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Welcome to the Online Regulation Analogy Collection
Unrolled: Welcome to the Online Regulation Analogy Collection: speech as everything that it isn’t (and certainly not as the freedom that underpins all other freedoms). Prompted by the ever-lengthening list of analogies invoked to justify why a discretionary regulator should take control of what we say online. #OnlineHarms #OnlineSafetyBill Speech is not a protruding nail
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Conversations with @bricksilk / David Anderson QC
A couple of threads: Hi David! I work with various civil society organisations re: end-to-end encryption, having formerly been an engineer at both FB & SunMicrosystems. I know that it's dangerous to argue by analogy in this space, but I would be interested to know your perspective on the following: In the USA alone, provision
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A Wolf in Child-Protection’s Clothing: “This legislation should not be interpreted as prohibiting or weakening end-to-end encryption” — it’s amazing to see Governments framing future attacks upon end-to-end encryption, by simply denying that they are…
Take a look at the attached, and think about not the words that it says, but the outcomes of infrastructures which would be needed in order for them to be implemented: all images which are shared on social media, will need to be checked against registers of “prohibited content” and matches will have to be
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So the Prime Minister’s phone number leaked; what could possibly go wrong? (recap thread)
The Prime Minister uses both WhatsApp & Signal, and presumably appreciates the benefits of end-to-end encrypted communication. Unless the UK moves towards a "one rule for politicians, another for everyone else"-approach, if Boris can have end-to-end encrypted crypto, so can we. In case you're not aware, the Prime Minister's excessively-old phone number just leaked, online,
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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