Oh, interesting! @thunderbird is now on fedi.

Who knows, perhaps @mozilla will even start posting things one day?

@echo_pbreyer let me say this differently: where cash is a boon to private citizens in preserving their privacy from the rich and powerful, cryptocurrencies (esp. privacy coins) are a boon to the rich and powerful in making it more difficult to hold them to account.

The "cryptocurrencies = digital cash" false equivalence is a sham. Be careful what you support.

@echo_pbreyer I usually agree with you. Not this time.

This is not as clear-cut as it seems to be.

Cryptocurrencies (especially the "privacy coins") are not a cash replacement, the power dynamics are different because cash has friction when used in huge amounts that cryptocurrencies lack.

This makes cryptocurrencies (and esp. "privacy coins") way more useful for organized crime, corrupt politicians, and the superrich, than cash could ever be.

The power dynamics are *opposite* to those in case of cash.

@kgerloff I don't have well-formed thoughts, but this interview (Morozov interviews Varoufakis) talks about cryptocurrencies and digital cash equivalents a bit:
https://metacpc.org/en/crypto-blockchain/

Long read though!

@echo_pbreyer

@kgerloff @echo_pbreyer to be absolutely clear, I would love a digital cash equivalent that has a similar growth of friction with the amount as cash. That would be more than fine by me.

This NFT explainer, linked here already by many, is amazingly good:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQ_xWvX1n9g

That said, this sentence is just art:
> This is what makes [NFT] enthusiasts so deeply unreliable: they have meaningful financial stakes in an intangible, volatile thing that exists entirely as a collective ideoform.

I promise the rest of the video is very clear and easy to understand, cuts through the bullshit like knife through butter. But that sentence... that sentence is *dense*.

@aral

The @protonmail sharing-IP-with-LEA situation is a good reminder that if, on the Internet, something is technically possible, it is practically unavoidable.

#InfoSec

Macron was not the only world leader targeted by #Pegasus:https://www.occrp.org/en/the-pegasus-project/world-leaders-on-pegasus-list-include-frances-president-macron-moroccos-king-mohammed-kazakhstans-president-tokayev

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#InfoSec

Looks like Emmanuel Macron was "selected for targeting" by #Pegasus, specifically in Morocco:https://cdn.occrp.org/projects/project-p/#/profiles/254

That's bound to be fun!

#InfoSec #France