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@DM_Zeppelin Certainly we need better options than “send us your PII and we honest promise not to leak, sell, or store it.” Because we know how well THAT goes, and somehow they think we’ll keep buying it when they say it. Or be surprised when data keeps leaking.

#AgeVerification #ProtectTheChildren #FreeSpeach #privacy #DataProtection #SecurityTheater

@Independent @news-uk-Independent what a waste of school budget.

Imagine how many nutritious school lunches that could've paid fir!

#Fascism #FearCulture #PoliceStare #Schools #SecurityTheater

This is #securitytheater but it makes me feel good.

Translation:
If somebody tries to access a set of files I know will never exist on the site, assume it's a bot and tell them to go ... "probe" themselves.

$Screenshot of an .htaccess files from an Apache httpd installation. It reads: #Block bots and obvious probing attempts RewriteEngine On RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} /wp- [NC,OR] RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} /\. [NC,OR] RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} \.php [NC,OR] RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} l9scan [NC] RewriteRule .* http://localhost [R=301,L] RewriteCond %{REQUEST_METHOD} ^(POST|DELETE|PUT|PATCH|TRACE|CONNECT)$ RewriteRule .* http://localhost [R=301,L]$

Oh, the irony! 🤦‍♂️ An article about #intelligence blocked by a digital bouncer who can't even recognize a friendly human. #ACM.org proving once again that security theater is the real IQ test. 🚫🧠
https://cacm.acm.org/blogcacm/two-concepts-of-intelligence/ #irony #digitalsecurity #securitytheater #IQtest #HackerNews #ngated

#Kansas’ #KrisKobach Strong-Arms Schools Into #AI Gun Detection

https://realcrime.net/2026/01/17/kansas-kris-kobach-strong-arms-schools-into-ai-gun-detection/

#crime #truecrime #truecrimeblog #crimenews #schoolshootings #thoughtsandprayers #securitytheater

@dkub My recent favorite is a security component that is curved to a specific version for reasons, and will downgrade itself if you upgrade it… even if this puts it into job-functional state and breaks VPN posture tests. Because using the version we tell you is better than things working. 🤦‍♂️

This is further enhanced by WiFi only in corp offices, where WiFi requires VPN to function. Good luck downloading a component upgrade to access VPN! 🤣

#SecurityTheater #corporate #policy #failwhale

‘As the United States should have learned several times over (but it won’t learn this), decapitation of regimes is not the same as breaking the connection between the regime and the state.’
— Vlad Vexler
https://www.youtube.com/live/5JlADBG_6ls?t=176

#VladVexler #Venezuela #Greenland #MarcoRubio #securityTheater #AmericanDecline #internationalOrder

📬 Raspberry Pi Verbot: Maker-Hardware wie Pi & Flipper Zero auf New Yorker Verbotsliste
#ITSicherheit #Veranstaltung #FlipperZero #MakerHardware #NewYorkCity #OpenHardware #RaspberryPi #SecurityTheater #Technikregulierung #Veranstaltungssicherheit https://sc.tarnkappe.info/a7cc0a

Slack's signin procedure is the digital equivalent of boarding an airplane, "security"wise.

One of my favorite "security challenges" is the "verify your email" one. By this point my email has been verified so many times it should have top secret clearance.

#SecurityTheater #cybersecurity #infosec #Slack #tech #dev

Reporters have always faced annoying rules around federal courthouses and such. When I was a cub in Duluth we had to check our tape recorders at the door. We joked it was like Miss Kitty telling us leave our guns with Sam at the bar.

Reporters, of course, are proxies for the public. Are you cool with the executive branch holding secret hearings at the Whipple building? I'm sure as hell not cool with it.

It's an ethos. "Waddya gonna do about it?"

'Even the public lobby has updated rules. A Minnesota Star Tribune journalist was told he couldn’t linger longer than 10 minutes, another had his phone searched for photographs of the daily court docket.

'One court employee told a journalist that staff couldn’t answer any questions. “Especially from reporters.”'

Minnesota’s immigration cases are increasingly held in secret
By Christopher Magan
The Minnesota Star Tribune
https://www.startribune.com/minnesotas-immigration-cases-are-increasingly-held-in-secret/601542378?utm_source=gift

#uspol #SecurityTheater #immigration #deportation

A homeland security officer drives past the Bishop Henry Whipple Federal Building at Fort Snelling in January. (Renée Jones Schneider/The Minnesota Star Tribune)

Ist CIS ein Mist.

Die Konfigdateien sollen 0600 oder restriktiver sein, weil man die Dateien ja von Modifikationen schützen muss.

#SecurityTheater

#AI Mistakes #Clarinet for #Rifle; Causes School Lockdown

https://realcrime.net/2025/12/11/ai-mistakes-clarinet-for-rifle-causes-school-lockdown/

#crime #truecrime #truecrimeblog #crimenews #schoolshooting #thoughtsandprayers #securitytheater

What kind of janky, bottom-shelf robot would not be able to identify motorcycles and crosswalks in pictures?

#captcha #SecurityTheater

#AI #Gun Detector Triggered by “Fingers-In, Fingers-Out” Gesture

https://realcrime.net/2025/12/02/ai-gun-detector-triggered-by-fingers-in-fingers-out-gesture/

#crime #truecrime #truecrimeblog #crimenews #schoolshooting #thoughtsandprayers #securitytheater

Dann halt kein Firmen-Microsoft-Teams auf meinem (!) iPad. Bevor ich mir für ein bisschen Chat das komplette Gerät per MDM vereinnahmen lasse, verzichte ich lieber gern. 🙄#MicrosoftIntune #SecurityTheater #MDM

Screenshot einer Microsoft-Seite: In der Mitte ein Fenster „Help us keep your device secure“ mit Hinweis, die Microsoft Authenticator-App zu installieren und das Gerät zu registrieren. Darunter ein zweites Fenster mit einem Fehlerprotokoll (u.a. Error Code 50127, App name Microsoft Teams, Device platform iOS, Device state Unregistered) und Link zum Melden von Anmeldefehlern.

If Cloudflare really is "verifying" that I'm human with its obnoxious widget, why does it do this for multiple web sites and over and over again for a given web site? Shouldn't it be able to verify I'm human once and for all? What exactly are they doing with their sprawling control of all these web sites if not adding value through economy of scale?

#Cloudflare #SecurityTheater #surveillance #web #tech #dev #DarkPattern

#Arkansas Joins the #Drone Circus

https://realcrime.net/2025/11/25/arkansas-joins-the-drone-circus/

#crime #truecrime #truecrimeblog #crimenews #schoolshooting #thoughtsandprayers #securitytheater