Mallory Knodel

UN Report Calls for New Era for Digital Governance in which Tech Standards Respect Human Rights Published on the IETF's blog. You can view the original here: https://www.ietf.org/blog/un-report-calls-for-new-era-for-digital-governance In a major milestone in the movement to consider human rights impacts of technology, the

Backdoors 🤝 Spyware: Or, what you get with broken encryption and government hacking (hint: it’s genocide) Encryption backdoors and government hacking often emerge as competing solutions. Human rights groups tend to point out that this is a false dichotomy because while olicy makers present them as tradeoffs, they are in

This week's newsletter catches you up on the last three months in internet standards. The Star Monitor is a cooperative effort between Global Partners Digital and the Center for Democracy and Technology. Its aim is to help civil society organisations track discussions at internet standards bodies on a

This week's essay is a guest post from Tara Tarakiyee with their chef's kiss title: SconePro with Network Jam and Clotted Streams Last week I attended the IETF119 meeting in Brisbane (remotely), and I attended a meeting for a newly proposed working group called SCONEPRO where

Originally published on the CDT blog today, I gave some context to a recent RFC on an Internet Architecture Board workshop: More Encryption is the Goal: The Internet Architecture Board Holds a Workshop on Managing Encrypted Networks The privacy and security benefits of network traffic encryption have become much more

What you shouldn't miss whether you're online or in Brisbane for the upcoming IETF 119: * Check out the full meeting agenda, where you can usually download slides in advance as well as view draft minutes and video recordings shortly after sessions complete: https://datatracker.ietf.org/