Barcelona — we’re back at @AKASHAorg on November 6th!🇪🇸 Pizzas with drinks to start. Roundtable discussions to follow. And… a @mozillafestival ticket giveaway in the end for one lucky attendee! Come build with us, join the @Logos_network movement! luma.com/qf2d3ao0

You wanted to opt out, they want to make it illegal. Digital IDs, programmable money, biometric gates - the panopticon is operational. Nepal fought back, Vietnam complied. Cypherpunks still code tools to vanish. The quiet future belongs to ghosts. Story below.

Overview off all privacy events @EFDevcon 🇦🇷 Nov 16, @web3privacy Cypherpunk Congress #2 Nov 17-22, Privacy district @ Devconnect Nov 17-22, Privacy Hub @ Devconnect Nov 17, @0xMiden Privacy Salon Nov 17, @RAILGUN_Project Private Party Nov 18, zkID and client-side proving Nov 19, zkTLS @PrivacyEthereum Nov 19, Encryption Day @fhenix Nov 19, Privacy & Compliance summit @partyactionppl Nov 20, Noircon3 @aztecnetwork Nov 21, Ethereum Privacy Stack Nov 21, ZK Real World Summit @zk_monk Nov 22, Applications To FHE Nov 22, Obfuscation (iO) Day Nov 22, @Waku_org Privacy Hacker lounge Links below ✨

Yesterday, an AWS outage caused the internet to grind to a halt due to an issue at US-EAST-1, a single data centre relied on by companies worldwide. Reddit, Snapchat, Signal, and Facebook were all affected. Online banking and money transfer platforms, including Venmo, Lloyds, and Halifax, could not service customers in the US, Europe, and other regions. Government services were unavailable in many countries, and major telecommunications networks were heavily impacted. But despite being born from the principles of decentralisation, crypto did not fare any better. The world’s biggest exchanges, including Coinbase, experienced intermittent downtime and disruptions. This was not a one-off event. Outages at AWS, Azure, and other tech giants regularly bring down large swathes of our internet because they are the companies that host and route traffic through to almost everything online. Just three companies account for more than 60% of the cloud storage market: AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud. No matter how private or secure your protocol or platform is, its control rests with somebody else if it is hosted by a centralised cloud giant. If one of these companies has an issue or outage, as they are prone to do, you lose your ability to interact online. The risks around privacy and security are even worse when you consider the potential impact of a data leak or exploitation of user data at these entities. The web was never envisioned to be this centralised, ruled by a few digital barons. The ideal envisioned by its pioneers was to send data between people, distribute the load of hosting, and relay information across a network of actors incentivised not to extract data but to provide secure and reliable network performance. To put the internet back in the hands of its users, we don’t need to fight the tech giants for control of their data centres; we only need to build better tools that let us speak and share directly with each other – privately, anonymously, and securely. That is the vision behind Logos. → A peer-to-peer communications protocol for private, scalable messaging and data transport. → A distributed storage network that is reliable, censorship resistant, and built to endure disruption. → A privacy-preserving blockchain for decentralised organising and governance. With these tools, and working together, we can exit the digital feudalism of the tech barons and craft our own self-governed internet and distributed societies, free from centralised control and designed with our interests and privacy at heart. Help us build a decentralised internet to unlock prosperity for all. Join Logos.

The Ethereum Foundation is committed to working alongside the ecosystem to make privacy a priority. Privacy is normal. Privacy is for everyone. blog.ethereum.org/2025/10/08…

The EU’s “Chat Control” legislative proposal violates fundamental rights… Rights that are supposedly protected under the EU Charter: privacy, freedom of expression, and the protection of personal data. It’s framed as a measure to fight online child abuse. However, in practice, it mandates mass surveillance of private communications, including encrypted chats. Platforms could be forced to perform client-side scanning, meaning your messages would be inspected before they’re encrypted. As we’ve seen repeatedly, legislation passed to address one concern is routinely used for purposes beyond its original scope. The USA’s Patriot Act, for example, was passed as a national security measure but resulted in the warrantless wiretapping of millions of US and non-US citizens. If passed, Chat Control won’t just affect EU citizens either. Global platforms providing services to Europeans will have to comply, meaning surveillance mechanisms will extend far beyond Europe. And because you can’t build a backdoor that only the “good guys” can use, it represents an enormous security threat, too. Our digital liberties depend on us taking a stand against such legislative overreach. Together, we can build platforms and tools that enable communication without central chokepoints that efforts like Chat Control target. We’re working with @FundingCommons and @torproject to encourage the development of tools that uphold our fundamental right to express ourselves, free from surveillance and censorship – core values underlying the development of the Logos technology stack. Join the RealFi virtual hackathon and hack for freedom: logos.co/campaigns/real-fi-h…

The future is built in circles, not hierarchies. On October 8th, we gather again in Barcelona in @AKASHAorg for the 2nd @Logos_network Circle — a roundtable on privacy, network states & local action. Bring your ideas, your voice, your curiosity. 🍕+🍺are on us! RSVP👇🧵