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The more I think about it, the more I realise quite what a *genius* ploy #messenger #interoperability is for those who want to surveil the world or resist it gaining “mass end-to-end encryption” #IOP
Interoperability as currently called-for … extends the social graph beyond individual platforms so that they crosslink with each other, leak disjoint identities, etc; see: XKeyScore sows confusion regarding any particular platform’s security (“…am I using E2E in this group chat, or not?”) any new, secure platform that gets big will be hobbled eventually, to the
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MatrixDotOrg actively calling for everyone’s security to be weakened so that perhaps more people will adopt them
Unroll 2/ No exaggeration about “extremism” here, for instance this is today’s blogpost from @matrixdotorg regarding the proposal, and frankly I am horrified in multiple dimensions that they could propose any of this, for the following reasons: 3/ In reverse order: THE WHOLE POINT of an end-to-end encrypted environment is that “your data” is locked
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Explaining fundamental problems of the EU #DMA demanding instant #messenger #interoperability, via fun analogies with food & sex — #endtoendencryption #e2ee
Thomas Urbain (AFP) Thanks for getting back to me. Here are some questions: What are the main issues with implementing interoperability for messaging apps ? Would it require standard protocols to be implemented by all participating players ? How far are we from it becoming a reality ? Could end to end encryption work from
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Notes for interview with @DanMilmo in saturday’s @Guardian regarding @Twitter, @TorProject and bypassing censorship
Dan asked me some questions in respect of an upcoming article, and this is what I wrote in response, as well as one additional postscript which I added for Dan, and another postscript from another conversation I had elsewhere, which I am sharing here for relevance. Very little of my input survived the editing process.
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Why offer an Onion Address rather than just encourage browsing-over-Tor?
There are a bunch of reasons to launch an onion site, and a bunch of benefits, all of which have provided value to platforms such as Facebook, the BBC or NYT Onions. The first benefits are authenticity and availability: if you are running Tor Browser and if you click/type in exactly the proper Onion address,
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Notes on mining the #facebookcorewwwi onion address
Seeing as it has been conveniently leaked by Frances Haugen, I thought it would be nice to write briefly on the mining of the (now defunct) Version-2 Tor Onion address which was known as “facebookcorewwwi” — the v2 onion-address for Facebook. As already reported — because we shared that much — the onion address was a
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On Nuclear War and Eating cold Pop-Tarts
I was going to simply quote-tweet "Can confirm" to this hilarious and accurate joke; but then I made the mistake of reading the replies from butthurt younguns shouting "…but when did Gen-X fear World War 3?" People: It literally defined our generation. I got a degree in astronomy is that amongst all the US-Soviet tub-thumping
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Increasingly frantic attempts by the #AgeVerification & #OnlineSafetyBill community to dissuade people of the obvious logic that…
Increasingly frantic attempts by the #AgeVerification & #OnlineSafetyBill community to dissuade people of the obvious logic that: in order to exclude a community from a website, just as much as to include one, in both cases you MUST process their data: I believe that the rationale is this: that the #ChildProtection and #OnlineSafety advocates DO
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“UK government opens consultation on medic-style register for Brit #infosec pros”
#HEADSUP — I blogged the screencapped post in 2013, and turns out that I was right: "UK government opens consultation on medic-style register for Brit #infosec pros" …it's a great and obvious way for Gov't both to whip-in dissent from the UK infosec community: Props to @GazTheJourno for the article: https://www.theregister.com/2022/01/25/ukgov_cybersecurity_profession_regulation_ukcsc/ My original concern was
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![The Fallacy of “Privacy vs: [Children’s] Safety”: why Privacy always wins over any singular concern, and why deployment of #EndToEndEncryption is essentially a binary choice, explained for #NoPlaceToHide](https://alecmuffett.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/Screenshot-2022-01-20-at-23.07.34.png)
The Fallacy of “Privacy vs: [Children’s] Safety”: why Privacy always wins over any singular concern, and why deployment of #EndToEndEncryption is essentially a binary choice, explained for #NoPlaceToHide
The #NoPlaceToHide campaign has, as-ever, flushed out a lot of argument like this: This is pretty easily explained and dismissed; but first, a quick digression. Metcalfe’s Law (and its nitpicks) There’s a famous law of communications that the ‘value’ (whatever that means) of a ‘network’ increases as the square of the number of participants; this
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How #NoPlaceToHide is cover for creation of #DigitalStopAndSearch for the Global Internet
https://www.theregister.com/2022/01/20/no_place_hide_campaign_anti_e2ee_ukgov/ Re: this @GazTheJourno observation that he makes about #NoPlaceToHide, deserves a LOT of public discussion: > prevents them from trawling through conversations at random and seizing on anything they don’t like the look of… Quite. This is #DigitalStopAndSearch: This is a point which I made to Baroness @NickyMorgan01 but have not yet heard back