@arstechnica Letting big tech make all these decisions on their own is pretty risky.
Due to the probably coming assault of intelligent bot-fueled personalised propaganda (probably by Dec this year), it will become necessary to prove humanness very soon.
But that doesn’t have to be where privacy ends if nation-states step in as the legal providers #human#authentication and guarantee #anonymity at least for interactions with corporations.
Let's get this out of the way: they give a number of #reasons why #webservers "might wish" to establish that a web #client is running on a "#trusted" software stack, including things like "make sure other game players aren't cheating" and "ensure I'm talking to another human".
Habt ihr das auch schon erlebt? Ihr wollt euch für einen Dienst oder einen Newsletter anmelden, aber möchtet eure persönliche oder private E-Mail-Adresse nicht preisgeben? Es gibt verschiedene Gründe dafür: Ihr wollt eure Anonymität wahren oder einfach unnötige E-Mails und Spam vermeiden, die oft mit einer Registrierung bei einem Dienst einhergehen. Die Lösung: 👇
Learning from India’s Aadhar system, it is clear that a single #token isn’t good enough.
Perhaps something similar to blockchain, where you can mine some tokens that identify you. And you can throw away like wallets to escape tracking when you need to.
I've been exploring the Fediverse for a bit, and I really like that different instances can interact with each other. But that also leads to some oddities, like how the culture on each instance treats anonymity....
"No one should have to hand over their driver’s license just to access free websites. That’s why #EFF opposes mandated #ageverificationlaws, no matter how well intentioned they may be. Dozens of bills currently being debated by state and federal lawmakers could result in dangerous #ageverification mandates. We will resist them."
Double-blind peer review was never truly blind. "Experienced researchers can often correctly guess from which [person or] research group an anonymous submission originates." Now AI can improve the accuracy of those guesses. "Our method achieves an unprecedented authorship attribution accuracy, where up to 73% of papers are attributed correctly." https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0287611
Testing... Testing...
First time tooting from #Tor :blobcatsunglasses:
I am trying to move as many of my casual browsing as possible to Tor to reduce my fingerprint. Not to "hide" but to become even more harder to track by nasty, disgusting #corporations.
Reading news, I feel like they became more shameless recently so I despise more their attempts to squeeze and monetize every bit of #data they touch. And I am willing to starve them of my data further than before.
If they are ready to break the laws and count EU GDPR fines as business costs I guess data are valuable. So why not keep this precious thing for myself? :blobcat_amused:
If some pages will block me, it may be signal for me they aren't respecting users and maybe I should stop visit them :blobCat_devil:
I don't want to make these disgusting entities richer and stronger. I don't want participate in this.
I am not "digital biomass" or "free data mine".
I despise what they did to the web.
Maybe I don't have do this for Mastodon, I personally know my admin :blobcatjoy: I am simply doing some innocent tests.
Currently, each thread has the "Activity" link that shows publicly everyone that upvoted/favorite a thread. This is counter norm to many coming from Reddit and newer folks that expected otherwise. I think hiding the list should be high priority in next feature update(removal?) to encourage frictionless upvoting behavior....
Holy shit, @protonmail just doubled my base storage to six terabytes for #ProtonMail, #ProtonDrive, etc. I’m only using a little over 16 GB.
Granted I’ve been a paid subscriber since the summer of 2016 (first on their Plus plan, then on Visionary starting the following year). But this is ridiculous.
The Difference Between:
Privacy | Security | Anonymity
by Jonah Aragon
“What is privacy and why does it matter?
Privacy, Security, and Anonymity are three important — but distinct! — concepts you should know about.
PRIVACY is the assurance that your data is only seen by the parties you intend to view it. In the context of an instant messenger, for example, end-to-end encryption provides privacy by keeping your message visible only to yourself and the recipient.
SECURITY is the ability to trust the applications you use—that the parties involved are who they say they are — and keep those applications safe. In the context of browsing the web, for example, security can be provided by HTTPS certificates.
Certificates prove you are talking directly to the website you're visiting, and keep attackers on your network from reading or modifying the data sent to or from the website.
ANONYMITY is the ability to act without a persistent identifier. You might achieve this online with Tor, which allows you to browse the internet with a random IP address and network connection instead of your own.
(Pseudonymity is a similar concept, but it allows you to have a persistent identifier without it being tied to your real identity. If everybody knows you as @GamerGuy12 online, but nobody knows your real name, that is your pseudonym.)”
Here’s a link to Jonah’s original article. It’s well worth reading.
Privacy, #Security, and #Anonymity are important concepts to understand, and the importance of #Privacy is unquestionable: "So much of our modern society is structured around information. When you shop online, read the news, look something up, vote, seek directions, or really anything else, you are relying on information. If we live in an information society, our information matters, and therefore privacy matters."
“While we understand the importance of addressing crimes, misinformation, and scams, the Mozilla Philippines Community firmly believes that the policy neglects the critical role of online anonymity in safeguarding whistleblowers and promoting public discourse. Additionally, the deployment of digital identity systems may create security risks that could have catastrophic effects in the event of a data breach.”
:BoostOK: This is your friendly reminder that a majority of printers since the 1980's secretly prints a matrix of yellow dots to identify what printer was used to print the page, and can be used to de-anonymize people who print papers by not only those in power who deem it "unsavory", but potentially by ordinary people as well. Be careful what documents you print, as the secret tracking mechanisms your own printer prints could be used against you one day–even if the information printed isn't illegal or unethical.
"For the moment, we recommend that if #LLMs are used to write scholarly reviews, reviewers should disclose their use and accept full responsibility for their reports’ accuracy, tone, reasoning and originality."
PS: "For the moment" these tools can help reviewers string words together, not judge quality. We have good reasons to seek evaluative comments from human experts.
Elon Musk is threatening to end his $44 billion agreement to buy Twitter, accusing the company of refusing to give him information about its spam bot accounts.
#Twitter recently obtained a subpoena compelling #GitHub to provide identifying information on a user who posted portions of the social network's source code, giving the company until April 3 to provide details on user "FreeSpeechEnthusiast".
How do you personally feel about anonymity in the Fediverse?
I've been exploring the Fediverse for a bit, and I really like that different instances can interact with each other. But that also leads to some oddities, like how the culture on each instance treats anonymity....
Recommend to have the "Upvote" or Favorites list be hidden.
Currently, each thread has the "Activity" link that shows publicly everyone that upvoted/favorite a thread. This is counter norm to many coming from Reddit and newer folks that expected otherwise. I think hiding the list should be high priority in next feature update(removal?) to encourage frictionless upvoting behavior....