🛰️Notepad++ 8.9.3 mit einigen Korrekturen und einer berbesserten SIcherheit für cURL (CVE-2025-14819)
“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” – discussion prevented by Microsoft license terms but also because criticising any “child safety” technology was an industry taboo.
I’m glad this is coming out now:
https://twitter.com/CosicBe/status/2036017010488832122?s=20
#censorship #neuralHash #onlineSafetyAct #photoDna
Natural collisions in Apple’s #NeuralHash and Microsoft’s #PhotoDNA show worrying false positives/negatives in widely deployed perceptual hashing. Our findings highlight severe risks for privacy and civil liberties at scale. Watch this short demo: 🎥 https://t.co/bWxVTKlZEC
Fun how MSFT doesn't share any identifiable information about what their scanning looks like. (https://internetscans.microsoft.com/). While it appears to be just a user agent, since it's spoofable, we can't mark it benign.
If anyone there wants to confirm the list of 240+ IPs we're observing/suspecting, LMK.
Looks like someone built a tool to check your LinkedIn network for names from the Epstein documents. Soon I expect other tools will follow to work with other social media platforms.
This is what the beginning of community accountability looks like. Just because the legal system is captured doesn’t mean there are zero consequences.
https://github.com/cfinke/EpsteIn
Yes, I know I am mentioned in the files, but I can’t control when other people mention me.
#epstein
A great talk about PTP with live demos by Oliver Ettlin at #39c3
I got a feeling @geerlingguy might like this.
https://media.ccc.de/v/39c3-excuse-me-what-precise-time-is-it

GNSS Positioning of ships and airplanes in the Baltic Sea is regularly disrupted by the "Baltic Jammer". @DLR is developing a backup positioning system called R-Mode based on existing infrastructure as an alternative to satellite systems.
https://media.ccc.de/v/39c3-who-cares-about-the-baltic-jammer-terrestrial-navigation-in-the-baltic-sea-region

GotaTun Open-Source Rust WireGuard Implementation Announced By Mullvad
The Swedish VPN service Mullvad announced this week GotaTun, an open-source Rust-based WireGuard implementation that is forked from Cloudflare's BoringTun...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/GotaTun-Rust-WireGuard-OSS