kravietz 🦇 @kravietz@social.privacytools.io

Emergent behaviour of agents in early text adventure games (The Hobbit, released 1982): https://if50.substack.com/p/1982-the-hobbit

Great alternatives to #Signal that check all the boxes (#decentralization, #privacy, #opensource, #anonymous, #cryptocurrency-free):

- #Briar: https://briarproject.org
- #DeltaChat: https://delta.chat
- #Matrix: https://matrix.org
- #XMPP / #Jabber: https://xmpp.org (It aged very well, supports signal-like encyption and battery-efficient mobile apps now. If you dismissed it in the past, I encourage you to give it another try.)

Today, the #FSB raided the apartment of Roman Anin, a Russian investigative journalist whom I had the pleasure and privilege of working with:
https://nitter.eu/OCCRP/status/1380552019425992704

This guy has balls of steel, and did some absolutely astonishing investigative reporting (worth checking out the linked thread).

I believe currently there is no contact with him, nor confirmation that he's been arrested. This is worrisome, to say the least.

I will share any updates if/when I get them.

Roman Anin has been released, but has to appear for questioning on Monday. His electronic devices have been confiscated.

This is a good reminder to encrypt your phone memory, and use full disk encryption on your laptop and external storage, especially if you're working in journalism.

Roman Anin's apartment being raided by the #FSB today is most probably in connection with this story (from 2016):
https://www.occrp.org/en/investigations/5523-the-secret-of-the-st-princess-olga

The least we can do now is read and spread it. Clearly there is a reason why Russian authorities would like to stifle this kind of reporting.

Some comrades might be confused by the "BUR" appearing in certain anarchist and leftists texts from Eastern Europe. Wrote a bit of clarification of the term and how it appeared. #Belarus #Ukraine #Anarchism

https://brokenboat.noblogs.org/post/2021/04/10/understanding-what-bur-is/

Upcoming Instagram changes warn users to accept activity tracking to "Help keep Instagram free of charge" 🙄 #deleteInstagram

Stop using "Zoom" as a general term for video conferencing.
Stop using "Google" as a general term for searching the web.

Bruce Schneier on Signal's cryptocurrency adventures:

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It’s not just that blockchain is just plain stupid. It’s not even that Signal is choosing to tie itself to a specific blockchain currency. It’s that adding a cryptocurrency to an end-to-end encrypted app muddies the morality of the product, and invites all sorts of government investigative and regulatory meddling: by the IRS, the SEC, FinCEN, and probably the FBI.

"""

www.schneier.com/blog/archives…