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Crazy. It’s not like there’s scary precedent for this or anything‼️
Federal Judge Approves #Trump Effort to Extract #List of #Jews From #Penn
The decision to allow the #government to collect the names & phone numbers of #Jewish people on campus could allow the government to pursue similar tactics elsewhere.
#law #Holocaust #EthnicCleansing
nytimes.com/2026/03/31/us/poli…
Federal Cyber Experts Thought Microsoft’s Cloud Was “a Pile of Shit.” They Approved It Anyway.
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A federal program created to protect the government against cyber threats authorized a sprawling Microsoft cloud product, despite the company’s inability to fully explain how it protects sensitive data.
propublica.org/article/microso…
#News #Microsoft #Cybersecurity #Government #Technology #Tech #Cloud
🆕 blog! “How Can Governments Pay Open Source Maintainers?”
When I worked for the UK Government I was once asked if we could find a way to pay for all the Open Source Software we were using. It is a surprisingly hard problem and I want to talk about some of the issues we faced.
The UK Government publishes a lot of Open Source code - nearly everything…
👀 Read more: shkspr.mobi/blog/2026/03/how-c…
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#government #money #OpenSource
"Every single time you mandate #ageverification, you are mandating the creation of a centralized database of extraordinarily sensitive personal information. Government IDs. #Biometric facial data. The kind of data that, once breached, cannot be “changed” like a password. You get one face. You get one #government ID number. When those leak—and they will leak—the damage is permanent."
techdirt.com/2026/02/25/hacker…
Hackers Expose The Massive Surveillance Stack Hiding Inside Your “Age Verification” Check
We’ve been saying this for years now, and we’re going to keep saying it until the message finally sinks in: mandatory age verification creates massive, centralized honeypots of sensitiv…Techdirt
