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Grundfos completes Metasphere rebrand in Australia

SOFIAH NICHOLE SALIVIO News Editor Grundfos ha…
#NewsBeep #News #Australia #assetmanagement #AU #Australian #Climatechange #CriticalInfrastructure #dataanalytics #Dataownership #digitaltwins #flooding #Integration #LocalGovernment #MergersandAcquisitions(M&A) #NetworkManagement #Oceania #OpenStandards #predictiveanalytics #Productivity #SCADA #sensors #smartcities #sustainability #Telemetry #WasteWater #Water
https://www.newsbeep.com/au/869373/

Decentralized browser-based P2P E2EE messaging.

The key detail that sets this apart from other messaging apps is the browser-based client-side cryptography philosophy.

No need to install anything. Your ID is crypto-random and so the app doesnt need to rely on any central registration system like phone numbers. Your ID is unguessable and to connect to someone, you have to explicitly share it.

WebRTC has other nuances like being to route through a shared network for secure/faster transfer.

I hope this project has reached a level i can share the following details. I've made a genuine effort towards documentation and transparancy. I dont think it'll ever be enough and so im still concerned it isnt ready to share. While im using AI throughout. This is not a vibecoded project. There is attention throughout for unit tests and formal-verification. With your feedback, id like to make improvements for clarity throughout.

This version of the app demonstrates a fairly unique approach using a browser-based, local-only and webrtc approach. I know it's impossible for any system to be the "world's most secure", but that isnt a reason to not try. By rigorously implementing an exhaustive list of security features and practices, the aim is to get as close as possible.

* [Enkrypted.Chat](https://enkrypted.chat/)

This is intended to demonstrate client-side managed secure cryptography.

* [Introducing Enkrypted Chat](https://positive-intentions.com/blog/introducing-enkrypted-chat)
* [Whitepaper (work-in-progress)](https://positive-intentions.com/docs/technical/whitepaper/complete-whitepaper)
* [Protocol Spec (work-in-progress)](https://positive-intentions.com/docs/technical/whitepaper/complete-protocol-spec)
* [Roadmap](https://positive-intentions.com/docs/technical/p2p-messaging-technical-breakdown/)

I know ive tried to compress a lot of my journey into one post. The project above is going to be tricky to understand. Feel free to reach out for clarity on any of the details.

IMPORTANT: While this is aiming to provide a secure experience, It is [not audited or reviewed](https://www.reddit.com/r/CyberSecurityAdvice/comments/1su8lir/security_audit_feedback_from_radically_open/). **Shared for testing, feedback and demo purposes only.** Please use responsibly.

#Privacy #OnlinePrivacy #DataPrivacy #Infosec #CyberSecurity #OpSec #DigitalRights #AntiSurveillance #DataOwnership #E2EE #P2P #PeerToPeer #WebRTC #LocalFirst #LocalOnly #NoCloud #NoRegistration #PWA #SignalProtocol #PostQuantum #Cryptography #SecureMessaging #PrivateChat #EncryptedChat #Decentralized #OpenSource #SelfHosted #BetaTesting #FeedbackWelcome #TechDemo #ProofOfConcept #BuildInPublic #IndieDev #DevCommunity

Day 290

If a journalist eventually finds it, the story waiting for them is no longer “Amazon misspelled an actor’s name.”

It is:

“A German woman spent nearly a year documenting a systemic catalogue-integrity problem while every major stakeholder said, in one form or another, that responsibility belonged somewhere else.”

https://is.gd/AmazonDEMetadata

#namesmatter #respecttheartist #metadata #dataintegrity #amazon #datagovernance #dataownership #qualityassurance #qafail #metadatamess #breakingnews

I'd like to share the latest version of my project.

It's a a decentralised P2P messaging app. The aim is of course privacy and security.

