Sad to hear that The Correspondent will stop publishing in the new year.
Chinese researchers claim to have achieved quantum supremacy
https://www.ft.com/content/2445c0e9-6c2b-4004-861b-c9c87f5950f2
IAMA from Aaron MacSween, the project lead for CryptPad, over on r/Privacy right now!
https://old.reddit.com/r/privacy/comments/k1uonq/im_aaron_macsween_project_lead_for_cryptpad_the/
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New #blog post: Does the Country a Service is Headquartered in Matter?
https://write.as/thenewoil/does-the-country-a-service-is-headquartered-in-matter
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Dutch journalist gatecrashes EU defence video conference
Servoâs new home
Windows (in)security written by the wonderful @samberry
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Whatâs all this about Europe wanting crypto backdoors?
https://techcrunch.com/2020/11/09/whats-all-this-about-europe-wanting-crypto-backdoors/
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https://old.reddit.com/r/privacy/comments/jswghu/nextdns_is_leaking_your_email_address_to/gc4b3u0/
NextDNS violated their Privacy Policy, which clearly states they will NEVER share their users' information with anyone.
Yet they *were* sending their users' emails to Intercom's servers without consent, subjecting their information to Intercom's Privacy Policy, and potentially other Policies.
NextDNS knew about the issue weeks prior, to be dismissed under the integration being temporary, and Intercom being labeled as a tool, not a data sharing platform.
Your Computer Isn't Yours
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We live in Philip K. Dickâs future, not George Orwellâs or Aldous Huxleyâs. Dick believed that we all live in a world where âspurious realities are manufactured by the media, by governments, by big corporations, by religious groups, political groupsâand the electronic hardware exists by which to deliver these pseudo-worlds right into heads of the reader.â #distopia
https://bostonreview.net/literature-culture/henry-farrell-philip-k-dick-and-fake-humans
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Me in @hackernoon: How @plausible is paving the way for ethical analytics.
https://hackernoon.com/plausible-is-paving-the-way-for-ethical-analytics-n0293z4l
How will privacy and anonymity be attacked?
https://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/classes/6.805/articles/crypto/cypherpunks/cyphernomicon/CP-FAQ
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US Government Continues #Encryption War
https://blog.privacytools.io/us-government-continues-encryption-war/
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Popular app T&Cs 'longer than Harry Potter'
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They sometimes link to good stuff though, like this: https://blog.privacytools.io/us-government-continues-encryption-war/
Wars can be fought in the real world but there is also a virtual battlefield - and it is just as harmful. The Lawful Access to Encrypted Data Act is the latest attempt to access people's encrypted data and it serves as another reinforcement.
https://blog.privacytools.io/us-government-continues-encryption-war/
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One Clear Message From Voters This Election? More #Privacy
https://www.wired.com/story/one-clear-message-voters-election-more-privacy/
Privacy advocate, amongst other things.
https://pronoun.is/he
email/matrix: freddy [at] privacytools [dot] io