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Schneier on Security RSS<p>Web 3.0 Requires Data Integrity</p><p>If you’ve ever taken a computer security class, you’ve probably learned about the&nbsp;three legs of computer security—confidentiality, integrity, and availability—known as the&nbsp;CIA ... <a href="https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2025/04/web-3-0-requires-data-integrity.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">schneier.com/blog/archives/202</span><span class="invisible">5/04/web-3-0-requires-data-integrity.html</span></a></p><p> <a href="https://burn.capital/tags/Uncategorized" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Uncategorized</span></a> <a href="https://burn.capital/tags/protocols" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>protocols</span></a> <a href="https://burn.capital/tags/Internet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Internet</span></a> <a href="https://burn.capital/tags/web" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>web</span></a></p>
Tiziano :mastodon:<p>A great video about why <a href="https://mastodon.uno/tags/Bluesky" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Bluesky</span></a> is NOT recommended as a truly open and independent alternative to mainstream <a href="https://mastodon.uno/tags/socialmedia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>socialmedia</span></a>.<br><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://fosstodon.org/@niccolove" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>niccolove</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://tube.kockatoo.org/video-channels/niccolo_ve" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>niccolo_ve</span></a></span> <br><a href="https://mastodon.uno/tags/activitypub" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>activitypub</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.uno/tags/fediverse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fediverse</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.uno/tags/atproto" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>atproto</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.uno/tags/protocols" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>protocols</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.uno/tags/thefutureisfederated" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>thefutureisfederated</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://peertube.uno/w/kSCtZK8HVhK1xGhf54d6kJ" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">peertube.uno/w/kSCtZK8HVhK1xGh</span><span class="invisible">f54d6kJ</span></a></p>
HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.bida.im/@thevril" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>thevril</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>pluralistic</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mamot.fr/@kino" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>kino</span></a></span> </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SurveillanceState" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SurveillanceState</span></a></p><p>👉Which <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Messenger" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Messenger</span></a> To Replace the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DataKraken" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DataKraken</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/WhatsApp" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WhatsApp</span></a> with? 👈</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/FightTechnofeudalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FightTechnofeudalism</span></a></p><p>(5/n) </p><p>... I still have one, but 👉federated <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/XMPP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>XMPP</span></a> just somehow can't seem to take hold outside of its own niche" 👈. </p><p>If you wanted to dig down even further, you'd get to the point where you'd have to deal with <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Protocols" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Protocols</span></a>:</p><p><a href="https://eattherich.club/@jmhorner/110991346559623491" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">eattherich.club/@jmhorner/1109</span><span class="invisible">91346559623491</span></a></p><p>A French 🇫🇷 librarian association made an...</p>
LisPiThe fact DoS-ing a server is even effective as a method of silencing anyone/anything is an indicator of the wrong design being used.<br><br>Server-centric design is almost always the wrong architecture to use for anything that is not strictly and invariably hierarchical (and even then, a *lot* of cases can do with message-centric and/or content-addressed distributed protocols).<br><br><a class="hashtag" href="https://udongein.xyz/tag/softwaredesign" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SoftwareDesign</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://udongein.xyz/tag/software" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Software</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://udongein.xyz/tag/servers" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Servers</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://udongein.xyz/tag/protocols" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Protocols</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://udongein.xyz/tag/architecture" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Architecture</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://udongein.xyz/tag/doingitwrong" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DoingItWrong</a>
Karsten Schmidt<p>Giving this whole (maybe weekly) <a href="https://mastodon.thi.ng/tags/LinkDump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LinkDump</span></a> thing a go (in lieu of [and so far successfully escaping] writing newsletters)</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.thi.ng/tags/Networks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Networks</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.thi.ng/tags/Protocols" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Protocols</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.thi.ng/tags/Privacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Privacy</span></a></p><p>Guide to securing your digital life and protecting your privacy<br><a href="https://digital-defense.io" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">digital-defense.io</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p>Computer Networks From Scratch<br><a href="https://www.networksfromscratch.com" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">networksfromscratch.com</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p>Obsidian notes about 100s of network concepts/topics<br><a href="https://notes.networklessons.com/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">notes.networklessons.com/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p>Protocols for synchronisable data stores<br><a href="https://willowprotocol.org/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">willowprotocol.org/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a><br><a href="https://earthstar-project.org/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">earthstar-project.org/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a><br><a href="https://try.st.imu.li/projects/vernode/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">try.st.imu.li/projects/vernode</span><span class="invisible">/</span></a> (via <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://fedi.imu.li/users/tryst" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>tryst</span></a></span>)</p><p>Social web translator (HTML, JSON, ActivityStreams, Atom, RSS etc.)