@sarahjamielewis and they - along with Google - can go fuck themselves. I deleted it from all devices.

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Anonym's takeover of Mozilla is akin to Doubleclick's takeover of Google

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if @mozilla were hiring a Chief Privacy Officer instead, i'd feel a lot better...

if they hired someone with experience in getting community involvement and funding, instead of ad based funding, i'd be in heaven...

@sarahjamielewis The system doesn't work unless you have rich monies. There's not many people in lower and middle 'class' that have that anymore.
The fragile ego'ed have maxed out the upper 'class' arena and made it clear they don't value anyone except for their use as a cash cow.

@sarahjamielewis that’s a great point

@sarahjamielewis We can and should push everyone to switch over to Linux.

These are very high level notes, and it is worth noting that the document itself is subject to updates - I will likely augment it as the conversation progresses, and I am very open to collaboration and critiques on missing aspects.

Also, as noted above, I did not include any of my more concrete ideas for solutions to some of the challenges outlined (I'm putting something together for that too)

However, this now allows far more room to set out the context for a discussion than mastodon permits.

@sarahjamielewis Thanks for sharing, I learned quite a bit!

@sarahjamielewis I am reminded of the old quote "I haven't got a solution but I certainly admire the problem".

I remember how searching gnutella was both crazy slow and unreliable, with two consecutive searches producing different results.

I remember when the coinbros started complaining that having the entire ledger locally was way too big and computationally expensive, but relying on servers to say who had what was untrustworthy...

Lots of existing work in this space. Few if any solutions.

@sarahjamielewis A tad confused by the first sentence here. I mean backing up a security/privacy claim with the presence of cryptography is a good thing right? But if its 100% policy based that would imply the absence of cryptography not the presence of cryptography?

@sarahjamielewis doing privacy analysis for living, this is a daily dilemma for me. I rather see the data not processed at all, but some has to be processed for functionality. Ideally an organization acknowledges the sensitivity of the data with both legal (policy) and technological mitigations. And I often see encryption deployed in an ineffective way.

@sarahjamielewis looking at you, protonmail