Notices by Eva (evacide@mastodon.lol)

If you are discussing your abortion and you live in a place where abortion is now essentially illegal, please remember to speak only to people you trust and remember to use end-to-end encrypted comms with disappearing messages turned on.

https://www.texastribune.org/2023/03/10/texas-abortion-lawsuit/

Oh look. It's another one of those things that Team You're Overreacting swore to me was totally not going to happen after Dobbs:

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/03/texas-republican-wants-isps-to-block-a-wide-range-of-abortion-websites/

This is your regular reminder that “pre-crime” is a lie. Using surveillance to predict crime does not work and disproportionately targets marginalized people and communities.

https://www.crikey.com.au/2023/02/22/auror-crime-intelligence-surveillance/

There is a CIA booth at SXSW, just in case you're wondering how that event is now.

Again, for the people at the back: deterring stalking is more important than deterring the theft of property. People's safety is more important property. Even your property. Even my property. Even stuff I would be very angry at having stolen.

Tile makes a tracker app so that you can detect unwanted Tiles following you around, and now they have announced an "anti-theft mode" that makes the Tile undetectable to the detection app. Way to miss the fucking point.

This is your regular reminder that you CANNOT make a physical tracker that tracks thieves without alerting them without also creating a perfect tool for stalkers.

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/02/16/bluetooth-tracker-tile-has-new-approach-for-stopping-thieves-stalkers.html

7 abortion providers are ready to switch to misoprostol-only medication abortions if a judge bans the main abortion pill, mifepristone, nationwide. That ruling could happen as soon as this Friday.

Pretty much everything that Team "you're overreacting" insisted would never happen after Dobbs is, in fact, happening. It's almost as if they were not arguing in good faith this whole time.

https://jezebel.com/mifepristone-ban-misoprostol-only-abortions-in-the-us-1850083070

The city of Vallejo was about to be forced to disclose evidence of its many police shootings, so they just went ahead and destroyed it:

https://openvallejo.org/2023/02/05/vallejo-destroyed-evidence-of-police-killings/

Meta has reinstated Trump on all of its platforms without consulting with its Oversight Board. So that's fun.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/01/25/trump-facebook-reinstated-meta/

"With AI, now any idiot can write malware!"

As a security researcher, I can assure you that idiots have been writing malware for quite some time.

When I do a Google search for my name, the very first related searches are usually "age" and "husband." I suspect this is true for just about every woman of note, which makes me sad. I did a few searches on the names of prominent men in infosec and "age" occasionally showed up in related searches, but "wife" did not.

That's it. I've found it. This is the energy I am bringing into 2023.

Pour one out for all of the security practitioners who are going to have to spend the holidays patiently explaining that using a password manager is still good, actually, to people who have glanced at a headline about the latest LastPass breach.