mnot.net
Co-chair IETF HTTP & AIPREF working groups, member Internet Architecture Board (again), standards lead at Cloudflare. Former W3C TAG, W3C BoD. Interested in the intersection of legal regulation and technical standards.
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result, this opinion is another example of how the Supreme Court keeps playing Calvinball with our civil liberties." https://blog.ericgoldman.org/archives/2025/06/prof-goldmans-statement-on-the-supreme-courts-demolition-of-the-internet-in-free-speech-coalition-v-paxton.htm
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"non-US citizens" = brown people
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distributed—may gain significant advantages." https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/05/trumps-trade-war-risks-splintering-the-internet-experts-warn/
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This reminds me of Ian Bremmer's piece in Foreign Affairs: www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...
... but that one is a bit less hopeful.
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authority accrues to those who control the digital space, it may matter less whether power resides in public or private hands than how effectively it can be centralized." https://www.foreignaffairs.com/united-states/technopolar-paradox-ian-bremmer-fusion-tech-state-power
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Aha. Yes, you have to separately go in and set up the keyboard. How bizarre!
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many experts in language and internationalisation.
Someone, somewhere at Apple made a conscious decision to push Australian language more towards the US. They’re culture hacking us.
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Please do.
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rests on openness, consensus, and lack of dominance erodes the power of that very system. It ensures that information — which, as we know, is power — is a public good." https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/the-anti-capitalist-case-for-standards/
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I thought it was mistitled -- the movie wasn't about civil war, it was about the tensions and ethics of photojournalism.
I loved it (as a former photojournalist).
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The UK order is said to include non-UK targets, and ADP, so that may not help. Millions of people using it makes the intrusion more visible perhaps, but it doesn't make it harder for the UK (and eventually other countries) to impose their will on Apple.
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How will that help? My understanding is that the order is precisely against ADP.
Instead, I think that Apple needs to move the target: www.mnot.net/blog/2025/02...
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I'm finding myself looking at social media less and journalism more these days...
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AIUI they're using a combination of perceptual hashing, homomorphic encryption and OHTTP to make this privacy-preserving. However, Apple appears to be making the same missteps that Mozilla has when rolling things like this out: they assume that everyone trusts them.
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Oh, what a thing to do
And it was all yellow
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It’s a big world, Jake.
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oh that'll never be abused...
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No, it's not. See eg tobin.yale.edu/research/jud...
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That’s proper hot (52) - but car thermometersare rarely accurate.