Hot tip: Facebook cares a *lot* about privacy and community safety. Aside from anything else: reputational damage in that space - eg: #CambridgeAnalytica - is bad for the pursuit of money-grubbing capitalism.
It's 2020, the world is plagued by disease and oppression, and however regrettable it is that a tiny number of people use @torproject and other privacy tools (VPNs? @signalapp? other?) to do bad things, the truth of the matter is that there are millions of people who *need* such.
Yes @lorenzofb wrote this, and yes the guy is atrocious, but the response to the general problem of "some people do obscenely bad things" cannot be for us to demand that "Facebook should block people who want privacy and integrity when communicating".
Aside from anything else, there is equally the argument that:
"The Web/Internet as a whole, acts as a force-amplifier for abusive acts! We should tear down the whole thing, not just 'social networking'!"
...and someone is probably saying that in a "Year Zero" kind of way.
But if we did tear down the internet, or at least tear down social media, we would stop the sharing of violent videos which document police maiming and brutality, just as much as we stop the videos of crazed racists performing horrific mass shootings.
People: which acts of violence do you want to see? Is it OK to share pictures of someone getting his eyeball shot out?
If, in future, you want a 400+ tweet megathread of illegal blood, violence, maiming & destruction, here you go - and it's not even on the "darkweb", it's on Twitter where even little children can look at it.
Monsters really do exist, and they look just like people.
The tools that "enable" a small number of monsters are also those which enable the world to operate "at scale", and permit a vast number of non-monster people to be safer and more able… but almost nobody speaks for them.
So if you want to glibly dismiss a million people as "17", go ahead, but you're wrong:
And - I believe, personal opinion - equally wrong are any other people who demand censorship (rather than, say, Twitter's "labelling" of content that calls for violence) of platform-level technologies like (also) Google, Facebook, Cloudflare, ...
Because the actual monsters are at the end of the (end-to-end encrypted) network connection, and it's *those* which we need to know about, so that we may protest and combat.
Hot on the heels of #ChatControl and in the name of “identity” and “consumer choice” the EU seeks the ability to undetectably spy on HTTPS communication; 300+ experts say “no” to #Article45 of #eIDAS #QWAC alecmuffett.com/article/108139
If you would like to see more discussion regarding:
Regulation: EU Digital Identity Framework — including #eIDAS and #QWAC
When Signal and WhatsApp have fled the surveillance of the #OnlineSafetyBill, what app will still be around for politicans, journalists, and actual normal people to use, securely.
@JohnNaulty @matrixdotorg Let's be clear: we are talking about the evacuation of the entire Signal and WhatsApp userbase / niche, from the United Kingdom.
That's a lot of people.
WOW:
- No Signal
- No WhatsApp
- No iMessage
- No Facetime
@jamesrbuk called it #internexit; the UK will be extraordinarily isolated from the rest of the internet.
A big part of the the reason for the existence of that API was because the European Union wanted to enable people to access their data; so they created the problem, complained when the inevitable leaks happened, and are now reinventing it
Could be the attached, but my suspicion is that this is going to be another CYBER! DARKWEB! CYB3R! SYBER! CAMBRIDGE ANALYTICA‼️BRAIN CONTORL! YOU SAW AN ADVERT AND SO A RUSSIAN ARTIFISHIAL INTELLIGENCE APP MADE YOU VOTE FOR UKIP! … thing.
Plucky spooks in Cheltenham but dressed for speed-dating in 2015-era Shoreditch, battle "Russian influence operations" that Nadine Dorries will soon cite as rationale for the #OnlineSafetyBill.
Token American subplots help sell the series to the US.
Back in 1991 I published an open-source password cracking tool which defined the state of the art for the next 5+ years, so much so that echoes of it can be found in all major password crackers of today.
Some folk criticised me for doing this, choosing words like these to do so:
I know that in general it's bad form to take a single quote out of context and use it to critique an entire essay (concerned.tech) — but I do feel that this time it's deserved.
The concerned-dot-tech essay has had extensive technical debunking, e.g.: