Cloudflare
Announcing 1.1.1.1: the fastest, privacy-first consumer DNS service
9 min · · Cloudflare's mission is to help build a better Internet. We're excited today to take another step toward that mission with the launch of 1.1.1.1 — the Internet's fastest, privacy-first consumer DNS… · Shared by 491, including Oriol Farré, Vinny Lingham, Josh Clark, Tris Hussey, Mark Kaigwa, Rate limit exceeded, adrianoesch, Thomas Pleil, Esther Schindler, Nils Hitze, Shawn Venasse, Mauricio Matias, Bjorn Larsen, Sachin Rekhi, Andreas Von Gunten, Helmi, Aleyda Solis 🇺🇦, Tibor Martini 🇺🇦 @tibor@mastodon.social, David Butler, Ron McIntyre
Fast Company
Forget the new iPhones: Apple’s best product is now privacy
6 min · · Under Tim Cook’s leadership, Apple saw just how critical an issue user privacy would become. Now it’s at least as important a feature as shiny industrial design or a nice camera.
· Shared by 446, including Lucas Foster, Diego Paladino, Stephan Leduc, Gerd Leonhard, Enrique Dans, fernand0, Azeem Azhar, Julian de Keijzer, Helmi, Reto Laemmler, Liv 😷, Ste Davies, Mark Kaigwa, Nicolas Berg, Janosch Tröhler, Johannes Lenz, Massimiliano Aroffo, Andreas Heer, Ralph Hutter, Javi Cantón @javicanton@mas.to
The New Yorker
Dressing for the Surveillance Age
5 min · · As cities become ever more packed with cameras that always see, public anonymity could disappear. Can stealth streetwear evade electronic eyes? · Shared by 230, including William Gibson, 瑞拿頭, 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer, Thomas Pleil, Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯, hardmaru, Marc R Gagné MAPP, Luca Like
Stratechery
Privacy Fundamentalism
9 min · · The current privacy debate is making things worse by not considering trade-offs, the inherent nature of digital, or the far bigger problems that come with digitizing the offline world. · Shared by 195, including Grégoire Japiot 🌻, ThomNagy, Josep M. Ganyet, Bernhard Huessy, Fern, Ricky Yean, Mark Little, Chris Messina, Jonathan Kogan, Scott Monty, Esther Schindler, Raphael Bratschi, Adrienne Fichter, Nir Eyal, Rick Powell, Matthias Lampe, Faik Ersoy, Scott Brinker, Mathew Ingram, Claudia Sommer
The New York Times
Activate This ‘Bracelet of Silence,’ and Alexa Can’t Eavesdrop
5 min · · Microphones and cameras lurk everywhere. You may want to slip on some privacy armor. · Shared by 193, including Neeraj K Agrawal, Scott Shapiro, The Last Shitposter, John Battelle, Futurity News, Brian D. Earp, Ph.D., Chris MacDonald, Shoshana Zuboff, Dr. Marigo Raftopoulos, Tibor Martini 🇺🇦 @tibor@mastodon.social, jean marc manach @manhack@social.tcit.fr, Randy Deutsch, Tiffany Shlain, 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer, Alex Barrera, R.NFT R “Ray” Wang 王瑞光 #1A #AI, John Hagel, Glen Gilmore #MWC23, John C. Havens (he/him), Marc R Gagné MAPP, Kashmir Hill
Citizen Lab
Move Fast & Roll Your Own Crypto: A Quick Look at the Confidentiality of Zoom Meetings
16+ min · · This report examines the encryption that protects meetings in Zoom and finds that they have made their own encryption scheme and has significant weaknesses. · Shared by 174, including Marc R Gagné MAPP, Diogo Mónica, Mark Tabladillo PhD, 𝚛𝚘𝚐𝚎𝚛, Cameron Yick ~ @hydrosquall@vis.social on mastodon, Neuropsychology, Evan Selinger, James Wooden, Faik Ersoy, Chris Messina, Dan Gillmor is at mastodon.social/@dangillmor, 瑞拿頭, kipit, Aral Balkan, Christian Surchi, Charlie O'Keefe @charlieok@hachyderm.io, Matthew Green
WIRED
It's Time to Switch to a Privacy Browser
5 min · · Ad trackers are out of control. Use a browser that reins them in. · Shared by 153, including Ward Plunet, Mark Kaigwa, Javi Cantón @javicanton@mas.to, 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer, Backchannel, Wesley Fryer, Ph.D. 🌎🎙🚀 wesfryer.com/after, 瑞拿頭, Rick Powell, Sébastien Bonset
Vox
Brain-reading tech is coming. The law is not ready to protect us.
