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  1. Un pò di #DarkHumor⚰️

    IL PARADISO DECENTRALIZZATO (CON ANSIA INCLUSA)📜💀

    Guardate bene: da un lato, burocrati soffocati dalla loro stessa carta e macchine "Out of Order". L’architettura del controllo sta crollando😈

    Dall’altro? Noi. Il #Cypherpunk con il potere nel palmo della mano. Niente intermediari ficcanaso, niente burocrati corrotti. Niente tasse... quasi😉

    Quindi festeggiamo la caduta dei burocrati con una Red Bull.
    [...]

    x.com/ItaliaDash/status/205986

  2. Agreed. We can still use cash, trade and crypto-currencies for transactions. We can also use encryption for communications.

    There's some things we can do and I think it is better to do something than just give up and say "there's nothing that can be done - it's too late".

    #privacy #encryption #cypherpunk
  3. Agreed. We can still use cash, trade and crypto-currencies for transactions. We can also use encryption for communications.

    There's some things we can do and I think it is better to do something than just give up and say "there's nothing that can be done - it's too late".

    #privacy #encryption #cypherpunk
  4. Agreed. We can still use cash, trade and crypto-currencies for transactions. We can also use encryption for communications.

    There's some things we can do and I think it is better to do something than just give up and say "there's nothing that can be done - it's too late".

    #privacy #encryption #cypherpunk
  5. Agreed. We can still use cash, trade and crypto-currencies for transactions. We can also use encryption for communications.

    There's some things we can do and I think it is better to do something than just give up and say "there's nothing that can be done - it's too late".

    #privacy #encryption #cypherpunk
  6. Globe99 @npub147fp2j606qpfysp38phhzvempt7ewsdqwm6uww9uycp6tdvavu0s5paq44@momostr.pink ·
    Extropainism was (is?) a huge influence on my thinking especially as a young person. The transhumanist philosophy integrated cypherpunk cryptography, cybernetics, free-market economics, cryonics, nanotechnology, AI and space futures into a coherent ethos for the future.

    Now ~30 years later, it's something of a disappointment to see how much these ideas have become silo'ed off into corners that don't really talk to one another. See more in comments...

    https://mtabarrok.com/extropia-archaeology

    #transhumanism #extropy #cryonics #futurism #ai #space #cypherpunk
  7. Globe99 @npub147fp2j606qpfysp38phhzvempt7ewsdqwm6uww9uycp6tdvavu0s5paq44@momostr.pink ·
    Extropainism was (is?) a huge influence on my thinking especially as a young person. The transhumanist philosophy integrated cypherpunk cryptography, cybernetics, free-market economics, cryonics, nanotechnology, AI and space futures into a coherent ethos for the future.

    Now ~30 years later, it's something of a disappointment to see how much these ideas have become silo'ed off into corners that don't really talk to one another. See more in comments...

    https://mtabarrok.com/extropia-archaeology

    #transhumanism #extropy #cryonics #futurism #ai #space #cypherpunk
  8. RE: mastodon.llyxx.me/@BenDoubleU/

    “I don’t want to be the person who ships well-encrypted compliance and calls it sovereignty. Cypherpunk is not an aesthetic. Build tools, not empires is not a brand tagline.”

    benwoodall.eth.limo/blog/putti
    #privacy #ethereum #encryption #CypherPunk

  9. RE: mastodon.llyxx.me/@BenDoubleU/

    “I don’t want to be the person who ships well-encrypted compliance and calls it sovereignty. Cypherpunk is not an aesthetic. Build tools, not empires is not a brand tagline.”

    benwoodall.eth.limo/blog/putti
    #privacy #ethereum #encryption #CypherPunk

  10. RE: mastodon.llyxx.me/@BenDoubleU/

    “I don’t want to be the person who ships well-encrypted compliance and calls it sovereignty. Cypherpunk is not an aesthetic. Build tools, not empires is not a brand tagline.”

    benwoodall.eth.limo/blog/putti
    #privacy #ethereum #encryption #CypherPunk

  11. RE: mastodon.llyxx.me/@BenDoubleU/

    “I don’t want to be the person who ships well-encrypted compliance and calls it sovereignty. Cypherpunk is not an aesthetic. Build tools, not empires is not a brand tagline.”

