Mike Waltz Accidentally Reveals Obscure App the Government Is Using to Archive Signal Messages | Sigh, but at least I suppose they are shooting in the right direction…
https://alecmuffett.com/article/113285
#SignalGate #signal #trump

How a 20 year old bug in GTA San Andreas surfaced in Windows 11 24H2 | Silent’s Blog
https://alecmuffett.com/article/113281
#SoftwareEngineering #bugs

Baby food pouches low in key nutrients, lab testing finds | BBC News | …READ THIS ARTICLE if you are interested in AI or Cybersecurity, because …
https://alecmuffett.com/article/113271
#OnlineSafety #babies #cybersecurity #regulation #safety

“Signal is better than most other commercial apps, but it’s not military-grade encryption” | …and we are all grateful for that small mercy
https://alecmuffett.com/article/113262
#EndToEndEncryption #SignalGate #signal #trump

Proposal to Update Indicator 9B of the DPG Standard: Inappropriate & Illegal Content | …whyyyy do social-good activists still do stuff like this?
https://alecmuffett.com/article/113252
#DigitalPublicGoods #UnitedNations #surveillance

My delightful discovery of the day is that not only does the word ‘pudding’ derive (roughly) from French blood sausage, but also there is a Korean blood sausage called ‘sundae’
https://alecmuffett.com/article/113250
#food #foodie

“Processing an audio stream in a maliciously crafted media file may result in code execution”
https://alecmuffett.com/article/113248
#apple #malware

London Security Engineering Meetup: Alec Muffett “End to End Encryption: Why You Should Implement It” (May 08, 1800h)
https://alecmuffett.com/article/113236
#EndToEndEncryption #london #meetup

MITRE / CVE is being killed by the Trump Government
https://alecmuffett.com/article/113229
#cve #infosec #mitre #trump

Google rolling out auto-restart security feature to Android phones | One of the things I really love…
https://alecmuffett.com/article/113227
#android #privacy #surveillance

The Pall Mall Pact and why it matters | Malwarebytes | …I don’t entirely agree that this is a good thing
https://alecmuffett.com/article/113190
#HackingTools #PallMallPact #PallMallProcess #malware

Boarding passes and check-in could be scrapped in air travel shake-up | The Guardian | …this is a really bad idea in several obvious ways
https://alecmuffett.com/article/113199
#DigitalId #surveillance #travel

Why I Emphatically Oppose Online Age Verification Mandates | Technology & Marketing Law Blog
https://alecmuffett.com/article/113189
#AgeAssurance #AgeEstimation #AgeVerification #EricGoldman

tariff | PyPI
https://alecmuffett.com/article/113191
#python #tariffs #trump

So You Want to Be a Dissident? | The New Yorker
https://alecmuffett.com/article/113187
#activism #trump #v

There’s a lot of chatter going around at the moment regarding “AI IS EVIL BECAUSE IT EATS A LOT OF POWER” …
https://alecmuffett.com/article/113183
#ai #chatgpt #llm

Raphael Satter makes a fair point in this Bluesky thread: where is the {tech, cyber, safety} industry support for Chris Krebs?
https://alecmuffett.com/article/113173
#ChrisKrebs #CyberSecurity #OnlineSafety #trump

I don’t greatly like that the BBC have made me agree with Kemi Badenoch about something, but she’s absolutely correct to say that…
https://alecmuffett.com/article/113169
#HomeOffice #KemiBadenoch #cybersecurity #tories

Adolescence team to remake Threads nuclear attack epic | BBC News
https://alecmuffett.com/article/113165
#NuclearWar #bbc #threads

Matt Blaze | Written testimony before the House Committee on Government Reform Subcommittee on Military and Foreign Affairs | April 2, 2025
https://alecmuffett.com/article/113159
#EndToEndEncryption #MattBlaze #SaltTyphoon