"Fedora Workstation includes systemd-cryptenroll by default which makes adding alternative methods for unlocking LUKS partitions fairly straight forward.
This article shows how to use either a TPM2 chip or a FIDO U2F security key as an alternative factor to the passphrase when unlocking your LUKS partitions." #Fedora#E2EE#security#privacy
i understand how people have learned to love ActivityPub, and we are all wanting to defend it, we share this
a Google (Facebook) getting into the email (ActivityPub) business has not made email worse, its just an option. sure, surveillance ridden and cop friendly, ok, then dont use it
i was thinking last night how awesome it was when WhatsApp adopted the Signal protocol and gave 2 billion users worldwide strong content privacy by default. is it ever going to be a utopia? lol no
The responses of the 20 member states (or rather, their LEWP representatives) cover a spectrum, from extremely anti-encryption and pro-police powers, to robustly pro-encryption, with quite a few countries occupying a middle ground best described as “encryption is important, but…”.
The #OnlineSafetyBill conflates “the public’s legitimate concern about bad online behaviour with the security services’ agenda of breaking #e2ee. Gaining a backdoor to encrypted chat has been on spies’ wishlist almost since the internet was invented.”
The Bill will “allow intelligence agencies to spy on ordinary citizens via technology platforms.”
@skiff open sourced their cryptographic library "including useful functions for symmetric encryption, asymmetric encryption, hashing, and more. Contributions and suggestions are welcome!"
This is a request to all FOSS projects who only use matrix for communicating with the community.
Please consider bridging your rooms with IRC or XMPP.
India has banned Element, the most widely used Matrix client. I know it's just a client, but to be safe it's wiser to stay away from matrix for a while. So please help us in this regard.
Chatkontrolle: Spanien plädiert für EU-Verbot von Ende-zu-Ende-Verschlüsselung
Die EU-Staaten diskutieren über die Pläne zur sogenannten Chatkontrolle. Ein geleaktes Dokument macht jetzt deutlich, wie extrem die Positionen teilweise sind.
Twitter was not great but at least there was one place, a place of record. Now there are at least 3 and posting to all feels like pissing in the wind. Where do we go from here.
Yes, sure, the internet is ‘open’ but as we’ve all experienced : quickly embraced by #SiliconValley#VC corporate interests who centralized & commercialized all human experiences and interactions it enabled.
Decentralized federated services is the right path and there’s ample device compute power in consumers hands but we need resilient Tech & Commercial models that easily blends / bridges private (#E2EE#encryption) and public (open) spaces – otherwise we're fucked.
SimpleX E2EE messenger for iOS and Android has no user IDs at all – It could be the most secure and private messenger ever
Other apps have user IDs: Signal, Matrix, Session, Briar, Jami, Cwtch, etc. SimpleX does not, not even random numbers. This radically improves your privacy.
When users have persistent identities, even if this is just a random number, like a Session ID, the ...continues
How Do Different #Encrypted Messaging Apps Treat Deleted Messages?
A feature of various end-to-end encrypted ( #E2EE ) messaging apps and other non E2EE social media messaging are disappearing messages, which automatically delete after a set period of time #privacy#encryption
Hurra! Das Thema #Chatkontrolle und #verschlusselung geht dank #Spanien in die nächste Runde. Laut geleakter Dokumente wird sich Spanien für ein EU-weites Verbot von #EndezuEndeVerschlüsselung einsetzen. Da wird das #eugh als letzte Instanz sicherlich viel Arbeit vor sich haben.
@EwanCroft AFAIK re: the #ActivityPub protocol, what we can direct messaging thanks to birdsite language is really just a one-to-one post. Even if #Mastodon established #E2EE#encryption over AP, it's unlikely to federate well at this stage. Perhaps better to keep #Matrix as the #Fediverse go-to for that?
EU Member States Still Cannot Agree About End-to-End Encryption (cyberlaw.stanford.edu)
The responses of the 20 member states (or rather, their LEWP representatives) cover a spectrum, from extremely anti-encryption and pro-police powers, to robustly pro-encryption, with quite a few countries occupying a middle ground best described as “encryption is important, but…”.