-
UK ‘desperately exposed’ to cyber-threats and pandemics, says Minister @PeterKyle | The Guardian
Peter Kyle is *this close* to realising that maybe “cyber” would better be dealt with via a “public health” rather than “policing” approach: “National resilience suffered terribly, catastrophically,” he said. “The open warfare of the previous government prevented any kind of progress in these areas and left our country desperately exposed not just to a
-
“Keeping your accounts safe from AI content moderation” | …pacifying or circumventing “trust & safety” will be the SEO of the next decade
RedGIFs Creators: “…the reality you deal with now that AI is running the show with content moderation. Nobody knows EXACTLY how it measures what to take down and who to ban, but it’s pretty safe to assume that the more interaction a post gets, the more it can get away with. So, unless you’re working
-
Utah outlaws books by Judy Blume and Sarah J Maas in first statewide ban | The Guardian
I wonder what a former-teacher VP would make of this? Twelve of the 13 titles were written by women. Six books by Maas, a fantasy author, appear on the list, along with Oryx and Crake by Atwood, Milk and Honey by Kaur and Forever by Blume. Two books by Ellen Hopkins appear, as well as
-
FSC Executive Director Delivers Keynote at UK Age Assurance Regulator Event | Free Speech Coalition | …but where are the Privacy campaigners?
Here we are in 2024, apparently largely replaying where we were in 2016 with the Porn industry — now clothed in the garb of Free Speech — attempting to buddy-up with the regulators to find mutually-acceptable ways to track everyone online via Age Verification. Quote: The hybrid event was attended by representatives from a variety
-
[From 2008] HyperCard: What Could Have Been | Isegoria
istQuote: “I have realized over time that I missed the mark with HyperCard,” he said from his studio in Menlo Park, California. “I grew up in a box-centric culture at Apple. If I’d grown up in a network-centric culture, like Sun, HyperCard might have been the first Web browser. My blind spot at Apple prevented
-
Apple’s permissions features are out of balance | Six Colors
Systems must serve, not coddle, the user. You can imagine the scenarios: A domestic abuser installs an app on their partner’s device and grants blanket permission without their knowledge, giving them access to everything they do … Asking for permission a second time is not unreasonable for the reasons I mentioned above. But at some
-
Overriding Gatekeeper Protections in MacOS 15 Sequoia Will Require Clicking Through Panels in System Settings | Daring Fireball
When your security marketing starts to become theatrical; unless macOS is intentionally starting to ape iOS settings management, perhaps? https://daringfireball.net/linked/2024/08/07/mac-os-15-sequoia-gatekeeper
-
Banning X/Twitter Would Do More Harm Than Good
Hi, my name’s Alec, I’m a technologist and expert in Internet Security and Safety. Back in 1993 British Telecom released the attached advert which, more than many other things, helped shape my perspective towards the (then) still-teenage internet and questions of “freedom of speech”. The principles are not bent by time, and with respect to
-
URGENT: Call for views on the Code of Practice for Software Vendors | *BEFORE THIS FRIDAY* | GOV.UK
A friend pointed me to a LinkedIn post describing consultations on AI & Software Resilience which expire at the end of this week. I don’t have bandwidth because of current medical issues, so I would like to kick this to the community to invest some open source & infosec wisdom to the mix, just in
-
This Twitter post is a deep metaphor for online anonymity…
> Police have gone to shops to find out who bought balaclavas yesterday in the shopping precinct in Rotherham at the weekend. They’ve rounded up a fair few people as they didn’t change their clothes and apparently are the usual idiots
-
Anonymity is not the problem, either…
I’ll add further to this list as and when further choice examples become available… Example 1 Example 2
-
A primer on how End-to-End Encryption IS NOT PREVENTING policing, arrest, or conviction of the rioters in the UK race riots (HT @shashj @DmitryOpines @AntiRacismDay @arusbridger)
Just in case some anti-encryption, anti-privacy types decide that this is an opportunity to complain about end-to-end encryption, my name is Alec and I am a expert on these topics, and here are several ways that end-to-end encryption (E2EE) does not stand in the way of prosecution of the rioters. I may add more examples,