The problem:
https://www.theverge.com/news/687519/whatsapp-launch-advertising-status-updates

The solution:
https://signal.org/download/

#Signal #WhatsApp

In case you're wondering if it's just your imagination or if Boeing aircraft really do seem to crash a lot, this visualization from last year confirms that ... no, Boeing really does have more incidents than Airbus.

Google is currently doing a lot to prevent data leaks: https://status.cloud.google.com/?hl=de

🛠️ Need a transparent, flexible way to manage internal requests, without switching tools?

Many teams in the public sector already use OpenProject for ticket management:
– Work packages as tickets
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#OpenSource #ProjectManagement #PublicSector #TaskManagement #OpenProject #TicketManagement

backsliding into fascism just 80 years after WWII is like failing an open-book test in a room where the answers are written on the board and also being constantly read out loud over a loudspeaker

@daidoji That is awesome! How did we avoid running into each other thus far?

Would love to hear more about what you guys are doing, and how we might be able to work together!

@daidoji Agreed.

Have been part of the KERi community for 18 months or so now. A lot has happened since I wrote https://ggreve.medium.com/a-future-for-self-sovereign-identity-c237caa5e46f

Working closely with the KERI community these days to hopefully have an answer to some of these challenges within the year.

That is why I have signed on to https://NoPhoneHome.com alongside many esteemed colleagues and organizations that I have had the pleasure to collaborate with over the years.

Please help us raise awareness for the issues at hand, and let us openly speak about the fundamental design flaws in #mDL and #eIDAS.

For if we do not do this now, all of us will find themselves living in a world where oppressive regimes with perfect surveillance powers are ever only a single populist election away.

Meanwhile it has become clear the architecture of today's Internet has some fundamental flaws.

These flaws lead to power imbalance, the platform economy, and the surveillance business model.

Now governments everywhere are rushing to build digital identity systems. But instead of building them with a clear eye on the requirements for such systems to be resilient in terms of privacy and security, most are currently poised to repeat the mistakes of the past.

This is something we must not accept.

Boundless optimism has been the dominant mood on the Internet as we collectively fell in love with it in the 90s.

Our perhaps biggest mistake was in leaving certain parts of the development to strangers who had their own agenda. We did not worry, for freedom would surely prevail.

The nature of the creation would ensure that all humans, anywhere, would have access to good information. In our mind, the result would be a global surge of well-run, far-sighted democracies everywhere.

Ich bekomme eine E-Mail: In meinem #BundID-Postfach ist eine neue Nachricht. Ich melde mich mit der eID an. Die Nachricht: Ich habe eine neue Nachricht in „Mein Justizpostfach“. Ich gehe zu #MJP und muss mich wieder anmelden - über BundID, wieder mit dem Ausweis. Die Nachricht im Justizpostfach muss ich nun noch mit Schlüsseldatei und Passwort entschlüsseln. Der Inhalt: Zukünftig werden Nachrichten im Justizpostfach nach 90 Tagen gelöscht.

#Digitalisierung in Deutschland

This.

As someone who always prefers websites over apps ( whether it be me writing a project or using a technology ), my favorite line from @pluralistic keynote in PyCon US is

"An app is just a website that we have wrapped in the correct DRM to make it a felony to protect your privacy while you use it"

https://youtu.be/ydVmzg_SJLw

📆 31 May 2025
"Threat Modeling Digital Credentials: What Could Go Wrong?" a Lightning talk by Simone Onofri at ThreatModCon 2025 in Barcelona Spain 🇪🇸
"Governments are rolling out digital wallets and decentralized credentials, shifting identity verification online. While promising convenience, this introduces new security risks. This session explores threats in credential presentation for web apps, including data correlation, replay attacks, and phishing risks."
https://www.w3.org/events/talks/2025/threat-modeling-digital-credentials-what-could-go-wrong/

My kid just WhatsApped from his German exchange trip. They had to call an ambulance for him.

He has food poisoning, was very pale and nauseous. He was dehydrated and his blood pressure was dropping.

He's fine now but I wanted to share this because it has the most Western Europe Is a Civilized Place ending ever.

The paramedics came to the mall, took him into the ambulance, gave him an IV, checked him out, stayed with him until he felt better, then told him "No charge. Enjoy your trip to Germany." And if that wasn't enough, when they realized the group had had to move onto the train station without him, they gave him a ride over there to catch up with them.

I'm so ground down by the predatory realities of America in general in 2025 that this just about blew my fucking mind.

On one hand, I hear discussions like

How do we make our encryption quantum-proof?

On the other I see hundreds (and that is no joke) of S3 buckets, Azure Blobs with even the most intimate data being completely open for everyone.

How do we expect to solve complex and difficult problems of #infosec, if we cannot even solve the easy and trivial ones reliably?

I am not talking about amateurs. Sometimes I see so much data in such storage, that the high costs involved would prevent some rando from being responsible.

And even worse: if something like this happens, there is no process to solve that.

Closing those buckets falls on shoulders of volunteers and activists and them working through dozens of contacts.

While the people exposing the data get paid well, the people trying to prevent a disaster are working for free.

Happy 50th birthday, cron! Thanks for remembering all of our jobs for us 😎

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cron

#cron #unix #linux #birthday

Back before the Internet, we thought the reason for human stupidity was the lack of information options.

I’ll put it this way: That wasn’t it.

Today in 1933, 92 years ago: the Reichstag granted extensive powers to Adolf Hitler for four years, which he took advantage of to govern Germany at will.

Any comparisons with what we are currently seeing in the world are purely coincidental...

😱 😨 😱