In the whole Proton situation, there are a lot of mixed equities and real problems surfacing, but not all of them are appropriately ascribed to Proton.

Let's put aside for the moment that the FBI sucks. They do! Under the US MLAT with Switzerland, is it Proton's role to deny the request from the US government?

Is it not; it is the Swiss government's role to do so if they wish. If they do so, they endanger a treaty that has been in place since 1977, while also signaling to other countries with similar agreements that their word is mud—or at best, contingent on them liking the current government of the ally country.

Maybe not an awesome tradeoff to stick it to the Feebs.

And Proton, like them or not, has been clear about their position on honoring Swiss law from the jump. And should they leave Switzerland for another EU country, it will be that state's laws they abide by.

You may contend that Proton should deny lawful (note: not necessarily ethical) requests from their government to protect their users. That's a position you can take, but I don't believe it has ever been Proton's. Their primary privacy offer is end-to-end encryption between email addresses that support it, and on-disk encryption of your data, along with a VPN. They make anonymous accounts possible, but do not guarantee any data you give them will be withheld from lawful requests from Swiss authorities, which is what happened here.

A world without privacy is also a world without intimacy, without individuality, without diversity, and without democracy.

Certain politicians have clearly expressed they want a world without privacy.

We cannot let them have it passively. We must fight back for our rights. Now.

Or we will lose them.

#Privacy #MassSurveillance #Authoritarianism #AgeVerification

The Trump administration has supercharged its abuse of the secrecy system to keep the press and the public in the dark about the Iran war — even as we’re footing the bill to the tune of $1 billion a day.

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Kernel security bugs are fixed three times faster when fixed by the same person who wrote the bug https://pebblebed.com/blog/kernel-bugs-part2

Applying this result to a world in which devs aren’t the authors of ‘their’ own (slop) code left as an exercise to the reader

As age-verification bullshit becomes more common, I am determined to simply not participate in any service or video game that requires it. The day I see the prompt, is the day I leave.

Maybe the government’s hope is that I stop participating in society, but I assure you that I will not. I’ll find or build alternatives, and refuse to comply with bad law.

I hope you will, too.

And as a silver lining, maybe the weird internet we end up creating as a result will suck less than the current one.

Mass surveillance 🤝 Targeted advertising 🤝 Age verification 🤝 Censorship 🤝 Authoritarianism 🤝 Chat control 🤝 Fascism 🤝 Surveillance capitalism 🤝 Dictatorship 🤝 Full-mode dystopia

#Privacy #HumanRights #Democracy

RE: https://social.computertruhe.de/@fundtruhe/116164798967732691

Gibt es hier im Fediverse gemeinnützige Orgas, die vielleicht Interesse an diesen Thin Clients hätten, um damit bspw. im Rahmen eines DI.DAY-Workshops Leuten die Welt des Self-Hostings näher zu bringen? Oder um damit einen Computerraum für Sprachschüler*innen auszustatten? Oder für irgendein anderes nützliches Projekt?

#SelfHosting #DIDAY #DID #DigitalIndependenceDay #DigitalerUnabhängigkeitstag #DUT

Can I just say fuck this noise and fuck Newsom for signing this into law?

https://www.tomshardware.com/software/operating-systems/california-introduces-age-verification-law