privacy
Keeping what people say to each other between them: end-to-end encryption, backdoors, and what a company will shut down rather than break.
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Matt Birchler quoted
Designer, product manager
Their wordsIf you're going to convince people that your phone is really listening to you and sharing every word you say with advertisers across the world, you need to do better than, "oh, there was this coincidence."
- 6 days earlier
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Horace Dediu quoted
Analyst of the business of technology
Their wordsThe exposure Apple actually guards against is not hallucination but a violation of privacy or security, where a single leak brings lawsuits and regulators at once.
↗Asymco Bulletin 031 – Sep 20, 2026asymco.com 2nd of 3 in this piece
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Horace Dediu quoted
Their wordsIt's far more scandalous if they're accused of some sort of leak of information. They'd get sued right away.
↗Siri, not a companion, by design.asymco.com 2nd of 2 in this piece
- 5 days earlier
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Terence Eden quoted
British open-standards and open-source technologist
Their wordsThere's no privacy expectation although you might rely on their discretion.
- 3 days earlier
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Ray Maker quoted
Reviews sports technology at DC Rainmaker — watches
Their wordsThere are also new audio features that I suspect will be quite controversial down the road.
↗Apple Watch Ultra 4 & Series 12 Hands-On: Everything that’s New!dcrainmaker.com 1st of 2 in this piece
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Ray Maker quoted
Their wordsI've got some legit concerns around the Siri Recap feature specifically, in terms of privacy (not just my privacy, but people around me).
↗Apple Watch Ultra 4 & Series 12 Hands-On: Everything that’s New!dcrainmaker.com 2nd of 2 in this piece
- 2 weeks earlier
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Katelyn Jetelina quoted
Epidemiologist; founded Your Local Epidemiologist in March…
Our readingDefunding public health surveillance systems allows foodborne disease outbreaks to go undetected.
Their wordsWhen the public health systems meant to catch and stop this stuff are cut (less funding, less staff, less historical knowledge, and less leadership), outbreaks can, and will, emerge between the cracks.
↗Foodborne illness increase? Common cold, Covid-19 summer wave, and more.yourlocalepidemiologist.substack.com 2nd of 3 in this piece
- 2 weeks earlier
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Peter Steinberger quoted
Founded PSPDFKit in 2011 and ran it for a decade
Their wordsEvery lab will sell you an agent. Open claw is the alternative. Open source runs everywhere, works with any model. And if you run local models, your data never has to leave your device.
↗Peter Steinberger: "Fun Is Velocity"youtube.com 10th of 22 in this recording
- 13 days earlier
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Sam Altman quoted
Co-founder and CEO of OpenAI
Their wordsthere's like one dystopia that I'm particularly nervous about 10 years from now is we overreact to AI safety.
↗Sam Altman: "Never a Better Time to Do a Startup"youtube.com 20th of 20 in this recording
- 2 weeks earlier
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Balaji Srinivasan quoted
Co-founder of Counsyl and of Earn.com
Their wordsEncryption thus limits governments in a way no legislation can.
- 5 weeks earlier
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Tony Fadell quoted
Creator of the iPod and co-creator of the iPhone at Apple
Their wordsthe way you get best context is by having sensors properly placed around the home that don't necessarily invade privacy, but allow you to pick up a lot of comings and goings and who's who in the room and your voice and these kinds of things.
↗Tony Fadell: How to build real taste (and why AI makes it matter more)youtube.com 4th of 23 in this recording
- 4 weeks earlier
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Eric Ries quoted
Author of The Lean Startup and Incorruptible
Their wordsThe trust that they gained is the reason why they're a 70 billion dollar company today. But most leaders when asked to defend their principles can't do it because they've been taught ROI based thinking.
↗How Anthropic, Costco, and Patagonia all build incorruptible companies | Eric Riesyoutube.com 12th of 24 in this recording
- 4 weeks earlier
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Colin Percival quoted
FreeBSD developer and former FreeBSD Security Officer
Their wordsWith requests going over TLS it is obviously less critical now, but end-to-end signing is always going to be better than transport-layer security.
↗20 Years on AWS and Never Not My Jobdaemonology.net 1st of 3 in this piece
- 2 days earlier
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Emanuele Bartolesi quoted
Italian software architect working on Microsoft 365
Their wordsYou avoid sending prompts and contexts to external services. This is the strongest reason to use local models.
↗Using GitHub Copilot CLI with Local Models (LM Studio)emanuelebartolesi.com 1st of 2 in this piece
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Marco Arment quoted
Developer and podcaster; created Instapaper and Overcast
Their wordsApple leads the industry in these values, but leading doesn't always mean excelling.
