Me: I wish that alternatives to Twitter were well-developed enough that I could use them to follow developing news stories. *Monkey's paw closes shut*
Bryan Fleming, founder of stalkerware company pcTattletale has pled guilty to charges of computer hacking, the sale and advertising of surveillance software for unlawful uses, and conspiracy. Sometimes bad things happen to bad people and I get to do a little dance.
TechCrunch
Founder of spyware maker pcTattletale pleads guilty to hacking and advertising surveillance software | TechCrunch
Bryan Fleming, the founder of hacked stalkerware company pcTattletale, pleaded guilty to federal charges linked to the running of his now-defunct M...
All that the Turing Test proves is that human are much, much stupider than Alan Turing ever suspected.
Want to know how to track Homeland security spending by looking through government databases? EFF's Dave Maass has put together a handy how-to:
Electronic Frontier Foundation
The Homeland Security Spending Trail: How to Follow the Money Through U.S. Government Databases
The U.S. government publishes volumes of detailed data on the money it spends, but searching through it and finding information can be challenging....
It is January 4th and my neighbor's 2026 resolution to get up at 5:50 am and spend an hour running on a treadmill while watching videos at full volume directly on the other side of the wall from my headboard is thankfully at an end.
This year, for my mental health, I'm going to practice just letting people be wrong on the internet.
More evidence that the Trump administration is cozying up to cybermercenaries. The Treasury Dept has removed three people closely affiliated with Intellexa, the company that makes Predator, off a sanctions list:
Treasury removes sanctions for three executives tied to spyware maker Intellexa
The Treasury Department has taken three people closely affiliated with the holding company behind Predator spyware off a sanctions list, reversing ...
RSF discovers Belarusian surveillance malware targeting Android phones, requiring physical access:
Exclusive: RSF uncovers new spyware from Belarus
Reporters Without Borders (RSF)’s Digital Security Lab (DSL), working with the Eastern European organisation RESIDENT.NGO, has uncovered a previo...
I still have a Facebook account because I occasionally need to buy secondhand furniture or see which of the people that I used to know is dead now.
As the year comes to an end, may I interest you in my favorite book of 2025? It's @adapalmer.bsky.social's Inventing the Renaissance:
University of Chicago Press
Inventing the Renaissance
A New Yorker Best Book of 2025An irreverent new take on the Renaissance, which reveals it as anything but Europe’s golden age.From the darkness o...
 You think you don't need a 700+ page romp through mostly Renaissance Italy, but you do.