2021 seems to be the year that we all accepted the term “Web3” as the way to refer to the collective movements of decentralizing infrastructure and empowering users to be in control. It means the next generation of the Internet and beyond, which includes the tokenization of things for digital
August concluded the NGI_Trust-funded MW4ALL 2.0 project, aimed at building an identity-less secure file transfer web application based on the Magic Wormhole protocol. Magic Wormhole is a protocol that allows for the rapid and secure sharing of data between two parties without either needing to know the other’s identity. Files
Least Authority recently participated in a business scale-up bootcamp organized by NGI TETRA. The bootcamp offered us valuable lessons and the honor of being chosen as one of its ‘winners’. NGI (Next Generation Internet) is a program funded by the European Union, supporting a “Human Internet that respects the fundamental values
Something that should be simple—sending files—is surprisingly hard at the moment. Aside from figuring out a reliable tool, whether it supports the file you want to send and whether the recipient can open it, there are also privacy and security concerns. That’s why we started working on the Magic Wormhole
Least Authority is launching the HRO Cloud to offer a secure file storage system to human rights organizations that cannot or do not want to host and maintain their own storage servers. Digital files—such as photographs, recordings, written accounts, planning documents, and databases—are invaluable resources to the work of human
The Problem Sending a file from one computer to another is common and should be simple, but it can be surprisingly complicated, even in 2020. This simple-yet-complicated user story is illustrated in xkcd comic #949. How should you send a file from your computer to someone else’s computer? What security
Least Authority is committed to supporting privacy as a fundamental human right and to actively participate in making privacy-focused open-source tools available for everyone. In the case of human rights defenders, protecting their sensitive files—including reports, photos, videos, and other documentation—is a necessity, and at times, a matter of the