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By Katherine Druckman and Doc SearlsTechnology
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- Episode 69: What’s Up With Basecamp?
Katherine Druckman and Doc Searls talk about Basecamp’s new policy on workplace political conversation.
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- Changes at Basecamp
— Recently, we've made some internal company changes, which, taken in total, collectively feel like a full version change. It deserves an announcement.- The story of Basecamp’s disastrous policy - The Verge
— On April 26th, Basecamp founder and CEO Jason Fried posted on his blog about some policy changes that would be happening at the company, which makes team collaboration software. One policy stuck out to many on the internet — the company would no longer be allowing its employees to have discussions about society or politics on its internal account.What followed was a tidal wave of public outcry, employees speaking out against the policies (and talking about what led to them), several revisions of the blog post, and, finally, almost a third of the company’s employees deciding to accept buyouts and leave. There has since been an apology from Fried, but it remains to be seen if any more will be coming — there are still accusations made by employees that haven’t really been addressed.- The Utopia of Rules: On Technology, Stupidity, and the Secret Joys of Bureaucracy: Graeber, David: 9781612195186: Amazon.com: Books
— Where does the desire for endless rules, regulations, and bureaucracy come from? How did we come to spend so much of our time filling out forms? And is it really a cipher for state violence?- The Soul of A New Machine: Kidder, Tracy: 9780316491976: Amazon.com: Books
— Computers have changed since 1981, when The Soul of a New Machine first examined the culture of the computer revolution. What has not changed is the feverish pace of the high-tech industry, the go-for-broke approach to business that has caused so many computer companies to win big (or go belly up), and the cult of pursuing mind-bending technological innovations.34 min - Episode 68: Signal Snoops On Cellebrite as They Snoop On Us
Katherine Druckman and Doc Searls chat with Kyle Rankin and Shawn Powers about Signal’s exposure of vulnerabilities in Cellebrite’s mobile device hacking software.
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- Signal >> Blog >> Exploiting vulnerabilities in Cellebrite UFED and Physical Analyzer from an app's perspective
— Cellebrite makes software to automate physically extracting and indexing data from mobile devices. They exist within the grey – where enterprise branding joins together with the larcenous to be called “digital intelligence.” Their customer list has included authoritarian regimes in Belarus, Russia, Venezuela, and China; death squads in Bangladesh; military juntas in Myanmar; and those seeking to abuse and oppress in Turkey, UAE, and elsewhere. A few months ago, they announced that they added Signal support to their software.Their products have often been linked to the persecution of imprisoned journalists and activists around the world, but less has been written about what their software actually does or how it works. Let’s take a closer look. In particular, their software is often associated with bypassing security, so let’s take some time to examine the security of their own software.- Australia’s vague anti-encryption law sets a dangerous new precedent - ProtonMail Blog
— the Australian government and its Labor partners rammed a shockingly invasive anti-encryption law through Parliament, over the objections of experts, businesses, and civil rights groups.- Australia's Encryption-Busting Law Could Impact Global Privacy | WIRED
— Australia has passed a law that would require companies to weaken their encryption, a move that could reverberate globally.- P versus NP problem - Wikipedia
— The P versus NP problem is a major unsolved problem in computer science. It asks whether every problem whose solution can be quickly verified can also be solved quickly.- Data Double Dipping: When Companies Mine Paying Customers – Purism
— There’s an old snarky saying among privacy advocates: “If you aren’t paying for something, you are the product!” This updated version of “There’s no such thing as a free lunch” arose in the Internet age among the ever-growing list of free services and apps on the Internet funded by collecting and selling your data to advertisers. If large companies like Google and Facebook are any indication, a lot of money can be made with user data and the more data you collect, the more money you can make.- Eva Galperin: What you need to know about stalkerware | TED Talk
— "Full access to a person's phone is the next best thing to full access to a person's mind," says cybersecurity expert Eva Galperin. In an urgent talk, she describes the emerging danger of stalkerware -- software designed to spy on someone by gaining access to their devices without their knowledge -- and calls on antivirus companies to recognize these programs as malicious in order to discourage abusers and protect victims.- Reality 2.0 Episode 52: Fragmentation and Outrage of the Week
— Doc Searls and Katherine Druckman talk to Kyle Rankin about fragmentation and software development, the Amazon Halo, and surveilling school children.- This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends
— From New York Times cybersecurity reporter Nicole Perlroth, THIS IS HOW THEY TELL ME THE WORLD ENDS is the untold story of the cyber arms trade-the most secretive, invisible, government-backed market on earth-and a terrifying first look at a new kind of global warfare.1 hr 16 min - Episode 67: It’s a Great Effing Island
Katherine Druckman and Doc Searls discuss a new approach to intent broadcasting, the end of tracking, and the island of Kauai.
