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Alec is a technologist, writer & security consultant who has worked in host and network security for more than 30 years, with 25 of those in industry.
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US DoJ tracking, spying upon and listing which Epstein files have been accessed by members of US Congress

2026-02-12 17:27:49

Imagine what they’re doing to you:

Pramila Jayapal: “It is totally inappropriate and against the separations of powers for the DOJ to surveil us as we search the Epstein files. Bondi showed up today with a burn book that held a printed search history of exactly what emails I searched. That is outrageous and I intend to pursue this and stop this spying on members.”

https://www.threads.com/@repjayapal/post/DUosGZRjZFV

https://www.threads.com/@repjayapal/post/DUosGZRjZFV

Excessively Cute Dog Tax: this is Coco, slightly overexcited on yesterday’s walk

2026-02-12 14:55:25

Coco is a Yorkiepoo. She loves to go out on walks to check her daily pee-mails – something which should be a 15 minute walk actually takes about 40 due to phenomenal amounts of snuffling  around hedgerows and signposts, not counting the subsequent bath after spontaneously flinging herself into a pile of fox poo.

I hope this is legit…

2026-02-12 04:48:12

It’s cool if it is:

A friend had Claude spend all night trying to hack into an e-ink display, and gave Claude camera access so it could verify whether an attempt worked. He told Claude to show him a message if it won.

My friend woke up to this victory lap, which Claude didn’t realize was backwards

Ofcom: “pay up, lest we provisionally decide again!”

2026-02-12 04:07:21

Sigh.

MoJ orders deletion of UK’s largest court reporting archive

2026-02-09 22:15:08

Interesting to compare this to government dismay when Meta shut down CrowdTangle; apparently government hates being held to account by third parties:

Enda Leahy, the Courtsdesk chief executive […said]: “We built the only system that could tell journalists what was actually happening in the criminal courts. “HMCTS’s own data proves they can’t do it — their records were accurate 4.2 per cent of the time, 1.6 million cases were heard without any advance notice to the press.

… An HMCTS spokesman said that the press always had and would retain full access to information from the courts to ensure accurate reporting.

https://www.thetimes.com/uk/law/article/moj-orders-deletion-of-uks-largest-court-reporting-archive-27f5zcbb7

MUST WATCH: Superbowl “Ring” surveillance advert, ideal for organising lynchings, quelling protest, etc…

2026-02-09 18:15:49

It’s worth clicking through to see all of the outrage and wonder how many of these people have not been paying attention to what’s being done in the name of “child safety”, let alone finding lost dogs:

Here's that Ring #SuperBowl commercial:

Phil Lewis (@phillewis.bsky.social) 2026-02-09T03:55:52.514Z