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ECP NetHappenings What happens when your told DMs are Private

What happens when your told DMs are Private

Peter Girnus @gothburz
I work at Slack.

We tell employees their DMs are private.

And they are.

Mostly.

Look, when we say “private” we mean private between you and the person you’re messaging.

And your admin.

And HR.

And legal.

And whatever compliance tool your company bought.

And the export logs.

And the backup systems.

And anyone with a court order.

But other than that, totally private.

We’re very clear about this in our documentation.

Page 47.

Section 12.

Subsection C.

Paragraph 8.

The part nobody reads before they trash-talk their manager at 11pm.

Here’s what employees don’t understand.

When you delete a message, you’re just deleting it from your view.

The message still exists.

In exports.

In backups.

In the retention policy.

It’s like closing your eyes and thinking you’re invisible.

The data belongs to the company, not you.

We say this right in our terms.

Workspace owners control everything.

They decide how long messages are stored.

Sometimes it’s 30 days.

Sometimes it’s forever.

Hope you didn’t say anything spicy in 2019.

Enterprise customers get extra features.

Full message exports.

Metadata tracking.

Who messaged whom.

When.

How often.

Communication patterns.

It’s for “compliance.”

It’s for “legal needs.”

It’s for “regulatory requirements.”

It’s definitely not for micromanagement.

We’re very careful to explain that admins can’t see messages in real-time.

They have to formally request an export.

Fill out some forms.

Click some buttons.

Maybe wait an hour.

Very high barrier.

Almost impossible to abuse.

The key takeaway is simple.

Treat Slack like work email.

Not like WhatsApp.

Not like Signal.

Just because it looks like a chat app doesn’t mean it works like one.

If a message could cause trouble when HR reads it, don’t send it.

This is empowering employees with knowledge.

If you wouldn’t say it in the break room with your manager behind you, don’t type it in Slack.

That’s privacy.

Informed privacy.

Enterprise-grade informed privacy.

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When Corrupt Politicians Start Going To Jail, Then We Can Start Trusting The Government Again.

PRIVACY

Clearview AI / Law Enforcement Facial Recognition (2017-present)
Clearview AI scraped over 10 billion photos from social media and sold facial recognition access to 3,100+ law enforcement agencies.
Police upload a photo and get identity matches from your public posts.
You posted a photo three years ago.
Police use it to identify you at a protest today.
Courts haven’t required warrants because the photos were already public.
Fourth Amendment protects against unreasonable searches.
Clearview turned your face into permanent probable cause.

AI Datasets

AI NEEDS TO BE POISONED, SO LET’S POISON IT.

With Twitter’s new update, I want to remind artists that you can use Nightshade to help protect your art by poisoning your art. This confuses AI and causes AI to see your work as something entirely different than what is presented.
NIGHTSHADEhttps://nightshade.cs.uchicago.edu/whatis.html
USER GUIDE https://nightshade.cs.uchicago.edu/userguide.html

Nightshade is free and works by adding a subtle layer of artifacting to your art, which poisons AI datasets and causes AI generated images to melt and degrade. PEOPLE Recommend turning your art into Videos instead since Grok can’t edit videos at this time.
Lavendertowne made an amazing video a year ago talking about Nightshade and what it does to protect your work.
Here is a great video made by Roxane Lapa on What Nightshade does and How to use it:
https://youtu.be/onGm0Kf7CQA
It should be noted, Nightshade (and Glaze) only works to poison training data. *Still use it!* That said keep in mind that Grok “Edit Image” does *Image2Image* alteration and that function itself is not affected by Nightshade or Glaze. Making images GIF’s atm is best for that.At this moment turning your artwork into GIFS work. But honestly, would be best if you just turn it into a video. Since Grok can’t alter gifs or videos at this time.

JACK SMITH

Former Special Counsel Jack Smith is demanding that Jim Jordan release the full video of his Judiciary Committee testimony.
Smith says the American people deserve to hear directly why he believes Donald Trump committed crimes, not filtered talking points or political spin.
Release the tapes. Transparency or admit the cover-up.

