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“Write the Laws for the World in Which We Live—Not the One We Imagine”
Professor Susan Landau is a former colleague and one of the greatest exponents of online privacy alive today; she was also recently the subject of a bizarre attack-blogpost by child-protection-activist John Carr (more to come) so it’s good to see Susan’s work in a proper frame at Lawfare: https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/write-the-laws-for-the-world-in-which-we-live-not-the-one-we-imagine
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Is Compelled Decryption Heading to the Supreme Court?
Orin Kerr says “maybe.” — we in the UK have got the power to lock people up for not providing (forgetting?) a password, but it’s not exactly a popular piece of legislation. https://reason.com/volokh/2023/12/14/is-compelled-decryption-heading-to-the-supreme-court/
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Moving-ish to @alecmuffett@mastodon.social, although this blog remains federated at the existing URL
WordPress is great and I am pleased to be automatically making all its posts available via ActivityPub at `@alecm` – but it’s not yet good enough to carry a conversation. Therefore: I am going to be on `@alecmuffett` more in future, and I will also there be autoposting links to the blog as/when they are
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Lapsus$: GTA 6 hacker handed indefinite hospital order | …somehow we have teleported back to the early 1980s and “WarGames”-stylee fear of hackers
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-67663128
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“Suffice it to say that everyone in possession of a copy of the LAION-5B images has hundreds if not thousands of instances of CSAM” | …so that’s 0.0001% of the content, then
So David Thiel at Stanford has posted a much-reported paper/story which tells us that the dataset which drives Stable Diffusion and a bunch of other AI systems, has scraped: hundreds if not thousands of instances of CSAM (and a much larger number of instances of NCII more broadly) https://www.threads.net/@elegant_wallaby/post/C1FMSFnsVpO …and it struck me to ask
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The rise and fall of Usenet: How the original social media platform came to be | ZDNET
https://www.zdnet.com/article/the-rise-and-fall-of-usenet-how-the-original-social-media-platform-came-to-be/
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The Chevrolet of Watsonville story is basically how hackers* of the mid 1980s *felt* when they got into a Unix machine as “guest” and found /usr/games to be intact
https://stoney.monster/@stoneymonster/111592567052438463 * script kiddies had not yet been invented
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Internet Architecture Board hits out at client-side scanning | The Register
https://www.theregister.com/2023/12/19/iab_ietf_oppose_clientside_scanning/
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The UX of delivering parcels | wonderful posting on where user interface meets service reputation, with a twist of Weetabix
https://builtformars.com/case-studies/ux-of-parcels