<br><a href="https://granary.io/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">granary.io/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.thi.ng/tags/CollapseComputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CollapseComputing</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.thi.ng/tags/FrugalComputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FrugalComputing</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.thi.ng/tags/VM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>VM</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.thi.ng/tags/ConcatenativeProgramming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ConcatenativeProgramming</span></a></p><p>The Collapsible Project<br><a href="https://wiki.collapsible.systems" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">wiki.collapsible.systems</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p>CollapseOS &amp; DuskOS<br><a href="http://collapseos.org/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">http://</span><span class="">collapseos.org/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a><br><a href="https://duskos.org" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">duskos.org</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p>tiny-ps — Web component to display PostScript inside HTML <br><a href="https://github.com/bellenuit/tiny-ps" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">github.com/bellenuit/tiny-ps</span><span class="invisible"></span></a><br><a href="https://belle-nuit.com/my-journey-to-postscript" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">belle-nuit.com/my-journey-to-p</span><span class="invisible">ostscript</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.thi.ng/tags/ESP32" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ESP32</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.thi.ng/tags/EPaper" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EPaper</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.thi.ng/tags/Meshtastic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Meshtastic</span></a></p><p>ESP32-S3 w/ 4.7" touchscreen E-paper display<br><a href="https://docs.m5stack.com/en/core/papers3" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">docs.m5stack.com/en/core/paper</span><span class="invisible">s3</span></a></p><p>Lilygo T5 E-Paper S3 Pro<br><a href="https://lilygo.cc/products/t5-e-paper-s3-pro" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">lilygo.cc/products/t5-e-paper-</span><span class="invisible">s3-pro</span></a></p><p>Lilygo T-Deck Plus (Meshtastic, GPS, 2000mah battery)<br><a href="https://lilygo.cc/products/t-deck-plus-1" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">lilygo.cc/products/t-deck-plus</span><span class="invisible">-1</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.thi.ng/tags/Art" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Art</span></a></p><p>Community (and partially solar) powered online E-ink art frame<br><a href="https://www.omniframe.art/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">omniframe.art/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p>Upcoming exhibition @ ZKM Karlsruhe which will also include a custom version of my own DeFrag piece<br><a href="https://zkm.de/en/2025/04/the-story-that-never-ends" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">zkm.de/en/2025/04/the-story-th</span><span class="invisible">at-never-ends</span></a></p><p>Zimoun's sound architectures, installations &amp; sculptures — always an inspiration on many levels...<br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xx4Kx6R7nv0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">youtube.com/watch?v=xx4Kx6R7nv</span><span class="invisible">0</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.thi.ng/tags/TechCommentary" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TechCommentary</span></a></p><p>Kill the “User”: Musings of a disillusioned technologist<br><a href="https://www.pastagang.cc/blog/kill-the-user/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">pastagang.cc/blog/kill-the-use</span><span class="invisible">r/</span></a></p>
Radio Azureus<p>Today I'm reading Romeo Foxtrot Charlie 1540</p><p>The request for comments RFC are important documents to learn from* </p><p>(even when they are obsoleted you always learn from the Basics*)</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/RFC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RFC</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/protocols" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>protocols</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/standards" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>standards</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/network" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>network</span></a> <br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/tsh" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>tsh</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/sh" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>sh</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/zsh" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>zsh</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ksh" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ksh</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Unix" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Unix</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc1540.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc1540.html</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>
Stewart Sims<p>Researching WebDAV based solutions for publishing new blog content going forward. </p><p>The server side is easy (built-in on my web host). On the client side it's quickly becoming clear OS level support for mounting the content as a disk / drive is the way forward:</p><p>On Windows it's as simple as mapping a drive, I'm sure Linux and macOS are similar... But built in Android or iOS support... no surprises really that just isn't a thing!</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/webdav" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>webdav</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/protocols" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>protocols</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/operatingsystems" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>operatingsystems</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/contentmanagement" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>contentmanagement</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/cms" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cms</span></a></p>
