Sometimes the conversation is nuanced and well-meaning about practical trade-offs in response to exogenous factors. Sometimes the conversation is antagonistic and straight up insulting. But what I really want is to move us beyond this same basic framing.

As a technical community, we can do […]

"What are the privacy benefits of platform A if we have to remove all the privacy features?"
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@scott WhatsApp group messages *are* end-to-end encrypted. (Their whitepaper has more details, but it's using the Signal protocol and double ratchet to send encrypted messages to the group, with fanout delivery from the server.)

There are privacy features beyond end-to-end encryption. Maybe […]

Presented my intro remarks to the UN workshop on Technical Standards and Human Rights at #ietf123. Slides here: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1h9VaRly3WVgMn0xE6tk_Aktlzvi_wFsvi6-ACca5YHM/edit?usp=sharing It's a bit of a summary of what we've done so far with wide review in the W3C, how […]

@ben yeah, "overworked employee who has no real power but will be scapegoated when the harms inevitably comes to light" could also be "in the loop"

Maybe I postponed deleting my account out of some idle hope that one day a communications service could be dug out of the ashes of the hate-speech-promotion, but that was just a bit of nostalgic fantasy.

@adamshostack disclosed in 2024, admin credentials left open for over a year:
https://www.404media.co/id-verification-service-for-tiktok-uber-x-exposed-driver-licenses-au10tix/