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Facebook’s New Captcha Test: 'Upload a Clear Photo of Your Face'

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Re: Facebook’s New Captcha Test: 'Upload a Clear Photo of Your Face'

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Post by reaperducer »

Waterluvian wrote: post #30

I should write a blog post about this, but to those thinking about deleting Facebook, My experience deleting it 5 years ago is summarized as: my friend count went way down, my friend quality went way up. Your results may vary, but the purpose of my comment is not to immediately be worried that Facebook is a mandatory lifeline for your social life.

A few years ago I walked away from Facebook. Three months later, I got a phone call from my mother (who's not online) because she heard through the grapevine that I was dead. My stupid Facebook "friends" took my silence for something sinister and jumped to conclusions.

I ended up returning to Facebook and purging my "friend" list down to just a dozen actual friends.

Re: Facebook’s New Captcha Test: 'Upload a Clear Photo of Your Face'

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Post by 52-6F-62 »

Waterluvian wrote: post #30

I should write a blog post about this, but to those thinking about deleting Facebook, My experience deleting it 5 years ago is summarized as: my friend count went way down, my friend quality went way up. Your results may vary, but the purpose of my comment is not to immediately be worried that Facebook is a mandatory lifeline for your social life.

Can confirm. I've commented about this a few times. Life's a little less noisy, too.

I'd add that the lessened noise contributes to a sense of clarity which in turn contributes to an ability to think critically on the spot.

Re: Facebook’s New Captcha Test: 'Upload a Clear Photo of Your Face'

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Post by jthewriter »

Waterluvian wrote: post #30

I should write a blog post about this, but to those thinking about deleting Facebook, My experience deleting it 5 years ago is summarized as: my friend count went way down, my friend quality went way up. Your results may vary, but the purpose of my comment is not to immediately be worried that Facebook is a mandatory lifeline for your social life.

> my friend count went way down, my friend quality went way up.

This is an important distinction. FB has programmed us to believe quantity is the goal, when quality probably should be. How many FB "friends" does the average user have meaningful relationships with? I'd speculate not many more than it's possible to maintain offline/without FB's "help".

Re: Facebook’s New Captcha Test: 'Upload a Clear Photo of Your Face'

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Post by sandworm101 »

staplers wrote: post #32
Harkins wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They still have your face from scanning your friends' photos and contacts. Combine datestamp, location, messages, and posts over years and Facebook knows who was together for a photo whether or not you've uploaded any or been tagged. Facebook knows the face of everyone who is on Facebook or who knows a few people who are.

I can pull a fingerprint off the subway stair rails but that doesn't mean I can identify who it is. We anonymously reveal ourselves everyday but the danger comes from confirming which data is ours. The goal is to make it difficult not impossible.

They don't need you to confirm it. This isn't a criminal case. They just need to be reasonably confident. Your face is in a picture with four other people. They can see that phones belonging to four people, who regularly chat with each other, were all at the same location at the time the photo was taken. They are now reasonably confident that your face is one of those four. Do that five or six times and their robots will know your face. Whether you confirm it or not doesn't really matter.

Re: Facebook’s New Captcha Test: 'Upload a Clear Photo of Your Face'

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Post by thg »

NiklasMort wrote: post #27

maybe this is how skynet starts

Skynet is entertainment. A real ASI will be much more proficient at removing threats.

Both nanobots and a genetically engineered super virus, for example, would be very well suited to extinguish humanity in a timeframe that makes resistance / retaliation impossible.

Now if I as a dumb human can come up with that, just imagine what a being incredibly smarter than anything we could imagine could come up with.

Re: Facebook’s New Captcha Test: 'Upload a Clear Photo of Your Face'

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Post by clamprecht »

Last paragraph of the article:

"The new authentication scheme is the second in recent weeks that relies on photos. Earlier this month, Facebook asked users to upload nude photos to Facebook Messenger, as part of an effort to prevent revenge porn. Facebook said it would use the nude photos to create a digital fingerprint against which to compare future posts."

Wait what? I had to check whether today was April 1st.

Re: Facebook’s New Captcha Test: 'Upload a Clear Photo of Your Face'

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Post by staplers »

sandworm101 wrote: post #45
staplers wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I can pull a fingerprint off the subway stair rails but that doesn't mean I can identify who it is. We anonymously reveal ourselves everyday but the danger comes from confirming which data is ours. The goal is to make it difficult not impossible.

They don't need you to confirm it. This isn't a criminal case. They just need to be reasonably confident. Your face is in a picture with four other people. They can see that phones belonging to four people, who regularly chat with each other, were all at the same location at the time the photo was taken. They are now reasonably confident that your face is one of those four. Do that five or six times and their robots…

  They can see that phones belonging to four people, who regularly chat with each other, were all at the same location at the time the photo was taken.
How would they "see" your phone without the facebook app installed?

Re: Facebook’s New Captcha Test: 'Upload a Clear Photo of Your Face'

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Post by Sir_Substance »

glitcher wrote: post #40
Sir_Substance wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

To add to this, you can always /try/ deleting your facebook account and see if it's for you. It's not like facebook is a nightclub that will refuse re-entry once you leave or anything.

My account went inactive and eventually was disabled. To get back into the "nightclub" now, I must submit a copy of my photo ID to verify my identity. No thanks to the Facebook bouncer thugs guarding the entrance...

One has to assume anyone on facebook is ok with that though, it is the nature of the service these days, even if you joined before it was like that.
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