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We love to see it--community-created harm reduction infrastructure in the face of the alarming integration of AI agents into the Windows operating system (which is currently the most reckless deployment environment) <3
https://github.com/zoicware/RemoveWindowsAI
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2026-01-11 13:20:12 CET

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@nprofile…9739 @nprofile…kyv9 @nprofile…0xjm I have, in fact, addressed it at length. https://mastodon.world/@Mer__edith/115445701583902092

2026-01-07 17:04:39 CET

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@nprofile…fjea Because I thought we were out of time. I was mistaken. However we stayed after for as long as we could and took questions near the stage.

2026-01-07 15:09:30 CET

📣 NEW w/@udbhav-tiwari.bsky.social Mapping the technical reality & privacy/security perils of pushing AI agents into our infra
We offer palliatives, but the core issues are paradigmatic: 'agency' relies on pervasive data access + ability to act w/o explicit consent.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ANECpNdt-4

2025-12-31 17:35:15 CET

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@nprofile…qu7r It's true, I did think we were over time, when in fact we were not over time. But we definitely didn't storm off! We stayed around by the stage for about 15 minutes talking to nice people and answering questions. Then we hung out until late, and again the next day. Hope that helps!

2025-12-25 15:14:42 CET

Merry Christmas! May you enjoy the cinnamon nutmeg season as much as I do, with all the peace, major chord progressions, warm drinks, butterfat and sparkling this and that, whatever you believe, however work it ❤️🎄
🎁 here's a great album to get your day going https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=oscar+peterson+live+in+tokyo+1862

2025-11-13 18:38:22 CET

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@nprofile…t9xc Eastern. Daylight. Time.

2025-11-11 19:27:29 CET

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@nprofile…um85 Thank you! I appreciate your flagging this.

2025-11-11 19:18:30 CET

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And finally finally, here's a resources you can share and reference with more about how to detect, and protect yourself from scammers and abusers: https://support.signal.org/hc/en-us/articles/9932566320410-Staying-Safe-from-Phishing-Scams-and-Impersonation

2025-11-11 19:15:14 CET

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Finally, to help you determine the fake and malicious from the genuine, we have signposts (support.signal.org/hc/en-us/art...) in the application that can aid you in identifying fakers and phishing attempts.
We also have tools like Registration Lock to help protect against account takeovers. 6/

2025-11-11 19:15:05 CET

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If you do receive a message you think is suspicious, report it as Spam and block the sender so that they cannot contact you again. AKA basic comms hygiene to preserve your peace. 5/

2025-11-11 19:14:55 CET

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Contact with Signal (support.signal.org/hc/en-us/art...) or any Signal representative will ONLY come from an
@signal.org
email address, not from within the app.
And again, we will never ask for your PIN or verification code. And we do not reach out proactively, only in response to your requests.4/

2025-11-11 19:14:44 CET

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To be crystal clear: Signal will NEVER message you this way. Ever.
And just like with your bank details or passwords, NEVER EVER share your Signal verification code (SMS/Call) or PIN with anyone. Ever. 3/

2025-11-11 19:14:28 CET

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Right now we're hearing about increased phishing attempts that go like this:
Attackers pretend to be Signal or Signal Support, then message people and try to get them to hand over their verification code or Signal PIN. Information that can let the attacker take over the victim's Signal account. 2/

2025-11-11 19:14:17 CET

PSA: tips to protect yourself from scams on Signal.
Every major comms platform has to contend w phishing, impersonation, & scams. Sadly.
Signal is major, and as we've grown we've heard about more of these attacks--scammy people pretending to be something or someone to trick and abuse others. 1/

2025-10-27 12:58:37 CET

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@nprofile…tp37 No, because no modern and useful comms platform provides only text messaging. And if your platform doesn't provide normative features and functionality, people won't use it. And if they don't use it--even if you do--you can't use it either. The network effect rules communications effectiveness.

