Lunch & Liberty 1/10
Next Wednesday, we will have our re:BASED round table, hosted on X Spaces! We will chat about technology and liberty.
Wednesday, 1/10, at 12pm CT / 1pm ET \
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Please RSVP by replying to this email if you intend to join us, and we’ll send you a calendar invitation. If you have an exciting project you’ve been working on, let us know so we can schedule a slot for you to present it!
Hope to see you there!
Daring Bits
Digital Identity Systems, Incoming - Digital Identity Systems are coming for your anonymity, and 80% of the world will be required to use them by the end of this decade. This talk explains how these systems work, why they’re a big problem, and which strategies have been effective in resisting them.
Mass iPhone Hack - Remember that time we warned about closed hardware being a black box of security risks? A sophisticated [state-sponsored?] iPhone hack has now been exposed that exploited an undocumented hardware vulnerability. Open source and RISC-V ftw.
Writing Secure Software - Security and software engineering are often unaligned. Fefe explains how he applies security principles to a real-world software project: his own blog.
‘Eigensolutions’: Antidote to Overfit - To avoid bad product design, Lea Verou proposes designing smaller, highly generalizable solutions that can be composed into larger, more specific solutions.
Robot Overlords
ChatGPT Writes Laws Now - A Brazilian lawmaker’s bill was written by ChatGPT - which he admitted only after it was signed into law. Also, ChatGPT is deciding the fate of criminals now. If that’s not overlording…
‘Codeless’ Games - Josh Olin uses ChatGPT to build an entire game without him having to even look at any code.
