Ove @ovelarsen@mastodon.social

The crypto wars continue.
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2020/03/proposed-us-law-is-trojan-horse-to-stop-online-encryption-critics-say/

And we must keep fighting against encryption backdoors: https://tutanota.com/blog/posts/why-a-backdoor-is-a-security-risk/ ✊

While everyone is completely distracted by a virus, the bipartisan EARN IT Act is poised to subvert encryption under the guise of protecting the children
https://www.wired.com/story/earn-it-act-sneak-attack-on-encryption/

RT @mozillafestival: 📢 #MozFest is coming to...
📍Amsterdam 🇳🇱
🗓️ March 2021
🔗 Sign up to the newsletter for details as they happen at 👉 ht… tweeted by @mozilla

I have to renew reyn.ir soon, but I can't quite figure out how to do the payment. This will be fun!

I've set up a basic gettogether page for #Cryptohagen https://gettogether.community/events/242/cryptohagen/

After the media attention yesterday, we are now in direct contact with AT&T to resolve the regional outage of Tutanota on mobile connections. Thanks everyone for hanging in there with us! 😃✊ https://tutanota.com/blog/posts/att-blocks-tutanota

@ChrisTalleras

There is the EU talk of Aral Balkan, @aral (https://video.lqdn.fr/videos/watch/861c07f7-7e9b-4e64-9765-cf1de592c8a0) and the first (?) academic publication by folks from Kings College London (https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=3355572). Then there are introductory videos on the fediverse, like https://youtu.be/S57uhCQBEk0 Then there are introductory threads on Mastodon, such as this one from James Wilson https://mstdn.social/@jamewils/103136470926031216.

I'd say, join and see :-)

Bra tale av @aral om hvorfor EU bør støtte opp om et desentralisert internett i stedet for å hjelpe Silicon Valley med å erobre enda mer av verden. https://ar.al/2019/11/29/the-future-of-internet-regulation-at-the-european-parliament/

The recording of my talk today on the future of Internet regulation at the European Parliament is now available to watch.

Starts at 01:14:00 at https://web-greensefa.streamovations.be/index.php/event/stream/the-future-internet-regulation

#DigitalServicesAct #SurveillanceCapitalism #Mastodon #SmallTech #GDPR #EU

CC @Mastodon @Gargron

@aral did an amazing speech today in the european parliament on "the future of internet regulation". It was a full attack on how the EU is currently supporting big tech platforms.
https://web-greensefa.streamovations.be/index.php/event/stream/the-future-internet-regulation/embed?&seek=4450

After my talk at the European Parliament today, I asked a question at the end of the second panel (03:35:47) and a corporate lobbyist attempted to tone police me (03:44:50). This was my response (03:45:06). If I’d been any younger he’d have heard “OK Boomer” :)

https://web-greensefa.streamovations.be/index.php/event/stream/the-future-internet-regulation

Our lead developer was recently laid off from his job, your support via Patreon, Open Collective and other platforms means a lot during this difficult time.

We've come too far to give up now, progress may be slower for the next few weeks.

BBC is now available as an onion service. https://bbcnewsv2vjtpsuy.onion

.onion sites are better protected against blocking and censorship, making it hard for a state to disrupt publication or to ban people from accessing a given website. #onionizetheweb #privacy #security

Having your own office looks great on paper. Less great when you figure out that the walls are also paper.

You realize how bad security tools suck until you help someone depend on it for a really bad situation. I think we figured out a way though. So many ideas for better tools to aid opsec

Did you know?

Mars is the only known planet completely inhabited by robots.

😆

I’m giving a talk at Bornhack this August about: Security challenges faced by journalists, https://bornhack.dk/bornhack-2019/program/security-challenges-faced-by-journalists/

189 Lives Changed - By Linux - https://blogspot.thereglueblog.com/2019/06/189-lives-changed-by-linux.html #opensource heroes...

Ola Bini’s letter from prison in Ecuador: https://freeolabini.org/en/statement-from-ola/ #freeolanini