ying tong @mossy.bsky.social · 21/08/2026So excited for the Autumn School on cryptography & ethnography ✨ social-foundations-of-cryptography.gitlab.io/schoolsocial-foundations-of-cryptography.gitlab.ioAutumn School · Social Foundations of CryptographyEthnography unearths what the group (under study) takes for granted. 010
Reposted by ying tongJoseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 22/07/2026You opened a credit card. ICE now knows where you live. Here's how when you open a credit card your address leaves your bank, goes through middlemen companies, and ends up with ICE. ICE plans to use this data for immigration and 'voter fraud'. No warrant More: www.404media.co/you-opened-a... 3317261037
ying tong @mossy.bsky.social · 16/06/2026"With these decisions, the Supreme Court endorsed one of the core ideas behind the imperial presidency: the unitary executive theory. This doctrine [...] provides that the executive branch has unilateral authority to use secrecy arguments, no matter how flimsy, to close the courthouse doors" 000
ying tong @mossy.bsky.social · 16/06/2026"Judges aren't supposed to "fix" the laws that Congress passes by rewriting them to include things that Congress did not include. They aren't supposed to be shadow lawmakers in black robes. If Congress wrote an unconstitutional statute, Congress, not a court, should be the one to fix it." 100
ying tong @mossy.bsky.social · 16/06/2026"As we would learn the hard way in the coming years, even a judge who starts out courageous in the face of national security claims, often bends over time." 110
ying tong @mossy.bsky.social · 16/06/2026"There is nothing in the First Amendment doctrine that likens it to Coca-Cola -- with 'classic' and 'light' versions." 100
ying tong @mossy.bsky.social · 16/06/2026A fascinating read. The process of making law is so fuzzy, especially when it comes to the intersection of civil liberties and frontier technologies. And this memoir only covers state surveillance, specifically in the US! Some of my favourite quotes: 110
ying tong @mossy.bsky.social · 21/05/2026Beautiful read, "Practice-Oriented Provable Security and the Social Construction of Cryptography" www.cs.ucdavis.edu/~rogaway/pap...cs.ucdavis.edu 010
ying tong @mossy.bsky.social · 21/05/2026"To a significant extent, cryptography has been a search for desirable abstraction boundaries. And it’s not mathematical or scientific truth that helps you find good abstraction boundaries. They are drawn by those who work in a field to advance it in a chosen direction." - Phillip Rogaway (2021) 110
Reposted by ying tongDWeb @getdweb.net · 05/05/2026🏗️ Building a resilient tech ecosystem, community-driven privacy endeavours, and collectively owned ISPs 📡 💡 This and more in the latest DWeb Meetup, with Will Scott from Protocol Labs, Riley Wong from Community Privacy Residency, and Lars Gierth from Freifunk. 📹 Watch the recording 371
ying tong @mossy.bsky.social · 06/12/2025We're starting to plan for Community Privacy Residency in 2026, Berlin! A look back on 2025, and ways to collaborate on the next iteration: community-privacy.github.io/recap-highli...community-privacy.github.io highlights from 2025 | Community Privacy Residency (2025) highlights from 2025, and looking forward to 2026 in Berlin 031
ying tong @mossy.bsky.social · 21/10/2025Drivers can also detect if they are being offered different wages for the same customer (algorithmic wage discrimination) -- in general this would be a good tool for crowdsourced algorithmic audits like FairFare arxiv.org/pdf/2502.11273arxiv.org 000
ying tong @mossy.bsky.social · 21/10/2025A funny idea for a "vampire Uber" app: both drivers and passengers use Uber with zkTLS, and submit their matches to vampire Uber. On vampire Uber, we remove Uber's cut of the profit, so the driver is paid more and the passenger pays less 110
Reposted by ying tongEvan Greer @evangreer.bsky.social · 23/08/2025This is the right response to the Mississippi law from Bluesky. "Age verification" laws are nothing more than a massive expansion of government surveillance and censorship. They make kids less safe, not more safe. Get a VPN and call your lawmakers. Time to fight. www.wired.com/story/bluesk...wired.comBluesky Goes Dark in Mississippi Over Age Verification LawBluesky has chosen to block access in the state rather than risk potential fines of up to $10,000 per violation. 20954417
ying tong @mossy.bsky.social · 25/05/2025We require interaction for device-binding, and want deniable presentation i.e. don't want public verifiability 000
ying tong @mossy.bsky.social · 25/05/2025I'm increasingly convinced that interactive zk is the correct tool for digital ID systems, more than zk-SNARKs 110
ying tong @mossy.bsky.social · 21/05/2025Is it worse to show a physical ID at the liquor store, or to tap your Google Wallet and create a zk proof of age (and a digital trace of this interaction)? 000
ying tong @mossy.bsky.social · 27/02/2025Two-party computation in halo2 ✨ blog.ezkl.xyz/post/cosnarks/ 130
ying tong @mossy.bsky.social · 19/12/2024I'm co-organising a Community Privacy Residency in Taipei next Feb: focused on researching, co-designing, and prototyping applications for community privacy 💗 We invite community builders, designers, researchers, and advocates for digital safety and privacy to join us. community-privacy.github.iocommunity-privacy.github.io Community Privacy Residency (2025) privacy and cryptography tools that protect and empower communities from the ground up 051
ying tong @mossy.bsky.social · 05/01/2024i'm finally sick of Twitter, i'm coming here to share pics of flowers + my cat Odette 1110
Reposted by ying tongePrint Updates @eprint.ing.bot · 11/08/2023Arke: Scalable and Byzantine Fault Tolerant Privacy-Preserving Contact Discovery (Nicolas Mohnblatt, Alberto Sonnino, Kobi Gurkan, Philipp Jovanovic) ia.cr/2023/1218 1102
Reposted by ying tongspooky Deirdre Connolly¹ ² at a distance @durumcrustulum.com · 30/07/2023Extremely cool private programmability presented by @mossy.bsky.social 132
