Notices by Bob Mottram 🔧 ☕ ✅ (bob@soc.freedombone.net)
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Bob Mottram 🔧 ☕ ✅ (bob@soc.freedombone.net)s status den Wednesday, 12-Dec-2018 15:58:16 CET 
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Bob Mottram 🔧 ☕ ✅ (bob@soc.freedombone.net)s status den Wednesday, 12-Dec-2018 09:46:42 CET
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@interneteh Hard work in itself is not necessarily virtuous. You can work hard as an ICE agent or as an NSA contractor or as a Facebook executive, but the result of such work is not necessarily beneficial to anyone and you will likely be demonized by subsequent generations. The problem of life is not so much how hard you work but upon what you expend your life's efforts. -
Bob Mottram 🔧 ☕ ✅ (bob@soc.freedombone.net)s status den Wednesday, 12-Dec-2018 00:14:01 CET
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@rysiek @Anna https://internetfreedomfestival.org -
Bob Mottram 🔧 ☕ ✅ (bob@soc.freedombone.net)s status den Tuesday, 11-Dec-2018 23:59:59 CET
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Reading more of the guifi.net documentation it's almost like the opposite of an ISP here. The idea of instructing people how to an share internet connection between households is pretty much taboo in the UK. I don't know if it would be illegal, but it would be against the terms of service.
But I'm also thinking that something like this is the way the internet should go, such that the network is managed as a public resource with something like a cooperative model. -
Bob Mottram 🔧 ☕ ✅ (bob@soc.freedombone.net)s status den Monday, 10-Dec-2018 10:54:21 CET
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Talking about internet shutdowns in terms of dollar cost isn't a very good frame. The regimes which do that don't care about the economics of it. Their motivation is to stay in power whatever the cost. -
Bob Mottram 🔧 ☕ ✅ (bob@soc.freedombone.net)s status den Sunday, 09-Dec-2018 21:35:08 CET
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Bob Mottram 🔧 ☕ ✅ (bob@soc.freedombone.net)s status den Sunday, 09-Dec-2018 15:42:15 CET
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@shoutcacophony Similar has been happening with matrix.org. Lack of easy account migration also doesn't help, but if I were running .social I would close new registrations (would have done that a year or more ago) and redirect the link to something suggesting other instances. Maybe just recommend a different specific one each day to avoid choice paralysis. -
Bob Mottram 🔧 ☕ ✅ (bob@soc.freedombone.net)s status den Sunday, 09-Dec-2018 13:06:14 CET
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The guifinet model. afaik currently the world's biggest mesh network. http://guifi.net/en/threesteps -
Bob Mottram 🔧 ☕ ✅ (bob@soc.freedombone.net)s status den Saturday, 08-Dec-2018 20:43:25 CET
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@maiyannah I notice that the last time a celebrity showed up that even here there is a tendency to obsess over them. Once profiles are ranked or become easily searchable based on some criteria then I expect there would soon be fediverse celebs.
Ranking competitions bring bad dynamics such as fake followers and a trade in that, and will make things much more appealing to advertisers who want "influencers". -
Bob Mottram 🔧 ☕ ✅ (bob@soc.freedombone.net)s status den Saturday, 08-Dec-2018 20:13:55 CET
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Even if it is opt-in, user profile directory popularity contests are not likely to have a good outcome.
Try not to design systems which foster personality cults. There's too much of that in the silos already. -
Bob Mottram 🔧 ☕ ✅ (bob@soc.freedombone.net)s status den Saturday, 08-Dec-2018 19:02:46 CET
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Hyperbola becomes FSF endorsed https://www.hyperbola.info -
Bob Mottram 🔧 ☕ ✅ (bob@soc.freedombone.net)s status den Saturday, 08-Dec-2018 17:59:24 CET
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Art by Andrew Cooper
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Bob Mottram 🔧 ☕ ✅ (bob@soc.freedombone.net)s status den Saturday, 08-Dec-2018 14:26:05 CET
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"We need to become better at being humans. Learning to use symbols and knowledge in new ways, across groups, across cultures, is a powerful, valuable, and very human goal. And it is also one that is obtainable, if we only begin to open our minds to full, complete use of computers to augment our most human of capabilities."
