cyber Certified? 💻📜🎓
Our partner, @IASME1, provides 2 levels of Cyber Essentials certification for organisations to show they know about the most common cyber threats and demonstrate a commitment to cyber security.
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Reminder
🚨 Scammers are sending SMS messages appearing to be from Ofgem offering rebates
THIS IS A SCAM
The link could harvest your personal data so be #ScamAware
Read more on how to avoid scams and what to do if you are affected ⬇️
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