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2026-08-08 09:07 UTC
To Let's Encrypt and Certbot, projects that forever changed the internet's default state, so that today, nearly all online communications are encrypted and resistant to mass surveillance:
https://certbot.eff.org/
Other opportunities for public interest technologists proliferated. Bruce Schneier created the canonical resource page for Public Interest Technologists, including career opportunities for would-be public interest technologists:
https://public-interest-tech.com/
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@pluralistic@mamot.fr 2026-08-08 09:07
But the motherlode of public interest technologist opportunities wasn't the nonprofit sector - it was the *public* sector. It started with the UK's Government Digital Service, a group of public-spirited hackers (many of them ex- of the BBC, where they'd been tempest-tossed by endless internal power-struggles over the role of the internet in public service media) who retooled many of the UK government's most important administrative front-ends. 6/