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  • is such a hassle it wouldn’t really pass in any company

    Hate to tell you, this is now the norm. Right now, today, thousands of corporate travelers!

    Company creates a travel laptop, perhaps even just a completely empty kiosk laptop. Corporate traveler downloads critical data to the laptop in an enclave (like a presentation). They have a two-factor token with them. If they need to get back to the corporate network for whatever reason, they use remote desktop software and no data is stored on the local device. They’re given policies telling them that if the computer is out of their possession, or view at any time, that the device is not to be used whatsoever afterwards. Contact security and let them deal with it.

    When the traveler comes back to the mothership, laptop is checked into IT, it’s completely wiped.

    Does remote desktop software suck? Yeah. It’s better than the alternative though






  • No, I’m pretty f****** loathe.

    Governments dictating technical standards, is fine if it’s a regulatory body that’s dynamic, but bad if the technical standard is encodified in the law itself.

    In the United States the American national standards association, as well as other bodies, set standards, and the government can dictate that you need to use a standard for mainstream device. That’s fine

    But a lot saying you must use USB-C, that’s crazy. USB-C has a limited lifespan. Plus they’ll be innovation in the future.





  • Yeah. When I heard what they were doing with the library stuff. I thought that was such a weird hill to die on.

    Like how could any lawyer tell them they had a chance in hell of breaking copyright law at scale, because of the pandemic?

    And they didn’t create a new organization to do this very legally risky thing, they did it under their normal organization not some LLC. Crazy









  • To me, this only makes sense if it’s integrated advertising in the browser. Trying to get third party websites to use their advertising network probably will be a very difficult sale.

    It could be a way of greenwashing, or whatever the expression is for privacy washing, businesses like meta, Google, by letting them license a “privacy friendly” advertisement platform.

    As far as I’m aware, there’s only two major online advertising platforms, meta and Google. So breaking in is a third platform would be difficult, unless they could integrate into apps directly through Mozilla’s app footprint

    https://www.anonymco.com/

    driving advertising performance requires privacy-enhancing approaches to data driven marketing. Anonym’s privacy preserving solutions allow you to take full advantage of your data assets.

    Fundamentally, privacy and data-driven marketing are diametrically opposed


  • Here’s how it works:

    • Secure Environment: Data sets are matched in a highly secure environment, ensuring advertisers, publishers, and Anonym don’t access any user level data.
    • Anonymized Analytics: The process results in anonymized insights and models, helping advertisers measure and improve campaign performance while safeguarding consumer privacy.
    • Differential Privacy Algorithms: These algorithms add “noise” to the data, protecting it from being traced back to individual users.

    Okay. It’s still boils down to give us all the data and trust us. But hopefully they’re more trustworthy than other people, and not corrupted by influence and money like other humans are?


    By combining Mozilla’s scale and trusted reputation with Anonym’s cutting-edge technology, we can enhance user privacy and advertising effectiveness, leveling the playing field for all stakeholders.

    I was surprised they said they’re so explicitly, but yeah they’re trying to monetize the Mozilla reputation for things that I’m not sure stick to their core philosophy