Author: alecm

Why offer an Onion Address rather than just encourage browsing-over-Tor?

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2025-12-302022-03-10 by alecm

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There are a bunch of reasons to launch an onion site, and a bunch of benefits, all of which have provided value to platforms such as Facebook, the BBC or NYT Onions. The first benefits are authenticity and availability: if … Read more

My interview with Steven Levy re. leaking of my Facebook Goodbye post

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2025-12-302021-10-26 by alecm

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Bottom Line Up Front: Frances, if you read this, do please tell the DCMS committee up front (and don’t let them distract or dissuade you) that people need the privacy which end-to-end encryption can bring to them, and that keeping … Read more