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#MakeBittorrentGreatAgain: #StarTrekDiscovery abandons Netflix in favour of something called … “Paramount+”
Love it or hate it, I am wondering whether this act is sufficient to reboot peoples’ interest in using Bittorrent to pirate-stream video? The increasing amount of Netflix-only / Amazon-only / Disney-only vertical integration has reinvented the US “Cable Television” dynamic, and it’s not hard to see people wanting to circumvent the cost and friction
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I’ve spent ages trying to get people to stop misquoting the Paradox of Tolerance, but now someone nicer than me has written a Medium post about the Popper “infographic” problem.
Stop misusing Popper’s ‘Paradox of Tolerance’ in free speech debates https://giggsboson.medium.com/stop-misusing-poppers-paradox-of-tolerence-in-free-speech-debates-6f6ab4b8f0d3
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Good Heavens: @damianhinds: “We need to take a balanced approach given that anonymity can be important for a range of cases – such as pro-democracy movements.”
Colour me amazed that DCMS are still holding at least some line against the anti-anonymity brigade. https://www.theyworkforyou.com/wrans/?id=2021-11-02.68197.h&s=%22online+safety%22#g68197.r0
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“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
Excellent article. Who is going to build the API to query every single country’s National Licensed Pseudonymity Database, to check someone is licensed before letting them speak online? Source: “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
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BBC Radio4’s @MoneyBox programme is doing harm to #InformationSecurity & #FraudPrevention, and is providing propaganda for the OnlineSafety bill; with @DamianCollins, @paullewismoney & @kuriouskaf
So a friend who works in big-name consumer fraud mitigation angrily pointed me this week’s episode of Money Box on Radio4: Money Box has fresh revelations about criminal websites on the open internet. Two weeks ago we told you about the websites on which crooks buy and sell your confidential financial information. This week, Money
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Adversarial Detection Avoidance Attacks: Evaluating the robustness of perceptual hashing-based client-side scanning | USENIX
End-to-end encryption (E2EE) by messaging platforms enable people to securely and privately communicate with one another. Its widespread adoption however raised concerns that illegal content might now be shared undetected. Following the global pushback against key escrow systems, client-side scanning based on perceptual hashing has been recently proposed by tech companies, governments and researchers to
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Researchers show that Apple’s CSAM scanning can be fooled easily
Quelle surprise; the referenced paper is https://www.usenix.org/conference/usenixsecurity22/presentation/jain The research presented at the recent USENIX Security Symposium by British researchers shows that neither Apple’s CSAM nor any system of this type would effectively detect illegal material.As the researchers explain, it’s possible to fool content detection algorithms 99.9% of the time without visually changing the images. The trick is
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So: December 16th, I’ve been invited to speak at the venerable HP Colloquium on #InformationSecurity held at @RoyalHolloway. I’ve just submitted the attached abstract. #NoPressure #EndsAllTheWayDown /cc /thanks @martinralbrecht
A title for your talk “Ends” All The Way Down: How we misunderstand Security, Privacy, Identity, and Anonymity. A short blurb/abstract for your talk Diffie says that encryption is possibly the only conceivable way to communicate a secret over distance through an untrusted medium. Less well understood is that end-to-end encryption is similarly perhaps the
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A Guide to Starting a Podcast: The Basics
There’s a bit of me which wonders if I should… Looking to start your first podcast? There are a couple of things you’ll need to take into consideration before diving in. Source: A Guide to Starting a Podcast: The Basics
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An alternative to Poppies …
I’m not a great fan of the Royal British Legion’s “Poppy Drive”; I grew up with it, and I understand it, and my father served in World War 2 so I understand where it comes from and I respect why and that my dad was justifiably a huge supporter of it. But I don’t like