Root-based remote attestation of client devices against the user's interests should simply be illegal in any liberal democracy, just like how selling user data without consent or exfiltrating user data to hostile foreign countries is. There is legitimate use for this technology for the user to attest a server, or for one of your devices to verify the other (as e.g. GrapheneOS allows you to do), but this kind of use of the tech must stop.

The German govt is rolling out a digital driver's license:

https://www.heise.de/news/Digitaler-Fuehrerschein-kommt-Ende-November-11509430.html

And, from day 1 - in 2026, yes - it only works on OS images allowlisted by two American companies, Google and Apple. Sanctioned by the US government, like e.g. the ICC judges? Can't use your _German_ digital driver's license.

In any sane society this would have been flagged as a massive issue and have simply stopped the app from launching in the first place.

@9to5Mac Typically Apple!

@mtconleyuk comedy is legal again

@stux 👍👍👍 Souhlasím. Dobře vyjádřeno.😀

Democracy to Black, Hispanic, Muslim, young, and progressive voters - and women: THANK YOU.
Democrats must not fail you again.
As for uneducated, white, male voters: Go back to your caves or change your ways.

@aras @lisyarus TAA ghosting is getting out of hand

Study Claims #Vizio Simply Ignores ‘Smart’ TV Spying Opt Out Requests

https://www.techdirt.com/2026/11/02/study-claims-vizio-simply-ignores-smart-tv-spying-opt-out-requests/

#privacy #SmartTV #IoT

@Vivaldi trying to really promote Vivaldi, one challenge is around syncing of profiles for 365 users - hate to say but Edge has the edge - there’s no SSO for Vivaldi right ?

But won’t somebody please think of the billionaires?

Every single county. By double digits.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2026-elections/south-carolina-senate-results

#USPol

Now I need to find out why Patrick Hodgson is accelerating out of control.

#meme #humour

@koen_hufkens @lyonsinbeta Uh.. uh… what do we do sir?

I know: Let’s declare December as Pride Month 2: Electric Boogaloo!

@mrowster I hope all these people are ready to work, because there is a LOT to do, at least in my neck of the woods.

NH has had a really rough time the last few years, as the target of a Libertarian takeover of our state. They have kinda merged with MAGA to create a coalition that is tearing our schools apart, decimating state revenue, etc.

(If you haven't heard of the Free State Project... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_State_Project)

And most of the people responsible for the smoothness with which this election proceeded are relatively anonymous, toiling away at the unglamorous work that quietly keeps democracy running. We owe them all a great debt.

hannah

✨ c a t ✨ #Cats #MastoCats #catsofmastodon

Unfortunately, it looks like political BS is infecting threat reports now.

This morning a journalist asked my opinion on this attack campaign, referencing a Crowdstrike writeup: https://www.crowdstrike.com/en-us/blog/vapor-panda-uses-artex-to-scale-global-campaign/

The first paragraph already had my eyebrows comically high (emphasis mine):

CrowdStrike OverWatch identified a VAPOR PANDA campaign using ARTEX alongside the Chinese-developed DeepSeek large language model (LLM) and a second commercial LLM to conduct intrusions against multiple high-value targets in parallel.

Oh really? This is what we're doing now? We're making sure everyone knows DeepSeek is CHINESE DEVELOPED, but not even naming the US models used by the attacker? (Claude and Grok, by the way)

Zscaler's writeup is 1000% better in terms of listing all the actual facts, regardless of whether they might put the company's respective CEOs in an awkward situation at a dinner party with AI leaders at some point.

https://www.zscaler.com/blogs/security-research/threat-actor-abuses-agentic-ai-pentesting-framework-target-south-korean

Both shamelessly push products in the recommendations section, but that's par for the course.