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Jeni Tennison speaks wise regulatory heresy… but still somehow comes out trying to control the uncontrollable
This starts out well but turns into an appeal for “industry” to form do-gooding (e.g. AI) safety institutes, as-if the problem with software is that there are industries with capabilities. Of course such exist – for the moment – but when in 25 years every individual will be carrying enough compute capability to essay thousands…
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research!rsc: Running the “Reflections on Trusting Trust” Compiler | someone finally published Ken Thompson’s actual compiler back door source code
Immediately after watching the video on YouTube in September 2023, I emailed Ken and asked him for the code. Despite my being six months late, he said I was the first person to ask and mailed back an attachment called nih.a, a cryptic name for a cryptic program. (Ken tells me it does in fact stand…
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Don’t let your car read road signs
Something like this happened to me in Scotland a few years ago: a rental car which read a roadsign for a 20MPH limit and missed the end of restriction sign, which meant I could not accelerate until I stopped and Googled how to switch it off. All good until on the 60 mph A40 approach…
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We Get The Internet We Ask For: YouTube censoring academic side-channel attack videos, which of course are obviously different from “hacking” videos that are against the TOU
Time for the security research community to set up on Rumble and TruthSocial where this won’t be an issue. Google has removed a video posted by academic researchers demonstrating how a newly discovered side channel in Apple’s A- and M-series CPUs can be used to steal a password. https://infosec.exchange/@dangoodin/111309007610312951
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Yoel Roth is teaching a university course on online trust and safety
It’s an interesting reading list, and given the huge amount of assigned reading I understand but am amazed by the quantity of Chapters 2 & 3 Only instruction. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1kkkUVnGrUrm__9tIm7UDl0YRKRL9KYKIzRb6ETT3rtI/edit?usp=drivesdk via: https://bsky.app/profile/yoyoel.com/post/3kcqwfqogtz2i
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Google Play Points: if only Google would give you free points for keeping your phone up to date
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I’m sure somebody’s going to be annoyed by this but I think it’s a great way to focus conference attendees: to register for the Selenium unconference you must make a pull request or log an issue
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Fig & Stilton Pizza
Tasty experiment:
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So the OnlineSafetyBill is now law; but what will the activists and politicians behind it attempt next to do?
The people who believe that a “Duty of Care” can be imposed upon platforms that broker speech between arbitrary people, are now in the position of having got what they wanted. They won – which, of course, for them is the worst possible thing because now they have to (a) live with the consequences, and…
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Stuff To Read: Google Decides To Pull Up The Ladder On The Open Internet, Pushes For Unconstitutional Regulatory Proposals | interesting take from @mmasnick suggesting that Google has caved (?) to age-estimation / child-protection interests in order to shore-up monopoly interest, rather than from fear
But, last week, Google took a big step towards pulling up the open internet ladder behind it, which got almost no coverage (and what coverage it got was misleading). And, for the life of me, I don’t understand why it chose to do this now. It’s one of the dumbest policy moves I’ve seen Google…
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Simon Willison on X: “@AlecMuffett @AnthropicAI Well that worked!” | it turns out that the simplest way to bypass security of a AI sometimes is just to lie to them
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Think Kiwi Farms Is Legally Unassailable? Copyright Law Might Disagree | Greer v. Moon, Technology & Marketing Law Blog | Eric Goldman
https://blog.ericgoldman.org/archives/2023/10/think-kiwi-farms-is-legally-unassailable-copyright-law-might-disagree-greer-v-moon.htm