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Electronic Frontier Foundation
โBanning Flipper Zero devices is tantamount to banning a multi-tool because it can be used for vandalism, or banning markers because they can be used for graffiti,โ EFFโs @legind told @Motherboard. https://www.vice.com/en/article/4a388g/flipper-zero-ban-canada-hacking-car-thefts
Electronic Frontier Foundation
People are pushing back on the overly-centralized social media platforms, and this year it led to an explosion of exciting projects in decentralization. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/12/taking-back-web-decentralization-2023-review 
Evan Prodromou
@eff ...and one open standard. Why are you pushing all these one-off projects? We need you advocating for the fediverse. 
GhostOnTheHalfShell
I want to emphasize here that I think the same must happen for e-commerce. Platforms like Amazon, Facebook, even eBay etc exercise despotic control over vendors and customers. From municipal web access, to hosting services, libraries streaming music or say a town e-commerce platform, to the growth of coop owned platforms, all which could federate a proper anti totalitarian model must evolve. The Bork anti-trust doctrine must be shredded as well. :thread:
Electronic Frontier Foundation
People are increasingly skeptical of big centralized intermediaries controlling our life online. Some new peer-to-peer projects may do away with intermediaries all together.
Electronic Frontier Foundation
We are #thankful for open source projects decentralizing the social web.  
Electronic Frontier Foundation
HTTPS encryption for EU residents is at risk, as the soon-to-be-passed Article 45 removes browsersโ control over security for their users.
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DeFrEnT Christopher Kรถbel
@daniel_freund Dear Daniel, is there anything the EuroParl can do to stop the Art.45 attack on civil liberties in the #eidas2 regulation? With several far-right/autocrat-leaning countries in the EU, how is this not a huge risk to EU citizens? Are the Greens onto it?
gvs
The take away is that when this passes, we should distrust all CA's and verify certificates on important servers another way.
BTW, this attack was already used against a Russian xmpp server at Hetzner. The trust model is fundamentally broken
Electronic Frontier Foundation
Today, so many people used EFF's Action Center to tell Congress not to pass the EARN IT Act and the STOP CSAM Act that it briefly took the system offline. It's back up, and you can take action here: https://act.eff.org/action/the-earn-it-act-is-back-seeking-to-scan-us-all https://act.eff.org/action/tell-congress-don-t-outlaw-encrypted-applications
Electronic Frontier Foundation
"Clearview is a private company that is making face prints of people based on their photos online without their consent," EFFโs Matthew Guariglia spoke with BBC News for a story about this "huge problem for civil liberties and civil rights" that absolutely needs to be banned." https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-65057011
Electronic Frontier Foundation
If you're in the UK, you can also watch the video interview discussing the problems with this controversial technology: https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m001km2c/our-world-facial-recognition-fighting-crime
Electronic Frontier Foundation
Worried about TikTok? Then pass comprehensive consumer data privacy legislation. By reducing the massive stores of personal data collected by all businesses, we will reduce opportunities for all governments to buy or steal this data. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/03/government-hasnt-justified-tiktok-ban
Many Core Forth Processor
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Electronic Frontier Foundation
Weโre hiring for a Senior System Administrator. Join the team! https://www.eff.org/opportunities/jobs/senior-system-administrator
Electronic Frontier Foundation
EFF is proud to defend the @internetarchive in this case, and we will keep fighting for a robust and vibrant digital future.
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Electronic Frontier Foundation
The long-term impact of Russiaโs new root certificate is not clear, but the digital security of Russian citizens is already splintered. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/03/you-should-not-trust-russias-new-trusted-root-ca
Electronic Frontier Foundation
Privacy Badger is EFF's free install-and-forget browser add-on that stops advertisers and trackers from secretly tracking where you go and what pages you look at on the web. Check it out today https://privacybadger.org
Electronic Frontier Foundation
Network effect let Facebook attract billions of users who joined to talk to people who were already there. Switching costs turned those users into hostages - blocking interoperability means users have to choose between friends and fleeing the platform. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/08/facebooks-secret-war-switching-costs |
Gregory's Server
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I support Flipper Zero even if it's innocent.
@eff @legind @Motherboard
It seems to be a device that among it's normal mundane geek stuff, is specifically designed to defeat access cards, locks etc.
If EFF makes a thing of this, the GUN LOBBY will be watching and taking notes.
#BanAssaultRifles #SandyHook