Getting started with Fireside chat in AI week at Zugrama, with our witty Interlocutor host Anish Mohammed & joining him are John an ex Banker , John Marshall from World Ethical Data Foundation & Ameen Soleimani from Privacypools , an ethereum developer as well.

Dear Friends, on Friday 7 February at 10 am I will be free! It is not real freedom, but it is better than prison. Today, a Dutch court suspended my pretrial detention under the condition of electronic monitoring. This will give me a chance to work on my appeal and fight for

The [recurrent nightmare of the] War on Cryptography: British Edition. c. 2025. theguardian.com/technology/202… eff.org/deeplinks/2025… EFF washingtonpost.com/technology/202… x.com/silkiecarlo/st… Big Brother Watch Silkie Carlo

1/ I've been pondering the alleged UK govt order requiring Apple to create a mechanism allowing content currently protected e2e when using Apple's Advanced Data Protection. washingtonpost.com/technology/202… It is an egregious abuse of human rights with global consequences.

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🚨BREAKING🚨 Apple is removing its most robust data protection tool from UK users. “This decision by Apple is the regrettable consequence of the Home Office’s outrageous order attempting to force Apple to breach encryption. As a result, from today Apple’s UK customers are less

good on Apple for pulling encryption from the UK rather than compromising it's security. it's unfortunate for UK users, but that's on their government for insisting on weaker security

Keir Starmer in 2015: "[Surveillance] shouldn't be general and it shouldn't apply to the public in general" The UK Gov't must cease attempts to break #Apple encryption before the privacy rights of millions are eroded.

The UK's surveillance laws are now some of the most extensive in the world. Forcing Apple into a position where it removes e2ee in the UK sets a dangerous precedent. Proton would never build a backdoor, but we wouldn't open the front door by removing our e2e encryption either.

The U.K. has chosen to make its own citizens less safe and less free. eff.org/deeplinks/2025…

Well, this is really bad. Apple has chosen to pull end-to-end 'Advanced Data Protection' from devices in the UK in response to a Home Office demand that they install a backdoor. An illiterate, untenable demand www-bbc-co-uk.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/www.bbc.co… Zoe Kleinman x.com/BigBrotherWatc… Big Brother Watch

At a time of unprecedented disinformation, with many feeling lost about what the facts are re. Ukraine & the criminal, unprovoked war being waged against them by the Russian Federation, Institute for the Study of War has published a clear, brief, and invaluable statement understandingwar.org/sites/default/…

If you're wondering whom to listen to about this utterly absurd move by the current administration, please listen to the hackers themselves & outstanding cyberjournalists like Nicole Perlroth. Nicole's book - en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/This_Is_H… - is first class and gives excellent background

Today, Index on Censorship, Open Rights Group and Big Brother Watch sent a letter to the President of the Investigatory Powers Tribunal, calling for the secret Tribunal into the Home Office's encryption-breaching order against Apple to be held in public. ⬇️ indexoncensorship.org/2025/03/rights…

So uh, 15 million DNA samples are now just available to the highest bidder?

Next time a government demands an encryption backdoor, remember: this administration uses Signal. They all have. For years. Europe same. Because encrypted messaging is critical infrastructure. There are other lessons... 1/

internet freedom for all

Thank you Zuitzerland, for making this all possible! Being trusted to present the overall tech strategy and integration framework means a lot to me. Further, seeing the colab between John Marshall and BSA @ EPFL🦇🔊 unfolding (presentation after my intro) added a whole new dimension

I'll be writing about my time during the amazing Zuitzerland as soon as I've caught up on work now I'm back ...but Burns having shared this let me just say that the experience was phenomenal. This joint presentation by those of us involved with the tech was also a blast!

Why can AIs code for 1h but not 10h? A simple explanation: if there's a 10% chance of error per 10min step (say), the success rate is: 1h: 53% 4h: 8% 10h: 0.002% Toby Ord has tested this 'constant error rate' theory and shown it's a good fit for the data chance of