IETF addresses human rights in protocols (20240912)

links, etc

• RFC 9620: Guidelines for Human Rights Protocol and Architecture Considerations

  i struggle with the IETF on a number of fronts, but this was a surprisingly compelling read. technology has become a far more powerful tool for suppression and surveillance than we thought it would be in the mid-late 1990s when we were super pumped about the democratization of information access.

  protocol analysis for information leakage is something that’s been de rigueur from a security perspective for some time, but even that’s proven to be insufficient.

• Learning to Reason with LLMs | OpenAI

  this looks surprisingly interesting to me. seems to be hitting a few folks buttons. i’ll be keen to see the reviews.

• Review: IFixit’s FixHub May Be The Last Soldering Iron You Ever Buy | Hackaday

  i really didn’t expect that i’d get sucked into an article about a soldering iron. now i kind of want one of these.

tags: #links, #IETF, #human-rights, #ai, #nerd, #2024