#circumvention — Public Fediverse posts

Pluralistic: The three armies fighting for the post-American world (05 May 2026)

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://pluralistic.net/2026/05/05/three-is-a-magic-number/

From Gourmet Tools to Self-Serve Building Blocks: Scaling Resilience with Shared Language and Reuse

In my SplinterCon keynote tomorrow: think in self-serve capabilities – Resolve, Shape, Carry, Relay, Choose – not monolithic "gourmet" tools.

Users ask which tool works. Providers need to ask what is being targeted, how, and which capability is missing.

May 5, 12:05 PM EDT / 18:05 CET

Register: https://splintercon.net/splintercon-online/

#SplinterCon #InternetFreedom #Circumvention

Most of the discussions about the impact of the latest generative AI systems on copyright have centred on text, images and video. That’s no surprise, since writers, artists and film-makers feel very strongly about their creations, and members of the public can relate easily to the issues that AI raises for this kind of creativity. But there’s another creative domain that has been massively […]

Most of the discussions about the impact of the latest generative AI systems on copyright have centred on text, images and video. That’s no surprise, since writers, artists and film-makers feel very strongly about their creations, and members of the public can relate easily to the issues that AI raises for this kind of creativity. But there’s another creative domain that has been massively […]

Most of the discussions about the impact of the latest generative AI systems on copyright have centred on text, images and video. That’s no surprise, since writers, artists and film-makers feel very strongly about their creations, and members of the public can relate easily to the issues that AI raises for this kind of creativity. But there’s another creative domain that has been massively […]

Most of the discussions about the impact of the latest generative AI systems on copyright have centred on text, images and video. That’s no surprise, since writers, artists and film-makers feel very strongly about their creations, and members of the public can relate easily to the issues that AI raises for this kind of creativity. But there’s another creative domain that has been massively […]

Most of the discussions about the impact of the latest generative AI systems on copyright have centred on text, images and video. That’s no surprise, since writers, artists and film-makers feel very strongly about their creations, and members of the public can relate easily to the issues that AI raises for this kind of creativity. But there’s another creative domain that has been massively […]

Pluralistic: Tools vs uses (16 Mar 2026)

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://pluralistic.net/2026/03/16/whittle-a-webserver/

“The Diary of a Young Girl” is a Dutch language diary written by the young Jewish writer Anne Frank while she was in hiding for two years with her family during the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands. Although the diary and Anne Frank’s death in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp are well known, few are aware that the text has a complicated copyright history – one that could have […]

Google Built Its Empire Scraping The Web. Now It’s Suing To Stop Others From Scraping Google

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.techdirt.com/2025/12/24/google-built-its-empire-scraping-the-web-now-its-suing-to-stop-others-from-scraping-google/

Google Built Its Empire Scraping The Web. Now It’s Suing To Stop Others From Scraping Google

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.techdirt.com/2025/12/24/google-built-its-empire-scraping-the-web-now-its-suing-to-stop-others-from-scraping-google/

Google Built Its Empire Scraping The Web. Now It’s Suing To Stop Others From Scraping Google

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.techdirt.com/2025/12/24/google-built-its-empire-scraping-the-web-now-its-suing-to-stop-others-from-scraping-google/

Google Built Its Empire Scraping The Web. Now It’s Suing To Stop Others From Scraping Google

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.techdirt.com/2025/12/24/google-built-its-empire-scraping-the-web-now-its-suing-to-stop-others-from-scraping-google/

A theoretical way to circumvent Android developer verification

https://enaix.github.io/2025/10/30/developer-verification.html

#HackerNews #AndroidDevelopment #Circumvention #SecurityResearch #DeveloperVerification #HackerNews

Reddit’s ‘AI Scraping’ Lawsuit Is An Attack On The Open Internet

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.techdirt.com/2025/10/24/reddits-ai-scraping-lawsuit-is-an-attack-on-the-open-internet/

