Resilience Over Fragmentation
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Resilience Over Fragmentation: The Risk You Can’t Ignore
In this Threat Talks episode, Lieuwe Jan Koning sits with Professor Bart Jacobs to show—through simple, real stories—how scattered tools and ad-driven platforms take away control, and how simplifying the stack and sharing less data gives you audit-ready evidence and continuity under stress.
Real-life situations you’ll hear about
• The WhatsApp lock-in: why people stay—and how switching to Signal breaks hidden dependencies.
• How your address book upload quietly leaks others’ data to platforms like Meta.
• Why secure doesn’t mean private on platforms that profit from your data.
• Proving you’re 18+ without oversharing using passport chip + Yivi authentication.
• When federated logins and global providers fail, what real resilience looks like in Europe.
Your cybersecurity experts
Lieuwe Jan Koning
Co-Founder and CTO
ON2IT
Prof. Dr. Bart Jacobs
Professor of Computer Security, Privacy and Identity
Radboud University
Episode details
The internet once promised freedom—but now it sells your choices back to you.
Professor Bart Jacobs reveals how this shift has fragmented identity, data, and trust—creating hidden drift behind “secure” dashboards. He explains how attribute-based authentication (Yivi) and split-key models flip that equation: share less data, prove more, and give attackers fewer entry points. The result? Privacy that strengthens assurance and leaves a clear audit trail.
Together, Bart and Lieuwe Jan Koning unpack what real resilience looks like when federated logins fail, or geopolitics disrupts connections. They share practical examples—decentralized identity (Yivi), ad-free verified communities (PubHubs), and EU-based systems designed to keep operations running even when the global web fractures.
Referenced Resources:
Yivi (privacy-preserving authentication): https://yivi.app/
PubHubs (privacy-first social platform): https://pubhubs.net/
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