Germany Bans Proprietary Microsoft Spyware, Other Privacy News

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Nov 25, 2022,
updated Nov 25, 2022

• Germany Forces a Microsoft 365 Ban Due to Privacy Concerns

• Towards End-to-End Encryption for Direct Messages in the Fediverse

  And while that fact makes Mastodon DMs no less safe than Twitter DMs have been this whole time, there is clearly a lot of value and demand in deploying end-to-end encryption for ActivityPub (the protocol that Mastodon and other Fediverse software uses to communicate).

• TLS may not be what you think it is.

  By that the unpopular, de-central, self-signed certificates became even less known while a central infrastructure became mandatory (HSTS[4]). The winner took it all, again.

  Today TLS is a de-facto-central requirement which must be totally trusted by everybody.

  But now: “CA could open backdoor for US spies” https://netzpolitik.org/?p=390138

  Seems we escaped out of the frying pan into the fire.