Friday, October 3, 2025

https://activitypub.writeworks.uk/2025/10/friday-october-3-2025/

Friday, October 3, 2025

https://activitypub.writeworks.uk/2025/10/friday-october-3-2025/

Friday, October 3, 2025

https://activitypub.writeworks.uk/2025/10/friday-october-3-2025/

Friday, October 3, 2025

https://activitypub.writeworks.uk/2025/10/friday-october-3-2025/

Friday, October 3, 2025

https://activitypub.writeworks.uk/2025/10/friday-october-3-2025/

US defense secretary circumvents the official communications equipment

https://www.electrospaces.net/2025/04/how-us-defense-secretary-hegseth.html

#HackerNews #USDefenseSecretary #Circumvention #Communications #Equipment #SecurityIssues #MilitaryTech

US defense secretary circumvents the official communications equipment

https://www.electrospaces.net/2025/04/how-us-defense-secretary-hegseth.html

#HackerNews #USDefenseSecretary #Circumvention #Communications #Equipment #SecurityIssues #MilitaryTech

US defense secretary circumvents the official communications equipment

https://www.electrospaces.net/2025/04/how-us-defense-secretary-hegseth.html

#HackerNews #USDefenseSecretary #Circumvention #Communications #Equipment #SecurityIssues #MilitaryTech

US defense secretary circumvents the official communications equipment

https://www.electrospaces.net/2025/04/how-us-defense-secretary-hegseth.html

#HackerNews #USDefenseSecretary #Circumvention #Communications #Equipment #SecurityIssues #MilitaryTech

US defense secretary circumvents the official communications equipment

https://www.electrospaces.net/2025/04/how-us-defense-secretary-hegseth.html

#HackerNews #USDefenseSecretary #Circumvention #Communications #Equipment #SecurityIssues #MilitaryTech

@caitp

Tough to forbid it - but Canada could remove the DRM anti-circumvention parts of our copyright law that were added solely to satisfy the USA and its copyright monopolists.

Then Canadian companies could make, and you could buy and use, a teeny little HDCP-stripper box so every TV would work with any device.

#DRM #circumvention #AntiCircumvention #copyright #DMCA

Block Mirror: Dystopian Site-Blocking Triggers Circumvention Innovation

https://torrentfreak.com/block-mirror-dystopian-site-blocking-triggers-circumvention-innovation-250413/

#OpinionArticles #circumvention #siteblocking #blackmirror #Spain #iptv

Cory Doctorow's (@pluralistic) blog post for today is a speech he gave last night at the University of Toronto, the annual Ursula Franklin Lecture at Innis College.

It's worth reading:

https://pluralistic.net/2025/02/26/ursula-franklin/

It connects the dots between anti-circumvention copyright laws like the USA's Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) (and the Canadian copycat legislation) and the enshittification that ensues when Big Tech does ... well, practically anything. There's a specific example he uses that is horrifying. He also shows exactly how Big Tech has escaped what he identifies as the usual four factors for keeping the worst instincts of companies in check.

I agree with him that we should annul the anti-circumvention law on the books, and would go further in saying that we should explicitly enshrine in law the rights to alter, repair, remove etc. any functionality of products and services that we choose to use. I was one of the original 6,000 Canadians who submitted comments warning against the implementation of these restrictions to our government at the time, and my feelings in support of this are stronger than ever.

Give it a read.

Attached image: I think this is probably overdue.

#CoryDoctorow #DMCA #circumvention #AntiCircumvention #DRM #enshittification #e14n #speech #UniversityOfToronto #InnisCollege #DigitalLock #RightToRepair #BigTech #Google #Facebook #Amazon #Microsoft #Canada #tech #software

Cory Doctorow's blog entry today:
https://pluralistic.net/2025/01/13/wanting-it-badly/

... is well worth reading. All of it is good, but I think the part discussing the evils of DRM is particularly in need of reading by many people. FWIW, I was one of the ~6k people who wrote to the Canadian government to try to get them to not pass an anti-circumvention bill. Unsuccessfully.