2025-10-27 11:42:04 CET

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To conclude: my silver lining hope is that AWS going down can be a learning moment, in which the risks of concentrating the nervous system of our world in the hands of a few players become very clear. And that this can help us craft ways of undoing this concentration and creating real choice ❤️ 13/

2025-10-27 11:41:55 CET

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So, Signal does what we can to provide a service w integrity in the concentrated ecosystem we're working in. We protect your comms w end-to-end encryption, so that we can use AWS and others as a highway across which to send Signal data in ways that don’t let AWS, or anyone else, gain access. 12/

2025-10-27 11:41:46 CET

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In short, the problem here is not that Signal ‘chose’ to run on AWS. The problem is the concentration of power in the infrastructure space that means there isn’t really another choice: the entire stack, practically speaking, is owned by 3-4 players. 11/

2025-10-27 11:41:37 CET

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o, yes, Signal runs on AWS. It also runs on your phone, which runs on iOS (Apple) or Android (Google). And on Dekstop, via Windows (Microsoft). Each of these presents similar dependencies on large entrenched tech companies, and concomitant barriers and risks. 10/

2025-10-27 11:41:29 CET

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But even if Signal had the billions needed to recreate AWS, it’s not just about money. The talent to run these systems is rare & concentrated. The expertise, the tooling, the playbooks, the very language of modern SRE came out of these hyperscalers, and is now synonymous with 'the cloud.' 9/

2025-10-27 11:41:13 CET

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Such infrastructure costs billions and billions of dollars to provision and maintain, and it’s highly depreciable. In the case of the hyperscalers, the staggering cost is cross-subsidized by other businesses–themselves also massive platforms with significant lockin. 7/

2025-10-27 11:41:02 CET

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This isn't ‘'renting a server.' It's leasing access to a whole sprawling, capital-intensive, technically-capable system that must be just as available in Cairo as in Capetown, just as functional in Bangkok as Berlin. Particularly given the high stakes use cases of many who rely on Signal. 6/

2025-10-27 11:40:52 CET

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Instant messaging demands near-zero latency. Voice and video in particular require complex global signaling & regional relays to manage jitter and packet loss. These are things that AWS, Azure, and GCP provide at global scale that, practically speaking, others (in the western context) don’t. 5/

2025-10-27 11:40:08 CET

📣THREAD: It’s surprising to me that so many people were surprised to learn that Signal runs partly on AWS (something we can do because we use encryption to make sure no one but you–not AWS, not Signal, not anyone–can access your comms).
It’s also concerning. 1/

2025-10-20 11:15:20 CEST

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@nprofile…hn5u status.signal.org is updated.

2025-10-20 10:18:37 CEST

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@nprofile…px4k No

2025-10-20 10:18:19 CEST

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@nprofile…79fx what are you suggesting we decentralize here? Like, walk me through how 'decentralizing' would solve the fact that AWS and two other cos control a large portion of server infra globally.

2025-10-20 10:00:15 CEST

PSA: we're aware that Signal is down for some people. This appears to be related to a major AWS outage. Stand by.

2025-10-16 16:53:01 CEST

LOL all morning picturing some finance quant slouched at his desk prompting Dalle, like, "make me a picture of pikachu having sex with the Apple logo" or whatever tf those guys use these things for, then throwing up his hands like "WHY WON'T THIS FIND ALPHA?!"
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-10-15/ken-griffin-says-genai-fails-to-help-hedge-funds-produce-alpha
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2025-10-09 13:43:51 CEST

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So we remain vigilant & deeply grateful to our allies.
For Signal, Chat Control is an existential threat. If we were *forced* to choose between building surveillance into our services or keeping our integrity, we would choose integrity & leave the market. We hope it never comes to this. 7/

2025-10-09 13:43:41 CEST

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The technical consensus is clear: you can't create a backdoor that only lets the "good guys" in. However they're dressed up, these proposals create cybersecurity loopholes that hackers and hostile nations are eagerly waiting to exploit. 6/

2025-10-09 13:43:31 CEST

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The reality is that scanning any content before it is encrypted negates the very purpose of encryption and is a dangerous backdoor. No amount of tinkering or word games can change that inescapable reality. 5/

