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Watch live: #GlobalEncryptionDay
youtube.com/watch?v=KrYvzI…
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Encryption is the foundation of modern security. thenextweb.com/news/edward-sn…
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Sometimes I try to imagine a world where scientific young minds enjoyed greater rewards for revolutionizing, like, farming methods, manufacturing, or energy, rather than the dark patterns used to optimize ad-clicks at Google and Facebook.
How did we get here?
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This is my way of saying that if you're a university student pursuing agricultural science, I wish you a long and happy life. We don't deserve you.
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Don't believe their lies. twitter.com/darrenboey/sta…
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من فقط می گویم دلیلی وجود دارد که گربه ها محبوب هستند twitter.com/Snowden/status…
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Am I the only one who found Stardew Valley a beautiful experience, but Animal Crossing painfully, almost aggressively bland?
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One of the funniest things about Twitter is seeing which tweets people will absolutely smash the like-button for, but are simultaneously terrified to retweet.
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This article, on US spy agencies' self-awareness of the legal weakness of their drone-killing program, is the first fresh document I've seen published from the archive in years.
@attackerman is always worth reading: twitter.com/attackerman/st…
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من به شدت سطح فعالیت توییتر فارسی را دست کم گرفتم.
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European lawmakers, data regulators, and privacy authorities must recognize that It is time to revise your approach to the internet giants, who have for the entirety of the post-2013 era actively, intentionally sabotaged the process of reform.
nytimes.com/2021/10/22/tec…
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It is crucial to bear in mind that the industry's problem is not data "protection," it is data COLLECTION. Mass surveillance must be recognized as a crime, not a business model. twitter.com/Snowden/status…
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This looks like it produces a global (hash) database of people's iris scans (for "fairness"), and waves away the implications by saying "we deleted the scans!"
Yeah, but you save the *hashes* produced by the scans. Hashes that match *future* scans.
Don't catalogue eyeballs. twitter.com/sama/status/14…
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Don't use biometrics for anti-fraud.
In fact, don't use biometrics for anything.
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"We use ZK-proofs!"
Great, clever. Still bad.
The human body is not a ticket-punch.
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VC guys keep trying to make cryptocurrency a global standard by spending billions to invent less-attractive versions of Bitcoin, instead of just buying payment-system companies to make the most common cash registers and apps support crypto payments by default.
Pro-gamer move.
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With respect, the docs say the "sequencer nodes" save the hashes (identifiers) produced by scanning people's eyes to your database.
Apple does not, IIRC, catalog raw bio hashes—they're encrypted on-device (via enclave).
The result of Worldcoin's "Phase 1" is an eyeball catalog. twitter.com/sama/status/14…
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Distribution isn't the core public need: people will clearly buy bitcoin at nearly any price. *Disintermediation* is the demand.
Rinse out the middlemen (corporate and state), enabling them to transact with anyone, anywhere, for anything.
Don't insert yourself as another one.
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You think you understand the nature of difficulty, and then you try to teach a baby to be patient.
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Asparagus is transitory.
theguardian.com/business/2021/…
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#Brexit seems to be going about as well as expected. I'm surprised I haven't seen "Bare Shelves Boris" trending. twitter.com/Snowden/status…
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