Quinn Norton

My birthday I next month. I want something OTR-like for Twitter DM.

@quinnnorton RECONNECTIONS FOR THE RECONNECTION GOD

Ricochet has some reconnection problems, but it's my current pick for one-to-one desktop chat. Phone is whatsapp for now.

Friends, I'll be on Whatsapp on my phone for now.

My friends think I'm isolating or flaking because Signal isn't delivering messages. It takes a lot to make me give up, but Signal is there.

FBI walks into a Genius Bar. Agent says I need to unlock a phone. Genius says is there a charge in the battery case? Agent: how’d you know?

You are the worst, Feinstein-Burr.

Read this thread.https://twitter.com/quinnnorton/status/718494595445710848 …

The @EFF covenant idea helps, but it doesn't help enough, to me. Not in a world with these legal systems.

@quinnnorton the brightest minds of the era, far ahead of the institutions .. and to demonize them? my god ..

But they can't pretend that's not the world we live in now, that people aren't going to jail for stupid shit, that takes lives, families.

And @w3c did nothing to cause the legal prosecutions that are peppering the world with individual tragedy, it's not their fault.

Yeah, @EFF, we may not get another Netflix, but we'll lose people to this, lives ruined and destroyed by an out-of-control legal system.

Legal systems often attack the most vulnerable; those without political power, those at play, those ill equipped to defend themselves.

If they talk about it, if they share, if they distribute their work, whatever its motivation, legal systems will attack them.

These won't be violent criminals, or organized gangs, they will be people, probably young, doing things to media on their own computers.

I want to talk about the individuals, the humans who will face prosecution for playing with DRM, here and abroad, as @w3c & others push DRM.

What Bill Clinton said today exemplifies how whites see white addiction as a disease, black addiction as ppl becoming horror movie monsters.