Molly WhiteThe Fifth Circuit has just opined that the smart contracts that comprise the Tornado Cash cryptocurrency tumbler are "not property because they are not capable of being owned", and thus cannot be sanctioned by OFAC.
Andrey
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GrapheneOSFUTO apps aren't open source but rather source available with heavy restrictions on usage:
https://github.com/futo-org/android-keyboard/blob/master/LICENSE.md
They're taking the place of real open source apps and making it less likely for viable options to emerge since people are going to use and contribute to these.
So I've been using Zen Browser as a Firefox based alternative for Brave (almost for a month!), and today was the last day of this experiment - in Brave there are more features from out of box and it's not that buggy
Even though I really appreciate the existence of analogs of Chromium-based browser, for me personally it's not the choice right now
Even though I really appreciate the existence of analogs of Chromium-based browser, for me personally it's not the choice right now
Just read an interview with Meredith Whittaker (CEO of Signal)
Interesting point - analogs of current BigTech companies, but built with a non-survilience as a business model is actually our future
I'd love to be a part of building such products
https://www.wired.com/story/meredith-whittaker-signal/
Signal Is More Than Encrypted Messaging. Under Meredith Whittaker, It’s Out to Prove Surveillance Capitalism Wrong
On its 10th anniversary, Signal’s president wants to remind you that the world’s most secure communications platform is a nonprofit. It’s free. It doesn’t track you or serve you ads. It pays its engineers very well. And it’s a go-to app for hundreds of millions of people.
404 MediaDIY, pirated medicine is becoming increasingly accessible and easier to make due to automation, new tech, and new software developed and released by Four Thieves Vinegar Collective:
https://www.404media.co/right-to-repair-for-your-body-the-rise-of-diy-pirated-medicine/
Electronic Frontier FoundationThe SFPD wants to get a robot dog. Under A.B. 481, the city’s Board of Supervisors has a regulatory duty to probe into this intended purchase—including potentially blocking it altogether. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/07/sfpds-intended-purchase-robot-dog-triggers-board-supervisors-oversight-obligations
The SFPD’s Intended Purchase of a Robot Dog Triggers Board of Supervisors’ Oversight Obligations
The San Francisco Police Department (SFPD) wants to get a robot quadruped, popularly known as a robot dog. The city’s Board of Supervisors has a regulatory duty to probe into this intended purchase, including potentially blocking it altogether.The SFPD recently proposed the acquisition of a new...
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Kevin BeaumontSomebody sent me this blog my way today so I had a dig into it for a few hours. https://medium.com/@amitassaraf/the-story-of-extensiontotal-how-we-hacked-the-vscode-marketplace-5c6e66a0e9d7
Yes, Amit is right. Visual Studio Marketplace is a clusterfuck.
✅ anybody can verify themselves using just a domain name
✅ anybody can set any display name
✅ extensions allow RCE, no sandboxing or limits at all
✅ full access to developer + build
✅ anybody can link any GitHub repo, even if it has nothing to do with the extension
✅ I’ve already found malware - backdoors, beacons etc etc
#mozila #firefox is helping censorship by removing bypassing extensions!
https://discourse.mozilla.org/t/the-censorship-circumvention-extension-has-disappeared-from-the-russian-version-of-mozilla-addons/130914/2
Not only does this browser have really bad ux, but also it helps governments, not users
The censorship circumvention extension has disappeared from the Russian version of Mozilla Addons
I am one of the developers of the Censor Tracker add-on, which is listed on Mozilla’s add-on repository. We recently noticed that our add-on is now unavailable in Russia, despite being developed specifically to circumvent censorship in Russia. We have not changed any visibility settings, nor have we received any emails regarding this action. Our Russian users now see this message when they visit the page of Censor Tracker: That page is not available in your region The page you tried to acce...