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An emoji showing all fingers and thumb held together in a vertical orientation, sometimes referred to as the Italian hand gesture ma che vuoi (or "finger purse"). …emojipedia.org
From a G7 meeting of interior ministers in Paris this month, an "outcome document": Encourage Internet companies to establish lawful access solutions for their products and services, including data that is encrypted, for law enforcement and competent authorities to access digital evidence, when it is removed or hosted on IT servers located abroad o...www.schneier.com
The Five Eyes -- the intelligence consortium of the rich English-speaking countries (the US, Canada, the UK, Australia, and New Zealand) -- have issued a "Statement of Principles on Access to Evidence and Encryption" where they claim their needs for surveillance outweigh everyone's needs for security and privacy. ...the increasing use and sophistic...www.schneier.com
Microsoft announces it will shut down ebook program and confiscate its customers' libraries. Just another reminder that DRM is hostile towards users.
https://boingboing.net/2019/04/02/burning-libraries.html
Welcome to the Royal Academy TIE on Mars! Vika is ready to fight to be the best, Minerva wants to lose her V-card with David, while Miranda's emotions are her worst enemy. Meanwhile, the senpai Faith and Samantha (best frenemies forever) watch over all of them. Be ready to answer the question: is there LOVE on Mars?tapas.io
(CC-BY-NC 2.5) There are lots of very smart people doing fascinating work on cryptographic voting protocols. We should be funding and encouraging them, and doing all our elections with paper ballots until everyone currently working in that field has retired.xkcd.com
Windows app to remember + restore window positions - lapo-luchini/WindowsLayoutSnapshotgithub.com
In mathematics, the surreal number system is a totally ordered proper class containing the real numbers as well as infinite and infinitesimal numbers, respectively larger or smaller in absolute value than any positive real number. The surreals share many properties with the reals, including the usual arithmetic operations (addition, subtraction, mu...en.wikipedia.org