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- Customer Commons
— Customer Commons’ mission is to restore the balance of power, respect and trust between individuals and organizations that serve them.- A New Way – Customer Commons
— Why do you always have to accept websites’ terms? And why do you have no record of your own of what you accepted, or when‚ or anything?40 min - Episode 66: You Should Open Source Now, Ask Me How!
Katherine Druckman chats with Petros Koutoupis and Kyle Rankin about FOSS (Free and Open Source Software), the benefits of contributing to the projects you use, and why you should be a FOSS fan as well.
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- Upstream (software development) - Wikipedia
— In software development, upstream refers to a direction toward the original authors or maintainers of software that is distributed as source code, and is a qualification of either a version (released by the original authors, based on their upstream source code), a bug or a patch.- osresearch/heads: A minimal Linux that runs as a coreboot or LinuxBoot ROM payload to provide a secure, flexible boot environment for laptops and servers.
- Heads
— Heads is secure BIOS replacement that provides tamper-evident features to detect when the BIOS or important boot files have been modified. The official project page can be found at the official Heads GitHub page and we base our Heads BIOS off of this code. On Purism laptops Heads is built as an executable on top of the same coreboot BIOS that we have used in the past but instead of coreboot running SeaBIOS to detect and boot into your devices, coreboot runs Heads instead.- evilsocket/opensnitch: OpenSnitch is a GNU/Linux port of the Little Snitch application firewall
- Some Thoughts on Open Core | Linux Journal
— Why open core software is bad for the FOSS movement.54 min - Episode 65: The Big Round World Outside the Browser
Katherine Druckman and Doc Searls talk to Shawn Powers about comic art, ecommerce, and the world beyond the browser.
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- My Big Round World – Everyone's a square…
— Everyone's a square…- xkcd: Hammer Incident
— A webcomic of romance,sarcasm, math, and language.- My Dog: The Paradox - The Oatmeal
- Joe Craven - Wikipedia
— Joe Craven is an American freestyle folk, world and roots music multi-instrumentalist, singer and educator.- Thinking Outside the Browser – Customer Commons
— Browsers are clients, which are by design subordinate to servers.There is a lot that can’t be done with a browser.- Toward E-commerce 2.0 – Customer Commons
— One reason this happened is that client-server, aka calf-cow (illustrated in Thinking outside the browser) has been the default format for all relationships on the Web, and cookies were required to maintain those relationships. Which really aren’t. Here’s why:- Reality 2.0 Episode 43: Ad Tracking Runs Deep
- Reality 2.0 - Blog - Page X-Ray Data Privacy Analysis Featured in Episode 43
— Page X-Ray differs from typical consumer-oriented privacy apps, like The Markup’s recently published Blacklight in that it not only detects trackers that are loaded by the page, but also the trackers that are called by other trackers, giving a more extensive view of tracking activity and data collection.1 hr - Episode 64: Who is Accountable for Disinformation?
Katherine Druckman and Doc Searls talk about responsibility for disinformation, congressional hearings, and the Suez canal.
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- Zuckerberg and Dorsey Face Harsh Questioning From Lawmakers - The New York Times
— Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook and Jack Dorsey of Twitter testified about their platforms, misinformation and the 2020 election.- Evan Greer on Twitter: "most of the Capitol rioters had smartphones. were Apple and AT&T partially responsible for the violence? Please answer yes or no." / Twitter
— most of the Capitol rioters had smartphones. were Apple and AT&T partially responsible for the violence? Please answer yes or no.- Pluralistic: 25 Mar 2021 – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
— A monopolist's first preference is always "don't regulate me." But coming in at a close second is "regulate me in ways that only I can comply with, so that no one is allowed to compete with me."- Zuckerberg, Dorsey, Pichai addressed online extremism and misinformation before House committee - The Washington Post
— Lawmakers wanted answers on the role Google, Facebook and Twitter played in the attacks on the Capitol and viral covid-19 misinformation- Reality 2.0 Episode 54: Digital Rights are Human Rights
— Doc Searls and Katherine Druckman talk to Evan Greer, Deputy Director of digital rights activism group Fight for the Future about Section 230, privacy, politics, de-platforming, and internet policy.- Reality 2.0 Episode 62: How Did Disinformation Become the Truth?
