How tech's richest plan to save themselves after the apocalypse trib.al/ANLoQOt

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What are cell-site simulators (CSSs) and how do they sneakily collect information about our cell phones? EFF’s Threat Lab created “Gotta Catch ‘Em All” to explain, and document the harms CSSs pose. (1/5) eff.org/wp/gotta-catch…

COSIC seminar – Reducing Trust and Improving Security in -SNARKs – Karim Baghery (University of Tartu) youtube.com/watch?v=IdN0-t…

There's new evidence a quantum search algorithm is a naturally occurring phenomenon—and it could explain one of the greatest mysteries about the origin of life. bit.ly/2VFQ3uc

Excited to reveal our new library for composable zero-knowledge proofs at #wpes19: github.com/spring-epfl/zk… Very much in active development, happy to receive bug reports, contributions, and definitions of new primitives #ccs19 Bogdan Kulynych Carmela Troncoso

New York Times Opinion Here is what was in the data: More than 50 billion location pings from the phones of more than 12 million Americans, across several major cities. Stuart A. Thompson and I then spent months reporting on how we are all tracked through apps on our phones. nytimes.com/interactive/20…

The Censorship.no (CENO) circumvention tool is out for Alpha testing. If you live or want to help people living in countries censoring the Internet, run your CENO client as a bridge. Feedback is welcome github.com/censorship-no/… Playstore: play.google.com/store/apps/det…

Crypto binge ccs.neu.edu/~rancohen/cryp… online and recorded talks, by Ran Cohen

Publishers are going after the Internet Archive and might end up taking it down vice.com/en_us/article/…

Europe, what are you doing? chatcontrol.eu Europe, stahp ec.europa.eu/info/funding-t…

Massive data leak reveals over 50,000 phone numbers of potential surveillance targets for clients of spyware company NSO. These include heads of state, activists and journalists, including Jamal Khashoggi’s family. amnesty.org/en/latest/news…

New plans for governing body to make digital identities as trusted as passports and with an easily recognised trustmark to boost public confidence: gov.uk/government/new…

Recordings from the 2021 IC3 Blockchain Camp are now available! youtube.com/playlist?list=…

Some people got upset with me for calling Bitcoin's monetary story right-wing, incl. Alex Gladstein 🌋 ⚡, who believes there's a growing wave of progressive Bitcoiners. He's right. Ever more lefties are tricked into going conservative via BTC. To learn why, see brettscott.substack.com/p/bitcoin-meme…

Deep sea cables are critical to understanding how amassing power through internet infrastructure works. This piece by Tanay Mahindru is a must-read: botpopuli.net/digging-deeper…

Our founder Tim O'Reilly thinks it's too early to get excited about #Web3 and, as the person who defined Web 2.0, he should know. Here's why: oreil.ly/FAt75

1/7 Hello, world! Meet Privy. Privy is a set of simple, powerful APIs to manage user data off-chain. blog.privy.io/introducing-pr…

✉️ <#nettime> Another Social Network is Possible!–On Bernard Stiegler and the Social Media... | by Geert Lovink nettime.org/Lists-Archives…