Iain R. Learmonth @irl@mastodon.technology

@lichen gonna auction a bunch of rocks i just found and call it an ICO. each rock is unique and unforgeable. you can't censor these rocks. exchange them freely. these rocks won't tread on you. buy now.

Past me didn't document a thing that should have been documented, so present me spent an hour re-figuring everything out and documenting it.

Past me is a jackass. Don't be like past me. Document your things.

#Uploadfilter – jetzt nicht locker lassen! Im EU-Parlament & im Rat der EU gibt es noch Optionen! Also: Zähne zeigen! Wir haben Grundrechte auf unserer Seite. Appell unterstützen: https://digitalcourage.de/blog/2018/appell-gegen-uploadfilter #Urheberrecht #Copyright #EU #Petition

BREAKING: The EU Parliament's JURI committee has approved #Article11. This #LinkTax will hurt those who use the Internet for sharing, punish projects like Wikipedia, and “poses a significant threat to an informed and literate society," according to the research community.

We have until tomorrow to complain to the MEPs about upload filters. If you do not feel like contacting your MEPs, at least sign this petition:
https://www.change.org/p/european-parliament-stop-the-censorship-machinery-save-the-internet

Thanks 🧡

Julia Reda: «But it’s important to me to underscore that the solution to bad legal proposals and unbalanced lobbying is not to curse or even advocate leaving the EU. (In fact, it’s Anti-EU, Euro-skeptic and right-wing parties that are responsible for giving these proposals majority support in the Committee! Don’t let Eurosceptic politicians get away with voting in favour of breaking the Internet and then blaming the EU for it later!)»
https://juliareda.eu/2018/06/saveyourinternet/

«In 1993, John Gilmore famously said that "The Internet interprets censorship as damage and routes around it." That was technically true when he said it but only because the routing structure of the Internet was so distributed. As centralization increases, the Internet loses that robustness, and censorship by governments and companies becomes easier.»
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2018/06/russian_censors.html

With all my gripes with# Signal (centralized, non-federated, server-based, Electron-based desktop app), the fact that in my circle of contacts it's not longer the "pretty good solution we should be using" but the "pretty good solution we are using but looking for something better" is such a win.

I just wanted to stop for a second and appreciate that.

If we're talking about the need to move to something better than Signal, we are in a pretty decent place.

#infosec

Oh for the love of...

Domain fronting is critical to the open web https://blog.torproject.org/domain-fronting-critical-open-web

Tor is an open network, and all Tor relay IPs are public, which makes it simple for repressive governments to block them all.

Meek is a domain fronting pluggable transport that censored users rely on to bypass these blocks. Since Amazon and Google have blocked domain fronting, only Microsoft's Azure cloud still works, but Tor hears Microsoft might block it next.