It demonstrates a fairly unique approach by using browser-based local-only storage with webrtc.

https://Enkrypted.Chat

https://www.reddit.com/r/positive_intentions/comments/1tq1u62/introducing_enkrypted_chat

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#Privacy #OnlinePrivacy #DataPrivacy #Infosec #CyberSecurity #OpSec #DigitalRights #AntiSurveillance #DataOwnership #E2EE #P2P #PeerToPeer #WebRTC #LocalFirst #LocalOnly #NoCloud #NoRegistration #PWA #SignalProtocol #PostQuantum #Cryptography #SecureMessaging #PrivateChat #EncryptedChat #Decentralized #OpenSource #SelfHosted #BetaTesting #FeedbackWelcome #TechDemo #ProofOfConcept #BuildInPublic #IndieDev #DevCommunity

WHERE OTHERS LOSE CONTROL – WE STAY IN THE LOOP.

https://blog.infinito.nexus/blog/2026/06/16/where-others-lose-control-we-stay-in-the-loop/

Most email-processing AI writing tools process emails on their externally held servers, where private content could be used for training or storage.

NeuroMail offers AI-powered email rewriting inside a secure, encrypted ecosystem-so your messages stay yours.
Read the full blog to explore the future of private AI email writing.👉

https://neuronus.net/en/blog/ai-without-big-brother-the-future-of-private-ai-email-writing

#PrivateAI #AIEmail #EmailPrivacy #SecureEmail #NeuroMail #DataOwnership #PrivacyTech #Neuronus

Fahmi Reza, an activist, told the story that authorities asked Fahmi Reza for passwords.

#DigitalRightsMY #CMA2025 #Section249 #PrivacyInMalaysia #EndSurveillance #FightCensorship #DigitalFreedom #Malaysia #OnlinePrivacy #DataProtection #EncryptionRights #SurveillanceState #CyberSecurityMY #RightToSilence #TechPolicy #HumanRights #DigitalJustice #StopPindaan2025 #PrivacyNow #FreedomOfExpression #MalaysianPolitics #DigitalActivism #RightToPrivacy #SurveillanceLaws #InformationRights #AKM1998 #OrangKenaCekup #DigitalOppression #SecureTheWeb #ResistSurveillance #TechForGood #DigitalSovereignty #OnlineFreedom #DataOwnership #DigitalRights

The "privacy" you think you have in Malaysia is an illusion.

Authorities have a legal backdoor into your entire digital existence. Under Section 249 of the Communications & Multimedia Act (CMA), police can demand your passwords, PINs, or biometrics during an investigation.

Here is the creepy part: Refusing to unlock your phone IS the crime itself.

They don't need to crack sophisticated encryption; they just crack you with the threat of immediate arrest for "obstruction." You become a criminal just for trying to protect your data dignity.

And it's getting worse. The incoming #Pindaan2025 amendments propose escalating penalties for non-compliance up to a staggering RM1 MILLION fine or 5 YEARS in prison.

This isn't about fighting crime; it's an infrastructure designed to force compliance through state-sanctioned fear. Your digital mind is yours only until they ask for it. Wake up.

#DigitalRightsMY #AKM1998 #Privacy #Censorship #MalaysiaBoleh #DigitalRightsMY #CMA2025 #Section249 #PrivacyInMalaysia #EndSurveillance #FightCensorship #DigitalFreedom #Malaysia #OnlinePrivacy #DataProtection #EncryptionRights #SurveillanceState #CyberSecurityMY #RightToSilence #TechPolicy #HumanRights #DigitalJustice #StopPindaan2025 #PrivacyNow #FreedomOfExpression #MalaysianPolitics #DigitalActivism #RightToPrivacy #SurveillanceLaws #InformationRights #AKM1998 #OrangKenaCekup #DigitalOppression #SecureTheWeb #ResistSurveillance #TechForGood #DigitalSovereignty #OnlineFreedom #DataOwnership #DigitalRights

Weekly output: IOWN, eSIMs, Android sneak peek, Ranking Digital Rights, Web3, data ownership in Brazil, Elon Musk’s DOGE detour, blanding, passkey adoption, Google’s AI Mode, Read AI bundles two more AI platforms

Even subtracting the posts written in previous weeks (the first and second links below) and the time I spent moderating panels at Web Summit Rio (the fifth, sixth and eighth links below), this was a busy week. And yet I wish I’d had time to write about one more thing: the brutal ruling that Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers handed down Wednesday against Apple in the long-running Epic v. Apple case. In that opinion, which essentially destroys a large part of Apple’s rent-seeking App Store strategy, the judge condemned multiple levels of Apple duplicity that included one vice president lying under oath and concluded that Apple thinking “this Court would tolerate such insubordination was a gross miscalculation.”

