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Ding Dong KOSA’s Dead (For Now) | Techdirt
I think tonight I might have a very small celebratory dram. The news does not yet seem to have landed with the radical anti-privacy child safety activist community. https://www.techdirt.com/2024/08/01/ding-dong-kosas-dead-for-now/
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Modest Proposal: if “infinite scroll” is to be banned in the USA, they should also ban 24-hour news channels
For instance: Fox News would be obligated to show an entire Hallmark movie after every 90 minutes of news coverage.
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JD Vance’s Drunken College Photo Met With Shrugs | …as someone put it: “we finally have a test case”
Personally I’m in favour of people having ever more control over how they share information, but it will be a hard lesson for the power hungry techlash advocates that “nobody cares about the stupid harmless shit you did as a teenager” https://gizmodo.com/jd-vances-drunken-college-photo-met-with-shrugs-as-the-facebook-generation-runs-for-office-2000481212
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Nice little thread which (to paraphrase) thoroughly punctures the style & trend aspects of applying modern cryptography to software architecture
It’s worth reading linearly and some of the branches:
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The IWF, Thorn, & WeProtect are polling people’s opinions of a list of “horizon technologies” that may harm or help children; I offer sample responses that you may consider…
Via the tweet attached below, with my stake as a parent and as an engineering expert in the relevant technical fields, I responded to a questionnaire provided by the Internet Watch Foundation, Thorn, and the WeProtect Global Alliance. I found the questions to be interesting, not merely from the perspective that there were probably only…
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Ferrari CEO Deepfake Shows Growing Threat of AI Scams Impersonating Executives | Bloomberg
How to simply and cheaply resist the increasing risk of tech-enabled fraud: better processes, better relationships, better employee awareness: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-07-26/ferrari-narrowly-dodges-deepfake-scam-simulating-deal-hungry-ceo Archived at: https://archive.ph/2024.07.28-114508/https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-07-26/ferrari-narrowly-dodges-deepfake-scam-simulating-deal-hungry-ceo
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Remember the “Messages in @SignalApp’s Desktop App need to be inaccessibly encrypted on the local hard disk” brouhaha? It’s now claiming victims…
You can spot the telltale security-theater threat-model of someone who one moment laughs (“so much for security hey”) that they ought to be locked out of their own messages — yet the next complains that they are locked out of their own messages. I wonder which users, blogs & news media will again bemoan Signal…
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Needle in a Neural Network: In Order to Forget You, First You Must Be Found | Carey Lening
Excellent article from Carey: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/needle-neural-network-order-forget-you-first-must-carey-lening-cdpp-oivbf
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How the American war on porn could change the way you use the internet | BBC Future
The BBC have finally written the article which they should have written in 2016: > If the age verification movement goes unchecked, it’s possible that you could be forced to tie your government ID to much of your online activity, Gillmor says. Some civil rights groups fear it could usher in a new era of…
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How to Read a Legal Opinion: A Guide for New Law Students by Orin S. Kerr [PDF]
Possibly of use to the social network community at large: This essay is designed to help new law students prepare for the first few weeks of class. It explains what judicial opinions are, how they are structured, and what law students should look for when reading them. https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1160925