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They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
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OccupationCybersecurity Engineer and Privacy Activist
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Surveillance Watch now has an interactive diagram that shows the high level of funding towards various surveillance technology types: https://www.surveillancewatch.io/?menu=funders&funderOverview=true

You can click through to explore by funder as well, example: https://www.surveillancewatch.io/?menu=funders&funder=Andreessen+Horowitz

The belly of surveillance capitalism can only be exposed by following the money to understanding who's complicit in the usage of tech for war crimes, genocides, any other grave injustices etc.

berthub.eu/articles/posts/possible-end-to-end-to-end-come-help/

Some Chat-Control type shit coming up again!

This time, we need people to
be there and apply for joining the Expert Group, which right now will be mostly made up of cops.

If we don't get some representation outside of cops in here, the legality of E2EE in Europe is in danger.

#ChatControl #EU #Europe #Privacy
Possible End to End to End Encryption: Come Help - Bert Hubert's writings

tl;dr: The European Commission is honestly asking for experts to advise them on ways to institute “effective and lawful access to data for law enforcement”. If you are an expert, I urge you to apply to join this group. You have until September 1st. Do read on for more details! The never-ending battle where police and intelligence services demand more/total access to communications shows no sign of stopping, even in the face of mathematical and practical impossibilities.

Bert Hubert's writings

Tomorrow at #CFC25 there are two sessions about #DeltaChat:

How to set up a #chatmail relay server, an easy way to make your first timid steps with server administration: https://pretalx.c3voc.de/chaos-feminist-convention-2025/talk/TWRT8X/

And an overview on #webxdc apps, and how they bring back computing to your social context, locking out the tracking companies: https://pretalx.c3voc.de/chaos-feminist-convention-2025/talk/9VMYAJ/

The webxdc talk will also be streamed, if you want to join remotely :)

Self-hosting Chatmail relay servers - for anonymous & encrypted Instant Messaging Chaos Feminist Convention

Chatmail relays are for anonymous, secure, and autonomous/decentralized chatting with Delta Chat - great to get started with Server Administration.

The attempts by law enforcement & governments to subvert end-to-end encryption are ongoing. The European Commission is going to spend a year thinking about their new "Roadmap for law enforcement access to data", and they are (genuinely) asking for people to join their expert group to help. Here I urge you to join that group (also because I can't): https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/possible-end-to-end-to-end-come-help/
Possible End to End to End Encryption: Come Help - Bert Hubert's writings

tl;dr: The European Commission is honestly asking for experts to advise them on ways to institute “effective and lawful access to data for law enforcement”. If you are an expert, I urge you to apply to join this group. You have until September 1st. Do read on for more details! The never-ending battle where police and intelligence services demand more/total access to communications shows no sign of stopping, even in the face of mathematical and practical impossibilities.

Bert Hubert's writings

Are you still on #Spotify?

Spotify’s CEO Daniel Ek has raised €600M for his new startup, which is developing AI TECH FOR WAR. Ek still owns 9% of Spotify, but has 37% voting control. His net worth went from $2.5B to $10B in the last two years alone, on the back of paying musicians a pittance in royalties.

And don’t forget:

• Spotify spent $250M of your subscription dollars to invite Joe Rogan to spew his disinformation on their platform.
• They’re still trying to embrace and extinguish Podcasts.
• They’re developing in-house, AI-generated “music” so users will play them (royalty-free) instead of music created by humans (who demand royalty).

And now, he’s using his wealth, created by your subscriptions, to fund tech that will use AI to literally murder humans in war.

Stop funding him. Quit Spotify now.

#QuitSpotify #music #ai #militaryTech #techbro

“Spotify’s CEO invests $1 billion into an AI military start-up — and musicians are fuming”

https://www.news.com.au/finance/work/leaders/spotifys-ceo-invests-1-billion-into-an-ai-military-startup-and-musicians-are-fuming/news-story/78805666e2374281801622066dc87319

Debian's next stable release, Trixie, is getting really close to being released. Exciting times!

#debian #linux #nerd #geek #neckbeard
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GitHub - fabriziosalmi/certmate: SSL Certificate Management System (API + UI)

SSL Certificate Management System (API + UI). Contribute to fabriziosalmi/certmate development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Yesterday Dutch parliament shamefully passed an extreme law criminalizing being undocumented, and also criminalizing aiding undocumented people. The Dutch national police has now released a statement that they can't support this. Most appreciated. https://www.politie.nl/nieuws/2025/juli/4/00-reactie-politie-op-instemming-tweede-kamer-met-anmw.html
Eerste reactie politie op instemming Tweede Kamer met ANMW

De Tweede Kamer heeft op 3 juli ingestemd met de Asielnoodmaatregelenwet (ANMW). De strafbaarstelling van illegaliteit zal niet meteen ingaan. Toch wil de politie nu al haar zorgen uitspreken over de uitvoerbaarheid, reikwijdte en de effectiviteit van deze maatregel.

Protect Yourself From Meta’s Latest Attack on Privacy

The best way to stop this cycle of invasive tracking techniques and patchwork fixes is to ban online behavioral advertising. This would end the practice of targeting ads based on your online activity, removing the primary incentive for companies to track and share your personal data. We need strong federal privacy laws to ensure that you, not Meta, control what information you share online.

Electronic Frontier Foundation

Here's an article from Citizen Lab on how the Spanish government used exploits against political opponents in Catalonia:

https://citizenlab.ca/2022/04/catalangate-extensive-mercenary-spyware-operation-against-catalans-using-pegasus-candiru/

Bear in mind even police using these will almost entirely be using them against people not convicted of a crime based on suspicion.

CatalanGate: Extensive Mercenary Spyware Operation against Catalans Using Pegasus and Candiru - The Citizen Lab

The Citizen Lab, in collaboration with Catalan civil society groups, has identified at least 65 individuals targeted or infected with mercenary spyware, including members of the European Parliament, Catalan Presidents, legislators, jurists, and members of civil society organisations.

The Citizen Lab