- 4 weeks earlier
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Craig Mod quoted
Writer, photographer and software maker based in Japan
Our readingControl over your own data, and over how you view and engage with it, will be non-negotiable
Their wordsWhy would we lock ourselves into someone else's proprietary binary? Control over our data, and control over how we view and engage with it, feels like it will be utterly non-negotiable going forward.
- 2 months earlier
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Orin Kerr quoted
Professor of law at Stanford
Their wordsDoctrinally, either answer is at least plausible; even under my own take of what Carpenter means, it's not an easy call.
↗Are There Fourth Amendment Rights in Google Search Terms?reason.com 1st of 2 in this piece
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Orin Kerr quoted
Their wordsAs I have argued here, I don't think TOS alter Fourth Amendment rights—up or down.
↗Are There Fourth Amendment Rights in Google Search Terms?reason.com 2nd of 2 in this piece
- 3 months earlier
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Pavel Durov quoted
Founder of Telegram, and before it of VK
Their wordsNo, never. Telegram has never shared a single private message with anyone, including governments and intelligence services. If you try to access any server in any of the data center locations, it's all encrypted.
↗Pavel Durov: Telegram, Freedom, Censorship, Money, Power & Human Nature | Lex Fridman Podcast #482youtube.com 10th of 28 in this recording
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Pavel Durov quoted
Their wordsNo. We designed a system in a way that's impossible. It'll require us to change the system and we won't do that because we made a promise to our users. We would rather shut Telegram down in a certain country than do that.
↗Pavel Durov: Telegram, Freedom, Censorship, Money, Power & Human Nature | Lex Fridman Podcast #482youtube.com 11th of 28 in this recording
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Pavel Durov quoted
Our readingThe right to privacy is fundamental; without it people cannot feel fully free and protected.
Their wordsI think it's fundamental. Without the right to privacy, people can't feel fully free and protected.
↗Pavel Durov: Telegram, Freedom, Censorship, Money, Power & Human Nature | Lex Fridman Podcast #482youtube.com 12th of 28 in this recording
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Pavel Durov quoted
Their wordsAt the same time, if you were really paranoid, you think, I don't want to be screenshotted, I don't want to have any leaks, I don't even trust Telegram, I only trust code. Secret Chats are the best option. I believe is the most secure means of communication today.
↗Pavel Durov: Telegram, Freedom, Censorship, Money, Power & Human Nature | Lex Fridman Podcast #482youtube.com 19th of 28 in this recording
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Pavel Durov quoted
Their wordsYou need reproducible builds in order to verify that the app really does what it claims, really encrypts data in a way that it is described on its website. For that you need to make your apps open source for any researchers to have a look at it.
↗Pavel Durov: Telegram, Freedom, Censorship, Money, Power & Human Nature | Lex Fridman Podcast #482youtube.com 20th of 28 in this recording
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Pavel Durov quoted
Their wordsSo premium is one source of our revenue. We also have ads, but they're context-based, not targeted. Of course, we leave probably 80% of value on the table because we're not ready to engage in all this practices, exploiting personal data.
↗Pavel Durov: Telegram, Freedom, Censorship, Money, Power & Human Nature | Lex Fridman Podcast #482youtube.com 22nd of 28 in this recording
- 6 months earlier
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Orin Kerr quoted
Their wordsBecause of the way computers happen to work, sticking with the old rules would mean gutting Fourth Amendment protection over time.
↗The Idea of My New Book, The Digital Fourth Amendment—and Why It Mattersreason.com 2nd of 2 in this piece
- 7 months earlier
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Mike Masnick quoted
Founder and editor of Techdirt
Their wordsBut, here, it’s hard not to see that as totally pretextual: an excuse to arrest Durov over other stuff they don’t like him doing.
↗Durov’s Arrest Details Released, Leaving More Questions Than Answerstechdirt.com 1st of 4 in this piece
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Matthew Green quoted
Cryptographer and professor at Johns Hopkins University
Their wordsTelegram clearly fails to meet this stronger definition for a simple reason: it does not end-to-end encrypt conversations by default.
↗Is Telegram really an encrypted messaging app?blog.cryptographyengineering.com 1st of 4 in this piece
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Matthew Green quoted
Their wordsIndeed, it no longer feels amusing to see the Telegram organization urge people away from default-encrypted messengers, while refusing to implement essential features that would widely encrypt their own users’ messages.
↗Is Telegram really an encrypted messaging app?blog.cryptographyengineering.com 3rd of 4 in this piece
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Matthew Green quoted
Their wordsTo be honest though, it doesn’t matter how secure something is if people aren’t actually using it.
↗Is Telegram really an encrypted messaging app?blog.cryptographyengineering.com 4th of 4 in this piece
- 3 months earlier
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Varun Raj Manoharan quoted
Indian software engineer and co-founder of Skcript
Their wordsI don't think Apple will try to enter either enterprise or the cloud models space, which is a good thing for privacy first people.