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So after 16 months of illness I'm back on my feet and applying to jobs, but I'm completely broke and the combination of car+power+storage for 6 people is due, with a lot of late fees added in.
I'm sorry to ask, but any amount would help. Thanks so much!
RE: https://mastodon.social/@eldritch48/113833802482223893
Hey, today is my birthday, and I'd love some boosts now that I'm back in the market for a job :)
So, I recently saw some quiet discussion about a paper where researchers reverse-engineered and disclosed some attacks against PhotoDNA, the very-super-duper-secret algorithm used by tech megacorps to scan for illegal images.
They didn't make any code public, and so... I did: https://github.com/ArcaneNibble/open-alleged-photodna
A _complete_ reverse-engineering and commented Python reimplementation of the algorithm from publicly-leaked binaries.
This means that studying the algorithm and any potential flaws is now much more accessible.
This took only about two days (once I knew that there even _was_ a leaked binary to compare against), which just goes to again show that security through obscurity never works.
🔁 encouraged
And then it was revealed that Europol wanted unlimited access and wanted to use the scanning for more than just child abuse crimes, saying that all data – also unfiltered and innocent material – should be stored because it “could at some point be useful to law enforcement”.
And then?
And then it was revealed that employees at Europol had joined Thorn, to lobby their old colleagues.
And then?
What’s at stake is whether “protecting children” becomes a legal pretext for embedding government control over the internet to enforce specific moral and religious judgments—judgments that deny marginalized people access to speech, community, history, and truth—into law.
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Sound effects are now batched, so the chances of sound effects' cutting each other off is reduced. Duplicate sound effects are also removed before playback.
There are also new areas that are being worked on; they're not shown in the video.
AI has now damaged almost every part of a reasonable OSS stack, from systemd to Python itself.
We need to understand that blast radius, to understand where and how energies can be spent, whether it's reverting that damage, working with governance to prevent and contain damage, or whether it's forking damaged projects entirely.
We cannot afford the luxury of time on this one. We need to understand the problem **now**.
Whenever you hear "ban for kids" on the internet, read in reality "ID collection by a sketchy third-party company that will definitely use it or leak it or both for every adult."
Because that's what this truly means.
Also, it doesn't even help the kids.
#AgeVerification #Privacy #MassSurveillance #Authoritarianism
Alice Averlong🏳️⚧️
Taggart
Seth Rutledge
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Mullvad VPN
Electronic Frontier Foundation
Cassandra is only carbon now
fluffy fox girl - moving to meow.social!
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