    benwoodall.eth.limo/blog/putti
    #privacy #ethereum #encryption #CypherPunk

  12. RE: mastodon.llyxx.me/@BenDoubleU/

    “I don’t want to be the person who ships well-encrypted compliance and calls it sovereignty. Cypherpunk is not an aesthetic. Build tools, not empires is not a brand tagline.”

    benwoodall.eth.limo/blog/putti
    #privacy #ethereum #encryption #CypherPunk

  13. 📣 ANNOUNCEMENT 📣 we are working on a substantial refactor of the Shufflecake codebase, which will be v0.6.0 but it's still a few days away. You can see a preview in the `dev` branch (v0.6.0-rc1) on our Codeberg repository at codeberg.org/shufflecake/shuff . For this reason, **all external contributions are temporarily suspended**, apologies for the inconvenience!

  14. 📣 ANNOUNCEMENT 📣 we are working on a substantial refactor of the Shufflecake codebase, which will be v0.6.0 but it's still a few days away. You can see a preview in the `dev` branch (v0.6.0-rc1) on our Codeberg repository at codeberg.org/shufflecake/shuff . For this reason, **all external contributions are temporarily suspended**, apologies for the inconvenience!

    #shufflecake #codeberg #foss #floss #opensource #linux #privacy #encryption #cryptography #fde #cypherpunk #security

  15. 📣 ANNOUNCEMENT 📣 we are working on a substantial refactor of the Shufflecake codebase, which will be v0.6.0 but it's still a few days away. You can see a preview in the `dev` branch (v0.6.0-rc1) on our Codeberg repository at codeberg.org/shufflecake/shuff . For this reason, **all external contributions are temporarily suspended**, apologies for the inconvenience!

    #shufflecake #codeberg #foss #floss #opensource #linux #privacy #encryption #cryptography #fde #cypherpunk #security

  16. 📣 ANNOUNCEMENT 📣 we are working on a substantial refactor of the Shufflecake codebase, which will be v0.6.0 but it's still a few days away. You can see a preview in the `dev` branch (v0.6.0-rc1) on our Codeberg repository at codeberg.org/shufflecake/shuff . For this reason, **all external contributions are temporarily suspended**, apologies for the inconvenience!

    #shufflecake #codeberg #foss #floss #opensource #linux #privacy #encryption #cryptography #fde #cypherpunk #security

  17. 📣 ANNOUNCEMENT 📣 we are working on a substantial refactor of the Shufflecake codebase, which will be v0.6.0 but it's still a few days away. You can see a preview in the `dev` branch (v0.6.0-rc1) on our Codeberg repository at codeberg.org/shufflecake/shuff . For this reason, **all external contributions are temporarily suspended**, apologies for the inconvenience!

    #shufflecake #codeberg #foss #floss #opensource #linux #privacy #encryption #cryptography #fde #cypherpunk #security

  18. Control+Alt+Autonomy: VPN Pressure, Open Social Webs, and Self-Hosted Defences

    Surveillance pushback, open security tools, Tor updates, data breaches, and self-hosted momentum: this week’s practical map for taking back control.

    beitmenotyou.online/controlalt

  19. Control+Alt+Autonomy: VPN Pressure, Open Social Webs, and Self-Hosted Defences

    Surveillance pushback, open security tools, Tor updates, data breaches, and self-hosted momentum: this week’s practical map for taking back control.

    beitmenotyou.online/controlalt

  20. 🔐 TIL: The padlock in your Matrix client is lying to you. Well... not lying. Just not telling you the whole truth.
    So you've got a padlock icon in Element. Your messages are encrypted. You're basically a spy now, right?
    Not quite, friend.
    There are two things going on in E2EE, and most people only ever learn about one of them. Today I learned the hard way — and now you don't have to.
    🔒 Encryption scrambles your messages into gibberish that only the right keys can unlock. Happens automatically. The padlock is always on. Beautiful. Revolutionary. Table stakes.
    🛡️ Verification is the part the cypherpunks actually care about.
    Encryption secures the channel. Verification confirms who's actually holding the keys at the other end. Skip it, and you're encrypting to keys that merely claim to belong to your contact. Most of the time? Fine. But a compromised homeserver could theoretically slide a fake key into the exchange and silently hoover up everything you thought was for their eyes only.
    That's not paranoia. That's the threat model.
    The fix? Emoji. I'm not even joking. Matrix generates a set of emoji from a shared cryptographic value and shows them to both users simultaneously. If you both see the same little parade of cartoon faces — the handshake is mathematically genuine. No interception possible. It takes 30 seconds and feels absolutely ridiculous right up until you realise it's the same cryptographic ceremony Signal uses for Safety Numbers and iMessage uses for Contact Key Verification.
    The best part? Do it once per contact. Matrix cross-signing cascades the verification across all your devices automatically. One emoji parade to rule them all.
    Padlock = encrypted. Shield = verified. You want both. The cypherpunks demand both. Don't settle for half a revolution. 🔒🛡️
    #TIL #Matrix #MatrixProtocol #E2EE #Cypherpunk #Privacy #Encryption #InfoSec #SelfHosting #Element #DecentralizedComms #Fediverse

