I am very here for this analysis by etymology nerd:

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/Cc @etymologynerd.bsky.social

I am very here for this analysis by etymology nerd:

www.tiktok.com/@etymologyne...

/Cc @etymologynerd.bsky.social

Unfortunately that's not possible because wear-and-tear differentiation.

A quote from Jane Eyre Laws and principles are not for the times when there is no temptation: they are for such moments as this, when body and soul rise in mutiny against their...

Y'all know this was lifted from Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte?

www.goodreads.com/quotes/44541...

I'm not a fan of iOS but in attempting to keep track of my kid's beloved plushie I'm at the cusp of buying a refurbished iPad & a batch of AirTags in order to keep track of it; unless anyone has better suggestions?

‘Von der Leyen Announces the EU’s New Age Verification App Claiming it is “Completely Anonymous” & users “Cannot be Tracked”’ | …the EU is about to have its ‘Clipper’ moment Who is going to be this generation’s Matt Blaze? :-) The Clipper Chip was announced on April 16, 1993. 33 years, less 1 day:

‘Von der Leyen Announces the EU’s New Age Verification App Claiming it is “Completely Anonymous” & users “Cannot be Tracked”’ | …the EU is about to have its ‘Clipper’ moment
https://alecmuffett.com/article/156478
#AgeVerification #ZeroKnowledge #clipper #eu #oops #rofl

I will add to the sentiment expressed by several other commenters that I hate that I can read this.

I'm not saying it will be easy or pleasant but generally it's necessary to lance the boil in order to cause change.

The Tech Outrage Playbook wins again:

alecmuffett.com/article/139710

How the ElonMusk / Grok / DeepFake / Generative AI thing will play out: The Tech Outrage Playbook public outrage, moral repugnance, calls for punitive regulation [platform] creates mitigation for [the problem] within days, civil society nerds find a circumvention for the mitigation, calls for o…

Called it. My blog post from January:

alecmuffett.com/article/139710

Now I need to find a citation.

Oh.

And yes, Joe, you are absolutely right: back doors suck.

But only tangentially because of AI and instead more directly because they are a state-centric parochial affront to liberty and privacy and integrity.

And yes, Joe, you are absolutely right: back doors suck.

But only tangentially because of AI and instead more directly because they are a state-centric parochial affront to liberty and privacy and integrity.

Also I can recommend this thread:

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Also I can recommend this thread:

bsky.app/profile/ciar...

Crypticide I: Thirteen Years of Crack Thirteen years ago, on 15th June 1991, I posted v2.7a of Crack to the newsgroup alt.sources [groups.google.com] – I messed-up the posting process a bit, since these were the days when people …

The amplification of security intrusion is an old problem and we will survive because we will adapt.

Blog post from 2004:
alecmuffett.com/article/733

1991: "releasing crack and other password cracking and security tools onto the net is like throwing guns into a daycare for the kids to play with" and similar sentiments.

Crypticide I: Thirteen Years of Crack Thirteen years ago, on 15th June 1991, I posted v2.7a of Crack to the newsgroup alt.sources [groups.google.com] – I messed-up the posting process a bit, since these were the days when people …

The amplification of security intrusion is an old problem and we will survive because we will adapt.

Blog post from 2004:
alecmuffett.com/article/733

1991: "releasing crack and other password cracking and security tools onto the net is like throwing guns into a daycare for the kids to play with" and similar sentiments.

a man is talking to another man and the words it 's a moral imperative are visible ALT: a man is talking to another man and the words it 's a moral imperative are visible

Shout out also for Real Genius, far superior to Weird Science

a young man in a striped shirt is looking at a computer screen . ALT: a young man in a striped shirt is looking at a computer screen .

Oh bless; 1975-85, tailing off in the era of Revenge Of The Nerds and Electric Dreams and ending pretty much squarely with the release of War Games when hacking suddenly became very cool as opposed to something done by Berkeley and MIT grads with pocket protectors.

You must be so young.

I remember when people were saying that about email, let alone the web.

The question then becomes: who gets to say what 'doing it right' would entail, which inevitably enrages both sides and thus the wheel turns.

From 2019: ‘If there were 5 million “bad people” on Facebook – terrorists, criminals, drug-dealers, whatever – that would be 0.2% of the userbase’ 99.8% would not be “bad people”. This is “scale”. Occasionally people need reminding how this works.

From 2019: ‘If there were 5 million “bad people” on Facebook – terrorists, criminals, drug-dealers, whatever – that would be 0.2% of the userbase’
https://alecmuffett.com/article/156179
#OnlineSafety

"if it requires a government document and a selfie in order to register for a service, then it should require a government document and a selfie to close your account"

<laughs in online safety act age verification>

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The age verification provider association says that platforms do not want age verification to work, Taylor Lorenz reports that meta is trying to push age verification laws.

Both of these positions cannot be simultaneously true.

Tag @taylorlorenz.bsky.social

I find it bizarre that the AgeVerification (AV) industry says “platforms don’t want AV because they don’t want private data” – BUT civil society says “platforms DO want AV because they want private data” It’s like those criticisms of the BBC where they receive conflicting hate from both sides, so you have to start wondering whether the platforms aren’t simply doing the right thing to ha…

I find it bizarre that the AgeVerification (AV) industry says “platforms don’t want AV because they don’t want private data” – BUT civil society says “platforms DO want AV because they want priva[…]
https://alecmuffett.com/article/156094

Trump posts graphic video of slaying to argue for stricter immigration policies | BBC News “Hey, d’ya remember the good old days back when journalists, politicians & civil society would rage that platforms “must do more to take down violent content” – in…

Trump posts graphic video of slaying to argue for stricter immigration policies | BBC News
https://alecmuffett.com/article/155924
#OnlineSafety #trump