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Bill Budington

@legind.bsky.social
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@eff Threat Lab Senior Staff Technologist. Rust enthusiast. Anarchisting without adverbs. My posts are my own. 🏴
Interests include #DnD, #Hacking, #Anarchism, #Rustlang, and general nerddom.

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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 03/12/2024
Catching a student using a Flipper Zero should be a teachable moment, not a crime, EFF’s @legind.bsky.social and @zoracon.bsky.social wrote in an op-ed for Deseret.
deseret.com
Opinion: Students’ tech skills should be nurtured, not punished
Subjecting students to the criminal justice system for tech pranks is unjustified and only squelches the kind of curiosity that educators should seek to encourage in students.
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Bill Budington @legind.bsky.social · 08/10/2024
Remember when what’s his name took over Twitter and remade it into American History X
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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 14/08/2024
"If this information is disclosed…it means that a malicious actor could glean information on you to open new lines of credit, or impersonate you," EFF’s @legind.bsky.social told Sacramento's KCRA3. "Taking some precautions is prudent right now."
kcra.com
Hacking group claims to have stolen billions of personal records. How to protect yourself
National Public Data, a company that provides background checks and fraud prevention, said "a third-party bad actor" tried to hack into its data with some potential leaks.
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Bill Budington @legind.bsky.social · 17/07/2024
Palm pay
Pompay
Pompeii 
When the firewalls fell!
Split image. Top: Amazon One device at a market, allowing one to pay with their palm. Bottom: Alien from Star Trek: The Next Generation “Darmok”
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yomna @rival-elf.bsky.social · 16/05/2024
(1/3) News about what I've been working on for the last ~3 years to improve cellular security @ Android! Android now newly supports notifications if your phone connects to a network without encryption, or if your IMSI/IMEI/SUCI are disclosed in the clear (can help detect IMSI-catcher attacks).
security.googleblog.com
I/O 2024: What’s new in Android security and privacy
Posted by Dave Kleidermacher, VP Engineering, Android Security and Privacy Our commitment to user safety is a top priority for Android. ...
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DCoder🇱🇹❤️🇺🇦 @dc0d3r.name · 13/09/2023
Since we’re talking about the Mastodon experience again:
Panel 1: Emperor Palpatine in his storyteller role: “Did you ever hear the story of the Year of the Linux Desktop?”

Panel 2: the Mastodon mascot shrugging its arms: “Hmm?”

Panel 3: Emperor Palpatine, smirking: “It’s not a story the open source people would tell you. It’s a Slashdot shitpost. Linux had the best technology, but it despised users
so much it refused to improve their experience. Ironic. It could present humanity with freedom, but couldn’t present itself.”

Panel 4: the mascot showing him a thumbs-up gesture: “That’s a cool story, grandpa. Sorry, just saw some people joining the default mastodon instance. Gotta go tell at them they’re using it wrong and they should migrate to an instance that best matches their interests. Bye!”
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evacide @evacide.bsky.social · 28/12/2023
Since we're talking about compromised internet-connected cameras in homes, you may be interested in EFF's advice on how to keep your smart home private and secure, written by @legind.bsky.social: www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...
eff.org
Keeping Your Smart Home Secure & Private
Here at EFF, we fight hard to ensure your security and privacy rights are maintained in the digital world. Back when we were founded in 1990, a dream of a world united by the internet was accompanied
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Bill Budington @legind.bsky.social · 17/07/2023
A word association game with the term “ML” is the quickest way to tell if someone is primarily a leftie, a techie, or a normie.
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Bill Budington @legind.bsky.social · 24/06/2023
Seems Napoleonic, How very ironic, When half a million French men freezed In that same Russia Wagner seized
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Bill Budington @legind.bsky.social · 03/05/2023
Us 10 years ago: You’ll USE Pidgin with the OTR plugin over XMPP and you’ll LIKE it
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Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald.bsky.social · 10/04/2023
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