My great colleague Gunes Acar has an open PhD position in online tracking and web security. See here for details:

www.ru.nl/en/working-a...

Join us!

Seriously that text goes so hard, I love it:

"[My new license] is not following the OSI definition of open-source because i don’t give a damn how capital defines its needs."

Actually, this is the exact argument of the proponents of client side scanning. To be clear, the proposal breaks the security guarantees E2EE is designed to provide: the adversary can look at the messages in transit: albeit not while on the wire, but instead before they enter the envelope.

🚨Our governments are about to decide whether 450M Europeans deserve privacy - or not.

Help ensure your country says NO to Chat Control: Call you local representatives!

Privacy is not negotiable. Speak up now. ✊ #privacy

👉 More on how to stop Chat Control: tuta.com/blog/chat-co...

We, a group of concerned scientists, have again written an open letter expressing our concerns.

csa-scientist-open-letter.org/Sep2025

If you are a scientist or researcher you can sign this letter in suport:
tinyurl.com/ResearchersC...

Europe is still pushing for the scanning of all your outgoing messages for potential child sexual abuse material (the so called 'chat control' proposal). This is bad for privacy, cripples end-to-end encryption, and makes apps like WhatsApp and Signal no longer secure for business and government use.

A secure and privacy friendly offline digital euro

blog.xot.nl/2025/09/04/a...

Anderen wezen mij heir ook al op. Ik heb mijn post inmiddels aangepast met verwijzing naar deze verplichting - die in mijn ogen dus tamelijk bizar is.

Ik heb mijn post geüpdatet met deze informatie, met verwijzing naar jouw post hier op BlueSky. Hartelijk dank dat je me hier op hebt gewezen!

Wow.... dat is tamelijk bizar.

Tsja.. het zijn natuurlijk niet HUN patiënten; ze voeren enkel analyses uit in opdracht van zorgverleners. Als je jou redenering volgt zou iedere partij die diensten verleend aan zorgverleners het BSN moeten opslaan ;-)

De hack bij Clinical Labs had eenvoudig voorkomen kunnen worden.

blog.xot.nl/2025/08/26/d...

GroenLinks/PvdA komt na de VVD nu ook met een woonplan: “Bouwen voor de sociale meerderheid”.

Net als de plannen van de VVD analyseren we: of het goede ideeën zijn? En wie profiteren er (en wie niet)?

Kort draadje 🧵

Letter from I & @moonalice.com @cristinacaffarra.bsky.social @tomvalletti.bsky.social @ianbrown.tech @carissaveliz.bsky.social @finnmyrstad.bsky.social @xotoxot.bsky.social @tomasoduso.bsky.social @tanyaocarroll.bsky.social @tjmcintyre.com @lilianedwards.bsky.social

www.iccl.ie/news/privacy...

De Europese Commissie komt met een leeftijdsverificatie-app die moet voorkomen dat minderjarigen pornosites kunnen bezoeken. Deskundigen betwijfelen of zo'n app effectief is. "Interesse van jongeren verdwijnt niet."

Mijn favourite quote (van Milan Kundera): " 'Ik denk dus ik besta' is de uitspraak van een filosoof die het belang van kiespijn onderschat".

Please consider signing this open letter to stop the uncritical adoption of AI technologies in academia

openletter.earth/open-letter-...

I think one main issue I have with the whole "EURO Stack" stuff is that it is not looking for an alternative. It's "we want what we got just with EU companies". But the fact that the Internet and its services have been turned into a mall is the big fucking problem.

Like what a ridiculous amount of complexity to support an obsolete signature format from decades ago. Just pick a different signature scheme instead of inventing a whole new ZK scheme. news.dyne.org/longfellow-z...

This only happens to you once.

P.S.: Genuine Q: what is the benefit of moving away from iCloud, Apple's Calendar, Reminders, Notes, Safari etc, if you keep using Apple devices / MacOS, especially if you enable Advanced Data Protection (which prevents Apple from accessing the data). Or is the plan to ditch the devices afterwards?

I was about to suggest the same. It appears up to date in my area (though I so far have been relying on Apple Maps for the traffic info). And it's great for hiking with its offline mode.

I’ve begun my journey to reduce my reliance on US tech, so it’s time for an update on how it’s all going!

No surprise, some services are far more easy to replace than others. Email and streaming are low-hanging fruit; maps and messaging can be more difficult. But we should still make the effort.