2025-10-09 13:43:22 CEST

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We must be wary of "new" proposals that allow scanning of "known content" while claiming to protect privacy by proscribing "indiscriminate" surveillance. We must also look out for those that mandate only scanning for “hashed images or videos.” 4/

2025-10-09 13:43:13 CEST

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The war is not over, however. Now we move to the European Council, where the issue is unresolved. We expect closed-door negotiations to engage in rhetorical arbitrage--claiming to support privacy by using word games and bespoke definitions--while in practice undermining it. Tedious and dangerous 3/

2025-10-09 13:42:57 CEST

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Defending privacy isn't easy. Those in power always want more access +more info. It's especially hard when emotionally charged args are used to advance surveillance
❤️ to those doing the work!
https://social.bau-ha.us/@CCC
https://d-64.social/@d64eV
https://mastodon.social/@chatcontrol
And many others <3 2/

2025-10-09 13:42:00 CEST

We're so relieved to see Germany reaffirm its opposition to the dangerous Chat Control proposal--the one that would mandate mass scanning of communications.
Germany's long been a solid champion of privacy, and the news that it was considering backing mass surveillance was alarming. 1/

2025-10-06 09:12:01 CEST

📣 Germany's close to reversing its opposition to mass surveillance & private message scanning, & backing the Chat Control bill. This could end private comms-& Signal-in the EU.
Time's short and they're counting on obscurity: please let German politicians know how horrifying their reversal would be.
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2025-09-09 19:39:18 CEST

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Here's a free link: https://archive.is/2025.09.09-134109/https://www.economist.com/by-invitation/2025/09/09/ai-agents-are-coming-for-your-privacy-warns-meredith-whittaker

2025-08-11 18:00:21 CEST

New Sunday Times profile in which I succeed, like a fencer in a 2hr marathon match, in fending off Qs abt my personal life & consistently turning focus back to my work & ideas.
(Contra the interviewer's claim, many ppl do know me! They're called friends, & you know who you are ❤️)
https://archive.is/BtZD0
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2025-07-30 15:57:22 CEST

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@nprofile…q54u <3

2025-07-11 19:44:02 CEST

Yes, I did sound the alarm on agentic AI's privacy threat, and rightly so.
https://observer.com/2025/07/signal-meredith-whittaker-agentic-ai-risk/

2025-07-02 12:59:39 CEST

So happy to be joining Burda Media's board of directors! I love a steep learning curve, and this one--schooling up on media business models & opportunities to (re)shape media's relationship to tech--couldn't be more exciting & consequential. Thrilled to contribute ❤️
https://www.burda.com/en/news/meredith-whittaker-joins-burdas-board-directors/

2025-07-01 16:36:10 CEST

How to be classy, how to be cute, how to actually walk the walk...
Love you for this @nprofile…gcyh ❤️
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/01/t...

2025-06-25 16:32:56 CEST

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@nprofile…dedh @nprofile…2wc8 @nprofile…lqjp Hi, yes, we're aware. We did this to address Microsoft's privacy invasion, and wish we had better tools available. See more: https://signal.org/blog/signal-doesnt-recall/

2025-06-19 10:06:20 CEST

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Source: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jun/18/whatsapp-ai-helper-mistakenly-shares-users-number

2025-06-19 10:01:02 CEST

'Meredith,' some guys ask, 'why won't you shove AI into Signal?'
Because we love privacy, and we love you, and this shit is predictable and unacceptable. Use Signal ❤️
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2025-06-16 17:28:59 CEST

Use Signal. We promise, no AI clutter, and no surveillance ads, whatever the rest of the industry does. <3
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2025-06-03 15:52:32 CEST

Happy pride month! Especially to my trans friends <3

2025-05-21 19:00:05 CEST

📣 The rushed integration of AI into everything is a major threat to privacy, as we've been saying.
Microsoft Recall is a great (not great!) example of exactly why--it screenshots everything on your desktop, to give AI the data to tell you...what you were doing on desktop.
So, Signal took steps to protect you and everyone using Signal on Windows 11 from Recall's hunger for (Signal) data.
Read more about how we navigated, and why we need to ecosystem to a lot more 👇
https://signal.org/blog/signal-doesnt-recall/

2025-03-09 15:03:28 CET

I did. Because it does.
https://techcrunch.com/2025/03/07/signal-president-meredith-whittaker-calls-out-agentic-ai-as-having-profound-security-and-privacy-issues/

2025-02-07 08:01:50 CET

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@nprofile…54t9 WA would need to meet our v high privacy/security bar

2025-01-12 12:15:25 CET

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@nprofile…zwc4 @nprofile…nyuj Thanks for flagging this! And this sounds really frustrating. I'll flag this for our product and dev teams.

