To understand Musk's renewed obsession with X and focus on financial services, you REALLY need to understand the X/Confinity merger that became PayPal.
And, particularly, the Peter Thiel-led coup that kicked Musk out as CEO/Chief Strategist.
Here's how that happened. 1/🧵 #history #technology
This is scary. It's (strong) SafetyNet for websites.
Every now and then I run into another Android app I can no longer run because someone decided my phone, running an official build of my choice of OS, that isn't even rooted, is "not trustable".
Now they want to start doing that for websites.
This kills open Linux on the desktop (including Asahi Linux). It kills alternative browsers. It is a backdoor to kill ad blockers.
No. Just no. Please.
https://github.com/RupertBenWiser/Web-Environment-Integrity/blob/main/explainer.md