  21. 🔐 TIL: The padlock in your Matrix client is lying to you. Well... not lying. Just not telling you the whole truth.
    So you've got a padlock icon in Element. Your messages are encrypted. You're basically a spy now, right?
    Not quite, friend.
    There are two things going on in E2EE, and most people only ever learn about one of them. Today I learned the hard way — and now you don't have to.
    🔒 Encryption scrambles your messages into gibberish that only the right keys can unlock. Happens automatically. The padlock is always on. Beautiful. Revolutionary. Table stakes.
    🛡️ Verification is the part the cypherpunks actually care about.
    Encryption secures the channel. Verification confirms who's actually holding the keys at the other end. Skip it, and you're encrypting to keys that merely claim to belong to your contact. Most of the time? Fine. But a compromised homeserver could theoretically slide a fake key into the exchange and silently hoover up everything you thought was for their eyes only.
    That's not paranoia. That's the threat model.
    The fix? Emoji. I'm not even joking. Matrix generates a set of emoji from a shared cryptographic value and shows them to both users simultaneously. If you both see the same little parade of cartoon faces — the handshake is mathematically genuine. No interception possible. It takes 30 seconds and feels absolutely ridiculous right up until you realise it's the same cryptographic ceremony Signal uses for Safety Numbers and iMessage uses for Contact Key Verification.
    The best part? Do it once per contact. Matrix cross-signing cascades the verification across all your devices automatically. One emoji parade to rule them all.
    Padlock = encrypted. Shield = verified. You want both. The cypherpunks demand both. Don't settle for half a revolution. 🔒🛡️
    #TIL #Matrix #MatrixProtocol #E2EE #Cypherpunk #Privacy #Encryption #InfoSec #SelfHosting #Element #DecentralizedComms #Fediverse

  22. 🔐 TIL: The padlock in your Matrix client is lying to you. Well... not lying. Just not telling you the whole truth.
    So you've got a padlock icon in Element. Your messages are encrypted. You're basically a spy now, right?
    Not quite, friend.
    There are two things going on in E2EE, and most people only ever learn about one of them. Today I learned the hard way — and now you don't have to.
    🔒 Encryption scrambles your messages into gibberish that only the right keys can unlock. Happens automatically. The padlock is always on. Beautiful. Revolutionary. Table stakes.
    🛡️ Verification is the part the cypherpunks actually care about.
    Encryption secures the channel. Verification confirms who's actually holding the keys at the other end. Skip it, and you're encrypting to keys that merely claim to belong to your contact. Most of the time? Fine. But a compromised homeserver could theoretically slide a fake key into the exchange and silently hoover up everything you thought was for their eyes only.
    That's not paranoia. That's the threat model.
    The fix? Emoji. I'm not even joking. Matrix generates a set of emoji from a shared cryptographic value and shows them to both users simultaneously. If you both see the same little parade of cartoon faces — the handshake is mathematically genuine. No interception possible. It takes 30 seconds and feels absolutely ridiculous right up until you realise it's the same cryptographic ceremony Signal uses for Safety Numbers and iMessage uses for Contact Key Verification.
    The best part? Do it once per contact. Matrix cross-signing cascades the verification across all your devices automatically. One emoji parade to rule them all.
    Padlock = encrypted. Shield = verified. You want both. The cypherpunks demand both. Don't settle for half a revolution. 🔒🛡️
    #TIL #Matrix #MatrixProtocol #E2EE #Cypherpunk #Privacy #Encryption #InfoSec #SelfHosting #Element #DecentralizedComms #Fediverse