data0<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://social.ayco.io/@ayo" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>ayo</span></a></span> did you come across <a href="https://indieweb.social/tags/radicle" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>radicle</span></a> yet? Looks really intriguing. They did a lot of R&amp;D, seem to have nailed the <a href="https://indieweb.social/tags/protocols" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>protocols</span></a> now. I'm going to try it for my next <a href="https://indieweb.social/tags/opensource" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>opensource</span></a> project</p><p><a href="https://radicle.xyz/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">radicle.xyz/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p><a href="https://indieweb.social/tags/git" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>git</span></a> <a href="https://indieweb.social/tags/cvs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cvs</span></a> <a href="https://indieweb.social/tags/sourcecode" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>sourcecode</span></a> <a href="https://indieweb.social/tags/codeforge" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>codeforge</span></a> <a href="https://indieweb.social/tags/p2p" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>p2p</span></a></p>
🌈 Lascapi ⁂<p>Next Monday I will speak about…<br> <br>"How to chat with your friends in 2025?!"<br>"And how to NOT build the next standards"</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.zaclys.com/tags/protocols" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>protocols</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.zaclys.com/tags/xmpp" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>xmpp</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.zaclys.com/tags/sip" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>sip</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.zaclys.com/tags/matrix" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>matrix</span></a> <br><a href="https://mastodon.zaclys.com/tags/project" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>project</span></a> ?vs? <a href="https://mastodon.zaclys.com/tags/product" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>product</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.zaclys.com/tags/opensource" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>opensource</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.zaclys.com/tags/business" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>business</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.zaclys.com/tags/service" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>service</span></a> </p><p>Thank you <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://bonn.social/@webmontagbonn" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>webmontagbonn</span></a></span> for this opportunity! :) </p><p><a href="https://webmontag-bonn.de/2025/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">webmontag-bonn.de/2025/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>
Schneier on Security RSS<p>Pairwise Authentication of Humans</p><p>Here’s an easy system for two humans to remotely authenticate to each other, so they can be sure that neither are digital impersonations.<br>To mitigate that risk, I have develop... <a href="https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2025/02/pairwise-authentication-of-humans.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">schneier.com/blog/archives/202</span><span class="invisible">5/02/pairwise-authentication-of-humans.html</span></a></p><p> <a href="https://burn.capital/tags/authentication" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>authentication</span></a> <a href="https://burn.capital/tags/Uncategorized" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Uncategorized</span></a> <a href="https://burn.capital/tags/protocols" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>protocols</span></a></p>
OCTADENEWSCARD: Decentralized, Encrypted Paste Bin via Usenet Newsgroups<br><br><i> NEWSCARD </i> Publish and fetch permanent named records via Network News<br><br>Newscard creates a decentralized, encrypted, named record paste bin.<br><br>[git repo] <a href="https://codeberg.org/OCTADE/newscard" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://codeberg.org/OCTADE/newscard</a> (use most recent version only)<br><br>With a single command, name the card, snarf the file and encrypt it.<br><br>With another command, push the encrypted file to the public network.<br><br>With another short command, snarf a file from the network.<br><br>Only users knowing the name [key] of the record will be able to decrypt it.<br><br>If a strong passphrase is used to name the file, it will be very secure.<br><br>This is useful for quickly snarfing, encrypting, and publishing a text file:<br><br>$~: card enc [passphrase] [file]<br>$~: card put [passphrase]<br><br>It is useful for retrieving a text file with just a key:<br><br>$~: card get [passphrase]<br>$~: card show [passphrase]<br><br>If and when you want the general public to access the record just share the keyword.<br><br>Newscard uses nine (9) (NINE) layers of encryption with OpenSSL chacha20 cipher.<br><br>Newscard generates 9 each of: cipher keys, salts, key iteration parameters.<br><br>It would be nice if something like this were added to the ActivityPub protocol, such that keyword[@]host.url would do the same thing. Then secret text records could be stored securely for later retrieval or revelation.