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EP 274.5 Deep Dive. More Moxie in the IT Privacy and Security Weekly Update for the week ending January
Core message
Personal AI, consumer devices, and global networks are converging into a new arena where data, infrastructure, and talent are strategic assets, not just products.
Policy, open-source security, and novel computing architectures provide early but meaningful counterweights to surveillance capitalism and cyber conflict.
AI: privacy vs convenience
Privacy-first AI like Moxie Marlinspike’s Confer uses open-source code, end‑to‑end encryption, on‑device keys, and secure hardware to ensure user conversations cannot be read even by the service operator.
Google’s Gemini-powered Gmail adds…
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