Dropsafe

by Alec Muffett

Tag: censorship and interception

My father was born in 1919; he told me that when he was a small boy in the late 1920s/early 1930s, his parents rationed access to the family crystal set radio in case it “disrupted sleep” or he encountered “improper influences”, per newspaper fears

2021/11/19
Paul Bernal: ‘Hijacking social media’ suggests there’s a pilot and a desired destination.

2021/11/19
The Broader Implications of Apple’s Content Scanning Push By Nadim Kobeissi (2021)

2021/11/17
“What if you could only speak online if you had a car number plate”: quick comments on yet another weird Internet surveillance proposal – Neil Brown

2021/11/16
Adversarial Detection Avoidance Attacks: Evaluating the robustness of perceptual hashing-based client-side scanning | USENIX

2021/11/12
Researchers show that Apple’s CSAM scanning can be fooled easily

2021/11/12
“Mutually Assured Surveillance” (MAS) — what will be the National Security playbook towards platform adoption of End-to-End Encryption for the next 5 years?

2021/11/11
This is a *wonderful* set of TikTok videos which help demonstrate the gulf between the “one size fits all” Internet that some people call for, versus actual diversity of User Experience #UX

2021/11/10
The Lawfare Podcast: Susan Landau & Ross Anderson on the Going Dark Debate & the Risks of Client-Side Scanning – Lawfare | #SusanLandau & @rossjanderson on the Apple/CSAM, via @webdevlaw; #MUSTLISTEN

2021/11/10
Using SOUNDEX / Homophones / Misspellyngs & Scope Expansions to bypass Social Media Censorship and Blocks

2021/11/09
Something to Watch (or Listen To) @jonronson introduces his new Podcast “Things Fell Apart” on #BBCR4today #r4today (Nov 8th)

2021/11/08
A quick & clear demonstration of why the general public, pundits, and perhaps politicians on any part of the political spectrum, are not well-qualified to discuss inauthentic online behaviour

2021/11/02