Telegram is notoriously insecure and routinely cooperates with govs behind the scenes while talking a big game about speech and privacy. Even their limited opt-in (roll their own) encryption is sus. The more you know 🌈

am I supposed to pretend that using the US gov's money to build cryptography which by all evidence has no backdoors for any purpose, is bad?

i still haven’t heard of a good thing you can do with quantum computing other than some hand waving about scientific simulations

people love it when gabe does it but they HATE it when tim does it

“code isn’t speech because it’s too powerful”

skill issue

John Paul Koning FYI, John Paul Koning , as a first pass, this article (aside from doing a lot of unnecessary name calling) also seems to ignore cases that contradict the point the author is trying to make. For example, he writes:
But that's simply false.

In Taucher v. Brown the DC circuit found that…

Encryption is a mathematical expression of the second law of thermodynamics. It is the irreversible arrow of time made concrete.

Surveillance has expanded and will worsen, but like an entropic shadow cast by its expansion, encryption technologies are radiating outward in…

We are barreling towards a future where AI models examine every private message you send, every conversation you have, and report to the police. This will leave nobody safer and everyone more vulnerable. But like everything else in 2024, powerful people have decided this for you.

hey its kenji! today im going to show you how to justify locking all Americans into a financial panopticon forever

it's time to abandon factionalism in crypto

we all want freedom money. our adversaries want to imprison people for making, owning, or using freedom money

unite or die

i'm old enough to remember when the us government thought privacy tools were good because they helped people in unfree countries be more free. i am not that old

stage 4: people invent and use [tool]
stage 5: governments ban [tool]
stage 6: GOTO 4