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You can make a browser extension extracting illegal data from innocuous images on twitter
Only by using your own stock of illegal data.
Bingo.
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#112When PGP was released in the early 90s, one of the arguments used against it was "child porn". When P2P networks using DHT became viable earlier in this century, one of the arguments used against the networks was "child porn".
The tech still remains and still functions, arguments or not.
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#113This gets close to something else I've been pondering lately - how to deal with immutable data structures in the realm of GDPR. Recitations in GDPR require systems to be designed with privacy in mind. Immutable structures like the Bitcoin blockchain or Merkle trees in other applications would seem to be fundamentally incompatible with some GDPR privacy requirements. Let's say Google receives a valid right to be forgo…
It's an attack on memory, part of the War On General Purpose Computing.
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#114Earlier quoted context omitted.
I have no need to legalize child porn just because you think it's necessary for "computers".
I know it's controversial, but I think simply having any information should never be illegal - be it a manual on building bombs, detailed plans of the white house or yes, child porn. Obviously production of such material should be completely 10000% illegal, but we already have laws that cover this extensively. But simply having a written text, drawn picture, photograph or a video should never be illegal in itself.
Revenge porn. You just have information. The ex-girlfriend shouldn‘t make a drama ouf of that. The photo is only a number!
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#115Isn't intent generally a big deal in law? If I argued that your innocent MS Word doc was illegal because it decoded to child abuse images under a special encoding scheme I just made up, I'd be laughed out of court, and rightly so. It's technically true, but irrelevant. No crime was committed. Doesn't the same principle apply here?
In the UK (and, I believe, the USA) child pornography is a "strict liability" issue — intent is irrelevant, mere possession is itself illegal. This is how teens get nailed for receiving unasked-for sexts from their under-age-of-consent SO. As with illegal drugs and, in the UK, unlicensed firearms, this means the prosecution doesn't need to prove intent. (Mandatory — usually harsh — sentence terms are usually part of…
I don't know enough about UK laws or laws in general, but it should be easy to discredit such law. It only takes one rebel tech savvy teen to send his nude sext to whatever celebrity/politician email/phone he can guess while alarming the police - and the press to stir as much shit as possible.
Actually, pardon me for a minute, I have sci-fi short to write :).
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#116Earlier quoted context omitted.
You should simply read the essay and educate yourself. Obviously you won't, but don't act so high and mighty. Especially since "illegal numbers" has been the standard argument of people with lots of opinion and little knowledge. BTW, massively editing and expanding your comment after a reply without any notice is shady.
You are continuing to be hostile. I have read the paper, years ago. His point about 'colour of bits' is conflating a number of different ideas. A chain of trust and intent for starters. A chain of trust is a trivially easy thing to solve: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chain_of_trust Asking that bits meet some simple predefined function isn't hard. In his example simply demanding that along with the substance you are…
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#117When PGP was released in the early 90s, one of the arguments used against it was "child porn". When P2P networks using DHT became viable earlier in this century, one of the arguments used against the networks was "child porn". The tech still remains and still functions, arguments or not.
The difference is between "the technology" and an "implementation of the technology". Sure, P2P DHT exists. Just like blockchains exist. But a specific blockchain, which is append-only, is trivial to make illegal by embedding illegal content in it, making every user of it technically in possession of illegal material. You can use a DHT w/o breaking the law. You cannot store child porn on your computer without breaking the law.
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#118Earlier quoted context omitted.
In the UK (and, I believe, the USA) child pornography is a "strict liability" issue — intent is irrelevant, mere possession is itself illegal. This is how teens get nailed for receiving unasked-for sexts from their under-age-of-consent SO. As with illegal drugs and, in the UK, unlicensed firearms, this means the prosecution doesn't need to prove intent. (Mandatory — usually harsh — sentence terms are usually part of…
I don't know enough about UK laws or laws in general, but it should be easy to discredit such law. It only takes one rebel tech savvy teen to send his nude sext to whatever celebrity/politician email/phone he can guess while alarming the police - and the press to stir as much shit as possible. Actually, pardon me for a minute, I have sci-fi short to write :).
In the UK, the police and prosecutors tend to take a common-sense approach: the "rebel tech savvy teen" would be the one who ended up prosecuted for possession.
(Similarly: possession of an unlicensed gun carries a stiff prison sentence. But if someone chucks a pistol on your lawn and you without delay call the police and ask them to take it away, you're probably safe. Picking it up and taking it inside is another matter, however ...)
The USA is a bit different. District Attorneys being elected means they have an incentive to bring charges against "soft" targets who'll take a plea bargain, i.e. hapless teens and people too poor to afford a decent defense lawyer.
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#119Earlier quoted context omitted.
I know it's controversial, but I think simply having any information should never be illegal - be it a manual on building bombs, detailed plans of the white house or yes, child porn. Obviously production of such material should be completely 10000% illegal, but we already have laws that cover this extensively. But simply having a written text, drawn picture, photograph or a video should never be illegal in itself.
Revenge porn. You just have information. The ex-girlfriend shouldn‘t make a drama ouf of that. The photo is only a number!
I see a lot of confusion around this topic - sharing porn images without the person's consent should always remain illegal. But just the fact that you have some images on your hard drive? That shouldn't be a crime in itself.
If you have naked images of your ex-partner, they don't magically become revenge porn until the moment you share them without permission(at which point it's a crime and it's already punishable by existing laws).
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#120This is obvious, even to the casual observer (who care to think beyond the hype.) If this did not occur to you, and you are into bitcoin/cryptocurrencies, you should get out as you're way above your head. (expecting down votes to the truth.)
This comment breaks two of the site guidelines: the one that asks people not to go on about voting (let alone downvote-bait), and this one: "Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something."
Saying that someone's work is obvious except to idiots doesn't teach anybody anything; it's just striking a pose. Please don't do that here; instead, explain. If you don't have time to explain, you can save yourself even more time by not posting.