‘Restricting access to social media presents “issues of human rights, because a child has a right to receive information just like anybody else.”’
https://alecmuffett.com/article/151359#CouncilOfEurope #SocialMediaBan
‘Restricting access to social media presents “issues of human rights, because a child has a right to receive information just like anybody else.”’
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thought for the day: vibe coding of today is the perl programming of 1992.
Spain: football-match-induced online censorship regularly prevents installation of Postgres on Docker for fear of illicit streaming
https://alecmuffett.com/article/151241#OnlineSafetyAct #censorship #spain
Spain: football-match-induced online censorship regularly prevents installation of Postgres on Docker for fear of illicit streaming
Europe is already a Banana Republic with respect to Internet Regulation, and it appears that Spain is doubly so:
PseudoDNA: Identifying Critical Vulnerabilities in Microsoft’s PhotoDNA
Researchers from the COSIC group at KU Leuven have uncovered major security weaknesses in PhotoDNA, a technology widely used to detect Child Sexual Abuse Material (CSAM) online. The system is curre…
“Natural collisions in Apple’s NeuralHash & Microsoft’s PhotoDNA show worrying false positives/negatives in widely deployed perceptual hashing”
https://alecmuffett.com/article/151208#NeuralHash #OnlineSafetyAct #PhotoDna #censorship
“Natural collisions in Apple’s NeuralHash & Microsoft’s PhotoDNA show worrying false positives/negatives in widely deployed perceptual hashing”
At Facebook 2013-16 it was a discreet secret within parts of the Trust & Safety team that PhotoDNA “had problems with collisions but we are not allowed to talk about them” – d…
Investigation: UK spends millions on VPNs as government weighs ban for children | TechRadar
https://alecmuffett.com/article/151079#OnlineSafetyAct #censorship #surveillance #vpns
Investigation: UK spends millions on VPNs as government weighs ban for children | TechRadar
“Since the publication of this investigation, the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT) published a contract that shows it is spending nearly £50,000 on a survey to underst…
UK House of Lords seeks ban on Swiss Army Knives that “…could be used to cut people”
https://alecmuffett.com/article/150803#DualUse
UK House of Lords seeks ban on Swiss Army Knives that “…could be used to cut people”
“We are not against pen knives in principle”, says peer, “…but we want manufacturers to take steps to prevent them being used to cause harm.”
This is absolute perfection: UBUNTU SECURE BOOT AGE VERIFICATION | Hacker.House
Perfect commentary on nerds following authoritarianism because it is an interesting intellectual challenge:
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 lega…
So it appears that the way to get massively retweeted on Mastodon (so to speak) is to get a boost from Charlie Stross. Quite astonishing consequences, really…