THE DONALD SMOKING GUN

Before the donald was elected the first time. I always thought it was outrageous how nobody really dug out about it. Disgusting. Sworn declaration filed in #Trump child rape case. Tiffany Doe Dec. makes out a charge under ManAct 18 USC 2422(b). No statute of limitations.18 USC 3299.
https://x.com/TimInHonolulu/status/786338233160392704

The media is purposely avoiding and ignoring all of this the smoking gun, the Miss USA and Teen USA Pageants start with Billy Bush the Host, Nancy O’dell start there and go down the rabbit hole. This is very dangerous.Bush co-hosted the Miss Universe pageant four times: in 2003 and 2004 with Daisy Fuentes; in 2005 with fellow Access Hollywood co-anchor Nancy O’Dell; Billy Bush dropped by NBC after Trump tape about groping women leaked
Bush and Donald Trump can be heard laughing about women, and GOP nominee bragged that a famous person ‘can do anything’ to them without consent
https://www.vice.com/en/article/trump-teen-beauty-pagent/

14 Year Old Rape Victim

Earlier this year @RonWyden revealed Epstein’s Treasury file

showed 4,725 wire transfers totaling nearly $1.1 billion—all from a single bank account.
The Epstein files show JP Morgan’s involvement.
It’s time for @SecScottBessent + Trump Admin to stop blocking the release of these SARs and FINCEN records so we can hold accountable the elites that were involved in Epstein’s sex trafficking operation.
Pass Wyden’s Produce Epstein Treasury Records Act (PETRA) now and force Trump admin to stop covering up these financial records.

Proud Navy Veteran @naretevduorp
The Epstein Files Are Central to America’s Authoritarian Drift
Many people treat the Epstein files as a standalone scandal. They are not. The way those files have been controlled, fragmented, and insulated from real accountability reflects the same logic driving America’s authoritarian drift:
Power is protected, truth is managed, and consequences are reserved for those without status or leverage.
Shielding powerful figures from accountability, as seen in the controlled handling of the Epstein files, is a textbook marker of authoritarian drift in the United States.
Authoritarian systems do not abolish laws outright; they selectively enforce them, ensuring consequences fall on the powerless while the elite remain insulated.
When evidence involving influential individuals is withheld, delayed, or fragmented, the justice system ceases to function as an equal arbiter and instead becomes a tool of regime stability and elite protection. This dynamic teaches the public that truth is negotiable, accountability is conditional, and power, not law, determines outcomes.
Over time, such normalization erodes democratic trust, discourages civic resistance, and reinforces a hierarchy where loyalty and status override transparency and justice, moving the country closer to a managed, authoritarian model rather than a constitutional democracy.

DEPORT IMMIGRANT ELON MUSK
IS HERE ILLEGALLY

Elon Musk is one of Donald Trump’s biggest supporters in ridding the country of illegal immigrants but nobody talks about the fact that he also held the classification himself! He obtained his citizenship illegally shouldn’t he be treated exactly like any other illegal immigrant? Absolutely. ICE should come and put his ass in a detainment camp, then put his ass on ConAir straight to South Africa. Piece of shit.

DESTROY THE METRICS DESTROY THE TRUTH

On Trump’s orders, the National Center for Atmospheric Research will be shut down after more than 50 years as a leader in global research on climate science and monitoring. This is what authoritarian science looks like.
https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/trum-health-misinformation-propaganda/

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ECP NetHappenings How to Increase Your Privacy on the Net

Patrick’s AIBuzzNews @AIBuzzNews

I deleted my entire digital footprint. You can too. Here’s how I did it:
https://x.com/AIBuzzNews/status/2002020994643370033

Step 1: Erase Your Traces

Visit: https://myactivity.google.com/?continue=https://myactivity.google.com/myactivity

Click on ‘Delete’.

Use the “Filter by Google product” option to pinpoint areas like Google Maps or Video Search.

Step 2: Go Invisible

Want to clear your entire internet history? It’s just one option away. Pick your option Choose your time period, then hit delete whatever amount of time you want. 

Step 3: Stay Private

Disable Google Activity tracking to stop Web and App Activity, Location History, and YouTube History from being recorded.

