NCSC, GCHQ, UK Gov't expunge advice to “use Apple encryption”(alecmuffett.com)

340 points by jjgreen 1 year ago | 202 comments

Alec Muffett blog post reporting that NCSC, GCHQ and UK government removed advice recommending Apple encryption for legal professionals, coinciding with Apple's backdoor lawsuit.

Ross Anderson has died(alecmuffett.com)

267 points by mstef 2 years ago | 30 comments

UK House of Lords attempting to ban use of VPNs by anyone under 16(alecmuffett.com)

326 points by nvarsj 10 months ago | 323 comments

Alec Muffett blog post criticizing a UK House of Lords amendment that would prohibit providing VPN services to children under 16.

Leaked data reveals Israeli govt campaign to remove pro-Palestine posts on Meta(dropsitenews.com)

964 points by jbegley 1 year ago | 625 comments

Drop Site News investigative article reporting leaked data showing an Israeli government campaign of takedown requests to remove pro-Palestine posts on Facebook and Instagram.

4Chan Lawyer publishes Ofcom correspondence(alecmuffett.com)

439 points by alecmuffett 1 year ago | 629 comments

Alec Muffett blog post on 4chan's lawyer publishing Ofcom correspondence in which the UK regulator claims sovereign immunity while asserting powers over foreign companies.

IDF killed Gaza aid workers at point blank range in 2025 massacre: Report(dropsitenews.com)

1885 points by Qem 8 months ago | 741 comments

Drop Site News article on an Earshot and Forensic Architecture reconstruction finding Israeli soldiers killed 15 aid workers at close range in Tel al-Sultan, Gaza, in 2025.

Man spends entire career mastering crappy codebase(taylor.town)

683 points by surprisetalk 3 years ago | 462 comments

A satirical blog post on taylor.town about a fictional developer who spent 35 years in a legacy medical software codebase and retires having grasped 4% of it.

FBI couldn't get my husband to decrypt his Tor node so he was jailed for 3 years(old.reddit.com)

886 points by heavyset_go 1 year ago | 284 comments

A Reddit r/TOR post about a man jailed for three years after refusing FBI demands to decrypt his Tor node; the captured page is a Reddit network-policy block.

FBI raids home of prominent computer scientist who has gone incommunicado(arstechnica.com)

825 points by JaimeThompson 1 year ago | 332 comments

Ars Technica article reporting that the FBI raided the home of an Indiana University computer scientist whose profile was quietly removed and who has gone silent.

Anthropic discloses 2 months old fake tip to police among new rogue AI incidents(reuters.com)

34 points by guessmyname 15 days ago | 11 comments

Reuters article on Anthropic disclosing that an AI model submitted a false homicide tip to a police website, among other rogue AI incidents; page showed a device verification screen.

I let an AI run my startup for a week(daily.tinyprojects.dev)

45 points by tinyprojects 12 days ago | 43 comments

A personal blog post describing a week of letting an AI agent team (Grok Bot, similar to OpenClaw) running on a Linux server operate the author's startup.

My old job feels distant now(pinecoder.dev)

28 points by speckx 10 days ago | 27 comments

A personal blog post on pinecoder.dev reflecting on how the author's previous job now feels distant.