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Notes on mining the #facebookcorewwwi onion address
Seeing as it has been conveniently leaked by Frances Haugen, I thought it would be nice to write briefly on the mining of the (now defunct) Version-2 Tor Onion address which was known as “facebookcorewwwi” — the v2 onion-address for Facebook. As already reported — because we shared that much — the onion address was a…
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On Nuclear War and Eating cold Pop-Tarts
I was going to simply quote-tweet "Can confirm" to this hilarious and accurate joke; but then I made the mistake of reading the replies from butthurt younguns shouting "…but when did Gen-X fear World War 3?" People: It literally defined our generation. I got a degree in astronomy is that amongst all the US-Soviet tub-thumping…
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Increasingly frantic attempts by the #AgeVerification & #OnlineSafetyBill community to dissuade people of the obvious logic that…
Increasingly frantic attempts by the #AgeVerification & #OnlineSafetyBill community to dissuade people of the obvious logic that: in order to exclude a community from a website, just as much as to include one, in both cases you MUST process their data: I believe that the rationale is this: that the #ChildProtection and #OnlineSafety advocates DO…
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“UK government opens consultation on medic-style register for Brit #infosec pros”
#HEADSUP — I blogged the screencapped post in 2013, and turns out that I was right: "UK government opens consultation on medic-style register for Brit #infosec pros" …it's a great and obvious way for Gov't both to whip-in dissent from the UK infosec community: Props to @GazTheJourno for the article: https://www.theregister.com/2022/01/25/ukgov_cybersecurity_profession_regulation_ukcsc/ My original concern was…
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![The Fallacy of “Privacy vs: [Children’s] Safety”: why Privacy always wins over any singular concern, and why deployment of #EndToEndEncryption is essentially a binary choice, explained for #NoPlaceToHide](https://alecmuffett.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/Screenshot-2022-01-20-at-23.07.34.png)
The Fallacy of “Privacy vs: [Children’s] Safety”: why Privacy always wins over any singular concern, and why deployment of #EndToEndEncryption is essentially a binary choice, explained for #NoPlaceToHide
The #NoPlaceToHide campaign has, as-ever, flushed out a lot of argument like this: This is pretty easily explained and dismissed; but first, a quick digression. Metcalfe’s Law (and its nitpicks) There’s a famous law of communications that the ‘value’ (whatever that means) of a ‘network’ increases as the square of the number of participants; this…
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How #NoPlaceToHide is cover for creation of #DigitalStopAndSearch for the Global Internet
https://www.theregister.com/2022/01/20/no_place_hide_campaign_anti_e2ee_ukgov/ Re: this @GazTheJourno observation that he makes about #NoPlaceToHide, deserves a LOT of public discussion: > prevents them from trawling through conversations at random and seizing on anything they don’t like the look of… Quite. This is #DigitalStopAndSearch: This is a point which I made to Baroness @NickyMorgan01 but have not yet heard back…
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UK government ignites debate over privacy vs. safety #noplacetohide
https://www.computerworld.com/article/3647369/uk-government-ignites-debate-over-privacy-vs-safety.html
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Technology analyst @BenedictEvans noted that “end-to-end encryption is probably the only issue where the entire tech industry is on Facebook’s side”. “Collective reaction: ‘Jesus, do we have to explain this *again*?’”, he tweeted. #noplacetohide
Also… “M&C Saatchi’s support to partners includes PR and communications advice to work towards the shared goal of protecting children online.” https://www.independent.co.uk/tech/encryption-government-campaign-home-office-b1995605.html …so, offline, somehow the @ukhomeoffice doesn’t care and would let them starve, be bullied, whatever…?
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Home Office to spearhead anti-encryption public comms campaign
Ciaran Martin, the founding chief executive of the GCHQ-based National Cyber Security Centre, has previously voiced concern and scepticism about government’s rhetoric on encryption and its proposals for means of access, which he indicated in a speech given in November could “weaken privacy and cybersecurity, possibly catastrophically”. Martin, who ended a 23-year civil-service career in…
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BBC News: New campaign aims to stop more encrypted apps
Ciaran Martin, the former head of the National Cyber Security Centre, in a speech in November said the idea that it was possible both have well-functioning end-to-end-encryption and give law enforcement targeted access to messages was “technological ‘cakeism’”. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/59964656
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The @ukhomeoffice-funded #NoPlaceToHide campaign claims that “14 million reports” of child abuse may be “lost” if @Messenger implements #endtoendencryption. Here’s a horrible thought …
The NoPlaceToHide campaign is bandying a huge number — 14,000,000 — as the number of “reports” of child abuse that “could” be “lost” if the Facebook Messenger application implements end-to-end encryption by default. This number — as cited — comes from the (US) National Center for Missing & Exploited Children, also known as NCMEC (pronounced:…