Step 4: Automate Privacy

Navigate to https://myactivity.google.com/?continue=https://myactivity.google.com/activitycontrols

Set an auto-delete for your data to regularly clear out old entries.

Step 5: Secure Your Connection

Use a VPN for secure, private browsing in public.
Combine it with DuckDuckGo for the ultimate privacy setup.
Good free version: ProtonVPN
Good paid version: NordVPN

Your Passwords
Keep existing accounts safe. Make it a habit to change your passwords for services every 3-6 months.

Why?

New hackers gain access to databases daily, and they might use that information to attempt hacking into your accounts or target you personally in the future.

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KEEPING SILENT WILL NOT PROTECT YOU
CALL YOUR CONGRESS PEOPLE EVERY DAY
ENTER YOUR ZIP CODE
https://www.congress.gov/members/find-your-member

America has no king, and any man who proclaims himself one should be removed. The Declaration of Independence, U.S. Constitution, and Federalist Papers are clear.

Republican Mitch McConnell, the longest-serving Senate party leader in history, won’t seek reelection next year.

VIDEO Trump’s ‘LONG LIVE THE KING’ Post Sparks Fears of Dictatorship we review Trump’s shocking “LONG LIVE THE KING!” post—an alarming embrace of monarchical power as he dismantles federal agencies and erodes democratic norms.

Hegseth’s proposed “cuts,” were quickly reframed as “offsets” that are going to be used to fund other military-related efforts favored by Trump, including an “Iron Dome for America.”

Serious question: where are the Democrats in opposition?
We need daily misinformation press briefings/fact checks. Daily focused media appearances by the best DEM Senators and House Members. Governors. Focused. Raw. Consistent. Opposition.

Howard Lutnick, Trump’s billionaire buddy turned commerce secretary, has confirmed that the administration was simply lying to MAGA supporters about not touching Social Security and Medicare.

LMAO, it looks like DOGE canceled the Security and Exchange Commission’s Westlaw access, because Elon’s team saw “Thomson Reuters” and thought it had to do with the news agency.

SCIENCE UPDATE

COVID-19 can cause brain cells to fuse.
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1892184756034347424.html
paper https://www.openread.academy/paper/reading?corpusId=259109341

Guess what we also learned in 2023?
“Researchers at the University of Miami reported what they believe are the first two confirmed cases in which the SARS-CoV-2 virus crossed a mother’s placenta and caused brain damage in the infants they were carrying.” https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/covid-caused-brain-damage-2-infants-infected-during-pregnancy-us-study-2023-04-06/

Genome modeling and design across all domains of life with Evo 2
AI can now model and design the genetic code for all domains of life with Evo 2
Arc Institute develops the largest AI model for biology to date in collaboration with NVIDIA, bringing together Stanford University, UC Berkeley, and UC San Francisco researchers
https://github.com/ArcInstitute/evo2/tree/main/evo2

HOLY SHIT IT’S HAPPENING
AI can now model and design the genetic code for all domains of life with Evo 2
Arc Institute develops the largest AI model for biology to date in collaboration with NVIDIA, bringing together Stanford University, UC Berkeley, and UC San Francisco researchers

AI cracks superbug problem in two days that took scientists years

Prof Penadés’ said the tool had in fact done more than successfully replicating his research. “It’s not just that the top hypothesis they provide was the right one,” he said. “It’s that they provide another four, and all of them made sense. “And for one of them, we never thought about it, and we’re now working on that.”

Scented products cause indoor air pollution on par with car exhaust

More than 300 researchers and educators rallied outside the John F. Kennedy Federal Building in downtown Boston on Wednesday to protest President Donald Trump’s attempted cuts to federal funding for research.
“What do we want? Robust indirect cost rates. When do we want them? Now!”

TAX THE RICH

TAX THE RICH This isn’t rocket science.
 Elon is worth 2x what he was worth a year ago. Bezos added $41B more & Zuckerberg added $75B more than a year ago. They want to justify tax cuts for themselves at the expense of average Americans. This isn’t rocket science.

Senator Chris Murphy: “Will you commit to denying access to Elon Musk or any of his representatives to information about labor violation investigations at the Department of Labor?”
Trump Labor Secretary Nominee Lori Chavez-DeRemer does not commit.

