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A couple of weeks ago Meta/Facebook made the mistake of letting the UK Daily @Telegraph publish — and therefore editorialise & distort — their plans for end-to-end encryption. Today they’ve provided a bit more information, more wisely…
From the perspective of “getting more end-to-end encrypted security into the hands of the greatest number of people”, November 20th was a train-wreck for Meta’s corporate communications. What happened? The anti-encryption brigade seized upon a revised timeline described in a op-ed by Antigone Davis, re-presenting it simultaneously as backsliding whilst also crowing it as evidence…
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One More Time: Facebook Isn’t a State Actor-Atkinson v. Facebook – Technology & Marketing Law Blog
This ruling provides a good preview of how the Ninth Circuit will handle Trump’s lawsuits against Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube. Those cases have no chance of success in the Ninth Circuit. The only question is whether Trump can get the Supreme Court to grant certiorari. If he can, all bets will be off. Source: One…
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Unrolled: @jsrailton: @Apple just filed a major lawsuit against NSO Group
Apple also notifying some recent targets. Massive blow to the company notorious for selling spyware to dictators. And there's more… Explainer THREAD. 1/ https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2021/11/apple-sues-nso-group-to-curb-the-abuse-of-state-sponsored-spyware/ 2/ Apple's lawsuit, filed moments ago in Northern California hits NSO hard. – Seeks to hold NSO & parent accountable for abuses – ALSO Requests permanent injunction banning NSO from using…
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This will all come out in the “Christmas Lecture” but I’m pretty sure that Information Security suffered a massive missed opportunity with Bell & La Padua in 1976, that has kinda tainted everything ever since
SUBJECT-OPERATION-OBJECT — yes you can model everything as that, but also you miss out on so very much more by adopting that as your model. [Previously]
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The fact that it took a month…to put together the effort to release the papers is a damning statement on how many members of the consortium see their role…to be a gatekeeper to information, rather than providing the public access to information /@techdirt
Me, I’m looking forward to seeing if they redact my stuff :popcorn: https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20211122/16550747990/lots-big-media-companies-had-access-to-facebook-files-only-gizmodo-decided-to-put-work-to-make-them-public.shtml
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Thread by @ciaranmartinoxf on end-to-end encryption
Unrolled So here, with trepidation, I've ventured into the end-to-end encryption debate with a lecture earlier this month, published by @BlavatnikSchool? & a summary article for @prospect_uk 1/15 https://www.bsg.ox.ac.uk/research/publications/end-end-encryption-fruitless-search-compromise The @prospect_uk article is here 2/15 https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/science-and-technology/ex-security-chief-ciaran-martin-gchq-government-encryption-plans-facebook-apple Brief summary of a summary: there is ill-will on all sides rather than a focus on the reasonable objectives…
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It’s never going to be popular to tell people that saving innocent little children is *not* the most important big-picture thing for humanity — but it’s true (HT: @elegant_wallaby)
This is a long Twitter thread which can be accessed by starting with this tweet and working backwards. Introduction David / @Elegant_Wallaby writes powerfully in favour of addressing child safety concerns regarding end-to-end encrypted environments — concerns which are rooted in zero, none, a complete lack of data, but the online safety community considers that…
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Prof @matthew_d_green on the recent thread by @elegant_wallaby
Some fragments worth saving, regarding defenders (proponents) of overblown online “think of the children” arguments to resist, delay, rethink, or backdoor deployment of end-to-end encryption… Part 1 [in context] — regarding “think of the children” On the other hand, this particular argument actually *is* being used to some extent as a pressure tactic to delay…
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The stupid thing about all the “Meta / Facebook Messenger Delaying End-to-End #Encryption” stories, is that… FB are not delaying it. The article misrepresents what was written. It is fake news, it worked, and we all got pwned. #e2ee #endtoendencryption
So it’s all over the information security and online safety spaces. And it’s wrong. Timeline: Part 1 Facebook’s Antigone Davis wrote this in the Telegraph — regrettably paywalled, but I obtained access in order to go have a look: We’re taking our time to get this right and we don’t plan to finish the global…
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It’s really disappointing when journalists, activists, academics & pundits dismiss the elderly as incapable users
I’m on Twitter, pointing out something which I consider to be so obvious as to be a truism: that a lot of our concerns about “online tracking” actually stand upon the behaviour of a bunch of code — and that rather than legislate and prosecute (etc) in order to regain privacy, we should instead simply…