Notices by Jérémie Zimmermann🎶💗🧀🧉 (jz@mamot.fr), page 12

Du 9 au 13 août à Tarnac: https://trans.hackmeeting.org #THK @taziden

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Ecuador Will Imminently Withdraw Asylum for Julian Assange and Hand Him Over to the UK. What Comes Next? - G.Greenwald

https://theintercept.com/2018/07/21/ecuador-will-imminently-withdraw-asylum-for-julian-assange-and-hand-him-over-to-the-uk-what-comes-next/

"It should not be this difficult for journalists to set aside their personal emotions about Assange to recognize the profound dangers – not just to press freedoms but to themselves – if the U.S. Government succeeds in keeping Assange imprisoned for years to come..."

@matt It's not about "absolute privacy" (doesn't exist , no more than "absolute security").

It is mostly about ethics, and therefore politics. It is time people realize that computer ethics and security are intimately bound: both are about offering capacity and autonomy to people, in their glorious diversity... or restraining them...

(and also these political choices have a potentially negative impact on the security/privacy of those w/ different threat model thsn white Californian ppl :))

@jz Other issues with #Signal:

* code quality is marginal - endless parade of small bugs, especially with the desktop client
* moxie is a jerk on github a little too frequently
* moxie is hostile to people running LineageOS

@suetanvil

Usability is important, yet not *crucial*. It is often in the hands of people with large resources. Most of the it time amounts to having software making choices instead of you.

Balancing techno-ethics and software freedom by "usability" is i think a fake dichotomy.

Like balancing freedom and security to justify anti-terror measures restricting freedoms and agency. One cannot pretend to trade one for the other.

(Jefferson mode: ON - "He who sacrifices freedom for usability...."?)

@suetanvil I wish we stop attempting at justifying the ethically/morally unacceptable by "usability". this notion considers that "users" (not people eh!) are all idiots, incapable of doing what the person mentioning it is capable of.

It is by infantilizing people that they end up being subjugated, under control.

My own field experience of sec is that when u make people understand (activists, journalists doing real journalism, sources, etc.) they are capable of making efforts (tails, GPG, etc.)

@turb The verify feature used to be within the conversation, starting with a healthy warning "your conversation has not been verified yet, do it". now it is not displayed, like if safety was assumed by default.. and you have to go into *4 (four!)* clicks before you can find this feature now "conversation settings, scroll down, etc." where it is called "view safety blah" not even "verify..."... If UI were to be used to discourage from doing it, it would exactly look like this.

very bad practice.

@aral Actually the download link to the APK on their website doesn't even work until you enable javascript coming from....

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(guess who?...)

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Google!

What a surprise... :/

Conversation is working well. Omemo gives hope that some flaws of XMPP/OTR could be compensated (offline messages, decent crypto...)

@dodosan Clementine r0XXxx! De loin le meilleur media player libre que je connaisse. J'aimerais offrir une bière à ses développeurs à l'occasion! <3