France dodged a bullet

Electronic Frontier Foundation

A Win for Encryption: France Rejects Backdoor Mandate

In a moment of clarity after initially moving forward a deeply flawed piece of legislation, the French National Assembly has done the right thing: ...

SIGH I really need to get some writing done

My point still remains https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/16/us/mahmoud-khalil-columbia-protests-free-speech/index.html View Article →

GM

The arrest of Mahmoud Khalil stands as a reminder that when the state starts wielding immigration law and funding as a weapon against dissent, no voice is safe.

Are we all just going to pretend that this didn't happen? #tether #bitcoin

Tether Recognized for Assisting the United States Secret Service in $23m Freeze Related to Transfers on Sanctioned Exchange, Garantex - Tether.io

7 MARCH, 2025 – Tether, the largest company in the digital assets industry, announced today that it has assisted the United States Secret Service...

You can just write things

You don't actually own your Kindle books—ownership has died in the digital age. #bitcoin #encryption My new piece in Bitcoin Magazine explores how encryption flips the script:

Bitcoin Magazine

Not Your Keys, Not Your Content: Ownership In A Digital Age

What does ownership mean in a truly digital age? This is a question that society urgently needs to answer.

Everyone is aware that a EO can just be undone by the next president right?

Clipper Chip failed in the 90s, Apple said no in 2015. Now govs just need to pass backdoors, driving out ADP in the UK, VPNs from France, and soon Signal from Sweden. Encryption doesn’t die from being outlawed. It dies from compromise and concessions. #Privacy #Encryption