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• Post #2406660

  OK let’s talk about That Op-ed. The one that insisted not only that privacy is dangerous, but that not affirmatively building surveillance into communication tools is a radical ideological position. Dunking on the op-ed’s arguments is easy. They’re SHALLOW. And dunk many have, often with the gentleness of a professor grading a draft essay from a student they didn’t want to completely discourage. I’ll direct you to the great threads from others... 1/ https://web.archive.org/web/20230101194846...

• Post #2406655

  "The idea that complex social problems are amenable to cheap technical solutions is the siren song of the software salesman" Re the Online Safety Bill/regulatory proposals invoking harm to the vulnerable as a problem mass surveillance could solve. https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-64584001

• Post #2406654

  Also good from the Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/feb/24/signal-app-warns-it-will-quit-uk-if-law-weakens-end-to-end-encryption

• Post #2300865

  Use Signal. We promise, no AI clutter, and no surveillance ads, whatever the rest of the industry does. <3

• Post #2221590

  PSA: We've received questions about push notifications. First: push notifications for Signal NEVER contain sensitive unencrypted data & do not reveal the contents of any Signal messages or calls–not to Apple, not to Google, not to anyone but you & the people you're talking to. 1/

• Post #1890061

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

• Post #1876784

  This paper is really important, presenting empirical evidence of the imbrication bet. AI & the surveillance biz model. This is notable particularly given that most production surveillance tech is proprietary, its existence and use hidden from the public. https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.15084?ref=404media.co

• Post #1175422

  Climate change is already threatening the data centers required to power large scale tech, like "AI". Or, accounting for climate we see a tech future that's patchier & less always-on + ubiquitous, NOT larger and more powerful. This doesn't mean that those with power to shape and control tech will themselves grow less powerful. But it does mean that the colloquial Moore's law fantasies of tech, particularly popular in "AI", wil...

• Post #1048413

  @olavi@defcon.social @saaste Sadly it's not that simple, as we review.

• Post #1030710

  Signal strongly opposes the newest #ChatControl proposal in Europe. Let there be no doubt: we will leave the EU market rather than undermine our privacy guarantees. This proposal--if passed and enforced against us--would require us to make this choice. It's surveillance wine in safety bottles. See more: https://www.patrick-breyer.de/en/majority-for-chat-control-possible-users-who-refuse-scanning-to-be-prevented-from-sharing-photos-and-links/ @echo_pbreyer

• Post #1003766

  IT IS HAPPENING! Today, Signal launches phone number privacy & usernames! These features let you use Signal w/o sharing your phone number with the people you talk to Proud to add more privacy to Signal, & proud of the smart, careful work the team did to make this happen ♥️ You can read more here: https://signal.org/blog/phone-number-privacy-usernames/

• Post #708306

  Looking for a convivial convo w me & Michael Moynihan covering everything from Snowden to Babbage to why Michael actually cares about privacy to our impoverished def of "AI" and the need to expand it? 👉 7pm EDT tonight, Nov 13th, streaming + archived thereafter: https://www.youtube.com/live/ZYNJ0zpFvqA

• Post #708304

  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

• Post #708302

  📣 NEW w/#UdbhavTiwari 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://media.ccc.de/v/39c3-ai-agent-ai-spy

• Post #708301

  @jom thanks, edited

• Post #708300

  Interesting 1987 NYT book review of Klaus Theweleit's *Male Fantasies* "a study of the imaginative world of the German Freikorps movement." https://www.nytimes.com/1987/06/21/books/the-women-they-feared.html

• Post #708299

  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

• Post #655018

  📣 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.

• Post #356187

  📣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/

• Post #356185

  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/