RT @visegrad24: Video with subtitles of yesterday’s attempted beheading of a young British man by a Somali migrant in Belfast. It’s a hard…

Fun fact: I used a VPN & a throwaway SIM to create the twitter account that got me arrested, when I asked the police interrogator how they found me, they admitted they matched up the details of my stabbing that I posted about on the account to the police report I made. Pure evil

Not mentioning this little detail until paragraph ten is wild. Should be the headline!

Apple and Google are gradually expanding their use of hardware-based attestation. They're convincing a growing number of services to adopt it. Google's Play Integrity API and Apple's App Attest API are very similar. Apple brought it to the web via Privacy Pass, which Google intends on doing too. Google's Play Integrity API requires hardware attestation for the strong integrity level and is gradually phasing in requiring it for the more commonly used device integrity level. Apple already has it as a requirement. Over the long term, this will increasingly lock out hardware and OS competition. The purpose of these systems is disallowing people from using hardware and software not approved by Apple or Google. This is wrongly presented as being a security feature. Banks and government services are the main ones adopting it but Apple and Google are encouraging every service to use it. Apple's Privacy Pass brought hardware attestation to the web to help with passing captchas on their own hardware. Many people saw that as harmless since few sites would be willing to lock out non-Apple-hardware users. Apple and Google are both likely to bring broader hardware attestation to the web. Google's reCAPTCHA is planning an approach where they use Privacy Pass on Apple hardware, their own approach on Google Mobile Services Android devices and a QR code scanning system to require an iOS or Google certified Android device for Windows and other systems: support.google.com/recaptcha… Banking and government services increasingly require using a mobile app where they can use attestation to force using an Apple or Google approved device and OS. Apple's privacy pass, Google's 'cancelled' Web Environment Integrity and now reCAPTCHA Mobile Verification are bringing this to the web. Current media coverage for reCAPTCHA Mobile Verification misunderstands it and the impact of it. They're bringing a hardware attestation requirement to Windows, desktop Linux, OpenBSD, etc. by requiring a QR scan from a certified smartphone to pass reCAPTCHA in some cases. They could expand it more. Control over reCAPTCHA puts Google in a position where they can require having either iOS or a certified Android device to use an enormous amount of the web. Google defines certification requirements for Android which includes forcing bundling Google Chrome, etc. It's enormously anti-competitive. Google's Play Integrity API bans using GrapheneOS despite it being far more secure than anything they permit. It also bans using any other alternative. This isn't somehow specific to an AOSP-based OS. You can't avoid this by using a mobile OS based on FreeBSD instead. You'll just be more locked out. Google's Play Integrity API permits devices with no security patches for 10 years. The device integrity level can be bypassed via spoofing but they can detect it quite well and block it once it starts being done at scale. The strong integrity level requires leaked keys from TEEs/SEs to bypass it. It doesn't provide a useful security feature, but it does lock out competition very well. Services requiring Apple App Attest or Google Play Integrity are primarily helping to lock in Apple and Google having a duopoly for mobile devices. Play Integrity is more relevant due to AOSP being open source. Governments are increasingly mandating using Apple's App Attest and Google's Play Integrity for not only their own services but also commercial services. The EU is leading the charge of making these requirements for digital payments, ID, age verification, etc. Many EU government apps require them. Instead of governments stopping Apple and Google from engaging in egregiously anti-competitive behavior, they're directly participating in locking out competition via their own services. Requiring people to have an Apple device or Google-certified Android device is anti-competition, not security. reCAPTCHA Mobile Verification will currently work with sandboxed Google Play on GrapheneOS but it clearly exists to provide a way for them to start using hardware attestation on systems without it. People without an iOS or Android device will be locked out when this is required even without that. This isn't about security or any missing functionality. GrapheneOS can be verified via hardware attestation. Google bans using GrapheneOS for Play Integrity because we don't license Google Mobile Services and conform to anti-competitive rules already found to be illegal in South Korea and elsewhere. Services shouldn't ban people from using arbitrary hardware and operating systems in the first place. Google's security excuse is clearly bogus when they permit devices with no patches for 10 years but not a much more secure OS. It's for enforcing their monopolies via GMS licensing, that's all.

I will NOT be attending the rally on May 16th in London that @TRobinsonNewEra is organizing and I likely won’t be attending CPAC UK either because the United Kingdom has decided, randomly, that I am unable to travel there any longer because my prescence is “not conducive to the public good”. I have had this ETA travel permission since last May and have been to the United Kingdom about four or five times since then. I didn’t reapply or anything. Today, I just woke up to this notice in my email. They have banned an American citizen from their country for no apparent reason whatsoever. I assume for matters of freedom of speech, but they haven’t clarified. I will most certainly be appealing that decision and applying for a visa through the formal process to see exactly why they’ve deemed me ineligible to come over. Free speech is DEAD in the United Kingdom. Absolutely dead. The Labour government has taken whatever was left of it and destroyed it.

Europe is not losing to the US because it lacks engineers, capital or universities. It is losing because every layer of its system rewards the gatekeeper and punishes the builder. In medicine I see it weekly. A primary care AI that triages, documents and flags risk gets deployed in months in the US and runs into a years long compliance maze in Europe. By the time the European version is approved, the American one has been retrained twice and is cheaper. In energy it is worse. Spain ran 60 percent of April on clean power, then keeps shutting down nuclear plants that work. France stays stable on its grid. Germany burns lignite to compensate for a political decision made in 2011. Industry quietly leaves. In capital markets, an EU founder still raises across 27 fragmented systems while a Texan founder raises once and sells across a continent. None of this is about culture. It is about rules. The continent that gave the world Pasteur, Fleming and Marie Curie is now the one that consults itself to death while others ship. If Europe wants to matter in 2030, it needs less harmonization theater and more permissionless building. Otherwise the talent will keep voting with its feet, and the speeches in Brussels will keep arriving on time.

