Olives @olives@qoto.org
Software Engineer. Psy / Tech / Sex Science Enthusiast. Controversial?
Free Expression. Human rights / Civil Liberties. Anime. Liberal.
Joined May 2023
It's remarkable how I can't recognize many of the names of the people currently on the U.K. Cabinet.
The OSB reads like a vague wish list of "wouldn't it be nice if the internet was like this?" while completely ignoring how the real world works.
I honestly think the U.K. should be mature about the entire OSB (although, that would mean scrapping it), rather than just thinking they should be mature about E2EE (which they're not either).
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Client-side scanning of private chat messages was top of the Today programme political debate this morning with @Mer__edith and Ciaran Martin, former Head of the National Cyber Security Centre.
Client-side scanning is a technology that intercepts and checks chat messages on mobile phones before being encrypted.
@Mer__edith: these are mass surveillance measures that operate at scale. The government has used sleight of hand to put them in.
#e2ee #encryption #onlinesafetybill #ukpolitics
Obviously, if an accidental "resemblance" (that'd likely come from very high realism, and the fact a lot of people look fairly similar, especially at scale), it shouldn't count as deliberately making it look a certain way.
Resemblance in quotes because it'd probably be a real reach.
I think only a really bad faith actor with a bone to grind might look for coincidences, and probably even they don't have the time to bother.
https://apnews.com/article/target-pride-lgbtq-4bc9de6339f86748bcb8a453d7b9acf0 Target moves some LGBT products from the front of the store to the back after their workers were implicated in violent confrontations.
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Bills like the UK's so-called Online Safety Bill and the just re-introduced EARN IT Act undermine safety by attacking end-to-end encryption. #noearnitact #makedmssafe
QT signalapp: Our position remains clear. We will not back down on providing private, safe communications. Today, we join with other encrypted messengers pushing back on the UK's flawed Online Safety Bill.
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This is messed up 🐦elonmusk. People need to be able to trust their messages are safe, and rolling out a half-baked version of end-to-end encryption, and only for people who pay, doesn't do that. Stop f**king around and take end-to-end encryption of Twitter seriously. #MakeDMsSafe
QT elonmusk: Early version of encrypted direct messages just launched.
Try it, but don’t trust it yet.
https://www.techdirt.com/2023/05/23/fake-images-spread-on-twitter-fooled-media-spooked-stock-market-briefly/ I agree with him, there is a moral panic around generative AI.
Also, another Elon screw up so that people can pay him a mere $8 to feel like celebrities.
There is a surprising number of federation hiccups on here.
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Everyone should have safe places to communicate online, & this half-assed approach isn't going to cut it. End-to-end encryption must be the default, & not just accessible to people who can pay for it. 🐦Twitter needs to take this seriously and #MakeDMsSafe
https://www.wired.com/story/twitter-encrypted-dm-signal-whatsapp/
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HEY! Are you a part of an organization that uses Slack? And/or are you a part of any Slack communities? Send us a message and check out http://MakeSlackSafe.com to sign onto a letter calling for end-to-end encryption and blocking features at Slack! #MakeSlackSafe
https://chatcontrol.wtf The parser is having difficulty with recognizing this link? It's probably the gTLD.
Snooping on metadata is not a solution to chatcontrol.wtf either (although, these guys are greedy, they want all the data).
To quote the CIA: "We kill over metadata".
Metadata can expose very intimate details of someone's life. If someone attends a political rally, I'm sure that metadata's of no value.
If someone makes a call to a mental health hotline, or engages in an online equivalent, I'm sure that metadata's of no value.
If someone is part of a marginalized group the government or society frowns upon, that can be used to make them very miserable.
In fact, as these kinds of government agencies tend to look at the world primarily through the lens of people being "potential criminals", they might read the metadata in a very paranoid fashion, and easily jump to conclusions.
Alright. So, I think I've made clear that metadata has a great deal of value, and it's not something you want someone casually trawling through.
There are even messengers which go down the road of eliminating as much metadata as possible, such as the server having no clue of who is talking to who, and about what.
To some extent, Signal does this. Messengers like Cwtch are experimenting with taking it to a whole new level.
The main selling point of E2EE is that it's private and secure. "client scanning" is neither private or secure.
It'd also be very easy for people to see it failing, asking questions, and to start to think that a company is trying to deceive / manipulate them.
From a business perspective, it would not make sense to implement. It'd be crazy to implement. That is probably the point.
Ireland is probably taking a plausibly deniable angle where they put companies in a position where they're practically going to not implement E2EE.
All this nonsense about "client scanning" is to distract from this. This is like Article 17 all over again, where Axel Voss MEP pretended it wasn't about upload filters.
Another factor is that one of the main "experts" the Commission is consulting is a white knight Hollywood actor who created a start-up a couple of years ago and is running around making impossible promises.
He has next to no actual knowledge or experience in this area.
I never thought I'd see the day when I'd see Cyprus listed as a big shaker and mover in geopolitics. QT: https://eupolicy.social/@edri/110417617252...
It's not surprising to me the police would want to ban / restrict E2EE.
Anything which might theoretically remove obstacles for them would likely be something a police force would like.
I really don't think it's worth elevating police opinions couched in convenience over and above human rights.
I never thought I'd see the day when I'd see Cyprus listed as a big shaker and mover in geopolitics.
1/5 🚨WIRED leak shows that Spain, Cyprus & Hungary want to use the #CSAR law to push for illegal #surveillance. Contrary to what the European C...
https://www.techdirt.com/2023/05/23/now-tiktok-sues-to-stop-montanas-tiktok-ban/ The bill is unconstitutional in so many ways.
https://www.techdirt.com/2023/05/23/federal-judge-says-riley-applies-at-border-warrants-are-needed-for-some-cell-phone-searches/ I hope they revive the Fourth Amendment.
Software Engineer. Psy / Tech / Sex Science Enthusiast. Controversial?
Free Expression. Human rights / Civil Liberties. Anime. Liberal.
Joined May 2023
