Mastodawn

Magic6435 May 16, 2023

Casey Newton May 16, 2023

Twitter launched encrypted DMs with the project lead falsely saying the program had been audited by an outside firm. In fact, @zoeschiffer.bsky.social and I report today, no contract had been signed https://www.platformer.news/p/why-you-cant-trust-twitters-encrypted

Why you can't trust Twitter's encrypted DMs

A promised audit hasn't actually happened, sources say. PLUS: Twitter's Turkey problem, and a new CEO

Platformer

Magic6435 Feb 18, 2023

Taylor Lorenz Feb 18, 2023

He’s treating user security like a marketing tactic https://www.wired.com/story/twitter-sms-2fa-twitter-blue/

Twitter’s Two-Factor Authentication Change ‘Doesn't Make Sense’

The company will soon require users to pay for a Twitter Blue subscription to get sign-in codes via SMS. Security experts are baffled.

WIRED

Magic6435 Feb 1, 2023

web3 is going just great Feb 1, 2023

damn, they shut off transfers already. i created an account and was ready to fork over $0.33 to see if i could get him to retweet the tweet above this one 😂

Magic6435 Jan 30, 2023

VM (Vicky) Brasseur Jan 29, 2023

Huh.

Consumer Reports (CR) has released a mobile app (iOS, Android on the way) that shows what data companies collect about you, then allows you to have CR get the data deleted:

https://www.permissionslipcr.com

Essentially, CR will act as the data ombudsman for anyone who asks them to. I love it.

CR is a non-profit that accepts no advertising or corporate sponsorship, and they have a great reputation. It's a superb choice to take on the data capitalists.

US-only (don't @ me).

#privacy

Permission Slip App by CR

One app to take back control of your data

Magic6435 Jan 28, 2023

terhechte Jan 27, 2023

I've had the idea for a weird kind of Twitter client for years. With Mastodon being all open, I've decided to do the experiment:

What if your Timeline looked like iMessage. A normal timeline confuses me to no end because everything is out of context.

My experiment, Ebou, is a Mastodon client that looks like iMessage. Conversations are grouped by friends and sorted by recent postings.

It is super basic right now, but this already feels much more natural to me 😀