Elias @eliasr@librem.one

@YlvaJohansson

Please stop the proposal on mass surveillance of the EU, the proposal called "chat control 2".

It is a really, really, very, very, bad idea.

Explanation in both English and Swedish available here:

https://mullvad.net/en/blog/2023/2/2/stop-the-proposal-on-mass-surveillance-of-the-eu/

See also: "European Commission must uphold privacy, security and free expression by withdrawing new law, say civil society": https://edri.org/our-work/european-commission-must-uphold-privacy-security-and-free-expression-by-withdrawing-new-law/

In Swedish, there is also this episode of the "Bli säker" podcast:
https://nikkasystems.com/2023/02/03/podd-183-chat-control-2-0/

@EU_Commission

@trogluur

I don't know much about this stuff but when you mention that you don't run modified kernels, I think there may be a misunderstanding here about what the "Secure boot" thing is doing. As I understand it, it's about firmware. The kernel is not firmware, so "Secure boot" will not care about which kernel you use.

From a FOSS perspective, the big problem is if the firmware is proprietary, which is very often the case. We should have FOSS firmware that we can control.

@redstarfish

@z3ntu Oh, that great to hear. So much good stuff! I really have to try to get there in person next year 🙂

About your talk, if you were to guess if/when mainline support for Fairphone 4 will be good enough to run for example Mobian, do you think that will happen? If so, how long in the future?

@z3ntu Thanks, interesting stuff!

Do you know if recordings from all the other talks talks are to be published as well, or is it only some of them?

@libredirect Hej hej!

@alexbenisch

Also: does the sim card need a pin code before it can work, and if so, do you have a method to enter the pin code? It can be done via mmcli I think.

My understanding of how these things work is that the modem should exist as a device in the Linux kernel, then ModemManager talks to that, and finally NetworkManager can handle that network connection for you. So both mmcli and nmcli can be of interest. ModemManager has a debug mode you can try.

Anyway, good luck with it 🙂

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@alexbenisch hi, not sure if I'll be able to help, don't know anything about that particular modem, but one thing to check would be to run mmcli (ModemManager) to see what that says.

Make sure ModemManager is running and sees the modem, and the modem should be in the "connected" state. Probably it is not "connected" in your case.

You also have a SIM card plugged in somehow? Maybe check that the sim card is okay by putting it in some other phone or so, to test that separately?

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@marnanel

just throw in a \vspace{-15mm} 🙂

@hehemrin @karlemilnikka

Det verkar ju som om de som skrivit förslaget inte vet vad PGP är och hur det fungerar. Kan det vara så att nästa steg för dem, när de förstått att saker som PGP finns, då blir nästa steg att förbjuda det? Alltså, nästa förslag blir att förbjuda kryptering, kanske blir det då att förbjuda all fri programvara? Eftersom bara för stängd programvara ägd av företag kan man tvinga de företagen att scanna allting, menar jag.

Tack för en bra podd!

@sgirlprivacy@universeodon.com

Heh, "Christianity is the most perverted system that ever shone on man". That one is funny, and may have been true at the time. Hardly true anymore though, I think it's safe to say that humanity has come up with significantly more perverted systems lately. 🙂

@Some_Emo_Chick

It's only a proposal at this point, they estimate 2 years of development time before it can start to be used, if politicians decide to implement the proposal.

What do you think?

Everyone is welcome to comment here and/or join the project mailing list.

DFRI eID project page (in Swedish): https://www.dfri.se/projekt/e-legitimation/

DFRI eID project introduction (in English): https://www.dfri.se/projekt/e-legitimation/project-introduction-in-english/

#DFRI #FOSS #FLOSS #eID #EIDAS #mydata #eleg #elegitimation #freesoftware @dfri

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Some important and good things about the proposal:

(1) It is based on open standards, unlike the current dominant eID in Sweden which is called #BankID which is closed and owned by the banks.

(2) Looks like the proposed solution will allow free and open source client software, you will no longer be forced to use Big Tech closed operating systems to use eID.

#DFRI #FOSS #FLOSS #eID #EIDAS #mydata #eleg #elegitimation

@dfri

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The Swedish Agency for Digital Government (DIGG) published its proposal for a government-issued electronic identification (eID) solution a few days ago. It is supposed to be in line with upcoming EU #eidas changes.

Report (in Swedish): https://digg.se/analys-och-uppfoljning/publikationer/publikationer/2023-01-30-en-saker-och-tillganglig-statlig-e-legitimation

I read it and posted some comments to the mailing list for the @dfri project about free and open e-ID here: https://mailman.dfri.se/mailman3/hyperkitty/list/eleg-projekt@lists.dfri.se/message/QHVJM2CWNWRNJGNHLGI27EYQHIT5ANJD/

#DFRI #FOSS #FLOSS #eID #EIDAS #mydata #eleg #elegitimation

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@shacker I heard that the pillar in there, the "soundpost", is in some languages called something more poetic: it is "the soul" of the instrument. 🙂

@kalj

Hej!

@hellman

@fsf Great!

I think focusing on the case for #freesoftware in #education is a wise choice, both because of its huge importance and because the arguments are so very clear. Anyone who thinks about the issue will agree that #foss is the way to go in schools. Only ignorance stands in the way.

@justincroser@social.linux.pizza Good job!

Looking forward to the followup piece "De- Appleing your life" 😉