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<h5><a href="https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2022/06/hidden-anti-cryptography-provisions-in-internet-anti-trust-bills.html">Hidden Anti-Cryptography Provisions in Internet Anti-Trust Bills</a></h5>

-TechBytesBot/#techbytes-Hidden Anti-Cryptography Provisions in Internet Anti-Trust Bills - Schneier on Security

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<p>Two bills attempting to reduce the power of Internet monopolies are currently being debated in Congress: S. 2992, the American Innovation and Choice Online Act; and S. 2710, the Open App Markets Act. Reducing the power to tech monopolies would do more to “fix” the Internet than any other single action, and I am generally in favor of them both. (The Center for American Progress wrote a good

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summary and evaluation of them. I have written in support of the bill that would force Google and Apple to give up their monopolies on their phone app stores.)</p>

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<p>There is a significant problem, though. Both bills have provisions that could be used to break end-to-end encryption.</p>

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>>> Thinking back, I believe they attacked you and you stopped syndicating

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>>> onto Techrights in March 2021, the same time as the RMS mob

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>> Who do you mean by they?

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> I don't know but I get regular reports about gangstalkers from a subset

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> of FSFE/Debian who send messages to my friends, clients and

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> collaborators in other open source projects

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> Just out of interest, did anybody ever try to contact your wife to

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> harass you? That is the type of thing they are doing now.

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> It seems they eventually realized who owns the trademark in CH. I

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> avoided saying anything about it publicly to save them embarrassment but

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> now the cat is out of the bag.

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I intentionally said nothing on the subject until late last night as it had already become common knowledge.

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> I'm making a list of the suicides, Aaron Swartz, Ian Murdock, Frans Pop, etc

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> Do you know any other cases, even if they are not so famous?

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Arjen and at least one of Julian Assange's lawyers/associates (many died; at least 3 I think, but some of natural causes).

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Of no relation to Debian, but I spend AGES reading about this case at the time and links to articles hundreds of time :

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Shane_Todd

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-TechBytesBot/#techbytes-en.wikipedia.org | Death of Shane Todd - Wikipedia

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some suicides aren't what they seem and some murders aren't what they seem. But when all you have is a missing or dead body it's a coin toss and pseudoscience.

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DG1: close target monitoring

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A supporting or an oppressive exercise?

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Dear colleagues,

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We have been contacted by a number of colleagues reporting an increase in the degree of micromanagement they are facing in recent months. These micromanaging measures include, inter alia, a weekly monitoring of their targets, daily calls from their team manager, and excessive scrutiny of search strategies, communications or FO mailboxes. Although the purported intention of the intervention of the managers is to support the staff members, it is often

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experienced as oppressive and leaves colleagues feeling overwhelmed. Being in such a situation may seriously affect their health, and result in them needing to take sick leave.

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This publication provides recommendations on how to react to the pressurising practices.

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The Central Staff Committee - CSC

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22/06/2022

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[CSC] GCC meeting of 2 June 2022: The Mobility Package reloaded

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Dear colleagues,

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In a previous GCC meeting, the CSC members of the GCC gave a negative opinion on the new package on mobility corresponding to document CA/32/22. In the GCC meeting on 2 June, the President submitted document GCC/DOC 9/2022 aiming at the implementation of the mobility package. In particular, the CSC members of the GCC had to give their opinion on:

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· A new Circular on “Young Professionals”;

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· A new Circular on (outbound) secondment and on leave on personal grounds (aka unpaid leave);

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· Changes to Circular No. 364 lowering qualifications for external recruitment.