Such a delight to sit down with the great @npub1fx7y...jv34 for a long engaged convo on surveillance, AI, my wild path through tech, and how by rejecting the toxic norm Signal provides a shining model for better, healthier tech futures♥️

WIRED

Under Meredith Whittaker, Signal Is Out to Prove Surveillance Capitalism Wrong

On its 10th anniversary, Signal’s president wants to remind you that the world’s most secure communications platform is a nonprofit. It’s fre...

"'I actually don’t know of a single provider of abortion services like these who has not encountered this problem [of payment platforms cancelling their accounts or holding their money].'”

The Persistent

How Online Abortion Providers Hit an Unexpected Hurdle

Frozen out of their accounts by online payment providers, some telemedicine providers are struggling to keep going.

There’s been some chatter about Signal desktop recently, so let’s clear the air. Three points: 1. The reported issues rely on an attacker already having *full access to your device* — either physically, through a malware compromise, or via a malicious application running on the same device. This is not something that Signal, or any other app, can fully protect against. Nor do we ever claim to.

RIP Julien Terzics. Cofounder of The Red Warriors who physically defended the community against Nazis in 1980s Paris

📣Official statement: the new EU chat controls proposal for mass scanning is the same old surveillance with new branding. Whether you call it a backdoor, a front door, or “upload moderation” it undermines encryption & creates significant vulnerabilities https://signal.org/blog/pdfs/upload-moderation.pdf

Ignoring expert consensus, feeling no shame following exposés showing tech lobbyists shaping these EU surveillance proposals, EU politicians are at it again So, we'll reiterate: Signal would rather leave the EU market than subject our users to mass gov surveillance. FULL STOP

netzpolitik.org

Internes Protokoll: Belgien will Nutzer verpflichten, Chatkontrolle zuzustimmen

Internetnutzer sollen einer Chatkontrolle zustimmen, sonst dürfen sie keine Bilder und Videos hochladen. Das schlägt die belgische Ratspräsident...

Telegram is notoriously insecure and routinely cooperates with govs behind the scenes while talking a big game about speech and privacy. Even their limited opt-in (roll their own) encryption is sus. The more you know 🌈

Most lives could be much shorter, too, if we insisted on measuring their worth against brutal, joyless utilitarian metrics.

What? Govs hire consultants daily to write whatever. Often, they produce trash. Here, a v small consultancy wrote a report for USG amplifying discredited X-risk ideologies + prescribing bad policy. AFAICT it's based based on ~5 ppl's hunches? Why're we taking this seriously?

TIME

U.S. Must Act Quickly to Avoid Risks From AI, Report Says

The U.S. government must move “decisively” to avert an “extinction-level threat" to humanity from AI, says a government-commissioned report