August 2021 Reading List

A collection of interesting news articles, features, publications, projects and source code that I find interesting.

• Cwtch
  As part of my current interest in exploring context privacy threats to ad hoc messaging apps. Also reading about Briar, Bridgefy and Matrix.

• Cipher Challenge
  Used as inspiration to build a simpler challenge for our incoming MSc cohort.

• A Decade and a Half of Instability: The History of Google Messaging Apps
  An interesting history of Google’s attempts at building and killing messaging applications.

• ntf_ptr
  Just another use-case for the blockchain: managing object lifetime in C++.

• Why We Should End the Data Economy