This week we have @amin for the #OverUnder 012!
His views on the following topics:
- #Libraries
- #severance
- #searchEngines
- #MassSurveillance
- #Curry
#fediverse #blog #fediverse #web
#100DaysToOffload : 040/100
HydeAnalysis: "The Secret Military History of the Internet" & why it still matters.
"The internet, from its inception, was created as a tool of mass surveillance... its roots in counter insurgency shape its function today."
~Yasha Levine
https://chrishedges.substack.com/p/the-secret-military-history-of-the
#internetorigins #masssurveillance #uspol #usmilitary #europol #ukpol .
Seriously, this is seriously interesting:
Analysis: "The Secret Military History of the Internet" & why it still matters.
"The internet, from its inception, was created as a tool of mass surveillance... its roots in counter insurgency shape its function today."
~Yasha Levine
https://chrishedges.substack.com/p/the-secret-military-history-of-the
#internetorigins #masssurveillance #uspol #usmilitary #europol #ukpol .
Analys8s: "The Secret Military History of the Internet"
"The internet, from its inception, was created as a tool of mass surveillance... its roots in counter insurgency shape its function today."
~Yasha Levine
https://chrishedges.substack.com/p/the-secret-military-history-of-the
More powers to #Europol, #Eurojust, #Frontex; criminal law rules on organised #crime and #firearms trafficking; possible review of #EuropeanArrestWarrant, European Investigation Order #EIO; breaking #encryption...
Please @EUCommission let this be a late April Fools thing 
https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_25_920
@old_angry_queer seriously, #WAMI should be illegal as it's #MassSurveillance!
"In 2006, a retired AT&T engineer knocked on the door of the EFF's office in a rundown part of San Francisco's Mission district and asked, "Do you folks care about privacy?" With him he carried schematics exposing the largest US government domestic spying operation since Watergate.
That person was Mark Klein, who died on March 8 this year from cancer. He was 79.
After a life working in telecoms, Klein realized he had helped the NSA wire up a listening station in AT&T's San Francisco switching facility - the infamous Room 641A - that was being used to illegally spy on Americans.
The evidence he gathered and shared led to two lawsuits that exposed the extent to which US citizens were being spied on by their own government in the post-9/11 world. Klein faced legal pressure, death threats, and the constant fear of ruin, to get his story out and tell the public what was going on. But Klein regretted nothing."
@openrightsgroup
The EU politburo is in the same ignorant trip with 'Chat Control'. I doubt that the UK government's motives are sincere. In the meantime the Tates brothers are having a Nazi feast with Donald & Co.
In Memoriam: Mark Klein, AT&T Whistleblower Who Revealed NSA Mass Spying
[W]hat Mark told us changed everything. Through his work, Mark had learned that the National Security Agency (NSA) had installed a secret, secure room at AT&T’s central office in San Francisco, called Room 641A. Mark was assigned to connect circuits carrying Internet data to optical “splitters” that sat just outside of the secret NSA room but were hardwired into it. Those splitters—as well as similar ones in cities around the U.S.—made a copy of all data going through those circuits and delivered it into the secret room.
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/03/memoriam-mark-klein-att-whistleblower-about-nsa-mass-spying
Klein provided one of the pre-Snowden disclosures of massive communications surveillance in the United States. I'd included him in an earlier toot from May 2021: https://toot.cat/@dredmorbius/106251396105180975
His story also demonstrates that "surveillance state" and "surveillance capitalism" aren't separate things, but part of the same larger surveillance octopus.
While a "war on drugs" law package allowing gv't backdoors in private message services, and a "vault" in court & instruction legally hiding spyware techniques used by the gv't is being discussed at French chamber this week ; remind the final sentence in this song's lyrics (Thx Yacou for helping for drums once again) https://cremroad.com/?album=Fairy+Tales+(Songs+for+Johnny)&track=IRC+Survived+MSN+(Broken+Yacou+drums)& #netlabel #ccmusic #byncsa #music #masssurveillance
New Privacy Guides article
by me:
What happened in the UK this week is terrible news and a loud warning alarm for the rest of the world.
Governments around the world have been increasingly putting pressure on tech companies to break end-to-end encryption and install mass surveillance systems.
We must push back against this.
Encryption is not a crime.
Encryption keeps us safe 
https://www.privacyguides.org/articles/2025/02/28/uk-forced-apple-to-remove-adp/
**Privacy Alert: The New French Surveillance Law**
The proposed law not only targets drug trafficking but also poses a significant threat to the very foundation of our digital privacy. By mandating "backdoors" in encrypted messaging apps like Signal and WhatsApp, this legislation compromises the security of all users. This sets a dangerous precedent that could lead to widespread surveillance and abuse.
**Why It Matters**: Encryption is essential for safeguarding our personal communications from prying eyes, including those of malicious actors. If the government can access our messages, so can hackers.
**Take Action**: Join the fight against this invasive law! If you are a French national or resident, contact your representatives and demand they prioritize our digital rights. 
For more information, including how to find and contact your local representative, visit the French article: [La Quadrature du Net](https://www.laquadrature.net/narcotraficotage/).
How to opt-out of parties using your data, for AI training or other purposes:
Also the blatant dismissal of absolitely basic #OpSec & #ComSec is just flabberghasting.
Only #decentralized, #OpenSource & #OpenStandards can actuall survive long-term and remain #secure.
It's the same reasons we use #PGPG/MIME & #SSH and not #X400 & #X25!
IOW: Think "How can you weaponize Signal?" and see what you csn do just holding key people in contempt...
The less #info a provider has, the less they can be forced to snitch upon customers.
"#JustUseSgnal!" is a form of dangerous "#TechPopulism" aimed at bamboozling #TechIlliterates who don't know better, abusing information asymetry to pull rank instead of investing the time and effort to *explain "how" and "why" this is indeed a good or bad idea.
The only ones that have a chance to beat that are @delta / #deltaChat but that's just #PGP/MIME #eMail in a nice UI...
Here we go again!
As Jeff Bezos' newspaper¹ reports, the #UK government is trying to force #Apple to give them unrestricted access to cloud backups 
Definitely important to 2nd guess what you store in the #cloud! 
¹https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/02/07/apple-encryption-backdoor-uk/
2/3 ... Member States are now taking advantage of these weak bans to push for dangerous laws at a national level. This includes legalising #MassSurveillance through Remote Biometric Identification (RBI) systems 
This is happening at the very centre of the EU - Belgium is proposing a full copy paste of the AI Act exceptions to the RBI ban!
This is exactly we warned about when the #AIAct passed - it will lead to legalisation of massive #HumanRights violations 
https://edri.org/our-work/eu-ai-act-fails-to-set-gold-standard-for-human-rights/
Brief analysis of the new #ChatControl proposal that will be discussed tomorrow: Major progress but not yet acceptable because of #MassSurveillance #DigitalHouseArrest #BanonAnonymity https://www.patrick-breyer.de/en/half-good-new-polish-chat-control-proposal-to-be-discussed-on-wednesday/
How to fight Biometric Mass Surveillance after the AI Act:
„The EU's Artificial Intelligence Act has been adopted, laying out an in-principle ban on live mass facial recognition and other public biometric surveillance by police. Yet the wide exceptions to this ban may pave the way to legitimise the use of these systems. This living guide, for civil society organisations, communities and activists, charts a human rights-based approach for how to keep resisting biometric mass surveillance practices now and in the future….“
