Hey! Myself and Francesca Musiani have an article published in Media, War and Conflict, "Can #Encryption save lives? Secure #messaging and its #infrastructures as loci of convergence between #Cyber#warfare and conventional warfare: The case of #ukraine".
The paper that analyzes how secure messaging tools and infrastructures that makes their deployment possible are now an integral part of a war and resistance infrastructure where the borders between cyber warfare and conventional warfare are becoming more and more blurred. However, we also underline the limits of a tool-centred approach and demonstrate how, in the case of the war in Ukraine, physical threats to civilians and infrastructure damage mean that encrypted messaging is one among several innovative technical and social practices of holistic self-defence deployed by Ukrainians.
Hey! Myself and Francesca Musiani have an article published in Media, War and Conflict, "Can #Encryption save lives? Secure #messaging and its #infrastructures as loci of convergence between #Cyber#warfare and conventional warfare: The case of #ukraine".
The paper that analyzes how secure messaging tools and infrastructures that makes their deployment possible are now an integral part of a war and resistance infrastructure where the borders between cyber warfare and conventional warfare are becoming...
@Xeniax that is a photo from some two years ago .... A lot feels different now than then, and also delta evolved considerably since then ... Some say 2025 is going to be a similar life and project changing events ... Happy to have you with us since the beginning :anarchoheart2:
"Iran has been effectively shut down for the third consecutive day. Government offices and some institutions, including schools, remain closed. The primary cause is the ongoing energy crisis, particularly issues in electricity and gas production. Reports of scattered protests have emerged. Power outages have disrupted internet services, and even SnappFood, the local equivalent of Uber Eats, has gone offline due to a lack of power at its data center.
There are reports of people being trapped in elevators and facing serious disruptions in accessing medical services. This has sparked widespread dissatisfaction, with some suggesting that if Pezeshkian fails to address the crisis in the coming months, he should step down. While I find it unlikely that this will happen, it's worth noting that these criticisms are coming from his own supporters"
From an Iranian colleague:
"Iran has been effectively shut down for the third consecutive day. Government offices and some institutions, including schools, remain closed. The primary cause is the ongoing energy crisis, particularly issues in electricity and gas production. Reports of scattered protests have emerged. Power outages have disrupted internet services, and even SnappFood, the local equivalent of Uber Eats, has gone offline due to a lack of power at its data center.
If you sit long enough by the river, you will see how everything becomes a VPN
(co-authored with @hpk in response to a global trend for messaging / email projects to offer VPN services; while I personally feel that in terms of circumvention tech we need to think beyond the VPN logic which is kind of predictable...)
All these forceful methods of suppression and
political strategies of the Georgian Dream are following the imperialistic logic of Kremlin.
Military bases of russia are surrounding and suffocating Sakartvelo.
I was asked what makes russians go out on the streets and protest together with Georgians? Those russians left their imperialistic and colonial country and they want to fight against colonisation of Sakartvelo / Georgia by kremlin. They oppose imperialism and its their duty to be side by side with the free people of Sakartvelo.
The people of Sakartvelo are fighting hard.
Yesterday they took the streets en masse not only in Tbilisi, but also in other cities.
In the capital, the protests lasted until 6:00 in the morning, and there were still several hundred people!
The police used sprays, gas and water cannons with dissolved gas, causing skin burns. And it is not.summer outside...
The first time since #1000daysofwar in Ukraine where russians actually formulated a clear statement 🏴
I would also put empire in plural. And death is something quite natural, especially now in late november. So i guess the emperors shouldnt be afraid and rather embrace the decay.
Today EU governments will not adopt the so-called chat control regulation, as planned, which would have heralded the end of private messages and secure encryption. The Belgian Council presidency postponed the vote at short notice. Once again the chat control proposal fails in Council 👾👾 Pirate Party MEP, digital freedom fighter and negotiator for his group in the European Parliament, Patrick Breyer, cheers:
“Without the commitment and resistance of countless individuals and organizations in Europe, the EU governments would have decided today in favour of totalitarian indiscriminate chat control , burying the digital privacy of correspondence and secure encryption. A big thanks to all who have contacted politicians and spoken out in the past few days. The fact that we have prevented the orwellian chat control for the time being should be celebrated!"
Today EU governments will not adopt the so-called chat control regulation, as planned, which would have heralded the end of private messages and secure encryption. The Belgian Council presidency postponed the vote at short notice. Once again the chat control proposal fails in Council 👾👾 Pirate Party MEP, digital freedom fighter and negotiator for his group in the European Parliament, Patrick Breyer, cheers:
Евросоюз готовится голосовать за закон о сканировании мессенджеров ChatControl
Законопроект призван "бороться с педопорнографией онлайн". Пользователям месенджеров и других сервисов с функцией чата будет предложено ответить на вопрос, согласны ли они на сканирование и, возможно, передачу информации о фотографиях и видео, которыми они обмениваются в частном порядке. Ранее неизвестные изображения и видео также будут проверяться с помощью "искусственного интеллекта". Если пользователь откажется от такого сканирования, ему будет запрещено отправлять или получать изображения, фотографии, видео и ссылки.
Сервисы со сквозным шифрованием, такие как Whatsapp или Signal, должны будут осуществлять автоматический поиск ещё до передачи сообщения (так называемое сканирование на стороне клиента).
Президентка Signal уже высказалась категорически против этого законопроекта и сказала что Signal скорее уйдет с европейского рынка чем поставит под удар приватность пользователей.
Евросоюз готовится голосовать за закон о сканировании мессенджеров ChatControl
Законопроект призван "бороться с педопорнографией онлайн". Пользователям месенджеров и других сервисов с функцией чата будет предложено ответить на вопрос, согласны ли они на сканирование и, возможно, передачу информации о фотографиях и видео, которыми они обмениваются в частном порядке. Ранее неизвестные изображения и видео также будут проверяться с помощью "искусственного интеллекта". Если пользователь откажется от такого...
Talking today at @undonecs about network measurements and user-studies -- understanding the ongoing fragmentation of "runet" (see regional shutdowns in Bashqortostan, Yakutia, blocking 4G nightly in Pskov, Novgorod, Leningradskiy region)
Where are voices of users? How to combine remote measurements, client-side measurements and grasp complexity of censorship as a "lived experience"?
Gregory's Server
