Hans-Christoph Steiner @eighthave@librem.one

#Netanyahu is promising to annex territory gained through force. That should receive the same treatment as #Putin received when he annexed Crimea https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/sep/13/eu-leaders-must-get-tough-with-israel

The reusable #tor Android binary now is now a #ReproducibleBuild on the same machine, e.g. in the #GitLab CI Docker runners. There are still diffs when running the process on a different Debian version, albeit with the exact same #Android NDK binary. More to come as its finished

"#OpenBanking bedeutet vielmehr, dass es im Finanzmarkt viele neue Player geben wird, weil die großen Finanz-Haie ihre Gewässer für hungrige Piranha-Schwärme öffnen müssen – und wir sind das Futter."

https://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/Kommentar-zu-PSD2-Was-die-Finanzbranche-unter-Open-Banking-versteht-4522127.html

#blogs are still a thing, especially in #security research, so my #RSS reader is key to my work. Recently, I've started an experiment with it: I read the articles in oldest-first order. It feels unnatural at first, but now I'm starting to appreciate the calm, without the #AddictionByDesign of pull-to-refresh breaking news feeds

#FreeSoftware like #SAMBA was key to breaking open the #microsoft #monopoly in the early 90s with #AdversarialInteroperability. The #BigTech web and bad #copyright and #patent laws like #DMCA make that even harder now than in the 90s.

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/07/samba-versus-smb-adversarial-interoperability-judo-network-effects

"Uighurs in China were target of two-year #iOS #malware attack – reports"

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/sep/02/uighurs-china-target-two-year-ios-malware-attack-reports

If you are worried about #security, keep in mind all the sites your cohort might be visiting. #wateringhole #malwareattack

“As Indonesia deliberately tries to create ethnic conflict in West Papua with militia, I must stress that for West Papuans our enemy is not the Indonesian people. Our enemy is only the system of colonisation. We will not be provoked. Our peaceful struggle is for a referendum.”

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/sep/02/west-papua-students-reportedly-shot-by-militias-as-video-of-soldiers-firing-on-crowds-emerges

#WestPapua

There are two semi-related questions that have been repeatedly popping up in my head for the past couple years: 1) now that we know how to do real #SecureMessaging, are we sure we want a world where wiretapping isn't possible? 2) now that we know how to privately track usage without #tracking people, are we sure we want to encourage software development based on tracking data? #privacy

I've been researching #SecureMessaging for a decade and I've found #forensics always quite informative. as with any problem with digital media, there is software to make it easier
https://articles.forensicfocus.com/2019/07/01/case-study-extracting-and-analyzing-messenger-data-with-oxygen-forensic-detective/

#Statistics are used to gain public approval and even to manipulate us, so it is important to know how reality can be different from intuition: "An Explainer on the Base Rate Fallacy and PNR"
https://epicenter.works/content/an-explainer-on-the-base-rate-fallacy-and-pnr