alecm
@alecm@alecmuffett.com
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Things children *really* need: involved parents, good childcare, healthy food, better education, positive body images & even learning how to be safer online. None of them require holes to be drilled in the privacy of the people of the world #noplacetohide
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Shelters from domestic violence & abuse. Dissidents. LGBTQ discrimination. Democracy activists. Oppressed religious minorities. People around the world need strong privacy for many reasons. We can’t & shouldn’t take hope away from them #noplacetohide
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How much harm would happen for want of #EndToEndEncryption? How many bank & medical details, business deals, or innocent (but embarrassing) photographs will leak from unencrypted chats & hacked accounts? How shall we measure *that* cost? #noplacetohide
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“I don’t need #encryption, I’ve nothing to hide!” — if you’re paying a mortgage, getting a diagnosis, escaping an abusive partner, you don’t want that data to proliferate. #EndToEndEncryption gives you control over where the data goes #noplacetohide
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People’s passwords get guessed & stolen. Their accounts get hacked. It happens every day. But if sensitive information is sent via #EndToEndEncryption there’ll be very little data to steal… #noplacetohide
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Ever used an “incognito” window in a browser? If we have to stop kids using #EndToEndEncryption then we’ll also have to stop online anonymity; because to do it they’ll have to know who is, and is not, a kid… #noplacetohide
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Remember #CambridgeAnalytica? Facebook does, & they don’t want to get burned again. But the Government is demanding that they must weaken #EndToEndEncryption to retain access to read your messages. Isn’t that odd? #noplacetohide
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Boris Johnson, Priti Patel, the Cabinet—they use encrypted messenger apps like @WhatsApp & @SignalApp for privacy & security. Strange, then, that they don’t want @Messenger to also be private & secure by using #EndToEndEncryption… #noplacetohide
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If you are giving your children their privacy — or not already protecting your children by supervising their internet usage — why would you ask a corporation to do it on your behalf? #EndToEndEncryption is not the problem… #noplacetohide
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Abandoning #EndToEndEncryption would sacrifice the privacy of the adults who your children will grow-up to become. Directly & indirectly they’ll need and use #Encryption to protect their data and loved ones #noplacetohide
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BBC Radio 4 #FileOn4 “Hunting the #Darknet Dealers” – “…you can find the BBC, for example, on the #darkweb, for that very reason” — normalising #endtoendencryption is essential for progress of information security
Previously https://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/internet/entries/936e460a-03b3-41db-be96-a6f2f27934e6
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Kenya and “the decline of the world’s greatest coffee” — very interesting blog post on the history, production and sale of Kenyan coffee… and what’s wrong with it
On the high end this translates, roughly, to the equivalent of around $1.85 per pound of green coffee—a pretty good price, to be sure—though it pales in comparison with the $5-7 per pound most roasters are used to paying for Kenyan coffee. But the average price paid to producers for cherry translates roughly to $1.42…