<br><br><a href="https://soc.octade.net?t=newscard" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NewsCard</a> <a href="https://soc.octade.net?t=pastebin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Pastebin</a> <a href="https://soc.octade.net?t=usenet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Usenet</a> <a href="https://soc.octade.net?t=nntp" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NNTP</a> <a href="https://soc.octade.net?t=networknews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NetworkNews</a> <a href="https://soc.octade.net?t=encryption" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Encryption</a> <a href="https://soc.octade.net?t=cryptography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Cryptography</a> <a href="https://soc.octade.net?t=messaging" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Messaging</a> <a href="https://soc.octade.net?t=anonymity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Anonymity</a> <a href="https://soc.octade.net?t=protocols" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Protocols</a> <a href="https://soc.octade.net?t=opensource" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#OpenSource</a> <a href="https://soc.octade.net?t=freesoftware" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FreeSoftware</a> <a href="https://soc.octade.net?t=blackhackjack" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BlackHackJack</a> <a href="https://soc.octade.net?t=censorship" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Censorship</a> <a href="https://soc.octade.net?t=retro" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Retro</a> <a href="https://soc.octade.net?t=infosec" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#InfoSec</a> <a href="https://soc.octade.net?t=ciphers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Ciphers</a> <a href="https://soc.octade.net?t=codes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Codes</a> <a href="https://soc.octade.net?t=foss" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FOSS</a><br><br><span class="h-card"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/infostorm" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@infostorm@a.gup.pe</a></span> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/crypto" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@crypto@a.gup.pe</a></span> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/infosec" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@infosec@a.gup.pe</a></span><br>
OCTADENEWSCARD: Decentralized, Encrypted Paste Bin via Usenet Newsgroups<br><br><i> NEWSCARD </i> Publish and fetch permanent named records via Network News<br><br>Newscard creates a decentralized, encrypted, named record paste bin.<br><br>[git repo] <a href="https://codeberg.org/OCTADE/newscard" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://codeberg.org/OCTADE/newscard</a> (use most recent version only)<br><br>With a single command, name the card, snarf the file and encrypt it.<br><br>With another command, push the encrypted file to the public network.<br><br>With another short command, snarf a file from the network.<br><br>Only users knowing the name [key] of the record will be able to decrypt it.<br><br>If a strong passphrase is used to name the file, it will be very secure.<br><br>This is useful for quickly snarfing, encrypting, and publishing a text file:<br><br>$~: card enc [passphrase] [file]<br>$~: card put [passphrase]<br><br>It is useful for retrieving a text file with just a key:<br><br>$~: card get [passphrase]<br>$~: card show [passphrase]<br><br>If and when you want the general public to access the record just share the keyword.<br><br>Newscard uses nine (9) (NINE) layers of encryption with OpenSSL chacha20 cipher.<br><br>Newscard generates 9 each of: cipher keys, salts, key iteration parameters.<br><br>It would be nice if something like this were added to the ActivityPub protocol, such that keyword[@]host.url would do the same thing. Then secret text records could be stored securely for later retrieval or revelation.<br><br><a href="https://soc.octade.net?t=newscard" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NewsCard</a> <a href="https://soc.octade.net?t=pastebin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Pastebin</a> <a href="https://soc.octade.net?t=usenet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Usenet</a> <a href="https://soc.octade.net?t=nntp" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NNTP</a> <a href="https://soc.octade.net?t=networknews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NetworkNews</a> <a href="https://soc.octade.net?t=encryption" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Encryption</a> <a href="https://soc.octade.net?t=cryptography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Cryptography</a> <a href="https://soc.octade.net?t=messaging" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Messaging</a> <a href="https://soc.octade.net?t=anonymity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Anonymity</a> <a href="https://soc.octade.net?t=protocols" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Protocols</a> <a href="https://soc.octade.net?t=opensource" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#OpenSource</a> <a href="https://soc.octade.net?t=freesoftware" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FreeSoftware</a> <a href="https://soc.octade.net?t=blackhackjack" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BlackHackJack</a> <a href="https://soc.octade.net?t=censorship" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Censorship</a> <a href="https://soc.octade.net?t=retro" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Retro</a> <a href="https://soc.octade.net?t=infosec" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#InfoSec</a> <a href="https://soc.octade.net?t=ciphers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Ciphers</a> <a href="https://soc.octade.net?t=codes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Codes</a> <a href="https://soc.octade.net?t=foss" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FOSS</a><br><br><span class="h-card"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/infostorm" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@infostorm@a.gup.pe</a></span> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://lemmy.world/u/usenet" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@usenet@lemmy.world</a></span> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/crypto" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@crypto@a.gup.pe</a></span> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/infosec" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@infosec@a.gup.pe</a></span><br>
silverwizard<p>Ok - I've been told that HTTP 418 belongs in the 400 block because it's the same as requesting a non-existent file. This argument claims that 418 is the same as 404.</p><p>I tend to think of 418 as being more analogous to 501. You cannot put coffee in a teapot, which is a statement about the teapot.</p><p><a href="https://convenient.email/search?tag=ImportantThoughts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ImportantThoughts</span></a> <a href="https://convenient.email/search?tag=Protocols" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Protocols</span></a> <a href="https://convenient.email/search?tag=HTTP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HTTP</span></a></p>
