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Freedom in the digital age

Big picture take on the bleak future of Digital Liberty, and the necessity to act.

https://libresolutions.network/articles/state-of-cyberspace/

I’ve written before that every technological evil has “a very simple engineering solution, but a hard collective action problem to fix”. This means that improving your own digital experience very often requires the cooperation and participation of others. This is the main reason why this project, the Libre Solutions Network exists. We need others to understand and value each other’s privacy, security, and digital independence. The first step is education, and we’re going to need a lot of teachers.

https://libresolutions.network/articles/computer-literacy/

Lots to learn about Online Safety, AI, and the fall of institutions in our latest chat with VN Alexander.

https://libresolutions.network/videos/we-are-not-machines/

You've self-hosted your own stuff.

But are you self-hosting FAST?

https://gabe.rocks/tech/self-hosted-speed/

Thrilled to be mentioned in Anti-Moonboy news 44 for the piece on Zano

https://antimoonboy.com/posts/amn44/

Would be neat to see a version of this that also includes data from #nostr relays

Our first #XMRChat is from Hunter!

"Great work Gabe! Keep it up!"

Thanks a lot Hunter!

Very glad to see our page at https://xmrchat.com/lsn is working!

This strikes at the root justification for ID verification online: the idea that it makes anyone at all safer. The tight intermingling of our real-world identities with the digital world has been a disaster for privacy and safety as a whole. The apathetic refrain “[they] can get everything anyways” says a lot more when “they” isn’t just intelligence agencies, but scammers and vindictive people online.

https://libresolutions.network/articles/love-and-war/

How do you #nostr folks know if you're actually getting all your notifications?

It seems that #iris #ditto #primal will have different notifications with the same key.

Are you supposed to collect dozens of relays to ensure you get all of them?

Had a great chat with nostr:npub14slk4lshtylkrqg9z0dvng09gn58h88frvnax7uga3v0h25szj4qzjt5d6 about decentralization in practice. I hope you enjoy this deep dive on their project as well as the tech freedom space as a whole.

https://libresolutions.network//media/audio/simplified-privacy.mp3

https://libresolutions.network/videos/simplified-privacy/

Gabe decided to take a look at #selfhosting #AIagents.

Here's a first impression.

https://gabe.rocks/tech/ai-agents/

A great mini-history lesson from Privacy International on the crypto wars.

https://media.privacyinternational.org/videos/watch/a56faeff-d41e-46c6-93fc-9e01eab8383c

#Crypto #Encryption #Privacy #History

My Peertube and Fedi is down 😭

But hey! Nostr works!

Hoping to be back online sometime tomorrow.

#asknostr

Who to follow for cybersec & infosec news?

Joined by Liam Sturgess of whiteroseintelligence.com to talk about Digital ID by responding to arguments made by an advocate for it.

https://libresolutions.network/videos/digital-id/

People often confuse privacy and security.

Corporations protecting themselves from random citizens is security.

Citizens protecting themselves from large corporations or corrupt governments is privacy.

Privacy is everything associated with security PLUS a distrust in a third party to do that security.

Therefore, privacy is much more difficult than security. Because pure security can be just hiring a company to do the work for you.

Pure security can be closed source, and therefore has a better business model and corporate resources. Security usually gets the funding, since it’s required for corporations to function. While as privacy not only has an inherit distrust of third parties to do the work for them, but also the individual citizen has less resources than the large powers it seeks to protect against.

Because security blindly trusts third parties, this tends to centralize it to economies of scale.

On the other hand, privacy flourishes when it’s decentralized, to hide information from a single power that can be corrupted.

I hate to break the news to you, but the vast majority of the services (VPNs, emails, cryptos, cloud services, password syncs, commerce front-ends, decentralized or private social networks, ect.) are scams. They aren’t scams because of a technical flaw in encryption. But because they are labeling it freedom or privacy, when it’s really just security.

Ultimately it’s truly much harder to sell privacy, because it requires motivating the individual to self-empower or learn something. Now I don’t know what you’re dealing with. I don’t know what adversity you want to overcome. But if you need help, I’m here for you. Even if you don’t know a lot of technical stuff. Even if you don’t have a big budget. If you’re ready to take your freedom to the next level, reach out.

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Security is the windows on your house not being able to be opened from the outside.

Privacy is having blinds on those windows

Great discussion with Hrvoje!

We talk tech tyranny and looking forward to 2024.

https://peertube.libresolutions.network/w/hUgcisxSqd5cBmQRvsLsmA