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Privacy Preserving Cryptography - Voting and Governance - Blockchain - Cyber Security

co-founder https://xx.network

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2024-08-25 15:05:49

Assuming accurate reporting, I strongly condemn the recent arrest of Telegram’s #PavelDurov in France. Refusing to moderate other’s speech is not terrorism. It is not conspiracy to commit a crime.
Pavel’s arrest is a stain on the central fraternity between France and the US in supposedly being the world’s defenders of free speech and liberty. France is continuing an unfortunate tradition our governments have of ignoring our values whenever it is convenient. This is both wrong and short sighted.
While I understand the “Telegram is not E2EE and gives full access to Russia” sentiment (e.g., https://www.wired.com/story/the-kremlin-has-entered-the-chat/ ), I believe this is an L take. In this context, it is saying if you are capable of moderating then you should be required to do so per government orders.
Any precedent set here will be used against other platforms. We should be extremely uncomfortable about this situation. We are violating the long-standing principle of going after the criminals and not the mediums they use. You can pretend that Signal/WhatsApp is somehow incapable of modifying their client to add monitoring, but they are definitely capable of monitoring usage and just choose not to record that metadata.
Geopolitically this is an unprecedented, massive propaganda win for Russia. As they continue to suppress freedom at home, they can now credibly say they’re fighting to free him.
Make no mistake, Telegram is harmful. They do not care about free speech or privacy for their users. Their business model exploits access to your messages. Just because a fascist regime enjoys special access does not mean you should join in the facism. It is as simple as “two wrongs do not make a right.”

2024-07-19 12:47:31

This #crowdstrike crisis feels like a "we fired the guy who managed the tool/process that would have prevented this" situation 🤦‍♂️
My ❤️ goes out to all the IT folks out there dealing with this.

2024-07-05 22:37:39

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2436023-multiple-nations-enact-mysterious-export-controls-on-quantum-computers/
They are starting to freak out

2024-05-08 23:26:20

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This is how public channels work in xx, and the main issue in your scenario is you need to trust your users not to share this key… instead you could blindly sign a cred that allows them in via a valid signature, but you could still track the now pseudonymous cred. That should fine as you have all the connection metadata which allows you to do that already.

2024-02-09 19:09:00

Small project announcement from me -- we're going to be working a project to improve #privacy in worldcoin:
https://twitter.com/xx_network/status/1755981614931472575
I'm looking for a #rust and/or #golang #internship for the summer to help with this and another project. It is #remote
https://image.nostr.build/6cbe9ef28d11efa2e0c5dd89f2087f85f668c16d0b67e1cb97ebcc84867caafd.jpg

2023-04-16 13:52:39

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It is particularly bad seeing bitcoin folks dumping on wasabi while claiming to be privacy maxis...
I can't tell if its legitimate ignorance/misunderstanding the power and properties of the tech or its something else.

2023-03-09 23:07:28

The xx team just released this tech preview for Proxxy, which adds some privacy when working over Metamask. 🦊
https://media.nostrgram.co/v/d8/media_d8a703866a046.mp4
I work on the backend of this with the mixnet. Happy to answer any questions.

2023-02-27 01:49:35

Hello, nostr!