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Ofcom to consult on legally obliging client side scanning spyware to be added to end-to-end encrypted secure messengers
Via Graham Smith: https://x.com/Cyberleagle/status/1848811285925830818
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Response to the @AllTechIsHuman report into End-to-End Encryption: the original questionnaire, with responses & critique by Alec Muffett (1/n ?)
In May 2024, I was approached by Anne Collier for All Tech Is Human to contribute to a new “report” into end-to-end encryption. That report (after considerable administrative churn) has now been published at https://alltechishuman.org/all-tech-is-human-blog/balancing-privacy-and-child-safety-in-encrypted-environments as announced on LinkedIn. My take is that is ATIH could have done a lot worse at representation; there are…
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A is for Boat, P is for Balloon, K is for Football — and so is B…
…and W is for Jelly, wobbly or otherwise. I’m assured by my beloved — who has the measure of such things — that this is the worst introduction to Phonics she has ever seen:
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Life as a Stay-At-Home-Dad
tl;dr — it’s good, but it’s busy. Last night before bed I hung up four loads of clean laundry to dry, about half of it into the laundry cubicle with the dehumidifier running – a space which I revamped and fitted out with shelving and cupboard space a few weeks ago, and the rest of…
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Testing a new feature: “Blogposts” 🙂
For the past few years (decades?) this blog has existed primarily to support macroblogging, putting all my content into one place where it can be better-managed and better-presented than if the content were natively reposted to each-and-every social media platform. It’s doing a pretty good job of that, but I also want to write stuff…
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Gay man rejected for asylum [from Bangladesh] told he is ‘not truly gay’ by judge | Metro News
Wow. https://metro.co.uk/2024/10/20/gay-man-rejected-asylum-told-not-truly-gay-judge-21803417/
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GENERIC TEMPLATES FOR CIVIL SOCIETY CALLS TO REDUCE RISK AND IMPACT OF END TO END ENCRYPTION IN MESSENGER SERVICES
I’ll be blunt: I have seen dozens, possibly scores, of civil society and human rights organisations who were late to the bandwagon for the techlash, now publishing various manifestos to reduce <whatever they consider to be badness> as might be enabled or amplified by <billions of people having the freedom to talk to one another…
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“If you let Google have your data, why not the NHS?” | …or, indeed, the Police? The security services? Glib, dehumanising foolishness from @phillipinman …
I have literally watched Sir David Omand (ex-GCHQ) stand on stage and make the argument that “Amazon and Google have all of this information about you, why can’t the government have it too?”; I was not expecting to see the same from the Observer, all framed in techlash “own the billionaire-tards” terms. Answer: because they…
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Justice decides to block four pornographic sites accessible to minors | Libération
Typiquement français, via Google Translate: In a ruling handed down on Thursday, the Court of Appeal considered that “the best interests of the child” are a “primary consideration” that justifies infringing on “other rights such as freedom of expression.” “Prioritizing the protection of the privacy of adult consumers” is “incompatible with the right of minors…
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Cheat bread rolls, and why not?
Silicone muffin trays just make the whole thing so much easier
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VPN traffic from France to spike
French court orders blanket blocks of porn sites – POLITICO The Paris Court of Appeal today ordered the complete blocking of several pornographic websites, including Xhamster and Tukif, over their failure to roll out solid age verification systems. https://www.politico.eu/article/french-court-orders-blanket-blocks-of-porn-sites/
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Unpopular Opinion: the change to the Twitter block button is no big deal
Speaking as somebody who revolts against the idea of requiring government ID to sign up to social media, we must observe that it is trivial to create Twitter sock puppet accounts that track & stalk other users. As such: changing the Twitter block button to act more like a Usenet kill file makes a lot…