The primary advantage of using Signal over WhatsApp is that Signal does not store metadata. Just sayin'. https://www.forbes.com/sites/the-wiretap/2025/10/21/ice-spies-on-whatsapp/
Started to end a meeting with "It's ok, I'm good..." stopped myself and got too real: "Don't worry. I'm beyond help."
Erin Kissane says a bunch of smart stuff about the state of play in the open networks/social media space, which I recommend reading.
Tech Policy Press
Trump Administration's Arrival on Bluesky Highlights Growing Pains for Open Networks
The administration’s antagonistic entry to the platform is best understood as a game of chicken, writes Erin Kissane.
Every quote in this story from the founder of Ring, Jamie Siminoff has been designed in a lab to illustrate the single most wrongheaded approach to technology, surveillance, privacy, and crime:
The Verge
β€˜I was the demolition man’: Ring founder reflects on how he almost destroyed the company
Ding Dong!
I have blocked the discourse in my timeline That you should probably have saved for X Forgive me the vibes were so rancid
For those of you who are wondering, the most important opsec lesson to take from the First Wap story is that if your threat model includes a government, do not take your cell phone with you to locations or meetings you don't want them to know about.
"I know a guy who does this completely impractical opsec thing, so it's totally doable" is the "let me share this totally true story of a thing that happened to a friend of my cousin" of opsec discussions.
People are very lucky that I do not write the headlines for these stories because there is no way I could write a headline for a story about a surveillance company called First Wap without turning it into a Megan Thee Stallion joke:
Reveal
A young reporter discovers a mysterious trove of data that exposes a global surveillance empire.
In a major investigation, a young reporter uncovers a powerful technology used to spy on thousands of people across the world.
Whoever decided that the San Francisco No Kings protest should start at the same location as the bougie weekend farmers market is a political genius.
If your protest privacy/security advice does not start with a discussion of threat models, it is probably not good advice.