Daily Archives: 2019-02-28

#FixItAlready: EFF’s wishlist for fixing tech’s worst privacy and security choices

Source: Boing Boing

Article note: I really like this "concrete examples in familiar products, explained with implications" presentation of agitating for better behavior.

Android should let users deny and revoke permissions; Apple should let people encrypt Icloud backups, Twitter should end-to-end encrypt DMs; all these and more appear on the Electronic Frontier Foundation's #FixItAlready page, which calls out Big Tech's biggest players for their biggest security and privacy fumbles, and explains in clear terms why these changes are needed. Read the rest

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UC terminates subscriptions with Elsevier in push for open access

Source: Hacker News

Article note: Damn. The UC system is not a small player, and while several large European institutions have already done so, AFIK they're the first large entity in the U.S. to ditch Elsevier. It is a legitimate "death to the parasites" situation, but also a little annoying on the ground floor to have to take "alternate" methods to get to publications.
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