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Loren Kohnfelder

Media Slide

How poor quality reporting deeply harms our society creating distrust.

Apr 7, 2022

Media slide: the slipperly slope of lower quality reporting that leads to distrust.

Apr 7, 2022

Truly Social Media

Envisioning a better social media may be the most important technical challenge of our time…

Mar 23, 2022

Mar 23, 2022

Quality > Quantity

How interoperability changes the software market for the better. Web browser as an example.

Mar 14, 2022

Honing a Japanese knife.

Mar 14, 2022

Digital Disappointment

Proprietary vs standard protocols, iMessage vs RCS, interoperability, learned helplessness, and the future of technology

Mar 13, 2022

Digital Disappointment

Mar 13, 2022

Social Media Freedom of Choice

User choice based on competitive interoperability is how we fix social media.

Feb 3, 2022

Social Media Freedom of Choice

Feb 3, 2022

Fixing Facebook

Proposing a 3 step process to fix social media: transparency, competitive interoperation, flipping from top-down to grass roots.

Jan 5, 2022

Fixing Facebook

Jan 5, 2022

Remembering Steve Jobs

I met Steve Jobs a few times in the early 1990s, when he was running NeXT Computer. This was during a rebuilding phase in his long career…

Oct 14, 2019

Remembering Steve Jobs

Oct 14, 2019

Clarity for the “going dark” encryption debate

The “going dark” debate is like Brexit: we need to specify basic requirements in order to have a cogent discussion.

Aug 9, 2019

Aug 9, 2019

The disingenuity of “Going dark”-ism

Questions the government should answer before even considering outlawing end-to-end secure communication systems.

Jul 23, 2019

The disingenuity of “Going dark”-ism

Jul 23, 2019

On the Replaceability of Social Media

There is a notoriously congested stretch of road on the other side of the island that people have been complaining about for years: “It…

May 15, 2019

On the Replaceability of Social Media

May 15, 2019

Loren Kohnfelder

Loren Kohnfelder

Author of Designing Secure Software: a guide for developers. Find me at https://designingsecuresoftware.com/ Writing software since 1968. Living on Kauai.

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