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My interview with Steven Levy of Wired re: Frances Haugen leaking my Facebook Engineering “Goodbye Post”
Bottom Line Up Front: Frances, if you read this, do please tell the DCMS committee up front (and don’t let them distract or dissuade you) that people need the privacy which end-to-end encryption can bring to them, and that keeping people “safe” does not require their communications to be interfered with by platforms or governments.
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Unrolled: 5Rights Foundation (@5RightsFound) and their report “By what rights should we strip privacy and anonymity from People who are not Children?”
It is telling that your report is called "But how do they know it is a Child" …rather than: "By what rights should we strip privacy and anonymity from People who are not Children?" People – adults – are not an "it". In 2019 Baroness Kidron herself criticised Government pushing to weaken Messenger End-to-End Encryption
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Unrolled: John Carr cites LinkedIn as a reason that Apple won’t be coerced in China
This is egregious: John Carr — noted child protection advocate who argues that end-to-end encryption is a "threat to the rule of law" — says Apple will walk away from 17.7 billion dollars of QUARTERLY revenue from China… because LinkedIn is leaving China LinkedIn's *global* revenue over a similar (same?) time was $10 billion, China
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What is the #OnlineSafetyBill actually intended to do?
Inhibit Illegal and Harmful Content The draft Online Safety Bill sets out proposals to impose a new duty of care on tech companies to tackle illegal and harmful content on their services. https://www.theyworkforyou.com/wrans/?id=2021-09-10.47057.h&s=%22online+safety+bill%22#g47057.r0 Require “Vetting” of Financial Services Advertisers The Online Safety Bill must be the right place to legislate to require the platforms to
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Hartley Wintney, Hartford Bridge, Rodolphe Trempe & “Caber Feidh”
Hartfordbridge is a reasonably-named hamlet, east of Hartley Wintney, which largely comprises a bridge, replacing a ford, over the River Hart. It’s a split bridge, each half carrying one carriageway of the A30 and therefore many hundreds, probably thousands of vehicles pass over it each day. The eastbound bridge appears to be the older half,
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Regarding “Child-Safe Places” on the Internet
The whole thread is worth exploration, however the attached is my longest contribution to it: Unroll There are no such things as “adult places” or “child places”, so much as places which are intended for an adult or child. In the real world there are fast cars, and dangerous spikes, and toxic chemicals, which may
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Example of why social networks need *more* end-to-end encryption, not less, in order to protect their users:
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-08-23/icloud-photo-theft-nude-women?_amp=true&__twitter_impression=true
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Encrypted Communications in the UK are NOT “beyond the rule of law”, they are already dealt with in the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000
Unrolled Prof. Aiken, your tweet denies that people can think or say one thing in private, versus another publicly; in fact it seems to deny privacy whatsoever. Something private is not "beyond the rule of law", it is merely private. The law already knows this: The Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000 already recognises that
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Unroll: The Telegraph & Cressida Dick’s article on End-To-End Encryption, is part of a deeper political project
1/ It's tempting to be darkly snarky about this article, along the lines of "Met Commissioner Cressida Dick calls for more terrorists to be 'known to the police' before committing atrocities" …the allusion being that (continued) https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/09/11/tech-giants-making-impossible-stop-terrorists-says-dame-cressida/ 2/ The allusion being that Security Services are already swamped in more "data" than they are "intelligence". Evidence?
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Propublica Think That Whatsapp Abuse Reports Are A Backdoor
I'll be blunt: I love @propublica, they have some great people, do some great reporting, they have an Onion Site even… But this article by them is egregious, insinuating clickbait which harms the cause of end-to-end encryption, and it even admits it: https://www.propublica.org/article/how-facebook-undermines-privacy-protections-for-its-2-billion-whatsapp-users The gist is: "Facebook promises that Nobody Else Can Read Conversation Messages!
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Matt Green on the NSA Juniper Backdoor revelations & strong-arming
Unroll Oh wow. https://finance.yahoo.com/news/juniper-breach-mystery-starts-clear-130016591.html The story here, for those who may have forgotten 2015 (it was a long time ago!) is that the NSA inserted a backdoor into a major encryption standard and then leaned on manufacturers to install it. Thread. 1/ The backdoor was in a pseudorandom number generator called Dual EC. It wasn’t