#CoryDoctorow #Pluralistic #DRM #Canada #DMCA #RightToRepair #circumvent #circumvention #AntiCircumvention

yeah, #deltachat cares for #encryption #circumvention #proxy #pfs #securityaudits #pgp #zerotrust #securemessaging and the like ... but did you know next #iOS version will have ADAPTIVE ICONS!!!11!!ONE1!

yeah, #deltachat cares for #encryption #circumvention #proxy #pfs #securityaudits #pgp #zerotrust #securemessaging and the like ... but did you know next #iOS version will have ADAPTIVE ICONS!!!11!!ONE1!

yeah, #deltachat cares for #encryption #circumvention #proxy #pfs #securityaudits #pgp #zerotrust #securemessaging and the like ... but did you know next #iOS version will have ADAPTIVE ICONS!!!11!!ONE1!

yeah, #deltachat cares for #encryption #circumvention #proxy #pfs #securityaudits #pgp #zerotrust #securemessaging and the like ... but did you know next #iOS version will have ADAPTIVE ICONS!!!11!!ONE1!

yeah, #deltachat cares for #encryption #circumvention #proxy #pfs #securityaudits #pgp #zerotrust #securemessaging and the like ... but did you know next #iOS version will have ADAPTIVE ICONS!!!11!!ONE1!

How an “absolutist position” seeks to block even minor copyright exemptions, and usually succeeds

The Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) was passed in the US in 1998, at an early stage of the shift to a digital world, with little concern for the serious harm it would cause as everything became suffused with software. The problem is that the DMCA prevents circumvention of copyright protection measures (generally known as “digital rights management”, or DRM), even if the purpose of […]

#absolutistPosition #circumvention #dmca #DRM #esa #exemptions #iceCream #ifixit #mcdonalds #publicKnowledge #rightToRepair #section1201 #usCopyrightOffice #videoGames

https://walledculture.org/how-an-absolutist-position-seeks-to-block-even-minor-copyright-exemptions-and-usually-succeeds/

Man-in-the-Middle PCB Unlocks HP Ink Cartridges https://hackaday.com/2024/09/28/man-in-the-middle-pcb-unlocks-hp-ink-cartridges/ #ReverseEngineering #man-in-the-middle #PeripheralsHacks #circumvention #inkjetprinter #drm

Man-in-the-Middle PCB Unlocks HP Ink Cartridges - It’s a well-known secret that inkjet ink is being kept at artificially high prices... - https://hackaday.com/2024/09/28/man-in-the-middle-pcb-unlocks-hp-ink-cartridges/ #reverseengineering #man-in-the-middle #peripheralshacks #circumvention #inkjetprinter #drm

https://greatfire.org remains one of the most impressive, resilient, and important anti-censorship projects I know. Zero fluff. 100% innovative, direct, on-the-ground action that actually makes a difference. Something that's frustratingly rare.

#anticensorship #china #gfw #circumvention

We updated our donation page with new cryptocurrency addresses and included QR codes for all of them to make donating to Unredacted easier.

Check it out! https://unredacted.org/donate/

#privacy #security #censorship #circumvention #xmr #monero #zcash #dash #bitcoin #etherium

I always maintained that #piracy is a natural reaction not only to #greed, but to #poverty. As we progress into more rapacious #DRM practices that punish the #customer more than those finding alternative ways, #regulators who fight piracy, #jailbreaking & #circumvention, & work on related #research, should also work on preventing the ever #empowered #AntiConsumer tendencies. & they should pick up that selectively #lazy pace.

https://pluralistic.net/2023/12/08/playstationed/#tyler-james-hill

@riley

> As for the "illegal" clones seized on import, I believe these are typically taken under
> patent law and/or trademark law, not DMCA.

Nope; anti-circumvention provisions of the DMCA are used to seize imports all the time in the USA.
https://torrentfreak.com/u-s-border-seizures-of-dmca-circumvention-devices-surges-180309/

#circumvent #circumvention #AntiCircumvention #DMCA #copyright #FairUse

Crypto Exchanges Must Comply With Russia Sanctions, Singapore Central Bank Says

https://news.bitcoin.com/crypto-exchanges-must-comply-with-russia-sanctions-singapore-central-bank-says/

#monetaryauthority #Cryptocurrencies #serviceproviders #cryptoexchanges #cryptoplatforms #Cryptocurrency #circumvention #restrictions #CentralBank #fundraising #pro-Russian #prohibition #Exchanges #Sanctions #Singapore #Measures #evasion #russian #Ukraine #Crypto #Groups #Russia #ban #MAS #War