Mark Nottingham

@mnot@techpolicy.social
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Co-chair IETF HTTP & AIPREF working groups, member Internet Architecture Board (again), standards lead at Cloudflare. Former W3C TAG, W3C BoD. Interested in the intersection of legal regulation and technical standards.

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Webhttps://www.mnot.net/
TownMelbourne, Australia
LandBunurong
PronounsHe/him/mate
Mark NottinghamJun 5

Is AI a useful option for policymakers who want to evaluate open standards? Let's take a look.

https://www.mnot.net/blog/2025/06/04/using_ai

Using AI to Evaluate Internet Standards

Is AI a useful option for policymakers who want to evaluate open standards? Let's take a look.

Mark Nottingham
Show threadMark NottinghamMay 29
@cathywilcox The problem is that it's not indexed. When today's 20-somethings retire, this will hit them hard -- in other words, this is just another example of the old stealing from the young.
Mark NottinghamMay 21
So, Google just launched a major new AI demo that requires people to relax their browser security settings. Wow.
Mark NottinghamMay 20

"A surprising potential consequence of digital tariffs could be the accelerated development and adoption of open-source technologies," Shah wrote. "As proprietary digital products and services become subject to cross-border tariffs, open-source alternatives—which can be freely shared, modified, and distributed—may gain significant advantages."

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/05/trumps-trade-war-risks-splintering-the-internet-experts-warn/

Trump’s trade war risks splintering the Internet, experts warn

Trump urged to rethink trade policy to block attacks on digital services.

Ars Technica
Show threadMark NottinghamMay 18
@benno One of those will exist?
Mark NottinghamMay 17
Show threadMark NottinghamMay 16
@carlmalamud welcome to my life :)
Show threadMark NottinghamMay 16
@freakboy3742 @ThePSF ... and the Sydney to Hobart just became SIGNIFICANTLY easier.
Show threadMark NottinghamMay 16
@freakboy3742 @ThePSF that tracks.
Mark NottinghamMay 14

"Yet beneath their ideological differences, the American and Chinese models are converging in function. One is driven by market logic, the other by political imperatives—but both prioritize efficiency over accountability, control over consent, and scale over individual rights. In a world where authority accrues to those who control the digital space, it may matter less whether power resides in public or private hands than how effectively it can be centralized."

https://www.foreignaffairs.com/united-states/technopolar-paradox-ian-bremmer-fusion-tech-state-power

The Technopolar Paradox

The frightening fusion of tech power and state power.

Foreign Affairs
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Mark NottinghamMay 21
So, Google just launched a major new AI demo that requires people to relax their browser security settings. Wow.
Show threadKathy ReidMay 21
@mnot yeah, nah
Show threadJames M.May 21
@mnot lose-lose.
Show threadChris Lilley 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿May 21
@mnot WhAt CoUlD pOsSiBlY gO wRoNg
Show threadAbraham WilliamsMay 21
@mnot oh, that's why it was broken.
Show threadclimbertobbyMay 21
@mnot Sharepoint had a security incidence because copilot could traverse access rights in SharePoint, this story. It's not AI directly that makes things unsafe but the way features are rushed to production, taking shortcuts
Show threadLudwig VielfrassMay 21
@mnot F that.
Show threadCyberFrogMay 21
@mnot actual insanity, not to mention how scummy and illegitimate this behavior feels as a user
Show threadTom BortelsMay 21

@mnot

Surely nobody is stupid enough to do this.

Right?

Show threadRoger BW 😷May 21
@mnot Surprised it's not "Chrome: press the big sparkly button that moves to be under your pointer".
Show threadblueorangeblueMay 21
@mnot it's a trap
Show threadsk011May 21
@mnot It seems that Google still sucks at finding product names : Why call your spying AI powered tool "sTitch" when "sNitch" is much more appropriate ?
Show threadbofredeMay 21
@mnot Solution: Rename the product to Snitch ;-)
Show threadThomas TraynorMay 21
@mnot any software that wants me to relax my security settings gets a HELL NO!
Show threadEaterOfSnacksMay 21
@mnot They can shove that up their backplane sideways.
Show threadbit101May 21
@mnot
Excellent, so I can stay secure AND block AI bs.
Show threadBenoît B.May 21

@mnot

Phew!

I'm safe because I use neither a Laptop (but a Desktop) nor an iOS device (but a #LineageOS Android compatible phone)…

Show threadMichael 🤨May 21
@mnot I had to stop making jokes about the current AI craze because my ad absurdum style of comedy ran out of absurdum and just started appearing in release notes
Show threadVincent 🌻🇪🇺May 23
@mnot All your browser are belong to us