Kent Pitman<p>My wife and I have two cards for an account with a major credit card. Traveling recently, she'd made a purchase on that card that triggered texts and emails to me worrying about fraud. This really bugs me.</p><p>Don't ask me why they're asking ME, not her. They CAN tell the cards apart. They should have asked her directly. It'd have been even faster. Delay was due to asking the wrong person. </p><p>"Charge OK? Yep. OK, done." That's all it should have been.</p><p>I verified things with my wife and texted back to the card's SMS query that it was OK.</p><p>But even after I inefficiently confirmed all was well, upon going to the web site, I was again confronted with the Fraud Department wanting to confirm purchases that I had already, through their clumsy interface, dismissed as non-issues.</p><p>Also at the site, I saw that they were playing a back-and-forth thing where the vendor was repeatedly retrying apparent new transactions to get an affirmative response. Every vendor in the universe likely knows there's no other way to get past this than to keep trying.</p><p>Given how bad their internal bookkeeping is, that they don't know I've dismissed this alert, I kept wondering what the chances are that sometimes people just get double-billed. You'd like to think there was a consistent state, a database, a single source of authority with data integrity and a unique view, but then again, they're not showing evidence they're good at that.</p><p>And now today I got mail from their fraud department asking me about my experience and whether, based on that, I'd recommend the card to a friend. </p><p>It WASN'T an incident of fraud. It was confirmed normalcy. It should have been finished now. Having already wasted my time once, they want to waste it more?</p><p>And let's leave aside my annoyance at the fact that every business in the universe has converged on this practice which (a) assumes I make recommendations based on a single experience, and/or (b) seems to be trying to single out an agent for blame, rather than considering process. </p><p>I seriously doubt that feedback from these surveys ever reaches the people designing the offending processes because modern customer service seems to have as its bedrock principle that no one inside the company should ever learn what the customer experience is. It feels like the purpose of customer service is as armor to make sure that the business can really see, much less absorb, the vast amount of useful information that customers would willingly provide about just how bad their product is. I think this because the worst parts never change, no matter how many of these surveys I fill out.</p><p>Here's what I wrote today:</p><p>«Declining a valid charge is not the answer to fraud. You may feel hampered by existing protocols, but the credit card companies all have this problem and all profess helplessness. They/you own this problem.</p><p>The problem is that every time you decline a purchase, the person we're buying from can't tell the difference between a stolen card, someone who doesn't manage money right, and you just being nervous. Create a way to send an error code that distinguishes these. A temporary error that says "I'm querying the customer, please retry this transaction." or even a way to just ask a question before responding. It's completely preposterous that the correct solution to this problem is to leave egg on my face because you can't have rational network protocols that fairly represent the actual information that needs to be represented.</p><p>You're using outdated ways of doing things because you're too lazy to make a new standard, and you figure it's just fine if you sully the reputation of every customer every time they make a nervous-making transaction, that they'll be fine about it, that they won't mind the uncomfortable conversations, that they love to have email, text, etc. in a zillion different places for a single transaction, information that confusingly lingers after-the-fact an that is just clutter.</p><p>So you're asking me now whether I think that was a kind of fun experience that would make me recommend your card to someone else? Do you hear yourself? Did this question really need to be asked?</p><p>What you did does not instill confidence. It just makes a mess of a routine situation that should have a routine interaction, and there is nothing about this interaction that has the look of routine, other than that customers are used to getting dumped on big Big Credit and having to take whatever you dish out.»</p><p>After more multiple choice questions, they asked if I had any other comments to add. I did add some reminders about alert fatigue and how real problems are likely to slip through the cracks when they're doing these other things.</p><p>Is it any wonder that not all of us are reassured by billionaires taking over the US and saying "don't worry, we're good at this", "deregulate us", "run the US like a business"?</p><p><a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/CreditCards" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CreditCards</span></a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/FraudDetection" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FraudDetection</span></a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/CustomerExperience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CustomerExperience</span></a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/CustomerSupport" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CustomerSupport</span></a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/Protocols" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Protocols</span></a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/USPolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USPolitics</span></a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/oligarchy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>oligarchy</span></a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/deregulation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>deregulation</span></a></p>
vp<p><a href="https://volodymyrpavlyshyn.medium.com/ai-agents-need-agent-to-agent-protocols-to-excel-33b4dba890b5" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">volodymyrpavlyshyn.medium.com/</span><span class="invisible">ai-agents-need-agent-to-agent-protocols-to-excel-33b4dba890b5</span></a></p><p><a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/Agents" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Agents</span></a> need <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/protocols" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>protocols</span></a> to move forward. </p><p>Why <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/naturallanguage" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>naturallanguage</span></a> is not enough </p><p>How to regulate <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/ai" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ai</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/networks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>networks</span></a> with <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/protocols" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>protocols</span></a> </p><p>How to make <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/interopable" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>interopable</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/tools" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>tools</span></a> and <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/memorysystems" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>memorysystems</span></a> for <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/aiagents" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>aiagents</span></a></p>
