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@MarcHochstein
VP, editor for @glxyresearch at @galaxyhq. This is my personal account (work: @MarcAtGalaxy). Views my own. Ex-journo @coindesk @amerbanker ~fodrex-malmev
Shocker- I don’t like the Tea app. But my opinion is not about men vs women, or even dating. It’s about the degree to which we are normalizing surveillance without consent, and how (XOJane voice) it happened to me. Link in replies.
That’s insane. Kudos to @dragonfly_xyz for supporting privacy tech. Important for the entire space to support Roman, Dragonfly and Tornado Cash.
Dragonfly invested into PepperSec, Inc., the developers of Tornado Cash, in August of 2020. We made this investment because we believe in the importance of open-source privacy-preserving technology. Prior to our investment, we obtained an outside legal opinion that confirmed that…
wtf I love Wikipedia now
Gab, 4Chan, Sanctioned-Suicide, Kiwi Farms, and Wikipedia are the first five websites on the planet to refuse to implement the OSA. Wikipedia is the first major OSA defector. Soon, every American will realize that the Brits can't override the First Amendment.
OK maybe we should defund...
In essence, "decolonizing your bookshelf" is about actively resisting and casting aside the colonialist ideas of narrative, storytelling, and literature that have pervaded the American psyche for so long, says @itsjuanlove. trib.al/VKxyuRp
Just a few minutes after the Online Safety Act went into effect last night, Proton VPN signups originating in the UK surged by more than 1,400%. Unlike previous surges, this one is sustained, and is significantly higher than when France lost access to adult content.
Identity isn’t found inside you or in the crowd. It’s forged at the moment you’re willing to disappoint your own tribe.
Tea required users to upload selfies and IDs, and collected IP addresses. This week, that data was leaked. It never should have been collected. It’s a liability. We need to stop normalizing KYC and unnecessary data collection online.
I guess the Tea app also stored GPS location for sign-ups? Lol, when you think it couldn't get much worse. My homie actually created these maps apparently, and I didn't even know until like 5 mins ago. Lawsuit WEN?
“The safest database is the one that never existed.”
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I dislike Tea for the same reason that I dislike people posting photos of people they saw on the subway with an unsubstantiated story of them being assholes cartoonshateher.com/p/i-was-target…
Interesting thread from a litigator on the Hulk Hogan vs. Gawker case. Famously, this case was funded by Peter Thiel with the goal of destroying Gawker, which it succeeded in doing. Medieval era common law had a prohibition on this exact kind of conduct, which was called…
With Terry Bollea's (Hulk Hogan's) death yesterday, it's a good time to look back at the biggest thing I was ever involved in. For over 3 years, I spent more than half of my worktime on one case-- Bollea v. Gawker. It was Charles Harder's case-- I handled "the appeal side".
Just a reminder: Hulk Hogan didn't kill Gawker. Gawker committed suicide at this particular moment:
The Tea app thing is wild because it was obvious that the the platform represented online sociopathy being ratcheted up a notch that would eventually boomerang but I expected that to take months or years, not 24 hours.
interesting behind-the-scenes rundown of the Gawker legal drama
With Terry Bollea's (Hulk Hogan's) death yesterday, it's a good time to look back at the biggest thing I was ever involved in. For over 3 years, I spent more than half of my worktime on one case-- Bollea v. Gawker. It was Charles Harder's case-- I handled "the appeal side".
If there was ever an example for why need an open and privacy preserving digital ID standard. You should be able to prove your ID card says something, like your age or in this case your gender, without revealing your address
It turns out that the "Tea" app DOXXES all its users by uploading both ID and face verification photos, completely uncensored, to a public bucket on their server
Zohran Mamdani is a prison abolitionist. If he's elected, he would have the opportunity to oversee the release of 7,000+ New York City inmates. And to achieve that dream, all he has to do is ... absolutely nothing. My latest @PirateWires
I think people should be very suspicious of any new apps that demand sensitive information. People spend more time reading code than writing code. Vibe coding does more to accelerate writing code than reading it. Software quality and security is going to get very ugly.
Tea app has allegedly been hacked, they used a public bucket to store drivers licenses of users and someone has downloaded them. Tea was likely a vibe slop app