The wind is a'blowing

Mark's latest Medium piece: On Surveillance Capitalism (and ultimately the climate catastrophe)

Books everyone should be reading

The Age of Surveillance Capitalism - Shoshana Zuboff
Climate Crisis and the Global Green New Deal - Noam Chomsky and Robert Pollin, with C. J. Polychroniou

Big Tech News

Legislation — Break Up Big Tech Act
Anti-trust — leading contenders for the Biden administration DOJ Antitrust Division personnel
Boards — Amazon's board of directors
Boards — Z___ team and board of directors
Boards —Z___ announcement on Janet Napolitano board appointment
Brief History of Z___ shenanigans — encryption not fit for secrets, audio and video watermarking, misleading marketing, experts worry app is malware

Metamorphic News

Portals — our Portals are end-to-end (e2ee) encrypted (Patreon post - more details in the technical notes section)
Patreon — new quarterly merchandise tiers ($25+) and new merchandise item for our $10 tier

Encryption

E2EE — learn more about end-to-end encryption
Backdoor — what is a software backdoor?
Signal — the app that set the current high-standard for end-to-end encryption
MLS — we are looking forward to the IETF's Messaging Layer Security (MLS) protocol standard
Post Quantum — learn more, NIST competition

Puka Dogs

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