Patreon readers got an extra post from me this week: a recap of how Web Summit Rio highlighted the useful and cringe-inducing-to-outright-offensive sides of cryptocurrency advocacy.

4/28/2025: NTT’s IOWN pitch: long on possibilities, sometimes short on metrics, Light Reading

I wanted to get an outside perspective on the sales pitch I got from NTT at its Upgrade 2025 conference in San Francisco in mid-April (for which the Japanese telco covered my travel expenses), and the one I got from my tech-analyst pal Mark Vena pointed out some non-trivial gaps in NTT’s presentation.

4/28/2025: Why You Should Use eSIMs When Traveling Internationally, AARP

Most of the research for this happened during MWC Barcelona in early March, but various hangups in AARP’s story-assignment machinery held up the piece for a while.

4/28/2025: Why Wait? Google Teases Android 16 Sneak Peek Ahead of I/O, PCMag

This was one of the shortest posts I’ve ever filed for PCMag, owing to the lack of details in this Google announcement.

4/28/2025: More Breakdowns Than Breakthroughs in Latest Big Tech Digital Rights Scorecard, PCMag

The Ranking Digital Rights project posted its first assessment in about two and a half years of the commitments tech companies make to uphold human rights. Spoiler alert: This survey found no heroes.

4/28/2025: Does Web3 represent an opportunity or a risk?, Web Summit Rio

The last panel this conference asked me to moderate came first on the schedule–and then I went from having two fintech investors to quiz to having one, Kaszek partner Santiago Fossatti. My worries that I’d have to improvise at length to fill this timeslot evaporated once I saw how he’d answer my questions at length.

4/29/2025: Owning your own data, Web Summit Rio

I’ve been watching and moderating Web Summit panels about data ownership and privacy for years, but this one–featuring Brittany Kaiser, co-founder of the Own Your Data Foundation; Rodrigo Assumpção, CEO of Brazil’s social-security firm Dataprev; and Gustavo Franco, former governor of Brazil’s central bank–outlined some real-world steps happening in Brazil to make that vision a working reality that might yield some modest extra income for citizens who opt in.

4/30/2025: 100 Days of DOGE: Is Elon Musk’s Protective Layer of Sycophants Thinning?, PCMag

I wrote up a very good panel featuring New York Times tech reporters Kate Conger and Ryan Mac, in which the authors of the book Character Limit: How Elon Musk Destroyed Twitter unpacked how Musk has given the federal government the same treatment he inflicted on Twitter.

4/30/2025: AI and the rise of blanding, Web Summit Rio

Title notwithstanding, this panel with Camila Moletta, CEO of More Grls, and Lisa Smith, global executive creative director of Jones Knowles Ritchie, was less about AI than about graphic design in advertising.

5/1/2025: 75% of People Are ‘Aware’ of Passkeys, But Are They Actually Using Them?, PCMag

I wrote up an embargoed copy of a survey about passkey adoption that had some stats that confused me, so I e-mailed the publicist to get more context and then quoted his explanation in the post. After publication, the PR guy asked if we could take his name out of the story because he works for an outside PR firm; I replied that my editor would probably be fine with that (which was true), but that he needed to make that request upfront instead of incorrectly assuming some default setting of anonymity for PR types.

5/1/2025: Google Drops AI Mode Waitlist, Adds Shopping Tools: Here’s How to Try, PCMag

I filed my last copy for April from my hotel room in Rio a little before midnight on April 30. Being able to put one last bit of work on a monthly invoice can be a powerful motivation.

5/2/2025: Why Have One AI Service When You Can Have 3? Read Bundles GPT-4.1, Claude, PCMag

I didn’t have this on my story-possibilities list for Web Summit, but I got into a conversation with the CEO and publicist of the AI service Read on a shuttle from the convention center back to the hotel, which led to the publicist asking if I’d like cover Read’s imminent announcement of it bundling two other AI services, which led to my quizzing Read CEO David Shim in the speaker lounge Wednesday.

#advertising #AIMode #blanding #Brazil #cryptocurrency #dataOwnership #Dataprev #DrumWave #eSIM #eSIMs #GoogleAISearch #IOWN #NTT #owningYourData #passkeys #photonics #ReadAI #Rio #WebSummitRio #WorldPasswordDay