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Bugs in our pockets: the risks of client-side scanning
Nice to see this 2021 paper updated and properly published so that anti-privacy academics can stop ignoring its existence despite the god-tier authorship. Our increasing reliance on digital technology for personal, economic, and government affairs has made it essential to secure the communications and devices of private citizens, businesses, and governments. This has led to…
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(2018) “Government regulation is not something to fear. Regulation doesn’t stifle innovation.” | …just a little reminder that sometimes even the great and the good will get it wrong
I suppose that someone will say “not all regulation” or “we didn’t mean it like that”, but yes, alas, yes you did.
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Meta tool to block nude images in teens’ private messages | …note, since this does not report outwards this is not client-side scanning, no more than a spellchecker would be
The test of Client-Side Scanning (CSS) is: …the answers (for CSS) to which are: “yes”, “no”, and “any non-participant”, respectively. Something mandatory which is scanning for & reporting CSAM on behalf of “society” is CSS. Whereas Grammarly is “maybe/yes/the participant” is not CSS. Something which nudges you with “this selfie you just took has a…
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You learn some weird stuff on Instagram… and this is exceptional
Instantly Converting Atrial Fibrillation into Sinus Rhythm by a Digital Rectal Exam on a 29-year-Old Male: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/21769254/
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British man acquitted over London-Spain flight bomb hoax | …SnapChat leaking messages to security services & supporting KOSA? Not a good combo for user privacy | HT @rebeccamkern
SnapChat must* be surveilling their non-encrypted chats (i.e. all of them, but they travel over HTTPS for privacy) & triggering on sensitive words, either on-server or on-client, reporting to law enforcement who then over-react … PLUS they announced support for the illiberal & misconceived KidsOnlineSafetyAct. The two, combined, are not a great indicator for how…
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UK tabloid media seems hellbent upon resurrecting the myth of “red rooms” (i.e. “dark web snuff movies”) even though there is no such phenomenon
I’ve had The BBC and The Sun contact me in the past few weeks, and it seems that others are trying to keep the groundless tech-fearmongering going. Quoting the Reddit Deep Web FAQ: Red rooms are fake. One more time, say it with me: “Red rooms are fake”. To this day, not one single person…
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The Rust community are lovely but they definitely are worthy of the snark…
we will also reveal the details about CVE-2024-0853. A severity low issue (that would not have been avoided by us using another language) https://mastodon.social/@bagder/111840075114342229
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“Overly powerful, rent-seeking gatekeepers seem like a problem” HT @sdw@mastodon.social / @sdw
I regret so many of my peers in civil society feel they’re doing TheLord’sWork™ by calling on the EU/US to impose central planning on software architecture & user interfaces. They are often folk who also fought against (e.g) state restrictions on encryption, but somehow think it’s simply a matter of getting the right people into…
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Thinks: “It must be weird for journalists who came of age on Twitter to suddenly have Zuck engaging with their shitposting about him”
https://www.threads.net/@zuck/post/C2Qryt1PXat
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How Apple becomes Facebook by forcing developers to track whether purchases were instigated over an iPhone hyperlink
Take the advertising link-click model and turn it back to front. Stratechery via timothybucksf on Threads: https://www.threads.net/@timothybucksf/post/C2ZHSgyujhL
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Whhhhhyyyyy is there a Harrier jump jet in this real estate listing?
https://search.savills.com/property-detail/gbgursgus230342?utm_source=FACEBOOK&utm_medium=social&utm_content=Residential%7CSales&utm_campaign=Residential&utm_term=100005054154647