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#News: Recent 📉 mass firings of 7000 #IRS employees in the USA jeopardises the #audits of super rich millionaire and billionaire taxpayers in the #US meaning significant tax liabilities will remain uncollected. #Corruption. More via @ICIJorg icij.org/inside-icij/2025/03/a

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  • I think having a proper #API is a way to facilitate that, cuz worst-case one just slaps together some #aliases in #bash, #fish, #zsh or whatever #shell and just uses #curl to query stuff manually as this solves the whole #WebApp - issue.

And I do prefer #FLOSS as it works fine for an ever increasing audience!

  • Even if we choose to point at bad #UX / #UI combos like #GnuPG, we've to also acknowledge better existing alternatives like #enc that just work!

Personally, I think that everything people are expected to use if not forced to use should be #OpenSource as licensed in a #OSI accredited license and be released with #SourceCode and #documentation to make #reproduceableBuilds and thus facilitate #audits by truly independent parties...

  • And if that's not possible any requirement to using said things should be outlawed no matter the context!

A unsarcastically good example is #S3, even tho I hate #amazon, they wanted #developers to integrate their #ObjectStorage which necessitated an #open source'd API to the point that it's #backend is inherently reproduceable, and now every halfassing #Webhoster offers S3 #storage, sometimes with bit & second-precise billing.

🔑🔒 A modern and friendly CLI alternative to GnuPG: generate and download keys, encrypt, decrypt, and sign text and files, and more. - life4/enc
GitHubGitHub - life4/enc: 🔑🔒 A modern and friendly CLI alternative to GnuPG: generate and download keys, encrypt, decrypt, and sign text and files, and more.🔑🔒 A modern and friendly CLI alternative to GnuPG: generate and download keys, encrypt, decrypt, and sign text and files, and more. - life4/enc

In the future the 1975 Church Committee hearings will replay in the 2020's and the findings will prove to be even worse in public hearings especially when the domestic #AMER from #Meta's #GangStalker forum #databreach hits the front pages of the domestic / international #news with the same response as per Meta usual.

#CALEA ☣️🔍👀 #Malware #audits ☣️🔍👀

#RTDNA #TorturePrograms #Meta ☣️ #StateSponsoredMalware ☣️ #CALEAMalware ☣️ #GreyMarket ☣️ #investigations ☣️ 🔍👀👀

Don't forget the ♻️📨📥📲 #HistoryLoops #APnews 🔍👀👀

#SIC 🤝 #HIC 🤝 ⚖️ 🤝 👨‍⚖️🤝👩‍⚖️🤝📰

Sweeping bill to overhaul #SCOTUS would add 6 justices

The legislation by Sen #RonWyden (D-OR) is one of the most ambitious efforts to date to remake the #SupremeCourt following
controversies over rulings & #ethics.

A sweeping bill introduced by a Democratic senator Wednesday would greatly increase the size of the Supreme Court, make it harder for the justices to overturn #laws, require justices to undergo #audits & remove roadblocks for high court #nominations.

#law
washingtonpost.com/politics/20

The Washington Post · Sweeping bill to overhaul Supreme Court would add six justicesBy Justin Jouvenal
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Auch wenn die primären Inhalte von #Apps, Web- oder Cloud-Anwendungen hinter einer #Anmeldung geschützt sind, könnten indirekte Informationen oder #Metadaten über die öffentliche Schnittstelle (#API) für KI-Modelle zugänglich sein und dementsprechend auch gescannt und analysiert werden. Deshalb ist es heute wichtiger denn je, umfangreiche und ganzheitliche #Sicherheitsstrategien zu implementieren.