Christos Panagiotakopoulos @chrispanag@fosstodon.org

What should really be worrying you (and policymakers, if only they carried the gene that expresses the ability to have a clue) is that we are effectively limited in choice to two trillion-dollar US corporations for the everyday technology that has unfiltered access to our most intimate and personal thoughts, the power to mediate our reality, determine what we can and cannot say, bound our agency, and redefine the boundaries of personhood itself in the digital network age. Who needs an army, eh?

I wrote about the difference between Apple and Google’s business models over six years ago. I stand by my analysis. (https://ar.al/notes/apple-vs-google-on-privacy-a-tale-of-absolute-competitive-advantage/)

Over the years, I’ve told countless people to prefer Apple over Google as a mainstream stopgap. (Actual alternatives must be free/open and decentralised: https://ar.al/2020/01/01/in-2020-and-beyond-the-battle-to-save-personhood-and-democracy-requires-a-radical-overhaul-of-mainstream-technology/)

If Apple goes ahead with its latest plans, all that becomes irrelevant. If they do this, an iPhone will be inherently as unsafe as any Google phone. (https://ar.al/2021/08/08/apple-is-trying-to-redefine-what-it-means-to-violate-your-privacy-we-must-not-let-it/)

If you have a @github account, you can join me in co-signing the first letter uniting security & privacy experts, researchers, professors, policy advocates, and consumers against @Apple's planned moves against all of our privacy.

https://t.co/QIb1TwJE0C

A fair chunk of the Internet just went offline because Akamai's Edge DNS went down

Don't we just love a resilient network

https://downdetector.com/archive

#NFT explained. In case you were wondering...

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Ok... who forgot to turn the internet back on? The list is a mile long.

I need a job in Europe. Science.
Can someone help me?

26 people already signed a petition at the European Parliament against the adoption of an EU Council's resolution to weaken encrypted communications. This is the Council's proposal:
https://data.consilium.europa.eu/doc/document/ST-13084-2020-REV-1/en/pdf

Residents in EU member states are invited to support the petition here:
https://www.europarl.europa.eu/petitions/en/petition/content/1222%252F2020/html/Keep+Encryption

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