-- Doug Engelbart -
Bob Mottram 🔧 ☕ ✅ (bob@soc.freedombone.net)s status den Saturday, 08-Dec-2018 11:48:04 CET
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@aral For one-on-one chat with Signal this won't be an issue, especially if you have manually verified the public key with QR codes. But for any multi-user encrypted chat where you don't control the server this is potentially a problem.
There's more detail here: https://www.benthamsgaze.org/2018/12/06/new-threat-models-in-the-face-of-british-intelligence-and-the-five-eyes-new-end-to-end-encryption-interception-strategy
Fortunately I think there might be technical solutions to this, but it's only been a vaguely considered threat so far.
As in Iran, what the spooks are interested in is not mano-a-mano but group chat with many participants (possibly thousands) who can then organize and protest. -
Bob Mottram 🔧 ☕ ✅ (bob@soc.freedombone.net)s status den Saturday, 08-Dec-2018 00:43:18 CET
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Might be relevant to some people. I don't know if there are any strings attached.
https://www.recurse.com/blog/145-fellowships-for-women-working-on-open-source-programming-projects-research-and-art -
Bob Mottram 🔧 ☕ ✅ (bob@soc.freedombone.net)s status den Friday, 07-Dec-2018 23:25:16 CET
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@blakehaswell One factor to consider is that if the Australian law is considered to be "successful" then similar laws will be passed elsewhere.
Some possible tactics:
- Ensure that any backdoors which the government adds are discovered and publicized
- Work towards reproducible builds
- Encourage everyone not to trust proprietary chat apps. Assume that such apps are already backdoored
- Devise and deploy systems for monitoring the relevant open source projects. For example, a system which monitors open source chat apps and lists changes to cryptography related sections. Make code review of sensitive files trivial
- The government won't follow its own laws, and will use apps which are not backdoored. Use FOIA or anything similar to check what apps are used/purchased by officials and point out the hypocrisy
- Run cryptography workshops for your people. Make cryptography cool. Make it fashionable. Make songs and art about it. The government will prefer that people are uneducated on the topic -
Bob Mottram 🔧 ☕ ✅ (bob@soc.freedombone.net)s status den Friday, 07-Dec-2018 00:44:28 CET
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The Buzzcocks - Ever Fallen In Love https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=51OB2YoC4sg -
Bob Mottram 🔧 ☕ ✅ (bob@soc.freedombone.net)s status den Thursday, 06-Dec-2018 22:54:26 CET
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"when I think about the politics of powerlessness, it feels clear as day to me that the source of all of it is fear. Fear of leaders, of the enemy, of the possibility of having to govern, of the stakes of winning and losing, of each other, of ourselves"
-- Yotam Marom -
Bob Mottram 🔧 ☕ ✅ (bob@soc.freedombone.net)s status den Thursday, 06-Dec-2018 14:28:17 CET
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"where it is possible to ensure a greater degree of foreseeability of the relevant intrusion at the point of issue of the [bulk] warrant, a targeted thematic warrant is likely to be more appropriate"
Thematic warrants are "targeted" in the sense that they're against generic classes of people. All people in certain jobs or all people of certain religion or ethnicity would be a thematic warrant. -
Bob Mottram 🔧 ☕ ✅ (bob@soc.freedombone.net)s status den Thursday, 06-Dec-2018 14:22:32 CET
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"GCHQ have revisited their position on the authorisation of equipment interference operations under the Investigatory Powers Act and determined that it will be necessary to conduct a higher proportion of ongoing overseas focused operational activity using the bulk equipment interference regime than was originally envisaged."
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/update-to-isc-on-gchq-use-of-bulk-equipment-interference-3-december-2018
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