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Child Safety campaigners celebrating how their demands for blocks are *literally* being used by those sites to drive children to use/buy VPNs
The lack of self-awareness is startling; not least how kids will end up using VPNs and being spied on where previously they were largely more protected and private with HTTPS on the open web.
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BREAKING: <PLATFORM> ordered to remove <APPS> from App Store in <COUNTRY> for National Security Reasons
https://www.theverge.com/2024/4/19/24134614/apple-ordered-to-remove-whatsapp-and-threads-from-the-app-store-in-china
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Struggling with a Moral Panic Once Again | zephoria
danah boyd, once again with the battle against those who would drown children in cotton wool to “save” them: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/struggling-moral-panic-once-again-danah-boyd-1ozsc
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Secret Talks for the UK “Helicopter Parents Charter”
A couple of days ago, Bloomberg reported: UK Plans Talks With Big Tech to Limit Online Harm for Teens The proposed voluntary charter may involve tech firms agreeing to alert parents when their children are repeatedly looking up disturbing content, they said […] Government officials are concerned that the technology firms … will oppose the…
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Creating sexually explicit deepfakes to become a criminal offence | BBC News
I wonder if they will focus on the output or the technology? https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-68823042
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There are fewer than 2^273 atoms (i.e. a 273 bit number) in the universe; but if your ECDSA crypto algorithm demands 521 bits of random data yet you supply a mere 512 bits…
Numbers in cryptography are far beyond “astronomical” but it’s still so easy to make a mess by trying to shortcut them. It appears (?) that the PuTTY SSH client short-changed the ECDSA signature algorithm by 9 bits of entropy (viz: it reduced the desired random, entropic space to 1/512th of its expected size — aaaaand…
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the cryptopals crypto challenges
prompted to reshare via thomas: This is a different way to learn about crypto than taking a class or reading a book. We give you problems to solve. They’re derived from weaknesses in real-world systems and modern cryptographic constructions. We give you enough info to learn about the underlying crypto concepts yourself. When you’re finished,…
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I’ve been to Marugame Udon in Reading twice in the past month, both times with the toddler, and it’s been fantastic; then I wondered…
I’m a big fan of big noodles, and Marugame hits the spot even for my nearly-3yo whose idea of perfection is Udon with a hint of butter. And I wondered: what British chain is popular “at home” and yet could fly a flag around the world? And then I realised: it would be Wetherspoons.
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Why the Short-Lived Calvin and Hobbes Is Still One of the Most Beloved & Influential Comic Strips | Open Culture
If you are fortunate enough to be young enough to have not encountered Calvin and Hobbes yet, I firmly recommend it: https://www.openculture.com/2024/04/why-the-short-lived-calvin-and-hobbes-is-still-one-of-the-most-beloved-and-influential-comic-strips.html