confidentiality
Secure Scuttlebutt
Social media for off-the-grid
2020-11-18
– 2023-05-07Privacy while web browsing
Browsing the internet without giving corporations my personal information for free
2018-12-12
– 2023-05-06Dynamics of recommender systems and other AI social interventions at societal scale
Variational approximations to high modernism
2023-05-11
– 2023-04-26Legibility and automation
Variational approximations to high modernism as AI modernism
2017-07-24
– 2023-04-22Secure chat systems
Optimising back channel interjections into other people’s meetings
2015-02-15
– 2023-04-21Webmail systems
2022-04-18
– 2023-04-05Offline email syncing
with bonus email wrangling
2020-12-30
– 2023-04-05Email clients on linux
The constant low-level grind of a long term co-dependent relationship
2020-04-21
– 2023-04-05Web scraping
Turns out we can get information off the internet
2016-06-17
– 2023-01-24Weaponizing social media
Trolls, bots, lulz, infowars and other moods of the modern networked ape
2019-10-21
– 2023-01-15Password management
2016-07-20
– 2023-01-05Fediverse
Mastodon et al.
2019-08-12
– 2022-12-28Email hosts
Who handles my mail? And what do they do with it?
2020-12-30
– 2022-11-04Modern conspiracy theorising
You are only reading this because the Deep State wants you to
2020-08-16
– 2022-08-30Video conferencing
and other ways of working together, or at least around each other
2015-02-15
– 2022-08-10Social factors in information security
Our revealed preference for revealing our preferences
2018-11-21
– 2022-08-07Virtual private mesh networks
Pretending your phone is on your LAN
2017-04-15
– 2022-07-30Designing less toxic social media
2020-07-12
– 2022-06-11ssh
a.k.a. “Secure shell”, which is not actually a shell but an encrypted network protocol that people like to shell with
2014-12-27
– 2022-06-07DNS
On asking strangers for directions
2017-10-13
– 2022-05-10Email
Doing email better, or better, not doing email at all
2015-01-13
– 2022-05-10Social media if you must
Harm minimisation for corporate social network users
2017-04-05
– 2022-04-21Email clients
2020-04-21
– 2022-04-18DIY VPN access point
2020-08-16
– 2022-02-21Cryptocurrencies
Imagine if keeping your car idling 24/7 produced solved Sudokus you could trade for heroin
2016-09-06
– 2022-02-05Hardened desktop operating systems
Also amnesiac and/or anonymous
2019-09-11
– 2022-01-11Calendars and contact databases
2015-06-25
– 2022-01-08Decentralized net services
a.k.a. web3, DEX, P2P, Peer-to-peer, friend-to-friend; Internet for an untrustworthy world
2017-09-18
– 2021-11-15Survey modelling
Adjusting for the Lizardman constant
2019-08-29
– 2021-10-24Australian authoritarianism
Beneath the beach, the barbed wire
2019-08-20
– 2021-09-06DIY social networks and groupware
V. cypherpunk! much 733+!
2019-08-12
– 2021-09-05Baby’s first private cloud
2021-08-08
– 2021-08-20Home networks for lazy dummies
2020-08-16
– 2021-08-19Virtual private networks
More options for internet privacy
2017-04-15
– 2021-08-12Hardened mobile
Trusting the computer that follows you around all day
2015-02-15
– 2021-08-07Contact tracing
Reverse engineering social graphs for the control of contagions of pathogens, subversive ideology and other substances of interest
2020-03-21
– 2021-07-28Media virality
Strategic modelling for content creators
2016-08-30
– 2021-07-15How to reduce corporate spying
on me, hopefully
2018-12-12
– 2021-07-12Cryptographic tokens, distributed ledgers, and blockchain-like-things
When all you have is a hasher…
2016-10-15
– 2021-04-19Running a secure server
and other self-hosting madness
2015-12-04
– 2021-01-19Browse the internet for me
Introducing modern automation to the ancient handicrafts of serfing the web and tilling the clickfarm
2016-06-17
– 2021-01-07Nowhere to hide
A catalogue of terrifying surveillance methods I encounter
2019-07-13
– 2021-01-03Agtech
Dotcom for “agricultural technology”
2020-10-05Fintech, assorted
2020-10-05Remote Desktop
Business model: Uber for pixels
2019-11-18
– 2020-07-31Low code development
2020-07-03Encrypting, signing, verifying stuff
Alice, Bob, GCHQ
2014-12-27
– 2020-06-09Link rot, mitigating
2020-05-27How to reduce government spying on you
2018-12-12
– 2020-05-27The money laundry, ownership and control
Paypal for the 1%
2020-05-13Matching and weighting
Making the optimal beverage from the fruit life gave you
2020-04-22How to reduce criminals spying on you
2018-10-03
– 2020-04-09Confidentiality
How to maintain it
2014-08-23
– 2020-04-09Internet for the occasionally online
Intermittency in your bandwidth not in your sanity
2017-04-09
– 2020-04-01The surveillance society
All-seeing like a state
2017-02-09
– 2020-03-19DIY internet infrastructure
2019-10-27
– 2020-03-17Differential privacy
2016-07-28
– 2020-01-24Trusting information
Spinning swarm sensing from comment threads
2017-02-09
– 2019-11-25Sneakernets
Intermittent connectivity, mesh networks and the Honda protocol
2015-10-03
– 2019-09-09Transferring money
2016-09-06
– 2019-09-04Facebook messages pro-forma response
It doesn’t work but it’s worth trying
2018-04-28Spamularity
2015-10-05