Ecologia Digital<p>"…there will always have to be a large corporation at the heart of <a href="https://mato.social/tags/Bluesky" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Bluesky</span></a> or the <a href="https://mato.social/tags/ATprotocol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ATprotocol</span></a>, and the network will have to rely on that corporation to control things like identity, illegal content and spam. This may be a good enough for most users (many of whom likely don't know or care about <a href="https://mato.social/tags/decentralization" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>decentralization</span></a> or <a href="https://mato.social/tags/protocols" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>protocols</span></a>, etc) but it's likely to be a centralized system that relies on trusting a central authority.<br>Decentralized in theory, but centralized in practice."<br><a href="https://torment-nexus.mathewingram.com/is-bluesky-decentralized-its-complicated/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">torment-nexus.mathewingram.com</span><span class="invisible">/is-bluesky-decentralized-its-complicated/</span></a></p>
Bob Mottram ✅<p>I don't think ActivityPub needs to be reinvented, although it could certainly be better maintained. Maintaining the spec might be an unenviable job given the multitude of competing interests, so it should be rotated or voted on.<br><br>Something like Gemini but with an equivalent to webforms would be good, and enable more of an alt-web to become established against the corporate browsers.<br><br><a href="https://epicyon.libreserver.org/tags/Protocols" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span>#</span><span>Protocols</span></a> <a href="https://epicyon.libreserver.org/tags/Internet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span>#</span><span>Internet</span></a></p>
Schneier on Security RSS<p>Security Analysis of the MERGE Voting Protocol</p><p>Interesting analysis: An Internet Voting System Fatally Flawed in Creative New Ways.<br>Abstract: The recently published “MERGE” protocol is designed to be used in t... <a href="https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2024/11/security-analysis-of-the-merge-voting-protocol.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">schneier.com/blog/archives/202</span><span class="invisible">4/11/security-analysis-of-the-merge-voting-protocol.html</span></a></p><p> <a href="https://burn.capital/tags/academicpapers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>academicpapers</span></a> <a href="https://burn.capital/tags/Uncategorized" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Uncategorized</span></a> <a href="https://burn.capital/tags/protocols" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>protocols</span></a> <a href="https://burn.capital/tags/voting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>voting</span></a> <a href="https://burn.capital/tags/DARPA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DARPA</span></a></p>
Peter Guhl<p><a href="https://chaos.social/tags/science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>science</span></a> and <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/democracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>democracy</span></a> have (at least) one thing in common: They take into account that <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/humans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>humans</span></a> are <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/flawed" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>flawed</span></a> and put <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/policies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>policies</span></a> and <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/protocols" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>protocols</span></a> in place to minimise the <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/damage" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>damage</span></a> such flaws (<a href="https://chaos.social/tags/greed" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>greed</span></a>, <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/bias" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>bias</span></a>, <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/stupidity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>stupidity</span></a>, <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/corruption" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>corruption</span></a>, <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/narcissism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>narcissism</span></a>, <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/ego" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ego</span></a>, <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/burnout" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>burnout</span></a>, <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/ignorance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ignorance</span></a> etc.) can do.</p>
David Wakeham<p>One Health Surveillance 🔍🌐</p><p>The implementation of comprehensive monitoring is imperative:</p><p>• Integrated tracking of human, animal, and environmental health.</p><p>• The establishment of real-time <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/datasharing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>datasharing</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/protocols" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>protocols</span></a> across relevant sectors.</p><p>• UtiliSation of <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/advanced" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>advanced</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/molecular" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>molecular</span></a> techniques for the detection of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is crucial.</p><p>• Mapping of climate-related and AMR <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/hotspots" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>hotspots</span></a> must be undertaken.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/OneHealthSurveillance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OneHealthSurveillance</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/GlobalMonitoring" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GlobalMonitoring</span></a></p><p><a href="https://doi.org/10.3389/fvets.2021.584593" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">doi.org/10.3389/fvets.2021.584</span><span class="invisible">593</span></a></p><p>8/n</p>