Posts for 2019-03-04

What The Truman Show Can Teach Us About the Future of the Internet | Tor.com

Eliot Peper’s article posits that we might never be able to escape the domes created by Facebook, Google, etc., but we can take steps to make those domes more transparent, even start building our own.

ETS Isn’t TLS and You Shouldn’t Use It

A ‘secure’ connection that allows for decryption and eavesdropping? Yeah, that’s not actually secure.

Bonus: the proponents of this look-alike protocol are financial institutions. Specifically, these ones.

I’ve remapped the keyboard shortcut for Refresh in Micro.blog app on Mac to Command-R, via System Preferences > Keyboard > Shortcuts. My muscle memory says thanks. 🙂