  23. 🔐 TIL: The padlock in your Matrix client is lying to you. Well... not lying. Just not telling you the whole truth.
    So you've got a padlock icon in Element. Your messages are encrypted. You're basically a spy now, right?
    Not quite, friend.
    There are two things going on in E2EE, and most people only ever learn about one of them. Today I learned the hard way — and now you don't have to.
    🔒 Encryption scrambles your messages into gibberish that only the right keys can unlock. Happens automatically. The padlock is always on. Beautiful. Revolutionary. Table stakes.
    🛡️ Verification is the part the cypherpunks actually care about.
    Encryption secures the channel. Verification confirms who's actually holding the keys at the other end. Skip it, and you're encrypting to keys that merely claim to belong to your contact. Most of the time? Fine. But a compromised homeserver could theoretically slide a fake key into the exchange and silently hoover up everything you thought was for their eyes only.
    That's not paranoia. That's the threat model.
    The fix? Emoji. I'm not even joking. Matrix generates a set of emoji from a shared cryptographic value and shows them to both users simultaneously. If you both see the same little parade of cartoon faces — the handshake is mathematically genuine. No interception possible. It takes 30 seconds and feels absolutely ridiculous right up until you realise it's the same cryptographic ceremony Signal uses for Safety Numbers and iMessage uses for Contact Key Verification.
    The best part? Do it once per contact. Matrix cross-signing cascades the verification across all your devices automatically. One emoji parade to rule them all.
    Padlock = encrypted. Shield = verified. You want both. The cypherpunks demand both. Don't settle for half a revolution. 🔒🛡️
    #TIL #Matrix #MatrixProtocol #E2EE #Cypherpunk #Privacy #Encryption #InfoSec #SelfHosting #Element #DecentralizedComms #Fediverse

  24. 🔐 TIL: The padlock in your Matrix client is lying to you. Well... not lying. Just not telling you the whole truth.
    So you've got a padlock icon in Element. Your messages are encrypted. You're basically a spy now, right?
    Not quite, friend.
    There are two things going on in E2EE, and most people only ever learn about one of them. Today I learned the hard way — and now you don't have to.
    🔒 Encryption scrambles your messages into gibberish that only the right keys can unlock. Happens automatically. The padlock is always on. Beautiful. Revolutionary. Table stakes.
    🛡️ Verification is the part the cypherpunks actually care about.
    Encryption secures the channel. Verification confirms who's actually holding the keys at the other end. Skip it, and you're encrypting to keys that merely claim to belong to your contact. Most of the time? Fine. But a compromised homeserver could theoretically slide a fake key into the exchange and silently hoover up everything you thought was for their eyes only.
    That's not paranoia. That's the threat model.
    The fix? Emoji. I'm not even joking. Matrix generates a set of emoji from a shared cryptographic value and shows them to both users simultaneously. If you both see the same little parade of cartoon faces — the handshake is mathematically genuine. No interception possible. It takes 30 seconds and feels absolutely ridiculous right up until you realise it's the same cryptographic ceremony Signal uses for Safety Numbers and iMessage uses for Contact Key Verification.
    The best part? Do it once per contact. Matrix cross-signing cascades the verification across all your devices automatically. One emoji parade to rule them all.
    Padlock = encrypted. Shield = verified. You want both. The cypherpunks demand both. Don't settle for half a revolution. 🔒🛡️
    #TIL #Matrix #MatrixProtocol #E2EE #Cypherpunk #Privacy #Encryption #InfoSec #SelfHosting #Element #DecentralizedComms #Fediverse

  25. Control+Alt+Autonomy: Surveillance Pushback, Linux Sovereignty, and the Self-Host Surge

    Surveillance concerns rise, Linux gains ground, and self-hosting keeps growing. This week’s signals for people reclaiming digital control.

    beitmenotyou.online/controlalt

  26. Control+Alt+Autonomy: Surveillance Pushback, Linux Sovereignty, and the Self-Host Surge

    Surveillance concerns rise, Linux gains ground, and self-hosting keeps growing. This week’s signals for people reclaiming digital control.

    beitmenotyou.online/controlalt

  27. BREAKING! GnuPG introduces quantum-resistant ML-KEM (Kyber) as encryption algorithm!

    lists.gnupg.org/pipermail/gnup

    This is great news! However, as I've been saying for a while, we should stop considering Harvest-Now-Decrypt-Later as the only thing to be immediately concerned about. The problem of signatures (Trust-Now-Forge-Later) is wrongly assumed to be way less urgent, but the reality is that rolling out a certificate migration will be extremely painful, and quantum attacks against signatures will be stealthy and of difficult attribution initially. Especially for a project like GnuPG, it's extremely important to adopt quantum-resistant signatures ASAP.

