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2025-06-01 12:17:30

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@nprofile…4lg3 Do you plan on sticking with Apple hardware in the future or switching to Android/Linux?

2025-05-14 20:52:52

NEW BLOGPOST: what's being overlooked about Meta's (defeat in) challenging the #EDPB #consent-or-pay opinion (case #T-319/24)
https://open.substack.com/pub/gateklons/p/the-overlooked-implications-of-metas?r=3ktc0b&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
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2025-04-29 10:42:38

Bluesky is down again, huh? They need to achieve feature parity with Twitter and then decentralize ASAP.

2025-04-29 06:18:45

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@nprofile…4lg3 1) Isn't that the whole point of the network account feature? Or did you mean outside macOS? 2) If about strict vertical interoperability, then I would think so? 3) In principle yes, but I wonder where the line is between the gatekeeper needing to (infinitely) adjust their software solutions to make them interoperable for everyone in all kinds of ways vs. just allowing third parties to create their own. Maybe there is no such line.

2025-03-19 17:22:25

NEW BLOGPOST
Be careful what you wish for: RCS and end-to-end encryption
https://gateklons.substack.com/p/be-careful-what-you-wish-for-rcs?r=3ktc0b&triedRedirect=true
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2025-03-10 22:27:46

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@nprofile…4lg3 @nprofile…ak53 @nprofile…2thv The real hot take is that the EU already is a federation, just a non-state one.

2025-03-01 19:14:36

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@nprofile…s8j9 Signal fairly elegantly avoids this issue by expiring app versions after 90 days so they can make these ecosystem shifts while providing users with reasonable assurances of compatibility/functionality/good UX while not having to swear over supporting multiple protocol versions and downgrade attacks.
Users also not aware of when PQ iMessage encryption is used either AFAIK. It's more for show until all endpoints in a conversation support it.
All a problem of Apple's own making.

2025-03-01 19:11:03

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@nprofile…s8j9 I suspect Apple has not done this because they can't make a reliable guarantee to users that those messages will disappear on other ends because the logic would be only integrated into the latest versions of iOS. They already mention this limitation with edited messages. It's a fundamental flaw of Apple's distribution model for its own apps and services: plenty of downgrade attack surface when you insist on backwards compatibility for everything in fear of upsetting those users.

2025-01-21 15:30:01

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@nprofile…a6je I think Matrix folks will eventually get there but probably not soon unless they get a lot of cash. They've actually been working on an implementation with WhatsApp before 7 March 2024 when the DMA actually started to apply to all the gatekeepers that were designated in September 2023.

2025-01-21 15:23:57

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@nprofile…a6je Hi! We know that several services at least sent the initial request for access to the full API documentation. However only Matrix was working on actually implementing the produced interoperable solutions but this is the last we heard of them: https://matrix.org/blog/2024/09/whatsapp-dma/
Messenger is also in scope now and Meta has gone beyond their obligations and will also support interoperability for features like read receipts, etc. I can provide more sources/details if needed.

2025-01-20 16:02:01

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@nprofile…pw7h If the account itself will be deleted, please consider leaving up an archive of the tweets (exported through Twitter's own tool) somewhere. Unfortunately Twitter is one of the few place where searching for things can actually yield what you're looking for. Plus I imagine that the smaller updates/tidbits don't have their own blogposts. 🙂

2025-01-06 23:16:53

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@nprofile…sut0 Or handle more sensitive data on compartmented systems like Qubes OS

2025-01-01 23:16:24

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@nprofile…4lg3 KISS should be applied more often

2025-01-01 17:46:22

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@nprofile…d3y3 Try sending a GDPR erasure request specifically for that data. Refusing to honor a scoped deletion request might violate GDPR's principle of fairness. Data being encrypted on Apple's end is also no excuse. They are a controller for that data and should have provided a self-service tool that operates on the user's device to pull and export data.

2024-12-25 17:44:23

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@nprofile…flav Matrix was working on it with WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger but IIRC they're having a hard time dedicating/justifying the resources when this will be limited to the EU (though I think legally Meta would actually have to let you also message WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger users outside the EU and vice-versa).

2024-12-25 17:26:55

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@nprofile…e4uh Much worse for example is the withdrawing of draft decisions from the Article 60 process: https://x.com/floorter/status/1724795103875846393
Alternatively, as I suggest in the article, the response to the opinion could just reference or copy-paste the guidelines the EDPB would take up instead.

2024-12-25 17:26:40

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@nprofile…e4uh Fair point. EDPB Rules of Procedure don't provide for it (maybe they could, IDK?) but there are a lot of criteria for the request to be accepted so the EDPB could find something to object to and the DPA would not follow up, effectively ending the (improperly filed) request. It might be illegal for the DPA to withdraw a perfectly valid request but it's really just a victimless administrative violation.

2024-12-25 08:19:35

NEW BLOGPOST: Systemic issues with EU data protection guidance
https://open.substack.com/pub/gateklons/p/systemic-issues-with-eu-data-protection
I have some thoughts on how EU data protection guidance should work
https://eupolicy.social/system/media_attachments/files/113/712/479/883/979/393/original/f9d82186bc22689b.jpeg

2024-12-24 14:23:22

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@nprofile…pw7h I'm convinced forcing OEMs to making unlocking the bootloader safe and easy (perhaps even enabling dual boot), as well as forcing Google to certify those custom ROMs for Play Integrity is the only way to have and preserve any OS choice on Android.

2024-12-24 13:01:50

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@nprofile…4lg3 I think there'd be a real market for something like a public interest (or at least deenshittified) dating app on the AT Protocol though the trust & safety concerns are probably too much for anyone to consider right now. But clearly a market in need of disruption.

2024-12-13 14:00:10

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@nprofile…pw7h Extremely encouraging to hear. Council's last review of the GDPR also seemed fairly positive and against reopening it.

2024-04-21 21:16:27

I love how every single reply to Gruber's toot calls him out on his bullshit. Ouch.
https://mastodon.social/@daringfireball/112300834339778490