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🚨No Joke: Conservatives in the EU Parliament (EVP) want the vote on #ChatControl 1.0 to be repeated this Thursday - even though the Parliament already voted NO! 😡 Make sure your MP stays strong. Contact them now! 👉 fightchatcontrol.eu/#contact… Make the voluntary scanning by Gmail, Microsoft, LinkedIn etc stop! 🚨 tuta.com/blog/voluntary-scan…

6 armed police swarm an Englishman at the airport today and drag him into custody. His crime? Posting something "offensive" on Facebook. Unvetted migrant men pour into the country everyday and are put up in hotels at the taxpayers expense. Make it make sense.

Labour have voted to progress the jury trial reforms. Yes: 304 No: 203 Remember, there’s no mandate to erode people’s right to a jury trial. No mandate to ditch a 800 years judiciary system. Let’s hope this shameful bill is dropped at a stage!

So confident in his assessment and public support he blocked replies.

Western nations are bankrupt and unable to become productive again. Expect European governments to: - tax your savings and investments - tax home ownership - tax inheritances up to 100% - increase pension age to 70-75 (work until you die) They're robbing the White middle class to fund brown immigrants and immigrant armies. They're going to kill you but you have to pay for it. The only solution would be a civil war against the government class.

We have laughed countless times about the world-famous EU bottle caps. But take a look at how expensive the implementation was. How is such nonsense even possible? Wouldn’t it make more sense for Europe to invest in new technologies like AI instead?

STATEMENT: What happened in the House of Lords during the Third Reading of the Chagos Bill is unacceptable, and it should outrage anyone who believes in democratic process, parliamentary integrity, and basic fairness. We encourage everyone to watch the video.

Sheriff Chris Swanson, the elected Sheriff of Genesee County, Michigan, is a career law-enforcement officer, not a pundit. He became nationally known in 2020 for prioritizing de-escalation during protests. What he says about the Minneapolis shooting directly exposes how bad MAGA-era policing policies fail. Swanson calls the shooting tragic but predictable. Masked federal agents in unmarked vehicles confronted a 37-year-old woman, gave unclear commands, and then fired three shots as her car was backing up and turning away. The agent who fired was not hit, not run over, and not in the vehicle’s path. Two shots were fired as the car was already driving away. That is not lawful deadly force. That is bad policy producing bad outcomes. Swanson is blunt about the force continuum. You do not shoot people who are fleeing. You do not shoot when you are not in danger. “Tough on crime” slogans do not override use-of-force standards, no matter how loudly MAGA politicians repeat them. What follows is worse. After the woman was shot and crashed, Swanson saw no attempt at life-saving aid. No urgency. No trauma response. He contrasts this with his own deputies, who once returned fire on a suspect who had already killed two people, then immediately tried to save his life anyway. That is professional policing. What happened in Minneapolis was not. He also points to missing body cams and officers leaving the scene instead of securing it for investigation. These are not accidents. They are the results of policies that reward aggression and optics over training and accountability. Swanson makes one thing clear. Calling this out is not anti-police. Blind loyalty is what damages law enforcement. Accountability is what protects it.

Hate is not a crime. Emotions, thoughts and words, however repugnant to some, must be free in a free society. Actions are what laws and enforcement need to constrain.

A VETERAN AND FATHER WAS ARRESTED FOR AN ANTI-MIGRANT SOCIAL MEDIA POST. HE WAS FOUND NOT GUILTY BY A JURY IN 12 MINUTES. THIS IS WHY KEIR STARMER WANTS TO GET RID OF JURY TRIALS.

The Governor of the Bank of England must resign. Earlier this month, I was provided with evidence stating that Andrew Bailey had sent this correspondence to Bank of England staff following my criticism of a Bank internship scheme that specifically excluded white applicants. Bailey sent this message to Bank staff, using Bank of England systems. "Mr Lowe has stooped to a level no politician should ever stoop to. It’s entirely regrettable and frankly we should have no time for this sort of thing." Strict rules specifically prevent Bank staff from acting politically - which this evidently is. I have contacted Mr Bailey, who has just responded with this. "In my message to staff of 24 October, to which you refer in your email, I made these points clear to my colleagues across the Bank who may have had concerns about your comments condemning these programmes as ‘vile’ and as 'racist filth’." This is outrageous. I made fair criticisms of an internship scheme that specifically banned white people from applying. The Bank's independence is of absolute importance, the governor must be impartial and uninvolved in politics - particularly not to use the bank's influence to spread any political messaging against a sitting MP. This is disgraceful behaviour. Andrew Bailey, the Governor of the Bank of England, must resign or be sacked.

Banned from an airline for social media posts. Is free speech not compatible with Virgin Atlantic? I got banned due to my political beliefs. They also banned 2 other friends from flying also for being affiliated. @kirkkappelhoff was not allowed to fly and forever banned. @choeshow is also no longer allowed to fly just for wanting to do his duties as a journalist for @frontlinestpusa do you think their reasons are fair? @virginatlantic @virgin @virginvoyages

🚨 Attention EU Citizens 🚨 💬 Chat Control is a piece of legislation that would mandate all services to scan all private digital communications of everyone residing in the European Union, and it's currently waiting to be green-lit by the EU Parliament tomorrow. According to Dr. Patrick Breyer a digital rights expert and former Member of the European Parliament: "Chat Control is being pushed through the back door, in a form even more intrusive than the originally rejected plan." Read more and how you can get involved to stop this here: patrick-breyer.de/en/chat-co… #chatcontrol #privacy #eu