    #crypto #cryptography #PGP #GnuPG #quantum #security #privacy #cypherpunk

  28. BREAKING! GnuPG introduces quantum-resistant ML-KEM (Kyber) as encryption algorithm!

    lists.gnupg.org/pipermail/gnup

    This is great news! However, as I've been saying for a while, we should stop considering Harvest-Now-Decrypt-Later as the only thing to be immediately concerned about. The problem of signatures (Trust-Now-Forge-Later) is wrongly assumed to be way less urgent, but the reality is that rolling out a certificate migration will be extremely painful, and quantum attacks against signatures will be stealthy and of difficult attribution initially. Especially for a project like GnuPG, it's extremely important to adopt quantum-resistant signatures ASAP.

    #crypto #cryptography #PGP #GnuPG #quantum #security #privacy #cypherpunk

  29. BREAKING! GnuPG introduces quantum-resistant ML-KEM (Kyber) as encryption algorithm!

    lists.gnupg.org/pipermail/gnup

    This is great news! However, as I've been saying for a while, we should stop considering Harvest-Now-Decrypt-Later as the only thing to be immediately concerned about. The problem of signatures (Trust-Now-Forge-Later) is wrongly assumed to be way less urgent, but the reality is that rolling out a certificate migration will be extremely painful, and quantum attacks against signatures will be stealthy and of difficult attribution initially. Especially for a project like GnuPG, it's extremely important to adopt quantum-resistant signatures ASAP.

    #crypto #cryptography #PGP #GnuPG #quantum #security #privacy #cypherpunk

  30. BREAKING! GnuPG introduces quantum-resistant ML-KEM (Kyber) as encryption algorithm!

    lists.gnupg.org/pipermail/gnup

    This is great news! However, as I've been saying for a while, we should stop considering Harvest-Now-Decrypt-Later as the only thing to be immediately concerned about. The problem of signatures (Trust-Now-Forge-Later) is wrongly assumed to be way less urgent, but the reality is that rolling out a certificate migration will be extremely painful, and quantum attacks against signatures will be stealthy and of difficult attribution initially. Especially for a project like GnuPG, it's extremely important to adopt quantum-resistant signatures ASAP.

    #crypto #cryptography #PGP #GnuPG #quantum #security #privacy #cypherpunk

  31. BREAKING! GnuPG introduces quantum-resistant ML-KEM (Kyber) as encryption algorithm!

    lists.gnupg.org/pipermail/gnup

    This is great news! However, as I've been saying for a while, we should stop considering Harvest-Now-Decrypt-Later as the only thing to be immediately concerned about. The problem of signatures (Trust-Now-Forge-Later) is wrongly assumed to be way less urgent, but the reality is that rolling out a certificate migration will be extremely painful, and quantum attacks against signatures will be stealthy and of difficult attribution initially. Especially for a project like GnuPG, it's extremely important to adopt quantum-resistant signatures ASAP.

    #crypto #cryptography #PGP #GnuPG #quantum #security #privacy #cypherpunk

  32. Control+Alt+Autonomy: Push Notification Privacy, Platform Exits, and Building Your Own Escape Hatch

    The signal this week feels sharper than usual. More warnings about surveillance. More reminders that centralised platforms can turn on you. More reasons to run tools you control. There were also some useful bright spots: open systems keep moving, digital rights groups keep pushing back, and people are still choosing independence over convenience. If you care about owning your stack, this week has plenty to work with. Key stories Push notifications are leaking more than you think EFF […]

    beitmenotyou.online/controlalt

  33. Control+Alt+Autonomy: Push Notification Privacy, Platform Exits, and Building Your Own Escape Hatch

    The signal this week feels sharper than usual. More warnings about surveillance. More reminders that centralised platforms can turn on you. More reasons to run tools you control. There were also some useful bright spots: open systems keep moving, digital rights groups keep pushing back, and people are still choosing independence over convenience. If you care about owning your stack, this week has plenty to work with. Key stories Push notifications are leaking more than you think EFF […]

    beitmenotyou.online/controlalt