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This thread on @Fesshole, yet the @NSPCC & @ukhomeoffice are still attempting to frame the lack of end-to-end encryption as a “good” thing:
Even if the database was “encrypted data at rest”, the database administrator needs to be able to have query-access to the database content, so without encryption which restricts content access to the directly involved “participants”, the problem would persist.
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How Phone Scams Work, & How To Avoid Them
In case you’re not familiar with how phone and email scams work, Mark Rober – a former NASA engineer who now makes fun YouTube videos for a living – released this great little explainer which uses glitterbombs to get some payback, and also helps people understand the scams so they can stop them happening. It’s…
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Is it just me, or once you buy a #3DPrinter, you start to carry a vernier caliper with you everywhere you go? #Prusa
Analogue. No batteries required. 🙂
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Need coffee to wake up
I feel seen. Need coffee to wake up byu/privatemachine inespresso
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Watch “I Made A Water Computer And It Actually Works” on YouTube – props to @MouldS @standupmaths
Ever since I watched a Tim Hunkin documentary when I was maybe-a-teenager, I decided that if I had an infinite amount of spare time — or even if I didn’t have to spend my time trying to stop people from hampering access to cryptography in myriad of ways — then I would love to spend time…
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There’s no way to put this sympathetically, but the most positive thing to reshape our increasingly cynical & toxic attitudes towards online communication in the past 25 years, has been the pandemic lockdown. Example:
This week I’ve written extensively about misguided attempts to mandate online accountability as a cure-all for abuse, and also regarding how hard it is to find positive stories being told about the network and about communication, because the Internet – being decentralised – has no advocates. But there are charming, positive stories about people leveraging…
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Republican Politics and the @OpenTechFund: how populist Trumpian ideology nearly killed internet freedoms in supposed pursuit of “advancing” them
There’s this fantastic article from NPR — which I whole-heartedly recommend — detailing the rise of Michael Pack as the Trump-partisan head of the U.S. Agency for Global Media. If you would like some further background to the issues there is this piece from Vice in June 2020 which explores the issues which the NPR…
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Why it will take at least another “generation” – 20..30 years – for online communication to fix itself, if we stop chasing legislative mirages and get started now.
Yesterday I posted this article about how the #SaveAnonymity hashtag has apparently won us temporary respite from proposals to “fix online abuse by requiring registration”. There’s more to it than that, of course, but that blogpost is over there. 🙂 As usual I forwarded the article to both Twitter & Facebook, and a friend (who…
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As a friend described it: A Wikipedia entry from the year circa 2080; #scifi short, well worth reading in full…
https://qntm.org/mmacevedo MMAcevedo (Mnemonic Map/Acevedo), also known as Miguel, is the earliest executable image of a human brain. It is a snapshot of the living brain of neurology graduate Miguel Álvarez Acevedo (2010–2073), taken by researchers at the Uplift Laboratory at the University of New Mexico on August 1, 2031. Though it was not the first successful snapshot…
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We mustn’t let it go unremarked that #SaveAnonymity appears to have successfully hushed the #TrackATroll & #HarveysLaw efforts from @KatiePrice – for the moment. Here’s what we also learned re: #AgeVerification #AgeAssurance & #VoCO
The silence is … notable. Not deafening, not shocking, there are still a handful of amped-up people on Twitter asking what has happened regarding Katie Price’s “Harvey’s Law” . Recap Katie proposes that that British people should sign up for social media accounts using strong identity credentials like driving licenses, passports, or (presumably) bank documents,…
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I have a lot of sympathy for @ByDonkeys, but in the light of their current campaign I have to ask: what WOULD have happened in Northern Ireland if we had closed the borders due to Covid?
“Nothing good”, is my only answer so far. Campaign video here: