”Facebook “secretly signed Whitelist and Data sharing agreements” with Netflix, along with “dozens” of other third-party app developers… …to access, among other things, Facebook users' “messaging app and non-app friends. …allowed Netflix programmatic access to Facebook’s users' private message inboxes, in exchange for which Netflix petri Mar 29, 2024, 5:29 AM
”Bluesky is basically abstracting out each layer of a social media service and allowing anyone to provide alternatives at each layer… It creates a system that feels as simple and comprehensive as a centralized system, but which is actually decentralized, and enables anyone else to jump in and provide additional… petri Mar 28, 2024, 8:08 PM
”Bitkey, as a self-custodial solution, sits somewhere between a stand-alone Tapsigner and a fully-open, interoperable multisig wallet. It does better than the stand-alone Tapsigner in some areas (e.g. 2-of-3 security), while poorer in other areas (e.g. not interoperable; tightly coupled to Block… petri Mar 27, 2024, 6:50 PM
”in 2016, the task force created new software that could "be installed on iOS and Android that intercept traffic for specific sub-domains, allowing us to read what would otherwise be encrypted traffic so we can measure in-app usage (i.e. specific actions that people are performing in petri Mar 26, 2024, 5:50 PM
”AT Protocol will be able to support other kinds of apps, and then users will be able to move between them with the same identity and relationships, and then that will just make it a lot easier for other people to build. And so that was part of our idea… petri Mar 26, 2024, 5:29 AM
”Dataminr pays for privileged access to X through the company’s “firehose”: a direct, unfiltered feed of every single piece of user content ever shared publicly to the platform. Watching everything that happens on X in real time is key to Dataminr’s pitch to the government. The company essentially… petri Mar 25, 2024, 6:15 PM
