Dropsafe

by Alec Muffett

Tag: interoperability

The simple test that blew up the FTC’s case against Meta | …absolutely fascinating read re: puncturing wild claims of “monopoly” in social networking

2025/11/20
I swear the #Eurovision song contest is the single best argument / thought-experiment against Messenger #interoperability under the EU Digital Markets Act

2025/05/17
Fabulous little explainer by @umcopu on Twitter (ThreadReader link provided) on how EU Digital Markets Act “interoperability” will negatively impact security & integrity of their platform offerings

2025/03/21
Husband pursues Apple after wife finds ‘deleted’ messages to prostitute

2024/06/14
EU DMA Interoperability: Pundit Predictions | …courtesy of an epic article from WiReD

2024/02/07
When Namespaces Collide: why it’s a bad idea to bind Phone Numbers to Messenger Software which offers Interoperability / “Free Upgrades” to Other Messengers

2024/01/02
I know this article a bit old, but I remain amazed that one of the big talking-points in favour of the EU’s DMA was that it would solve the “ivory tower” aspects of platforms such as iMessage being (e.g.) inaccessible to everyone on Android

2023/12/22
BREAKING: new paper from Jenny Blessing & Ross Anderson at Cambridge: “One Protocol to Rule Them All? On Securing Interoperable Messaging” re: interoperability under the EU #DigitalMarketsAct #DMA @rossjanderson

2023/03/25
A Civil Society Glossary and Primer for End-to-End Encryption Policy in 2022 — #privacy #surveillance #messenger #interoperability #encryption #endtoendencryption @WhatsApp @SignalApp

2022/06/30
Messenger Interoperability: pushing for conformity, destroying functional diversity, enabling abuse and dangerous monocultures

2022/04/14
Breaking Up “Ma Zuck” — how a generational divide amongst #DigitalRights #CivilSociety regarding #Messenger #Interoperability imperils the deployment of end-to-end encryption as a platform solution … for everyone

2022/04/04
The more I think about it, the more I realise quite what a *genius* ploy #messenger #interoperability is for those who want to surveil the world or resist it gaining “mass end-to-end encryption” #IOP

2022/03/31