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Playing with ideas for healthy communication, mostly based on cryptography and developmental theory.
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“when the servers go dark, memory becomes a question of who decides what still matters”

https://newdesigncongress.org/en/pub/who-will-remember-us-when-the-servers-go-dark/

Who Will Remember Us When The Servers Go Dark?

We bet an entire civilisation on an unthinkably brutal and comically unreliable stack, and now fate has come to collect that wager. California has a lot to fucking answer for.

If anyone's paying attention, I fixed cookies. :)

https://blog.voboda.com/hdk-sessions/

HDK Sessions

The standard session model: user logs in, server stores state, server decides what you're allowed to do. Structurally incompatible with privacy. I've ...

voboda's blog

Working on zkal, I realised I was tackling a general problem: returning to the benefits of open data for communities, but with modern privacy protection for the individual.

Came up with a pattern that might be useful (or flawed!)

https://blog.voboda.com/proof-projectors/

Proof Projectors

Everyone's focused on what ZK proofs hide. We're missing what they can usefully reveal. Reputation, attendance, commitment, these used to require surveill...

salvor voboda

Do not store your Bitlocker encryption keys on Microsoft's servers if your threat model includes governments or law enforcement. As this article points out, this is the result of a design choice Microsoft made. It didn't have to be this way.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2026/01/22/microsoft-gave-fbi-keys-to-unlock-bitlocker-encrypted-data/

Microsoft Gave FBI BitLocker Encryption Keys, Exposing Privacy Flaw

The tech giant said providing encryption keys was a standard response to a court order. But companies like Apple and Meta set up their systems so such a privacy violation isn’t possible.

Forbes
How many people here would be interested if I did a digital security/privacy advice blog somewhere?

I never applied for an amateur radio license because I didn't like the idea of appearing on an official list of "skilled" people. Until now that was a theoretical fear. One I wasn't even sure if it was warranted or just me being overly cautious.

In Belarus things escalated quickly. Radio amateurs - usually recognized as men of goodwill - have been declared enemies of the state and publicly shamed and indicted for high treason.

https://steanlab.medium.com/mayday-389f5713fee4

Incoming SMS and RCS audio attachments received by Google Messages are now automatically decoded with no user interaction. As a result, audio decoders are now in the 0-click attack surface of most Android phones.are you kidding me

RE: https://infosec.exchange/users/natashenka/statuses/115901124481157929

Learn to self host now. While you still can.

every time i see my grandad (who has dementia) his memory is worse but his jokes are funnier

according to grandad, this is not a coincidence