Hans-Christoph Steiner @eighthave@librem.one

We're busy with further developing the #opensource firmware of Nitrokey 3 and now a new test version is available. Have you had a look already? 😎

https://www.nitrokey.com/blog/2023/nitrokey-3-alpha-firmware

Over the last few months, I put a lot of work into the @fdroidorg app. Here's what's new: https://f-droid.org/en/2023/03/01/new-repo-format-faster-smaller-updates.html

The US National Cyber Security Strategy has one thing so right I am cheering.
https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/National-Cybersecurity-Strategy-2023.pdf

#OpenSource #Security #Policy

If the corporate publishers win the lawsuit, authors lose ✍️ Here's @neilhimself, Naomi Klein and 1000+ other authors explaining why they "fear a future where libraries are reduced to a sort of Netflix... for books" https://www.fightforthefuture.org/Authors-For-Libraries #supportauthors #EmpoweringLibraries

🕵️‍♂️ Today, the Open Source Programme Office (@EC_OSPO) held a Secrets Management Hackaton for the developers from the 🇪🇺 Commission.

The goal was to remove secrets from the internal projects' codes so that more 🇪🇺 projects can become #opensource and be shared on http://code.europa.eu.

Has anyone ever setup a multihop #wireguard? How about chaining more than one commercial #VPN provider? If it is easy to setup and fast enough, it could be a nice way to improve privacy without having to entirely trust the provider. https://mullvad.net/en/help/multihop-wireguard/

We have generally avoided recommending #VPN providers for #privacy since it is a thorny proposition, although they are clearly useful for #censorship #circumvention. We recently mapped out what a VPN provider needs to do to gain users' trust https://guardianproject.info/2023/02/28/steps-towards-trusted-vpns/

#DMAWorkshop
Meta speaker is a lawyer who has just spent his full slot pouring cold water on any approach to messaging #interoperability on every imaginable ground and dismissing all the existing entities running client=side bridges (e.g. iMessage and Matrix).

When #GooglePlay introduced privacy labels, I was very curious to see how they managed to get reliable data about the #privacy properties of Android apps. I know first-hand how difficult and time-consuming privacy audits of Android apps can be. Now Mozilla has taken a closer look, and it seems Google doesn't even have reliable data.

https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/blog/mozilla-study-data-privacy-labels-for-most-top-apps-in-google-play-store-are-false-or-misleading/

We're getting quite a few people who thought the project was dead for some reason... Remember that you should follow our blog (and this account) for updates.

We released the first open-source accelerated GPU drivers for Apple Silicon just two months ago:
https://asahilinux.org/2022/12/gpu-drivers-now-in-asahi-linux/

That's the world's first open source driver for Apple GPUs, and also the world's first Linux GPU driver written in Rust, but for some reason it didn't get almost any media attention...

But then we sent out some device trees for Linux 6.2 and that did?

We don't get it...

@jay_peper Andy Singer made this nice cartoon about it

An internet toll will penalise consumers & breach #netneutrality. Today, Dutch Economic Affairs Minister Micky Adriaansens warned against the demands of Big Telco. She calls for a differentiated analysis of the problem first, before jumping at solutions. 🧵
https://www.reuters.com/technology/dutch-warn-against-internet-toll-eu-looks-big-tech-fund-networks-2023-02-27/

If your city couldn’t avoid making a massive city-damaging mistake in the first place, do the next best thing — remove the mistake, and repair your city. Like #Utrecht, Netherlands did with its central area river, then freeway, then river again.

(Image via @BicycleDutch) #Dutch #Holland #Netherlands #freeways #cars #bikes #cities

"The idea that complex social problems are amenable to cheap technical solutions is the siren song of the software salesman"

Re the Online Safety Bill/regulatory proposals invoking harm to the vulnerable as a problem mass surveillance could solve.

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-64584001