Wendy M. Grossman @wendyg@mastodon.xyz

This week's net.wars, "Antepenultimate", carps about the choices forced on us by the way UK banks are implementing 2FA under PSD2: https://www.pelicancrossing.net/netwars/2019/08/antepenultimate.html

This week's net.wars, "The law of the camera", is dismayed by the privatization of public space that facial recognition at Kings Cross represents: https://www.pelicancrossing.net/netwars/2019/08/the_law_of_the_camera.html

This week's net.wars, "Collision course", considers the mismatch between growing mass surveillance systems and concerns about our democratic future: https://www.pelicancrossing.net/netwars/2019/08/collision_course.html

This week's net.wars, "Autofail", catches up with attempts to reform S230, the fallout from Schrems 2, GPT-3, and abnormal-resistant camera phones: https://www.pelicancrossing.net/netwars/2020/09/autofail.html

This week's net.wars, "The Internet as we know it", finds the Internet - yet again - under threat of fundamental change (with nitpick for @jamesrbuk): https://www.pelicancrossing.net/netwars/2020/09/the_internet_as_we_know_it.html

This week's net.wars, "Through the mousehole", finds that two new books, The Rodchenkov (Grigory Rodchenkov) Affair and The Russian Affair (David Walsh, @davidwalshst) , offers lessons in security design from Russia's thoroughly dysfunctional anti-doping system: https://www.pelicancrossing.net/netwars/2020/08/through_the_mousehole.html

This week's net.wars, "The end of choice", argues that controlling GAFA's platform power isn't enough if it remains impossible to opt out of their world: https://www.pelicancrossing.net/netwars/2020/08/the_end_of_choice.html

This week's net.wars, "Revenge of the browser wars", mulls the importance of Mozilla and Firefox in the web's ecosystem in the light of this week's restructuring announcement: https://www.pelicancrossing.net/netwars/2020/08/revenge_of_the_browser_wars.html

This week's net.wars, "The big four", reviews last week's Big Tech Congressional hearings, and finds two different hearings for the price of one: https://www.pelicancrossing.net/netwars/2020/08/the_big_four.html

This week's net.wars, "Driving while invisible", goes to #gikii and tries to connect some very strange dots from @mikarv, @hahhahsmeth, and @rdbinns: https://www.pelicancrossing.net/netwars/2020/07/driving_while_invisible.html

This week's net.wars, "The invisible Internet", visits the US_IGF and finds...well, the same old topics, but tries to answer the question asked: what will Internet governance look like 25 years hence? https://www.pelicancrossing.net/netwars/2020/07/the_invisible_internet.html

This week's net.wars, "Flying blind", wonders why the hackers wanted so little from the high-profile accounts they captured: https://www.pelicancrossing.net/netwars/2020/07/flying_blind.html

This week's net.wars, "Trading digital rights", is warned that upcoming free trade agreements see Britain potentially squashed between much larger powers, with digital rights a hidden casualty: https://www.pelicancrossing.net/netwars/2020/07/trading_digital_rights.html

This week's net.wars, "The transparent society", goes to a fictional focus group organized by @furtherfield to explore radical transparency and the blockchain: https://www.pelicancrossing.net/netwars/2020/07/the_transparent_society.html

This week's net.wars, "Mysticism: curmudgeon", follows @openrightsgroup's new report on political parties and data profiling. In case you weren't creeped out enough: https://www.pelicancrossing.net/netwars/2020/06/mysticism_curmudgeon.html

This week's net.wars, "The science", lives in uncertainty as masks are vindicated, apps may be more effective than we thought, and distancing may be rethought: https://www.pelicancrossing.net/netwars/2020/06/the_science.html

This week's net.wars, "Getting out the vote", visits @NotableMercuri 's recent discussion of risk-limiting audits. Can they save US voting? https://www.pelicancrossing.net/netwars/2020/06/getting_out_the_vote_1.html

This week's (replacement) net.wars, "Centralized stupidity", considers what happens when contact tracing and centralization collide: https://www.pelicancrossing.net/netwars/2020/06/centralized_stupidity.html

This week's net.wars, "Tweeted", recaps the first stages of Twitter's attempts to impose its rules on the person who most requires them to be imposed and who is least likely to take it quietly: https://www.pelicancrossing.net/netwars/2020/05/tweeted.html

This week's net.wars, "The pod exclusion", mulls the future of podcasting in the light of the Joe Rogan deal. Will Spotify do to podcasting what social media did to blogging? https://www.pelicancrossing.net/netwars/2020/05/the_pod_exclusion.html

This week's net.wars, "Quincunx", wakes up to discover a confluence of (relatively) good news in the last few weeks of computers, freedom, and privacy: https://www.pelicancrossing.net/netwars/2020/05/quincunx.html

This week's net.wars, "Appified", reviews a week of disputes over contact tracing apps...from which Apple and Google appear to be emerging as the world's designers: https://www.pelicancrossing.net/netwars/2020/05/appified.html

This week's net.wars, "A life in three lockdowns" is Eva Pascoe's (@cybrsalon) story. For most of us, it's our first lockdown. It's her *third*: https://www.pelicancrossing.net/netwars/2020/05/a_life_in_three_lockdowns.html