Ashoat

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so does this mean that a non-UK person visiting the UK will have their encryption disabled?

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On 13 February 2025, 109 civil society organizations, companies, and cybersecurity experts, including Global Encryption Coalition members, published a joint letter to the British Home Secretary Yvette Cooper calling on the UK Home Office to rescind its demand that Apple create a backdoor into its end-to-end encrypted services. The letter remains open until 20 February for additional signatories, please join Quilibrium, Tor, Zcash, Filecoin, and many others in taking a stand against this assault on our right to use cryptography. https://www.globalencryption.org/2025/02/joint-letter-on-the-uk-governments-use-of-investigatory-powers-act-to-attack-end-to-end-encryption/#dbd1ccb2-bd78-49eb-b262-b41b0bf71c72-link

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this is basically the new GTM for @comm.eth! https://warpcast.com/ashoat.eth/0x7da6aca1

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One distinction: tornado cash wasn't fully decentralized, and the reason they could successfully stop use of it was by virtue of Ethereum being a public ledger. If Q traffic is indistinguishable from other encrypted communications, the only notability would be that they can't decrypt it in this hypothetical. Are they going to also implement a great firewall? It goes over LoRa too. They can have fun stopping radio waves. I’m in my bonus round in life. This is my final fight. If the country changed and tried to blatantly violate the constitution so deeply and actually succeed at using said force, I will gladly be a criminal under such laws.

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respect you and your views, and I may be uninformed in some way, but it strikes me those things applied to Tornado Cash too: decentralized protocol, open source, many devs wanting the network to live on the one clear difference to me is the legal argument, which as an American I very much hope you’re right on sadly the UK government is maybe the worst violator of privacy as a civil liberty in the “free world”, and I really hope the US doesn’t play along with their schemes

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I’d guess that the techniques used to shut down Tornado Cash, techniques used to bring Pavel Durov into compliance, etc. are generalizable against pretty much any software project I’ll admit we’ve never seen it tried on a blockchain project with massive scale/traction. purely hypothetical, but I wonder what would happen if the Feds issued arrest warrants on Vitalik, all major ETH devs, all large node operators, etc. probably still couldn’t fully take down Ethereum, at least not without more governments onboard but for Q… if the British government extradited you for not complying with the same order they gave Apple, what would happen to the project?

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hmm the article describes a government order that compels Apple to introduce a backdoor to make all “fully encrypted material” viewable to the UK government seems like something that’s impossible to protect against with software

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lol I def brought walking sticks for the photoshoot beforehand, this was a real worry

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I got married last Saturday!!

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announcement time: super is joining warpcast we are joining forces with @dwr.eth and @v to build farcaster into the most important social network on the planet, together farcaster has never been stronger and i’m grateful for everyone who helped us get here below is the story and what is happening next

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re: DCs — optimistic we have something for you soon.

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new DC setting screen on mobile just dropped

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we thought about it for a bit for sharing individual chatrooms but first priority is going to be integrating DCs

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thanks for the report!! will look into this

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oof that sounds pretty bad does it consistently repro, or does it depend on eg. connection quality?

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this is on mobile, right? you get a notif and then you click it, but then when you open the chat the message isn't there, and you need to wait for it to pop up? minutes is a long time... wondering if it's a low-bandwidth connection?

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not yet but will keep y’all updated

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bring back bonzi buddy

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Central Cee and 21 Savage both spaz on this track listened to like 10 times in a row now lol, thanks for sharing

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