— Katherine Druckman and Doc Searls talk to Prof. Chris Bronk, Ph.D. and Petros Koutoupis about disinformation and cyber security, and how they impact our lives, as well as IoT vulnerabilities and voice recognition technology.- Zeynep Tufekci - Wikipedia
- Ten Questions the Press Should Have Asked President Biden - Insight
— Yesterday, President Joe Biden held his first press conference. There were questions on Biden’s plans for the 2024 election (four years away!), the filibuster (over which he has no control), and Donald Trump (could we hear even less about him?), but not a single question on the pandemic. Not one.- Laurie Garrett - Wikipedia
41 min - Episode 63: Is Your Privacy Set by Marketers in Aeron Chairs?
Katherine Druckman and Doc Searls talk to Don Marti and Shawn Powers about realistic data privacy measures, surveillance marketing, and privacy regulation.
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- CCPA opt out, nerd edition
— While we figure out how to make general-purpose CCPA opt-outs practical (feel free to set up a time on Calendly if you want to talk with me about Authorized Agent projects), here’s a quick summary of my current CCPA opt-out tools. This is a prototype only, but does work.- Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) Laws and Regulations | US EPA
— The Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) is the public law that creates the framework for the proper management of hazardous and non-hazardous solid waste. The law describes the waste management program mandated by Congress that gave EPA authority to develop the RCRA program. The term RCRA is often used interchangeably to refer to the law, regulations and EPA policy and guidance.- Resource Conservation and Recovery Act - Wikipedia
— The Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA), enacted in 1976, is the principal federal law in the United States governing the disposal of solid waste and hazardous waste.[1]- Global Privacy Control — Take Control Of Your Privacy
— Online privacy should be accessible to everyone. It starts with a simpler way to exercise your rights.- CCPA guidance for authorized agents
— The California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (“CCPA”) creates a variety of privacy rights for California consumers. Microsoft makes it easy for consumers to exercise their rights, including the rights, via a verifiable request, that we (i) disclose and access what personal data we collect, use, disclose, and sell and (ii) delete the consumer’s personal data. Per the CCPA, consumers may exercise their rights through an authorized agent. This guidance is intended for authorized agents acting on behalf of a consumer looking to exercise the above CCPA rights.- The State of Authorized Agent Opt Outs Under the California Consumer Privacy Act (PDF)
- Consumer Reports Model State Privacy Act
— Though consumers have a fundamental right to privacy, there is no comprehensive federal privacy law granting them baseline privacy and security protections. Instead of leaving it to consumers to “opt-in” or “opt-out,” this bill protects consumer privacy by prohibiting companies from engaging in privacy-invasive behaviors.1 hr 1 min - Episode 62: How Did Disinformation Become the Truth?
Katherine Druckman and Doc Searls talk to Prof. Chris Bronk, Ph.D. and Petros Koutoupis about disinformation and cyber security, and how they impact our lives, as well as IoT vulnerabilities and voice recognition technology.
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- “Misinformation” vs. “Disinformation”: Get Informed On The Difference - Dictionary.com
— Disinformation means “false information, as about a country’s military strength or plans, disseminated by a government or intelligence agency in a hostile act of tactical political subversion.” It is also used more generally to mean “deliberately misleading or biased information; manipulated narrative or facts; propaganda.”So, disinformation is knowingly spreading misinformation. Our first definition of this word gives one major reason why a person or group might want to spread wrong information, but there are many other nefarious motivations lurking behind the creation of disinformation.- Amazon.com: The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power (9781541758001): Zuboff, Shoshana: Books
— In this masterwork of original thinking and research, Shoshana Zuboff provides startling insights into the phenomenon that she has named surveillance capitalism. The stakes could not be higher: a global architecture of behavior modification threatens human nature in the twenty-first century just as industrial capitalism disfigured the natural world in the twentieth.- Tom Clancy, author of the Jack Ryan Novels - Tom Clancy
- Amazon.com : john le carré
- Amazon.com: Active Measures (9781250787408): Rid, Thomas: Books
- Internet-based chastity belts hijacked by malicious hackers | Boing Boing
— Oh man. A bluetooth-controlled chastity belt was the recent victim of a hacker attack. The Cellmate Chastity Cage, made by Chinese company Qiui, was designed so that users are able to lock and unlock their sex partner's penis prison remotely. Users caught in the attack were threatened with having their genitals locked in permanently unless they paid a 0.02 bitcoin (about $270) ransom.47 min - Episode 61: The Future of Authenticating Your Data
Katherine Druckman and Doc Searls talk to Dave Huseby about the authentic data economy, and the future of authentication.