2025-01-11 18:16:43 CET

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@nprofile…30mk @nprofile…z9x7 I'll be publishing the text with a bibliography soon (when I finish cleaning up the document)

2025-01-09 17:57:32 CET

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@nprofile…p4mx Basically, I'm calling for this https://www.wired.com/story/the-beginning-of-the-end-of-big-tech/

2025-01-09 15:13:46 CET

Not lost on me that it's nonprofit tech, https://app.watchduty.org, showing up & actually working in the midst of the LA fires (donate to them!)
Meanwhile platforms fail to surface key news, vital info is paywalled...
As I've been saying, we need a new tech paradigm, yesterday!

2024-12-26 21:51:09 CET

Complete knowledge of the full majesty of universal creation in all its divine facets is when I own an island.
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2024-12-02 15:24:58 CET

📢NEW: 'Open' AI systems aren't open. The vague term, combined w AI hype is (mis)shaping policy & practice, assuming 'open source' AI democratizes access & addresses power concentration. It doesn't.
@sarahbmyers, @davidthewid & I correct the record👇
https://nature.com/articles/s41586-024-08141-1
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2024-11-27 21:54:22 CET

I wrote a little end of year manifestation for you'all. MAY IT EVER BE THUS!
https://www.wired.com/story/the-beginning-of-the-end-of-big-tech/

2024-11-18 13:38:51 CET

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@nprofile…t8jm using Signal is free <3

2024-11-18 09:44:24 CET

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@nprofile…35a5 I believe it will be recorded, but the CCC folks can confirm. I believe this because I have regularly gone back and watched old CCC talks. However, I don't know their heuristic for recording and publishing.

2024-11-18 09:30:11 CET

Anyone spending the brief liminal window between Christmas and Georgian new year in Hamburg, with the hackers, at CCC?
I am! And I'll be presenting new research and a new talk ☺️
halfnarp.events.ccc.de
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2024-11-17 13:30:48 CET

Now that "scale is all we need" has predictably faltered...
1. Small AI models often perform better in context.
2. Obsession w bigness has bad consequences, from climate, to power concentration, to research capture.
Me +
@nprofile…c5h6
@sashaluccioni
arxiv.org/abs/2409.14160

2024-11-16 16:06:33 CET

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@nprofile…z7vf @nprofile…2wc8 I like the new one better, but I hear your view. I hope you get used to it over time :)

2024-10-31 22:26:41 CET

I remember Google+, and the idee fixe and mad hype around it. G+ was a ghost town. But for the first year or so the G+ team reported astronomical engagement numbers. Huhh?
Finally we learned they were counting every G+ notification dropped at the top of Gmail as an "engagement."
Anyway, I wonder how they're measuring this...
https://www.businessinsider.com/google-earnings-q3-2024-new-code-created-by-ai-2024-10

2024-10-06 19:22:57 CEST

Case in point: there's no way to build a backdoor that only the "good guys" can use.
When the entire technical community says that the EU's ChatControl legislation + similar pose serious cybersecurity threats, we're not exaggerating for effect.
https://www.wsj.com/tech/cybersecurity/u-s-wiretap-systems-targeted-in-china-linked-hack-327fc63b?st=byoB7m

2024-09-28 11:07:42 CEST

I loved talking to
@madhumita29
for Lunch with the FT! We spoke on my personal journey through the enchanted forest of 2000s era-tech, why we must connect AI + surveillance, and the nascent rumblings of a better tech future that I see on the horizon.
Come for that, stay for the portrait perfectly capturing "just off a redeye and powering through it" ♥️👇
https://ft.com/content/799b4fcf-2cf7-41d2-81b4-10d9ecdd83f6

