Forcing private individuals to store an report PII is a significant overreach.
Source: https://twitter.com/jerrybrito/status/1682073500184461321
Running an open source privacy project, you sometimes get some interesting PRs...
I'll be doing an interview on Thursday: https://twitter.com/AdLunamInc/status/1678820046200614912
It was only a matter of time until we saw private chats being used against folks in court. This case is more extreme than most, but cases with much more sympathetic facts are coming (I.e. unintentional miscarriage).
If you are using a major service, what you say, when you say it, and where can and will be used against you. Even the encrypted messengers only really protect against the first one. Use metadata protecting tech when you can.
#privacy
The metadata protected E2E messaging in xx network takes a similar approach. It stores for a set period of time (21days) since it can't be known when the recipient receives the messages.
It's definitely the right design for private messaging applications.
I'm not at all surprised that authoritarian politicians would want features like this. From a technical perspective, though, I'm curious about how they would go about implementing them. Would they integrate backdoors into widely used apps with camera access, like WhatsApp? Or would they rely on exploiting zero-day vulnerabilities in operating systems?
https://gizmodo.com/france-bill-allows-police-access-phones-camera-gps-1850609772
It makes it legal for them to buy and deploy spyware such as Pegasus and its ilk.
You'd think that would be reserved for spy shit, but it is actually just people the local gov or corpos don't like, like soda tax activists in mexico.
https://inthesetimes.com/article/university-of-california-san-diego-chalk-markers-arrests
Love unions or hate them, but this is disgusting news out of the University of California union fight...What do you think the chances are these folks have had their private digital devices and email combed through?
Its almost a certainly. For what should be protected first amendment activity.
When we talk about a right to privacy and making tools to protect those rights. This is the abuse we are talking about.
The french government is about to legalize police use of pegasus and other spyware to hack and turn on cameras and other tracking:
https://www.disclose.tv/id/hr3rek1ov2/
This is on the heels of the same government prosecuting folks using secure comms tools:
FWIW, Pegasus and it's ilk are largely used to suppress activists in other countries (i.e., Mexico), so it is safe to say that will largely be its purpose here.
Nostr growth hack idea. Let me one button quote tweet (post from twitter) here on Nostr with good preview and automagically post a link to my quote note on twitter with a good preview and link. Cc nostr:npub1xtscya34g58tk0z605fvr788k263gsu6cy9x0mhnm87echrgufzsevkk5s nostr:npub16c0nh3dnadzqpm76uctf5hqhe2lny344zsmpm6feee9p5rdxaa9q586nvr nostr:npub1v0lxxxxutpvrelsksy8cdhgfux9l6a42hsj2qzquu2zk7vc9qnkszrqj49
This is a great idea, and I have one additional detail that should be considered: Based on the source code leak twitter had a while back, it would be best to post a non-linked tweet then post the link with the preview as a reply.
I wonder which side we are in. There is definitely overreach but also the dystopian levels of privacy violation and data abuses are attenuated there, so 🤷♂️
I certainly don't "speak freely" on these platforms, and am also careful about my usage and what I say there...
Really looking forward to the Fairphone /e/OS launch in the US. A modern, repairable phone with a headphone jack is 🧑🍳💋!
Its worse than that: exchanges not only "invest" before listing but also want a much better price discount than you'd offer any other early stage supporter.
Projects that find this unethical pay a heavy price for not playing ball.
Some folks in France have been imprisoned for using Signal, TOR, and other privacy and security tools:
The suspicion is terrorism, but evidence for that doesn't seem to exist outside travel history.
Proxxy is now available for metamask users. You can get it here:
https://nostr.build/av/0f16d26ff6fdf4d7ff426ecde613be6d230d8b7f2806a6701c08d4e6f4fec5a7.mp4
It provides robust metadata protection that's superior to VPN/Relay/TOR from Infura and the rest of their ecosystem.
p.s. For my fellow Bitcoin friends, solutions for you are coming soon. Already having conversations with Wasabi and other wallets to integrate more directly. If you know the devs of a wallet project we should work with, please DM.
The Blockchain Technology Symposium (BTS) 2023 which will happen tomorrow and Friday. It is virtual. It is free.
It has awesome talks like:
twitter.com/kostascrypto/s…
Please join in!
bts23.encs.concordia.ca/program.php
Great news, the US CBP needs a warrant for your cell phone now (at least in the NY district)
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/05/federal-judge-makes-history-holding-bor
This weekend was the #MITBitcoinExpo. Attendance was down from last year, but it was filled with interesting people and talks.
All the talks are available for free at:
https://www.mitbitcoinexpo.org/streaming
I wrote up my experience here: https://blog.carback.us/2023/04/mit-bitcoin-expo-2023/index.html
The two most notable talks I saw were ZeroSync's update on ZKP for bitcoin, and the lightning network limitations estimates by Rene Pickhardt. Details in my post!
This was the 10th anniversary, and it is all done by the student run @MITBitcoinClub. Kudos to the volunteers who made this critical event possible!
Strong update from zerosync. Performance needs work but they have assume valid working. Really nice progress for a project that came out leas than a year ago!
