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This is absolute perfection: UBUNTU SECURE BOOT AGE VERIFICATION | Hacker.House
Perfect commentary on nerds following authoritarianism because it is an interesting intellectual challenge:
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Lawyer mocks Ofcom’s big fine with bigger hamster | RollOnFriday
Apparently RollOnFriday is kind of “Slashdot meets HackerNews” for the UK legal community, and they are covering that Ofcom is being hamstered by 4chan. Public ridicule amongst the legal community may actually be quite impactful, plus the article has some genuinely interesting background information which does not get much airtime. https://www.rollonfriday.com/news-content/lawyer-mocks-ofcoms-big-fine-bigger-hamster
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Let Me Explain How a State Actor Could Perform a Denial-of-Service Attack on the Entire UK Government in the Wake of Ofcom “Online Safety Act” Client-Side Scanning
1/ obtain a hash of abuse material that’s both known & banned; if pervasive as claimed this shouldn’t be hard 2/ use algorithms from this paper to create a cat meme with the same hash 3/ send the cat meme to all MPs & Civil Servants via SMS, E-Mail, WhatsApp (bonus if it goes viral) 4/
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Ofcom persist in pretending that 4chan are trading in the UK, rather than accepting that Britons are visiting a foreign website
Regulate the Britons, not the foreign websites: “4Chan responds to £520,000 Ofcom fine with AI picture of hamster” “Companies – wherever they’re based – are not allowed to sell unsafe toys to children in the UK. And society has long protected youngsters from things like alcohol, smoking and gambling. The digital world should be no
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I suspect that Ofcom only ever accept that it is “highly effective age assurance” if somebody gets paid, ideally repeatedly | Apple permit “account age” as a means of age verification
This will be fun to watch, because the age verification lobby community are equal parts not rational and commercially minded; also the mere passing of the arrow of time does nothing to fund the UK Government, and a potential tax fruit the size of the Apple user base will be too tempting to leave be:
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Moxie Marlinspike, of Signal fame, announces partnership with Meta to bring end-to-end encryption to Meta AI Chat
This is going to cause a safety regulatory meltdown: Quote: Confer is built so that nobody has access to your conversations but you (not even me!) … Ten years ago, I worked with Meta to integrate the Signal Protocol into WhatsApp for end-to-end encrypted communication. That enabled end-to-end encryption by default for billions of people.
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There is an entire genre of tricking AI customer service bots into doing work; but few are pointing out the obvious…
…that this is how all censorship circumvention works, and that content scanning will inevitably fail in the face of focused ingenuity.
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Lloyds, Bank of Scotland and Halifax apps showing customers other users’ transactions | BBC News
Was it DNS? https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4g23npxpwgo
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A New Jerusalem
For the moment, sanity holds, but for how long? And did the towers of watching glassRise on England’s mountains green?And did the silent, sleepless eyesSurvey each field and lane unseen? And was the cloud of data drawnAcross each hill and village fair?And did the Party’s hidden handMove dark beneath England’s bright air? Bring me my
