tech

The fight for freedom today is about system access control and personal data. Messaging protocols are something that will continuously evolve over time. There’s no avoiding it. I like this resource for comparing popular apps. https://www.securemessagingapps.com/ My Recommendations Email with PGP — A little old fashioned, but reliable. Plus everyone has email. Signal — Practical and modern. Basically replaces iMessage/RCS/WhatsApp. Other Technologies I Like SimpleX — Likely the next step in messaging tech....

Anything from stone tools to microchips seams to have to be covered by a definition of technology, and there are weird edge cases. Gene editing might have too much to do with biology and nature. Money seams to have too much to do with law and administration. Yet both gene editing and money seem rather technological. Engineering processes are clearly related to technology but they’re a lot more like rituals in that they have so much to do with defining roles and interfaces between people....

Digital technology threatens important values and concepts like free will, bodily autonomy, private property, identity, and rule of law. Digital personhood is the necessary response. It is simultaneously a philosophy of what a person is, a politics of data, and a technology stack for networked personal computing devices. This is my formulation of — and elaboration on the cypherpunk vision. Cypherpunk: (Not cyBerpunk) CyPHerpunk is a movement that started in the 80s which purports that encryption is needed by everyday people to preserve their privacy....