6 min · · In the era of neurocapitalism, your brain needs new rights. · Shared by 136, including 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer, Miguel Angel Escotet, 𝚛𝚘𝚐𝚎𝚛, Liv 😷, Thomas Power, Jonathan Kogan, Damir Kusar, Ines Bieler, Daniel Jörg, John C. Havens (he/him), Christian Fauteux, Aimee Meifeu ✍️⚖️, Matthias Lampe, Brian D. Earp, Ph.D., Brian Laung Aoaeh, CFA, 瑞拿頭, John Nosta, George Waititu
telegra.ph
Why WhatsApp Will Never Be Secure
6 min · · The world seems to be shocked by the news that WhatsApp turned any phone into spyware. Everything on your phone, including photos, emails and texts was accessible by attackers just because you had… · Shared by 113, including Peter Fenton, Dmitry Solovyev, osioke.eth, Thomas Power, Johannes Lenz, Yvette Dubel, Charles Baldwin, Paolo Sinelli, Josep M. Ganyet, Rick Powell, Rainer Luginbühl ☝, Ferit (at 🏠) 🌙, 瑞拿頭
The New York Times
Made in China, Exported to the World: The Surveillance State
11+ min · · In Ecuador, cameras across the country send footage to monitoring centers to be examined by police and domestic intelligence. The surveillance system’s origin: China. · Shared by 112, including luis antónio santos, Thomas Pleil, 𝚛𝚘𝚐𝚎𝚛, Mathew Ingram, Eric Seufert, Charles Baldwin, Mark Kaigwa, Björn Ognibeni, Azeem Azhar, 瑞拿頭, Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯, Leslie D, Gerd Leonhard, Charlie O'Keefe @charlieok@hachyderm.io, Javi Cantón @javicanton@mas.to
EFF
The EARN IT Bill Is Back, Seeking To Scan Our Messages and Photos
3 min · · In a free society, people should not have their private correspondence constantly examined. U.S. lawmakers, we would hope, understand that individuals have the right to a private conversation without… · Shared by 103, including Nir Eyal, 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer, 瑞拿頭, Matthew Green
freeCodeCamp.org
How to encrypt your entire life in less than an hour
5 min · · “Only the paranoid survive.” — Andy Grove · Shared by 102, including 瑞拿頭, luis antónio santos, Helmi, ἀποκαραδοκία, Brad Engel, Thomas Power
Forbes
The Encryption Debate Is Over - Dead At The Hands Of Facebook
3 min · · The sad reality of the encryption debate is that after 30 years it is finally over: dead at the hands of Facebook. · Shared by 95, including Jochen Burkhard, Yvette Dubel, Elena Neira, Fern, 瑞拿頭, Gerrit Eicker, Charles Baldwin, 𝚛𝚘𝚐𝚎𝚛, Miguel, Luca Like, Chris {he, they} , Gianluca Diegoli
MIT Technology Review
The Pentagon has a laser that can identify people from a distance—by their heartbeat
2 min · · The Jetson prototype can pick up on a unique cardiac signature from 200 meters away, even through clothes. · Shared by 95, including Esther Schindler, George M 🇪🇺, C̷͈̳̫͗͊̾had P̸̜͇̱̗̻̝̙͆͑͑͝͝ollitt, Nils Hitze, Howard Getson, Adrian Bührer, Mark Suster, Alex Barrera, Luca Like, Cory Doctorow @pluralistic@mamot.fr, 🇺🇦 Eugene Borukhovich, Stephan Woodtli, Eric Topol, Tom Connor, Miguel, Leni "Lee" Krsova ⚔️, rudolph regter, 瑞拿頭
socialcooling.com
Social Cooling
1 min · · Digital reputation systems are limiting our ability and our will to protest injustice. In China each adult citizen is getting a government mandated "social credit score". This represents how well… · Shared by 89, including Charles Kubicek, Manos Hatzimalonas, Fern, Stammy, Peter Steinberger, Nilan 🇱🇰 නිලාන්, Chris Burniske, 瑞拿頭, Chris Messina, janfsauer, Jochen Burkhard, Privacy Matters, mastodon.social/@renestalder, Kim Dik, Gerd Leonhard, Harpreet Singh, Konrad Lischka
WIRED
Facebook Knows More About You Than the CIA
7 min · · Facebook hired Yael Eisenstat, a CIA veteran, to help it address election meddling. Now she's deeply worried about the company's sway over our lives. · Shared by 88, including Backchannel, Thomas Power, Jonathan Kogan, Yvette Dubel, Marc R Gagné MAPP, Mathew Ingram, Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯, Jochen Burkhard, Luca Like, Joe Rogan, Trey Tweets Into the Void, Mark Little, 瑞拿頭, Rick Powell, Javi Cantón @javicanton@mas.to