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mikarv

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Associate Professor in Digital Rights & Regulation at University College London (#UCL), Faculty of Laws.
Not resigned to today's technological power structures (yet). Researching at the intersection of emerging technologies, law and policy; data protection; machine learning; PETs and cryptographic infrastructures; platform and infrastructural regulation. 🏳️‍🌈

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mikarv , to random
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absolute chaos on a new unmoderated listserv this week as tens of people used the ‘thumbs up’ feature in outlook, which apparently now sends an email, causing an unstoppable torrent

mikarv , to random
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if your mobile provider tries to stop you tethering (including when roaming) using your allowance, it's worth trying (on mac):

sudo sysctl net.inet.ip.ttl=65
sudo sysctl net.inet6.ip6.hlim=65

this adds +1 to the time to live of your computer's packets and fools simple detectors which try to block tethering on the basis that it is one extra hop from computer to phone before going to the telco.

mikarv , to random
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has anyone been writing or studying the political economy of recent DRM and copyright-related cryptosystems in operating systems or hardware? Intel's HDCP, Google's Widevine, Apple's Fairplay, and more? coming up blank.

mikarv OP ,
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@pluralistic @floe thanks! have read i think two of these posts but not the third or the book yet! am also curious about these specific systems (incentives behind development, financing and financial flows, arrangements of meetings, decision-making, dissemination of specs...)

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