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Yes – and not only for government and organizations: > In 1999, NetBus was used to plant child pornography on the work computer of a law scholar at Lund University. The 3,500 image…

Whether people are convinced or not – your claim was that it provided "justification". My point is that it does no such thing – it doesn't hold up as a valid argument (which really…

It has been illegal at least since the Grand Chamber judgments on the cases of "Big Brother Watch" and "Centrum för Rättvisa" last year [0]. Though, really, the outcome was fairly …

No, it does not – for two reasons: - Two wrongs don't make a right: Someone behaving unethical does not excuse unethical behavior from someone else. - There is a difference in the …

Yet bulk data collection (in effect "mass surveillance") happens, and poses a risk in and of itself to data subjects.

https://cleave.app Cleave lets users persist OS state as a "context" - saving and loading all open applications, their windows (and their positions), tabs, open files/documents and…

Yes, if you mean true anonymization – i.e. not pseudonymization (e.g. replacing names with a pseudonym) or in any other way retaining personal data (internal identifiers, usage pat…

Out of curiosity: How does any argument become more or less logical depending on its context? Your comment reads to me as if the concept of logical fallacies is only useful or vali…

Exactly – this is currently a regulatory problem, and blockchains, decentralized identity, etc. won't solve anything in this space. On the contrary, it will by definition enable id…

could protect against all sorts of abuse... Could it, though? What's to stop someone that gains access to user data (by legitimate means) to make a copy?

> I wish the field of psychiatry was mature and used different words for depression caused by [...] Isn't this covered by "situational depression" (adjustment disorder with depress…

There is a lower limit to privacy (as a human right) – which after passing, societies would seize to be "free" (liberal democracies?). But that's not a discussion people seem to wa…

Could someone tell me how that inspection works? Are there researchers who are given the source code? It doesn't (with the exception of an exclusive program[0]). Not only do they g…

That's not an argument that deals with whether climate change is real or not – but whether it's reasonable to believe it is, based on one's own lack of understanding in combination…

I too would trust a climate scientist as a legitimate authority on climate change over a religious leader or a PR person – but that's not what I'm discussing. I'm saying global war…

Does it actually matter? An argument doesn't get any more or less fallacious based on who believes in it (the authority, in this case) – that's not an argument in itself. It might …

My own speculation basically boils down to: Human minds are primarily meaning-seeking machines, to such a large extent that we even create meaning where there is none (apophenia). …

And by extension, fallacious reasoning means that you have no good reason to take what the reasoner is arguing as true (unless they can a non-fallacious argument) – right? The fact…

Compared to virtual desktops, this allows you to close down apps (consume less resources) as well as maintain multiple working context-specific application states.

I'm currently trying to solve this and more in an application called Cleave. https://cleave.app Cleave lets users persist OS state as a "context" - saving and loading open applicat…

... but the link between user and photo obviously exists somewhere in Apple's system.

Legality aside – how is this not a privacy risk? Privileged users of the infrastructure can gain information about users (whether they possess CSAM that's in the hash-database... f…