@catsalad

I've got an alternative idea if this madness actually goes through and we can't find a solution to circumvent it legally or not....

Instead of just running, let's turn every single phone into a weapon of digital disobedience.Imagine if an 'outlaw' OS (or a simple mod) automatically appended a 'bag of forbidden words' to every message, hidden in metadata or invisible text, containing a random mix of terms guaranteed to trigger the system.
If millions of people sent billions of these 'poisoned' messages, Chat Control would collapse under the sheer weight of false positives. It would be the biggest DDoS attack in history, powered purely by civil disobedience......

If everything is suspicious, nothing is.

#DDoS #FalsePositives #DataPoisoning #ChatContol #AgeVerification #AgeCheck

UK Law Enforcement Pushed Hard To Maintain Access To Deeply Flawed Facial Recognition Tech

While each iteration presents a chance to improve, there are some very real reasons why facial recognition tech will do a bit of stagnating. And that reason is the biggest market for this tech: law…

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Explore how #RetrievalAugmentedGeneration & #SemanticCaching can reduce #FalsePositives in AI-powered apps.

Insights come from a production-grade #CaseStudy testing 1,000 queries across 7 bi-encoder models.

📰 Read now: https://bit.ly/4nTPmso

#AI #LLMs #RAG #VectorDatabases #Infrastructure

Microsoft Defender is stirring up trouble—bogus BIOS alerts, misflagged emails, even Mac crashes. Can your trusted security tool really keep up when glitches hit?

https://thedefendopsdiaries.com/microsoft-defender-navigating-recent-bugs-and-the-ongoing-challenge-of-security-software-reliability/

#microsoftdefender
#securitysoftware
#falsepositives
#cybersecuritynews
#machinelearningsecurity

Microsoft Defender: Navigating Recent Bugs and the Ongoing Challenge of Security Software Reliability

Explore recent Microsoft Defender bugs, false positives, and the challenges of maintaining reliable, cross-platform security software in 2024.

The DefendOps Diaries
Grype just got a little smarter! New updates mean fewer false positives and more accurate vulnerability scans. Big thanks to our community for the contributions that make it happen. #Grype #VulnerabilityScanner #FalsePositives https://anchorecommunity.discourse.group/t/anchore-open-source-weekly-report-week-36-2025/554
Anchore Open Source Weekly Report - Week 36, 2025

Anchore Open Source Weekly Report This report covers the community activity in Anchore Open Source Projects from September 1, 2025 to September 5, 2025. Executive Summary The Anchore Open Source ecosystem delivered steady progress this week with 11 issues and pull requests resolved across the project portfolio. Development efforts focused on infrastructure improvements and vulnerability detection reliability, with notable enhancements to Grype’s unaffected package handling and database query op...

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#facerecognition with it's #falsepositives ( non criminals being falsely accused of being criminals ) is not just a problem of this specific technology. It is a problem with how #police investigates cases in general.

#crime #law #lawenforcement #privacy #politics

#Chineseuniversities are cracking down on #AIuse in #studentwork, leading to a surge in AI-powered tools designed to outsmart #detectionsystems: #Students report #falsepositives and frustration with unreliable detection platforms, forcing them to resort to #AIreductionservices or #manualedits. https://restofworld.org/2025/ai-detector-software-workaround/?eicker.news #tech #media #news
Chinese students are using AI to beat AI detectors

As Chinese universities crack down on AI use, some students report false positives — and a booming industry of work-around tools is emerging.

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