Anonymous @YourAnonNews
This is how you know there really isn’t a deep state – because if there was they would have taken out not just Trump but every single person associated with him.
We would have thought there would be some kind of fallback measures if the US was co-opted by the enemy – there isn’t.

US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has launched a new cyber unit to combat cryptocurrency fraud.
Indeed, the agency announced the arrival of its Cyber and Emerging Technologies Unit (CETU) in a press release issued Thursday. Led by Laura D’Allaird, it will replace the Crypto Assets and Cyber Unit, the press release said. Moreover, it will consist of “30 fraud specialists and attorneys across multiple SEC offices.” It will complement the work of the agency’s Crypto Task Force, acting chair, Mark Uyeda, announced.

Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, Yale School of Management:
“Trump’s economic package frightens CEOs. It’s extremely inflationary.
It’ll lead to an increase in inflation and plunge the GDP. They don’t want the fabric of society pulled apart.” (June 2024)

This motherfucker MUSK needs to be indicted and questioned under oath.
The Trump administration has just told a federal judge in a court filing that it will not comply with the court’s order to resume funding for USAID and State Department foreign assistance.

DOGE recommended firing workers at: -FDA, which oversees Neuralink -FAA, which oversees SpaceX -USAID, which probed Starlink -CFPB, which oversees Tesla’s financing arm and a potential payment platform on X. “Conflict of interest” is a severe understatement.

FORT KNOX KNOCK KNOCK

TRUMP AND ELON ARE GOING TO FORT KNOX TO COUNT THE GOLD
He’s gonna steal it.
Please be on a lookout for Elon’s secret service armored Tesla vans.

Fast!
Bring the lead bars!
And the gold paint!
The Orange One is incoming!
Auditing all the gold in Fort Knox would be a massive undertaking. The U.S. Bullion Depository at Fort Knox holds about 147.3million ounces (4,580 metric tons) of gold.
The last full audit of Fort Knox’s gold was in 1953, and even that was only a partial audit, taking about three months with over 250 auditors involved.
A full, modern audit would involve:
• Verifying each gold bar (which are mostly 400-ounce bars, meaning there are about 368,000 bars total).
• Weighing and testing purity of samples.
• Documenting and reconciling records.
If a team of 50 auditors inspected 1,000 bars per day, it would take about one year to complete a full audit. A larger team or faster technology (like automated scanning and A1-assisted verification) could speed up the process significantly. However, security and logistics would still make it a long and complex task.

The CyberTruck is 17 times more likely to have a fire fatality than a Ford Pinto!!!! @NHTSArecalls @NHTSAgov
https://fuelarc.com/evs/its-official-the-cybertruck-is-more-explosive-than-the-ford-pinto/
Fun fact: a cybertruck battery weighs around 1600 lbs and has 123 kWh available which means that if the battery pack is ruptured by a collision or an IED it can unleash 4.428e8 joules of energy which is enough to incinerate tf out of all passengers and anyone standing nearby.

SECURITY

An audit by the New York state comptroller’s office found that the Office of Information Technology Services lost track of 17,887 devices, including desktops and laptops meant for state agencies scoopmedia.co/419kgDP

Chinese hackers use custom malware to spy on US telecom networks

Rep. Marcy Kaptur @RepMarcyKaptur
Where does the accumulated debt of this country come from? It comes from Republican Presidents going back to Ronald Reagan. 3/4 of the accumulated debt of this country is due to Republican Presidents who didn’t pay for their spending—so much for Republican’s being the party of fiscal responsibility.

NEXT TIME A REPUBLICAN TELLS YOU THAT “SOCIAL SECURITY IS BROKE,” REMIND THEM THAT PRES. BUSH “BORROWED” $1.37 TRILLION OF SOCIAL SECURITY SURPLUS REVENUE TO PAY FOR HIS TAX CUTS FOR THE RICH AND HIS WAR IN IRAQ…
AND NEVER PAID IT BACK.
AMERICANS AGAINST THE REPUBLICAN PARTY

Every privacy policy translated:
‘We’re going to collect everything and share it with everyone, but legally”

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