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Tech Policy Press editor @justinhendrix recently interviewed @mallory and Burcu Kilic about their article, "Big Tech Redefined the Open Internet to Serve Its Own Interests." Here's a transcript of the discussion. "One of the big ideas of this piece is that keeping the internet protected, keeping the internet, the way it works in an unfettered way and preserving interoperability and so on has become the slogan or the rallying cry of these huge companies that are using their position as centralized services or networks to say, 'We are protecting that. If you come at us, you're destroying the internet,' and that's just not... So assuming that and accepting that is assuming this false narrative," says Knodel.

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Tech Policy Press · The Open Internet is Dead. What Comes Next? | TechPolicy.PressJustin Hendrix spoke to Mallory Knodel and Burcu Kilic about their recent essay, titled "Big Tech Redefined the Open Internet to Serve Its Own Interests."
#Technology#Tech#Decentralization
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Missed @ben's keynote at this year's @fediforum? Here's the full transcript. "The opportunity right now isn't to build a better Twitter or to provide a nice place for people who care about Linux to chat: it's to build infrastructure that vulnerable people can actually use to organize, to communicate safely, and to build community. But we can only do that if we're building with those communities from day one, not building for them based on our assumptions about what they need."

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Ben Werdmuller · Why the open social web matters nowThe needs are real – and you have so much power.
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edd

Alright protocol nerds, I've got a question. SFTP's spec suggests that the `request id` general header isn't used for SSH_FXP_INIT and SSH_FXP_VERSION and was not present at all in early versions of the drafts. Does that mean those messages MUST NOT appear in those messages or should clients expect to have to ignore that field sometimes to get to the version field?

Boosts welcome.

UPDATE: Word on the street is the request id MUST NOT appear. Thks @kwaktrap

#AskFedi#sftp#protocols
OCTADE
NEWSCARD: Decentralized, Encrypted Paste Bin via Usenet Newsgroups

NEWSCARD Publish and fetch permanent named records via Network News

Newscard creates a decentralized, encrypted, named record paste bin.

[git repo] https://codeberg.org/OCTADE/newscard (use most recent version only)

With a single command, name the card, snarf the file and encrypt it.

With another command, push the encrypted file to the public network.

With another short command, snarf a file from the network.

Only users knowing the name [key] of the record will be able to decrypt it.

If a strong passphrase is used to name the file, it will be very secure.

This is useful for quickly snarfing, encrypting, and publishing a text file:

$~: card enc [passphrase] [file]
$~: card put [passphrase]

It is useful for retrieving a text file with just a key:

$~: card get [passphrase]
$~: card show [passphrase]

If and when you want the general public to access the record just share the keyword.

Newscard uses nine (9) (NINE) layers of encryption with OpenSSL chacha20 cipher.

Newscard generates 9 each of: cipher keys, salts, key iteration parameters.

It would be nice if something like this were added to the ActivityPub protocol, such that keyword[@]host.url would do the same thing. Then secret text records could be stored securely for later retrieval or revelation.

#NewsCard #Pastebin #Usenet #NNTP #NetworkNews #Encryption #Cryptography #Messaging #Anonymity #Protocols #OpenSource #FreeSoftware #BlackHackJack #Censorship #Retro #InfoSec #Ciphers #Codes #FOSS

@infostorm@a.gup.pe @crypto@a.gup.pe @infosec@a.gup.pe @selfhosting@a.gup.pe
lps

A great conversation, well worth a listen.

#FrontiersofCommoning , with David Bollier: Rabble Evan Henshaw-Plath: How Network #Protocols Enable Digital #Commons & Open Marrkets

Episode webpage: david-bollier.simplecast.com/e

Media file: cdn.simplecast.com/audio/1e16d

#rabble @rabble

Frontiers of Commoning, with David BollierRabble Evan Henshaw-Plath: How Network Protocols Enable Digital Commons & Open Marrkets | Frontiers of Commoning, with David BollierEvan Henshaw-Plath, better known as Rabble, is a pioneering programmer for social media platforms and decentralized technologies. Here, Rabble explains how network protocols are critical infrastructure for enabling -- or impeding -- commons and open markets, not to mention privacy, free speech, and community control. Their ambition is a future in which everyone has "access to authentic, private online communities built on care, connection, and sustainable relationships.” [More on commons at www.Bollier.org.]
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It looks like the public sector in Germany is to drop its patchwork of incoming communications solutions in favour of a decentralised/federated new approach based on the Matrix protocol with MLS for message e2e encryption.

Well done. I'd wish more public/government orgs would have that foresight.

heise.de/en/news/Matrix-replac

heise online · Matrix replacing MJP, ZBP & Co: Will state mailbox chaos belong to the past?By Christian Wölbert
#OpenSource#government#Germany
George E. 🇺🇸♥🇺🇦🇵🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

Did you know that #GNU/ #FSF has its own #darknet application and protocol stack?

What is #GNUnet?

GNUnet is an #alternative #network stack for building #secure, #decentralized and #privacy-preserving #distributed applications. Our goal is to replace the old insecure Internet protocol stack. Starting from an application for secure #publication of #files, it has grown to include all kinds of basic protocol components and applications towards the creation of a GNU internet.

Today, the actual use and thus the social requirements for a global network differs widely from those goals of 1970. While the Internet remains suitable for military use, where the network equipment is operated by a command hierarchy and when necessary isolated from the rest of the world, the situation is less tenable for civil society.

Due to fundamental Internet design choices, Internet traffic can be misdirected, intercepted, censored and manipulated by hostile routers on the network. And indeed, the modern Internet has evolved exactly to the point where, as Matthew Green put it, "the network is hostile".

We believe liberal societies need a #network #architecture that uses the #anti-authoritarian #decentralized #peer-to-peer paradigm and #privacy-preserving #cryptographic #protocols. The goal of the GNUnet project is to provide a Free Software realization of this ideal.
https://www.gnunet.org/en/index.html
#privacypreserving#antiauthoritarian#peertopeer
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... I still have one, but 👉federated #XMPP just somehow can't seem to take hold outside of its own niche" 👈.

If you wanted to dig down even further, you'd get to the point where you'd have to deal with #Protocols:

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A French 🇫🇷 librarian association made an...

ETRJM Horner ™️ (@jmhorner@eattherich.club)@HistoPol@mastodon.social @smallcircles@social.coop Sweet! :-) For those who do not know, XMPP is a protocol (similar to the ActivityPub protocol being used by various fediverse services) that has many client applications. I can't think of any proprietary clients, though one or more may exist somewhere. XMPP actually spawned from Jabber (the protocol Google Talk originally used), and it is generally used for instant messaging style communications. It has the ability to include media, and can be end-to-end encrypted with [most commonly] OTR, OMEMO, or PGP. Jitsy on the other hand is a little more complicated, and in fact includes some XMPP interoperability. It has video conferencing services similar to what you might find in Teams or Zoom. It is open source, and can support end-to-end encryption when using a Chromium based browser. Both XMPP and Jitsy servers may or may not log IP addresses in the same way a web server like Apache or NGINX does. Though I imagine if that were added to the list for them, it would need to be added to the list for all of the others as well. Unique identifiers such as email address and phone number are simply not required for using either, and I am not aware of any XMPP or Jitsy services that have any advertising. Thanks for making the chart and if you have any other questions, do please let me know. :-)
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