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- The Authentic Data Economy. Universal Digital Trust at Global Scale | by dwh | Feb, 2021 | Medium
— To this day — even with mass computerization — trust-based interactions stubbornly resist digitization and remain at human scale simply because of the way we keep and maintain authentic data records. Tasks such as opening a bank account, having a document notarized, or signing a contract typically involves an in-person meeting to present the authentic data records (e.g. government identification, proof of funds, etc) and to sign a “wet” signature. However, now that we live in a reality twisted by the DNA strands of the COVID-19 virus, how do we ever hope to get back to in-person business as usual and trust as usual? Even if we can vaccinate against the virus and restore normal human interaction, the need for a more lasting technological solution for establishing trust remotely and transmitting it over great distances still exists. This, I believe, is the last great problem in technology and solving it will create the next crop of billion-dollar companies and billionaire founders.- IIW
— The Internet Identity Workshop has been finding, probing and solving identity issues twice every year since 2005. We meet in the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, CA. Every IIW moves topics, code and projects downfield. Name an identity topic and it’s likely that more substantial discussion and work has been done at IIW than any other conference!- Merkle tree - Wikipedia
— In cryptography and computer science, a hash tree or Merkle tree is a tree in which every leaf node is labelled with the cryptographic hash of a data block, and every non-leaf node is labelled with the cryptographic hash of the labels of its child nodes. Hash trees allow efficient and secure verification of the contents of large data structures. Hash trees are a generalization of hash lists and hash chains.- A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace | Electronic Frontier Foundation
— Governments of the Industrial World, you weary giants of flesh and steel, I come from Cyberspace, the new home of Mind. On behalf of the future, I ask you of the past to leave us alone. You are not welcome among us. You have no sovereignty where we gather.1 hr 8 min - Episode 60: SpaceX, Starlink, and Mozilla State Partitioning
Katherine Druckman and Doc Searls talk about Starlink, SpaceX and Mozilla’s new state partitioning privacy feature in Firefox.
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- Starlink: SpaceX's satellite internet project | Space
— Starlink is the name of a satellite network that the private spaceflight company SpaceX is developing to provide low-cost internet to remote locations. While SpaceX eventually hopes to have as many as 12,000 satellites in this so-called megaconstellation, the size and scale of the project have flustered astronomers and amateur skywatchers, who fear that the bright, orbiting objects will interfere with observations of the universe.- Heavens-Above
— Awesome site for space nerds.- How Starlink Is About To Disrupt The Telecommunications Sector
— If the logo doesn’t ring a bell, put it on your radar. Starlink, the satellite telecommunications company created by Elon Musk leveraging SpaceX’s rocket development, continues to complete milestones on schedule and announces that it will offer 300Mbps connectivity services with an approximate latency of 20ms by the end of this year.In the United States, where the company has garnered a favorable deal that includes $900 million in funding under FCC programs aimed at providing connectivity to rural areas, that’s a very competitive offer, so much so that many ISPs have protested to the FCC claiming that the technology used by the company is experimental, not sufficiently tested, and will cause problems in the future. If you don’t spot that as a clear sign of disruption, you haven’t seen enough disruptions yet.- Introducing State Partitioning - Mozilla Hacks - the Web developer blog
— State Partitioning is the technical term for a new privacy feature in Firefox called Total Cookie Protection, which will be available in ETP Strict Mode in Firefox 86. This article shows how State Partitioning works inside of Firefox and explains what developers of third-party integrations can do to stay compatible with the latest changes.42 min
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