If you live in San Francisco, today is a good day to familiarize yourself with the San Francisco Rapid Response Network, which has a 24-hour hotline for reporting ICE raids, actually verifies those raid reports, and does attorney activation: https://sfilen.org/resources/sf-rapid-response-network/

The primary advantage of using Signal over WhatsApp is that Signal does not store metadata. Just sayin'.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/the-wiretap/2025/10/21/ice-spies-on-whatsapp/

I deleted my post about the Discord hack because the compromise was a third-party support service and not a third-party dedicated age verification system. Collecting user IDs is still bad and they are hard to protect, but being accurate in my posts is also important.

Every once in a while, an org in my space puts out a paper in my area of expertise that is so bad that all I can do is hope that no one bothers to read it.

As the prophecy foretold, a major platform's third-party age verification system has been hacked and hackers had access to the government ID images of Discord's users.

https://www.tomsguide.com/computing/online-security/discord-users-suffers-the-first-high-profile-age-verification-hack-and-its-unlikely-to-be-the-last

I will definitely be doing more versions of my cyberfascism keynote, mostly because I want more opportunities to get on stage and yell, "Less complying in advance and more 'Fuck you, make me!'"