Post by @tinker@infosec.exchange

This affects the Fediverse.

This affects the Internet.

This is the equivalent of the "rubber hose method" of decryption.

All technical solutions (read: all technology) is subject to politics. To political power. To political interactions.

You cannot rely on purely technical approaches. You have to have social approaches, too. Like. Actual policy and procedure geared around social and political group dynamics.

Like. How will we react when the US Govt requires that @jerry to shut off infosec.exchange servers.

Or how we'll react when a specific Mastodon server is declared part of a terrorist infrastructure. Will federating with it mean any other Mastodon server is now part of the officially designated terrorist network (what then of people that federate with a server that federates with a server that is classified as part of a terrorist network. And so on)

You cannot carry the conceit that tech alone or a purely technical approach will save you.

#AutisticiInventati #fediverse

https://sabot.media/post/ai-shuts-down

Sabot Media

Nineteen Days Before the Deadline, Autistici/Inventati Is Shutting Down

The Italian communications collective survived raids, surveillance and server seizures for 25 years. Eleven days after the United States designated it a global terrorist organization, A/I says the risk to its users has become too great to…

#autisticiinventati #fediverse

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Toni Aittoniemi

@gimulnautti@mastodon.green 57 min. ago

@tinker @jerry Who knows, maybe MAGA will go and declare everyone who disagrees with them terrorist?

Maybe they’ll lift up an iron curtain of their own to ’protect christian values’?

That’s how these things usually go .. And we’ll have to disconnect anyway. 🤔

Woozle Hypertwin

@woozle@toot.cat 2 hr. ago

@tinker @jerry

I have often thought about this, and I keep coming back to the idea that we need a "dark" backup network that has its own DNS-equivalent.

I think the tech for this must already be out there (not sure if Tor is adequate; I'm not an expert; there's definitely newer tech which might be applicable) -- but I mean more the institutions and resources.

Guillermo Uria

@guillermouria@mastodon.uy 4 hr. ago

@tinker @jerry

If the Us government Things that I'm a Terrorist... I will consider it and honour

canleaf08 ⌘ ✅加拿大葉子

@canleaf@mastodon.social 5 hr. ago

@tinker @jerry mastodon could be on the list, too.

Ray McCarthy

@raymaccarthy@mastodon.ie 5 hr. ago

@tinker @jerry

The flaw is the USA Government is in charge ultimately of all public IPs and domain names.

It should have been under the ITU, which is now part of UN, but existed since the 19th C.
The USA can't disable phone number ranges or postal codes outside the USA.

The Internet needs decentralised and the 100s of millions of IP addresses given to US institutions returned to the global poo.

Poul-Henning Kamp

@bsdphk@fosstodon.org 6 hr. ago

@tinker @jerry

It is almost the very definition of "political problem" that it does not have a technological solution.

Maya

@skyblitz@ieji.de 7 hr. ago

@tinker @jerry it simply show why the real traitor are all those website that continue to rely on US infrastructure and CDN, once the NAZI in US decide they need to die they die.