Centering Decentralization
“Oh great, another white dude from a western democracy going off about decentralization.” I promise that I will not be hawking a crypto-currency or even talk...
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Censorship and Centralization
We also cannot cede the digital public square to private corporations which do not, at their core, serve the public interest.
De-platforming is censure not censorship.
Not being able to find a company to make your presence on the Internet easy is fundamentally different from having a government actively blocking access to y...
I (Still) Believe in the Internet
This is the first in a series on the past, present, and future of the Internet
From Usability to Threat Modeling
Building a wide array of foundational resources to advance threat modeling.
Re-factoring the Crypto Debate
Backdooring crypto debates are dangerously US-centric; ignoring the role of authoritarian states and how even this tightly scoped debate would put human righ...
Cyberpunk Standards
The future of technology requires a dramatic shift from the present to place ownership and control back in the hands of consumers
We have always been at war with crypto
This now exists (and will be updated) as a github repository!
Entropy Story-time: From Claude Shannon to Equifax
A review of a review, and a lot of discussion of password security, chaos, and entropy.
The PGP Hotel: Let’s talk about public keys
I’ve been working on a new way to explain email encryption; I’d appreciate feedback on this approach.
Power to the Users
Cross-posted from the USABLE blog <p>Three years ago, I led a digital security training for independent media in Kyiv during the peak of the EuroMa...
New GPG Keys!
I am transitioning both my professional and personal GPG keys.
Cylons, Open Source, and Security
This has all happened before. This will all happen again.
On Piracy
Software licensing limits are a bigger human rights problem than software piracy is a cost.
What Good Are Secure Communications Tools if No One Uses Them?
It was the second day of digital security training, and I was losing the room.