Paolo Vecchi @paolo@mastodon.partecipa.digital

"Even in its amended version, this proposed directive would require that **websites with large amounts of user uploaded content** add mandatory upload filters. What this means is that websites would be required to have algorithms check **all user uploads** against a database of content and block those that are detected as infringing copyrights from appearing online."

The #EU's #Copyright Directive has a vote on June 20. One central issue underpins the numerous issues - Automated Mass #Surveillance.

Please take a read and take urgent action if you're in the EU. #Article13 #DeleteArticle13 #SaveYourInternet

https://blog.bham.ac.uk/cybersecurity/2018/06/15/article-13-and-the-great-copywall-of-europe/

Unbelievable that it is already two years since we started #Nextcloud... What a ride. I'm especially thankful to the community which to a large extend immediately understood what we are trying to achieve and joined us.

via @nextcloud

https://mastodon.xyz/@nextcloud/100136504722380561

https://mastodon.social/media/jvqZS60VRB-fsGds5zU

Happy Birthday #nextcloud!! 🎉👍

We're very proud of what we have accomplished in the last 2 years: Becoming market leader, moving #EFSS forward faster than ever before.

Thank you all for your support! 🤘 #PowerOfCommunity #OpenSource https://t.co/CvyrqHRZTo #nextcloud

Just had a call from a slightly distraught non-techy friend of a friend. They were burgled and her laptop was stolen. All their family photos gone. No backups. :(. If you're a tech, teach your friends and family. Help them understand the need for backups, please! <3

"When you're an adult you won't be allowed to leave things to the last minute"

Companies this week emailing me
"SO WE HAD SOME THOUGHTS ABOUT PRIVACY"

Nice.

"Parralel construction.

You pull the phone location records of everyone near a protest without a warrant (and no intention of using the location data in court) then you dig into them to find something unrelated to the protest you can nail them on.

That way you take out key players without it looking like a political crackdown."

Reasons why I howled with laughter in the shop today

@galaxis @rysiek Actually, to clarify further: poor HTML parsing and poor error handling is to blame.

Even when rendering HTML, #Mailpile is not vulnerable as far as I can tell.

We sanitize the content so their malformed snippets get cleaned up and we check the GnuPG error codes so their gadgets will fail.

I need to write a boasting blog about this, this is actually a resounding endorsement of why baking security in from the start matters.

#Facebook says its ‘voter button’ is good for turnout. But should the tech giant be nudging us at all? | #Technology | The Guardian

I think that along with #Electronic #VotingMachines, this is a really bad idea.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/apr/15/facebook-says-it-voter-button-is-good-for-turn-but-should-the-tech-giant-be-nudging-us-at-all

#Democracy

Our team often gets asked why privacy matters. Here's a collection of answers from experts, including @eff's @doctorow: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QsG-UoZnPTo https://twitter.com/nbashaw/status/982974510541475840

6 days until I erase my accounts on non-decentralized social media platforms.