06.02.20
Gemini version available ♊︎Techrights Can Figure Out Source Protection/Anonymisation Whilst Operating Very Transparently
Summary: We’re still quite radically transparent whilst at the same time enjoying 100% source protection record; we’re also improving the software we use to publish more quickly and efficiently
THIS site of ours is extremely transparent. People who read our IRC logs or lurk in IRC know that. We keep almost no secrets, except when it is absolutely necessary, such as protection of sources. It’s not hard to figure out who we are and what our plans are (e.g. upcoming articles); we always try to be as transparent as possible so long as that does not undermine an upcoming story or harm a source.
“We remain committed to posting the Daily Links every day, sometimes twice per day, and our daily IRC postings will turn one later this summer.”Having said that, logs aren’t published in real time. I typically generate and upload these shortly after midnight. Links to the logs are added later in the day. We habitually receive mail in response to published logs (like views that readers have about our proceedings). This means that lurking is possible without an IRC client and even input can be sent. In a sense, publishing these logs improves not only transparency but also a feedback loop — the type of thing that can inspire future or follow-up articles.
We remain committed to posting the Daily Links every day, sometimes twice per day, and our daily IRC postings will turn one later this summer. We’ve never regretted improving transparency (and speed of transparency; it takes hours, never more than 24 hours). It has brought lots of benefits and put nobody at risk.
We realise that nowadays many “comments” go into social control media and not blog sections (which is a shame for blogs). We make up for it with IRC, E-mail, and various other means of communication. We rarely suffer from Internet trolls, only the habitual DDOS attacks (quite a few of these lately).
We recently improved our tooling a little further to help improve productivity (we have our Git server, which should become public at some stage after migration to containers). We strive to eventually return to publishing about 10 posts a day — just like we did a decade ago, on average (back then we also published IRC logs on a daily basis).
There’s not much to say about the EPO these days, partly because of the lock-down. As for 35 U.S.C. § 101, which bars many software patents, it’s still being leveraged and enforced against software patents in courts (never mind the USPTO) and with the death of the UPC we hope to further advance the push against software patents in Europe. This is still a top priority. It has been for a very long time. █
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