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This post, in italian, is a followup to an interview I gave a couple of weeks ago on national radio Radio24 interviewed by Enrico Pagliarini. He was puzzled learning that I don’t use (almost) any of the most common internet service so we chatted about tools I use instead. Blog reader Antonio Massaro thought a good idea was to publish a blog post about it and he pushed me to write it. — Questo post è il seguito di un’intervista che ho rilasciato un paio di settimane fa su Radio24 intervistato da Enrico Pagliarini. E’ stato incuriosito dal sapere che…

The attorneys general of Australia, the UK and the US have written an open letter to Facebook calling for a delay in introducing end to end encryption in messengers. here it is: HS_open_letter_to_Mark_Zuckerberg This must be the same australian person who once said that, in Australia, State laws prevail on the laws of mathematics. “We are committed to working with you to focus on reasonable proposals that will allow Facebook and our governments to protect your users and the public, while protecting their privacy. Our technical experts are confident that we can do so while defending cybersecurity and supporting technological…

Deepfakes in real time have become famous because they allow a person to impersonate a celebrity by making him say what he wants. but it also allows a person to say anything hiding behind an ordinary person, a sort of “videoalias”. to know who says what, it is no longer enough to simply watch a video while listening to the voice of the speaker. seeing is no longer believing. like today we don’t trust a piece of news written in a twit but we look at who writes it, soon we won’t trust what we see anymore, the context will…

Today I participated in a breakfast meeting of the Bruno Leoni Institute on the subject of taxation of digital income . (Unfortunately, I arrived late). But the speaker was my friend Massimiliano Trovato; we know each other’s theses very well (we know very well what is the microdetail that divides us and from which our different points of view derive) and I could make my own argument (as a contribution from the public) without leaving the theme. IMHO, as you know, we are facing a new type of income and as such should be treated (explanation). Then a man intervened…

by adding information to the classic economic categories work, production, capital, clearly the equation changes and capitalism as we know tends to disappear. if information “eats the world” and it is not a private good, capitalism will be over. if the only way to ensure excludability (like privacy needs imply) is through data/services access control, feudalism follows (like we have today, thanks to datalords who are info-plutocrats). in a positive feedback loop, data concentration by datalords (who are gatekeepers to markets) erodes willingness to compete by new entrants (who don’t have access to the same information and thus can’t have…

The European Commission has just launched a survey targeted at developers of Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) to understand their needs and how the EU can contribute to a safer open source ecosystem. Survey questions are primarily about the Security of free and open source software, and what the European Commission can do to help developers make more secure software. The FOSS developer survey is part of the EU-FOSSA 2 project, an initiative from the EU to improve the security and integrity of the most critical open source software in use. Besides the survey, other project activities include bug…

some notes; contributions to the discussion are welcome. With the advent of the Internet, the political parties have seen gradually liquefying the intermediate structures that were justified by the friction determined by geographic constraints. these intermediate structures were essential for organising consensus, obtaining feedback and to select managing members. they allowed the number of people involved in the complexity of political decisions to be extended by skipping geography and communicating directly, these functions have disappeared, ways and times of building consensus and mediation have vaporised leading to fragmentation; the political message has become trivialized becoming even more polarized and appealing…

I read of artificial intelligence startups who propose themselves to law enforcers offering systems to detect the hidden emotions of people. And law enforcers are listening to them. The fitness of the horse is a metaphor of their income statement

(english at the bottom) — c’e’ uno studio, di cui scriverò separatamente, che dimostra senza alcun dubbio che non si può pensare ad una autoregolamentazione o solo all’educazione. dimostra che l’obiettivo della società e l’obiettivo delle aziende diverge strutturalmente. quindi servirà una regolamentazione serve una regolamentazione semplice, rispettosa della libertà di espressione e che non alteri i modelli di business e non butti il bambino delle nuove possibilità con l’acqua sporca del loro uso distorto (*). secondo  me, il nocciolo del problema sono le diverse proprieta’ tra la dimensione materiale e quella immateriale (autocit. di “Capitalismo Immateriale – Bollati e…