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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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It’s almost hard to work out which country this is meant to be about…

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.

https://www.valigiablu.it/iran-protest-2026-what-happens/

Spotlighting The World Factbook as We Bid a Fond Farewell | CIA

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/

Prediction: if it hasn’t happened already there will soon be a massive media story about “Quoted Printable” encoding, possibly including somebody getting shot because of it

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

next, after age verification, will come “proof of humanity” …

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”

Introducing Encrypt It Already | Electronic Frontier Foundation

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