2024-09-25 09:48:52 CEST

📣NEW paper! Don’t believe the hype: bigger AI ≠ better AI. @SashaMTL, @GaelVaroquaux and me on how the race to bigger, and bigger AI has bad consequences and isn't necessary.
1. Smaller AI models often perform better than big models in context
And
2. obsession with bigness has severe collateral consequences, from climate costs, to concentrated power, to more surveillance, to the capture of AI research.
All of this, and what we can do instead 👇
arxiv.org/abs/2409.14160
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2024-09-06 11:48:20 CEST

This is so cool/kind
(AND they're using machine learning to actually do the thing 'for humanity' that companies selling ML to the pharma industry claim it will , but that of course their version will not actually do, given the incentives♥️)
https://www.404media.co/right-to-repair-for-your-body-the-rise-of-diy-pirated-medicine/

2024-08-28 21:14:19 CEST

Such a delight to sit down with the great @npub1fx7…jv34 for a long engaged convo on surveillance, AI, my wild path through tech, and how by rejecting the toxic norm Signal provides a shining model for better, healthier tech futures♥️
https://www.wired.com/story/meredith-whittaker-signal/

2024-08-16 12:41:39 CEST

"'I actually don’t know of a single provider of abortion services like these who has not encountered this problem [of payment platforms cancelling their accounts or holding their money].'”
https://www.thepersistent.com/telemedicine-abortion-payment-providers/

2024-07-09 14:05:11 CEST

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We ask those who are serious about security and privacy to please engage us directly in the future, instead of resorting first to online claims that can confuse non-experts and lead people to make unsafe choices and develop inaccurate mental models based on scary language. We monitor [email protected] carefully and respond to all legitimate reports.

2024-07-09 14:04:43 CEST

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2. We continue working to harden our desktop build across supported operating systems and take advantage of new platform capabilities as they emerge. Those of you following our repo can follow this work there.

2024-07-09 14:04:33 CEST

There’s been some chatter about Signal desktop recently, so let’s clear the air. Three points:
1. The reported issues rely on an attacker already having *full access to your device* — either physically, through a malware compromise, or via a malicious application running on the same device. This is not something that Signal, or any other app, can fully protect against. Nor do we ever claim to.

2024-07-02 23:49:27 CEST

RIP Julien Terzics. Cofounder of The Red Warriors who physically defended the community against Nazis in 1980s Paris
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2024-06-17 21:42:07 CEST

📣Official statement: the new EU chat controls proposal for mass scanning is the same old surveillance with new branding.
Whether you call it a backdoor, a front door, or “upload moderation” it undermines encryption & creates significant vulnerabilities
https://signal.org/blog/pdfs/upload-moderation.pdf
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2024-05-24 13:53:46 CEST

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The latest example of robust, longstanding expert consensus tirelessly pushing back against politically motivated magical thinking:
https://x.com/carmelatroncoso/status/1785980270664929481

2024-05-24 13:53:17 CEST

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On tech lobbyists involvement (and the corruption that allowed this) see: https://balkaninsight.com/2023/09/25/who-benefits-inside-the-eus-fight-over-scanning-for-child-sex-content/

2024-05-24 13:52:41 CEST

Ignoring expert consensus, feeling no shame following exposés showing tech lobbyists shaping these EU surveillance proposals, EU politicians are at it again
So, we'll reiterate: Signal would rather leave the EU market than subject our users to mass gov surveillance. FULL STOP
https://netzpolitik.org/2024/internes-protokoll-belgien-will-nutzer-verpflichten-chatkontrolle-zuzustimmen/
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2024-05-12 12:00:11 CEST

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@npub1spf…lypd Not totally sure, but the founder talks a big game often in very misleading ways, as well

2024-05-09 23:55:22 CEST

Telegram is notoriously insecure and routinely cooperates with govs behind the scenes while talking a big game about speech and privacy. Even their limited opt-in (roll their own) encryption is sus. The more you know 🌈

