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Sometimes I read the threads that experienced activists write about how to behave at protests because it reminds me that the kinds of replies I get when I give digital privacy/security advice aren't just for me.

We are 9 days into 2026 and my New Years' Resolution to just let people be wrong on the internet is already is truly testing the limits of my willpower.

If you don't want ICE to know you were at a protest, taking a burner phone is not going to help you stay anonymous if you go home afterwards.

404 Media

Inside ICE’s Tool to Monitor Phones in Entire Neighborhoods

404 Media has obtained material that explains how Tangles and Webloc, two surveillance systems ICE recently purchased, work. Webloc can track phone...

Ten years ago, if someone had told me that tech policy bloggers would be calling for ICE to be abolished, I would have thought it very unlikely. "Abolish ICE" is an increasingly mainstream and extremely correct position.

Techdirt

Abolish ICE Before They Kill Again, Impeach Trump & Noem Before They Incite More Murder

Renee Nicole Good was a 37-year-old award-winning poet, a mother of a six-year-old, and a wife who had recently moved to Minneapolis. That all ende...

Me: I wish that alternatives to Twitter were well-developed enough that I could use them to follow developing news stories. *Monkey's paw closes shut*

Bryan Fleming, founder of stalkerware company pcTattletale has pled guilty to charges of computer hacking, the sale and advertising of surveillance software for unlawful uses, and conspiracy. Sometimes bad things happen to bad people and I get to do a little dance.

TechCrunch

Founder of spyware maker pcTattletale pleads guilty to hacking and advertising surveillance software | TechCrunch

Bryan Fleming, the founder of hacked stalkerware company pcTattletale, pleaded guilty to federal charges linked to the running of his now-defunct M...

All that the Turing Test proves is that human are much, much stupider than Alan Turing ever suspected.

Want to know how to track Homeland security spending by looking through government databases? EFF's Dave Maass has put together a handy how-to:

Electronic Frontier Foundation

The Homeland Security Spending Trail: How to Follow the Money Through U.S. Government Databases

The U.S. government publishes volumes of detailed data on the money it spends, but searching through it and finding information can be challenging....

It is January 4th and my neighbor's 2026 resolution to get up at 5:50 am and spend an hour running on a treadmill while watching videos at full volume directly on the other side of the wall from my headboard is thankfully at an end.

This year, for my mental health, I'm going to practice just letting people be wrong on the internet.