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May 11 • 5 tweets • 3 min read
Elsewhere in EU regulatory pipe-dreams authored by people who apparently have more good intention than understanding, the #DMA means that @WhatsApp and @signalapp should both adopt #XMPP and thereby deliver a unified "inbox" of messages.
@WhatsApp @signalapp Not making this up: ImageImage
> With a constant onslaught of messages pinging our phones and computers, who wouldn’t want that?

Well, for one, "people who use different applications to deliver different functionality and security profiles"

WhatsApp: family
Messenger: neighbours
Signal: infosec nerds
I'm just revisiting this at the prompting of a friend, and from this article I have learnt:

1/ Email wasn't successfully federated until the 1990s

2/ AOL (not a multinational) didn't offer monopolistic vertically integrated email…

3/ cc:Mail & CompuServe did not exist, either Image
4/ We don't talk about UUCP, because federation > peer to peer

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May 10
Well, this is some interesting reading for the afternoon.

alecmuffett.com/alecm/tmp/eu-c…
"We want a backdoor, but we don't want just *anyone* to be able to use it. Only us good guys."
May be of interest to, oh, I dunno, @alexhern @jamesrbuk @tim @lorenzofb @josephfcox @MikeIsaac
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Mar 8
This is possibly the most important and long-awaited tweet that I've ever composed.

On behalf of @Twitter, I am delighted to announce their new @TorProject onion service, at:

…zg5vztmjuricljdp2c5kshju4avyoid.onion
I'm delighted to have assisted @Twitter engineers in their adoption of #OnionServices & #OnionNetworking from @TorProject — providing greater privacy, integrity, trust, & "unblockability" for people all around the world who use @Twitter to communicate.

help.twitter.com/en/using-twitt…
I am also honoured that they've chosen to adopt EOTK (the Enterprise Onion Toolkit) to power their onion platform, albeit with considerable though reasonable modification to meet their extraordinary production requirements:

github.com/alecmuffett/eo…
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Oct 25, 2021
1/ Oh this is glorious: *NOW* Frances Haugen says that she supports end-to-end encryption… buuuuut:

2/ …but: now she wants to enforce a

"1 Human Being" = "1 Instagram Account"

...real-name, real-identity policy, in order to "protect the children" by stopping them doing and seeing bad things.

3/ …and that if you cannot prevent something, you are therefore encouraging it:



Frances Haugen apparently wants to kill online anonymity, and require us all to have fixed and singular online identities.
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Oct 25, 2021
1/ So @StevenLevy has written at length about the "Badge Posts" - the goodbye, final messages posted for other employees to read as they leave the company.

You'll find his article here:

wired.com/story/facebook…
2/ But these are not just "human interest" stories; some are meant to achieve something, and in my case the goal was to move Facebook away from implementing national identities & censorship within the Facebook platform.

I wrote a response to Steven:

alecmuffett.com/article/14994
3/ But I felt that that was not enough to explain what was going on, how Facebook may be changed, and the critical importance of fostering frank and constructive engagement in order to make effective change.
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Oct 24, 2021
> My interview with @StevenLevy of Wired re: @FrancesHaugen leaking my Facebook Engineering “Goodbye Post”

I'm posting this with password-embargo until Steven's @WIRED article is posted; but I have a message for Frances Haugen in this screencap extract.

alecmuffett.com/article/14994 Image
Frances is talking to @CommonsDCMS tomorrow, so she should have opportunity to bring this message of privacy and safety to people who would benefit from it.

/cc @DanMilmo

theguardian.com/technology/202… Image
Oh dear, oh dear:

>Facebook whistleblower warns ‘dangerous’ encryption will aid espionage by hostile nations

>Ex-employee has taken aim at Sir Nick Clegg and warns new encryption plans are an attempt to cover-up harmful online material

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Oct 24, 2021
> LOOK

It is dark.

> GET LIGHT

You flip the switch on the nightlight. You are in bedroom. You can see:

Wailing Baby, Pot of Sudocrem, Size 2 Nappies

> GET MILK

You can't do that yet.
> FIX BABY WITH CREAM

You slather the baby with the creamy unguent. The baby slips through your fingers onto the bed, and wails more loudly!

> FIX BABY WITH NAPPIES

You'll need a mat for that.

> SMELL BABY

The baby smells clean, with a hint of cheese. Roquefort?
> OUT

You go out. You are in Kitchen. You can see:

Fridge, Sink, Kettle, Milk Powder, Empty Bottle

> EXAMINE FRIDGE

The Fridge contains a cold bottle. The bottle contains: icy water.
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