2026-02-05 16:48:44
If foreign intelligence controlled events, the mass killings across hundreds of cities would be impossible to explain. If such networks were real, a security state that tracks teachers and workers with such meticulous attention to detail would have arrested at least one of these supposed agents in advance. The story collapses under the slightest pressure, but it survives because it is useful. Once protesters are renamed “foreign agents,” their deaths stop raising questions. Violence becomes logical. Memory becomes dangerous.
2026-02-05 05:07:51
Sad to lose one concrete positive:
One of CIA’s oldest and most recognizable intelligence publications, The World Factbook, has sunset. The World Factbook served the Intelligence Community and the general public as a longstanding, one-stop basic reference about countries and communities around the globe. Let’s take a quick look into the history of The World Factbook.
https://www.cia.gov/stories/story/spotlighting-the-world-factbook-as-we-bid-a-fond-farewell/
2026-02-04 21:23:35
There is just so much confusion and outrage as people who have never done computer forensics are suddenly faced with millions of corrupted PDF renditions of 7-bit text attempting to carry 8-bit & Unicode characters
2026-02-01 01:10:15
Printer go brrrrr…
2026-01-31 01:45:35
…which will likewise fail; not to mention that there is nothing in the supposed demand which cannot already be implemented using TLS
“the human-killing AI robots demand end-to-end encrypted privacy”
2026-01-30 22:39:35
[EFF is] launching Encrypt It Already, our push to get companies to offer stronger privacy protections to our data and communications by implementing end-to-end encryption. If that name sounds a little familiar, it’s because this is a spiritual successor to our 2019 campaign, Fix It Already, a campaign where we pushed companies to fix longstanding issues.
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/01/introducing-encrypt-it-already