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ChatControl wants to scan all your private messages
The European Union wants to force tech companies to scan your private messages & images, even in your favorite encrypted apps.
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ChatControl wants to scan all your private messages
The EU is pushing legislation that would scan all our private messages, even in encrypted apps.

macaques: Japanese macaques (1976)
Dominance interactions among a group of adult female Japanese macaques (Macaca fuscata fuscata), observed during a non-mating season in 1976. Edge weights represent the frequency of interaction.
This network has 62 nodes and 1187 edges.
Tags: Social, Animal, Weighted
https://networks.s…

Oh boy, don't miss today's Metacurity for the most critical infosec developments you should know, including
--Second major security issue in the Tea app exposed user messages,
--Aeroflot canceled more flights due to a cyberattack but claims it has stabilized,
--Global Group claims attacks on media giants RTÉ and Albavisión,
--Flaw in Gemini Command Line Interface allowed RCE,
--Malware was hidden in Endgame Gear peripherals,
--Senate to take up Pla…

Second major security issue in the Tea app exposed user messages
Aeroflot canceled more flights due to a cyberattack but claims it has stabilized, Global Group claims attacks on media giants RTÉ and Albavisión, Flaw in Gemini Command Line Interface allowed RCE, Malware was hidden in Endgame Gear peripherals, Senate to take up Plankey nom, much more

Faculty Job!
Associate Professor/Professor - Dr. Davindra Singh Chair in Sikh Studies, University of Toronto Mississauga.
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A second security breach at Tea exposes more than 1.1M user messages, dating from early 2023 to as recently as last week, many containing sensitive information (404 Media)
https://www.404media.co/a-second-tea-breach-reveals-users-dms-about-abortion…

A Second Tea Breach Reveals Users’ DMs About Abortions and Cheating
The more than one million messages obtained by 404 Media are as recent as last week, discuss incredibly sensitive topics, and make it trivial to unmask some anonymous Tea users.

«In the 1950 book “The Human Use of Human Beings,” the computer scientist Norbert Wiener […] argued that modern societies were run by means of messages. As these societies grew larger and more complex, he wrote, a greater amount of their affairs would depend upon “messages between man and machines, between machines and man, and between machine and machine.” Artificially intelligent machines can send and respond to messages much faster than we can, and in far greater volume—that’s one source …

This Company Wants to Bring End-to-End Encrypted Messages to Bluesky’s AT Protocol https://www.404media.co/this-company-wants-to-bring-end-to-end-encrypted-messages-to-blueskys-at-protocol/

macaques: Japanese macaques (1976)
Dominance interactions among a group of adult female Japanese macaques (Macaca fuscata fuscata), observed during a non-mating season in 1976. Edge weights represent the frequency of interaction.
This network has 62 nodes and 1187 edges.
Tags: Social, Animal, Weighted
https://networks.s…

Beautiful day today. Both morning and evening. Also, power lines.