2024-04-16 20:11:29 CEST

This is a historic tech action in a long proud tradition.
From Polaroid workers rejecting their work contributing to S Africa's passbooks, to the MIT research strike where scientists refused to work for warfare; to Geoff Hinton relocating to Canada to avoid building US weapons.
https://www.wired.com/story/google-no-tech-for-apartheid-project-nimbus-israel-gaza-protest/

2024-03-31 17:49:54 CEST

Most lives could be much shorter, too, if we insisted on measuring their worth against brutal, joyless utilitarian metrics.
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2024-03-14 20:18:41 CET

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@npub1f9x…hycg I'm glad you grew out of it. Apart from this, I'm very robust, have a lot of energy, and tolerate caffeine quite well. So I'm glad for that.

2024-03-14 19:42:38 CET

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@npub1l20…0c0w I actually like it! I just order soda water and I was never a big drinker, so it's not a problem for me beyond usually leaving earlier than I would otherwise.

2024-03-14 18:59:47 CET

This's me!
About 2yrs post-COVID I still get an instant headache from a tiny amount of alcohol. A full drink makes me violently ill for ~3 days. Posting b/c this's the first media I've seen on this symptom, and it would've been helpful to me 2 yrs ago.
https://www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/article/long-covid-drink-alcohol-18889985.php

2024-03-12 15:43:26 CET

What?
Govs hire consultants daily to write whatever. Often, they produce trash. Here, a v small consultancy wrote a report for USG amplifying discredited X-risk ideologies + prescribing bad policy. AFAICT it's based based on ~5 ppl's hunches?
Why're we taking this seriously?
https://time.com/6898967/ai-extinction-national-security-risks-report/

2023-09-04 11:30:27 CEST

English edition of a very fun interview discussing surveillance, AI, and why Signal is so important👇
https://schweizermonat.ch/when-ai-systems-are-used-they-are-usually-used-for-surveillance/#

2023-09-04 11:30:04 CEST

English edition of a very fun interview discussing surveillance, AI, and why Signal is so important👇
https://schweizermonat.ch/when-ai-systems-are-used-they-are-usually-used-for-surveillance/#

2023-09-02 21:53:26 CEST

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Shortcut to their full statement here: https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/23933180/apple-letter-to-heat-initiative.pdf

2023-09-02 21:53:04 CEST

Apple's statement is the death knell for the idea that it's possible to scan everyone's comms AND preserve privacy.
Apple has many of the best cryptographers + software eng on earth + infinite $.
If they can't, no one can. (They can't. No one can.)
https://www.wired.com/story/apple-csam-scanning-heat-initiative-letter/

2023-08-30 23:32:11 CEST

This is the room you pull together when your staffers want pictures with tech industry AI celebrities.
It's not the room you assemble when you want to better understand what AI is, how (and for whom) it functions, and what to do about it.
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2023-08-27 19:00:12 CEST

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@npub1wxs…zpe7 No plans to interop, but we are watching the DSA progress attentively.

2023-08-27 18:40:45 CEST

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@npub1wxs…zpe7 Different parties using the same open source implementation is different than federation.
I believe you are referring to comments I made about the EU DSA interoperability requirements, which are also different than federation.

2023-08-27 18:21:22 CEST

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@npub1kk2…qp3u Yeah. The Signal protocol is open, you can find implementations and documentation on our site.

2023-08-27 18:20:09 CEST

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@npub18c2…yppc Viber effectively rewrote their own version of the Signal protocol. So they do not user our implementation/code. But they do base what they do on our design. I cannot speak to the robustness of their version, however. I'm sure others can.

2023-08-27 17:31:51 CEST

Great column from
@ShiraOvide, looking at differences between private messengers. Note Telegram isn't listed, because Telegram is not a private messenger.
And note that Signal is the gold standard, providing the foundation for the rest.❤️
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/08/22/encryption-imessage-whatsapp-google/
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2023-08-24 16:19:41 CEST

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@npub1lf5…dlu0 oh, to be clear, this is an academic interest. It absolutely does not reflect any plans for Signal.