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Hurrah for Switzerland
The Swiss Parliament voted to adopt a motion (144 yes vs 24 no) to protect Swiss Internet users from indiscriminate scanning of private messages proposed by the EU Commission
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Wouldn’t it be easier to make it illegal to trick, mislead, or defraud people?
The reaction against AI is a microcosm of the “cyber” prefix debacle, the broad and largely erroneous assumption that “people doing bad things to other people by means of {AI, the internet, telegraphy/wire-fraud, the postal service} is somehow distinct from doing it face to face, and also supposedly not covered by existing legislation. Lina Khan…
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“Protocol: All messages are encoded as JSON objects and terminated with a single NUL byte”
“What could possibly go wrong?” https://varlink.org/
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Cryptography 101 with Alfred Menezes
Video lectures, notes, and exercises in all areas of applied cryptography https://cryptography101.ca/
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Wow, Conservative leadership candidates are advertising on X/Twitter
I suppose they know where their party members live.
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Alan Turing Institute: “No [evidence of] AI impact on UK, French & EU election results”
Next week: “Home Office, safety lobbyists urge Alan Turing Institute to ‘Look Harder…’” Quote: New research from the Turing’s CETaS finds a lack of evidence showing AI-enabled #disinformation had a measurable impact on recent UK & EU elections. Concerns about trust in digital content persist. https://x.com/turinginst/status/1836682646711111798
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Court backs Google’s challenge to the EU’s $1.7 billion antitrust fine
And now I am wondering if this is why Thierry Breton actually left? The EU’S General Court said Wednesday that it “upholds the majority of the findings” but “annuls the decision by which the Commission imposed a fine of” nearly 1.5 billion euros. The court added that the Commission “failed to take into consideration all…
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Heritage Foundation Admits KOSA Will Be Useful For Removing Pro-Abortion Content… If Trump Wins | Techdirt
With KOSA stalled out in the House as many Republicans have rightly realized that it makes no sense and can be used to censor content they might support, as well as content they don’t support, Heritage Foundation has kicked off a new push to flip House Republicans. This comes the same week that supporters of…
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How to Monetize a Blog | Yes, really…
This is a must-read for so many reasons. https://modem.io/blog/blog-monetization/
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Wales 20mph limit: Lee Waters admits more common sense needed | BBC News
A case study in what happens when safety is blindly implemented as a inherently and obviously good thing: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c70j0gv5xpdo
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On the Pros and Cons of the Signal Protocol for End-to-End Encryption of Messenger Software : a brief reminder that Signal should NOT be the only E2EE Protocol
This posting will be shorter than it should be: the topic of popular, objective appraisal of diverse E2EE protocols and libraries is one that ought to take several blogposts by esteemed software engineers AND* cryptographers, but I lack the adequately current breadth of expertise, plus I’ve only had two coffees so far this morning. So…