The coronavirus will destroy many institutions already threatened by digital technologies. It will also necessitate increasing surveillance and other immunological measures against the virus, as well as against terrorism and threats to national security. — Yuk Hui
A week ago I wrote my second post here, which became even more…
This post explains in brief how to create a secure and minimalist Bitcoin wallet that stores all keys off-line (cold storage) and is in your complete control: the private key will never be known to any software connected to the network. …
I am proud to announce that at Dyne.org we have joined forces with RIDDLE&CODE and InfoCert to empower Europan member states with strong and durable technology for blockchain notarization.
This is big news: our consortium gathers unique know-how in free and open source community development, cryptography, security and identity management…
I’m writing this blog prompted by the disclosure of yet another bug on systemd, this time a “nasty security bug” as journalists at ZDNet defined it that has been granting all this time local privilege escalation through an excessive memory allocation.
This is very bad news for people running most…
Today I feel light and grateful:
light for finally publishing something I’ve worked on for the past 2 years grateful because this is an outstanding achievement that could only be attained with the help of my colleagues at Dyne.org
A pre-print of our paper is freely available: “Reflow: Zero Knowledge…
There is a silently winning approach in the field of Information and Communication Technologies today. It is hard to individuate where this approach wins, because of the enormous amount of marketing communication flooding our screens. It is difficult to understand because everything we connect is a service for which, paradoxically…
This is an open letter to all the people who, in their good faith, are concerned about events that are shaking the long-standing leadership of the Free Software Movement.
Italian translation: Lettera aperta al movimento del software libero
Dear hackers, first and foremost let us say that, as a collective…
A while has passed since my last “lockdown diary” posts, where I’ve done my best to share some reflections on what is happening and how tech is being used to alleviate our lives in Corona times — or perhaps hypnotize us.
Hi again everyone! I’m continuing my lock-down diary here encouraged by your feedback and appreciation shown to previous posts also published and translated to French by the Makery magazine. What a ride! …
A week ago I have published simple instructions on how to make open source software for proximity-tracing, in particular how to embed a cryptographic protocol that is privacy preserving.
My previous post was very successful in engaging a large audience of developers and entrepreneurs to focus on mobile-app designs that…
