My dudes, Telegram is not an e2e messaging app like Signal or WhatsApp. Telegram is more like Twitter. It is a social media app that is mostly public content that also happens to have DMs, where you can turn on e2e messaging with questionable cryptography that most people never even bother to use.

This thing Facebook did — running an MITM on Snapchat and other competitors’ TLS connections via their Onavo VPN — is so deeply messed up and evil that it completely changes my perspective on what that company is willing to do to its users.

lol. lmao

Instagram Looks for Ways to Revive Interest in Threads

Three months ago, Threads, Meta Platforms’ answer to Twitter, was the hottest social media app around. In just days, 100 million people had signed up for it. Since then, usage has plunged, prompting...

I’ll engage with you.

Was reading the NYer article on Gino/Ariely and *damn* was about to recommend it here... when I came across this bit and... this is at least the 4th or 5th time in the last few years that Lessig has made me say "WTF happened to him?"

AI security would make 1999 Microsoft flinch in horror.

I wrote about Google's attempt to DRM the web. It's bad. It's really bad and it should not move forward. And, yes, there are potentially non-bad *reasons* for why Google proposed it, but it puts too much at risk, and allows much nonsense (from Google, in particular).

Google’s Plan To DRM The Web Goes Against Everything Google Once Stood For

The grand old enshittification curve strikes again. Remember, as stated by Cory Doctorow, the process of enshittification entails these steps: first, they are good to their users; then they abuse t…

This place seems to have gotten the energy that Twitter/X/whatever had lost.

I hate that I’m looking forward to using the Meta thing.

The EU Council is continuing to debate a law that would require communication providers to scan all communications, potentially including end-to-end encrypted conversations. And they are now debating including audio conversations as well.