Some tips to maximise user privacy while deploying this tool: 1) The code, for now, runs locally. This is good. To avoid the possibility of the code being tampered with at a later day (for example, it could be modified to send copies of the image to a server), download the webpage and use the saved copy, not the live copy. 2) Do not use the blur functionality. For maximum privacy, this should be removed from the app…
"There are _a lot_ of forensic methods to reverse blur techniques" Any examples? You can't reverse it if the data is gone.
Image Scrubber: tool for anonymizing photographs taken at protests
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#202Earlier quoted context omitted.
Indian independence? Martin Luther King?
Ghandi is the face of that movement but was just the tip of what was a very bloody revolution. It is important that we think the movement was "non-violent" such that we can point to it to dissuade people from challenging the status quo in a material way.
Gandhi was also not a pacifist. He strongly believed in the right of self-defense.
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#203As of today, the president is designating antifascist protestors as a terrorist organization.
Not following the news for my sanity. Was he referring to antifa or actual anti fascists?
Antifa is an umbrella term. From Wikipedia:
> Antifa is not an interconnected or unified organization, but rather a movement without a hierarchical leadership structure, comprising multiple autonomous groups and individuals
Re: Image Scrubber: tool for anonymizing photographs taken at protests
#204Some tips to maximise user privacy while deploying this tool: 1) The code, for now, runs locally. This is good. To avoid the possibility of the code being tampered with at a later day (for example, it could be modified to send copies of the image to a server), download the webpage and use the saved copy, not the live copy. 2) Do not use the blur functionality. For maximum privacy, this should be removed from the app…
So based n all the replies, can someone design the most resilient facemask that can never be understood by facial AIs?
https://cvdazzle.com/
But remember that facial recognition is far from the only way to identify protesters. Assume that the full power of the DHS is there (drones, Stingrays / IMSI catchers, license plate readers)
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#205Earlier quoted context omitted.
The article just has these people loosely connected or "active" in the protests. One of them attended the protests, one launched a tear gas canister back at the police, one's mother attended the protests, etc. These aren't the main organizers or leaders dying mysteriously, but rather random attendees dying. Is this more or less than the number of attendees we would expect to die based on Ferguson homicide rates and a…
All of those mentioned in the article were not just attendees but community organizers. Do some drake equation style math on the back of an envelope: What percentage of young people will die in a given year? What percentage of those will happen to be community organizers? What percentage of those will die by being shot in the head in a car that was then set on fire to annihilate forensic evidence? Doesn't take too ma…
Are they organizers? That's not clear to me from the NBC article.
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— MarShawn McCarrel of Columbus, Ohio, shot himself in February 2016 outside the front door of the Ohio Statehouse, police said. He had been active in Ferguson.
— Edward Crawford Jr., 27, fatally shot himself in May 2017 after telling acquaintances he had been distraught over personal issues, police said. A photo of Crawford firing a tear gas canister back at police during a Ferguson protest was part of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch’s Pulitzer Prize-winning coverage.
— In October, 24-year-old Danye Jones was found hanging from a tree in the yard of his north St. Louis County home. His mother, Melissa McKinnies, was active in Ferguson and posted on Facebook after her son’s death, “They lynched my baby.” But the death was ruled a suicide.
— Bassem Masri, a 31-year-old Palestinian American who frequently livestreamed video of Ferguson demonstrations, was found unresponsive on a bus in November and couldn’t be revived. Toxicology results released in February showed he died of an overdose of fentanyl.
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One was "active", one sent tear gas back at police, one livestreamed parts of the protest, and one's mother was in the protest.
The first two people, who were shot in their cars, I didn't see the extent of their involvement.
How many were involved at this level or higher? Tens of thousands? How many should we expect to die of murder, suicide, and drug overdose, and how many have?
What is the theory explaining this? Do you think there is a group murdering Ferguson protestors after the fact?
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#206Earlier quoted context omitted.
I’m reminded of a reddit thread a while back about the US government paying a large sum to create an “unblur” function for photoshop. Someone in the comments was able to rotate and flip a photo and use the photoshop blur tool to effectively undo a blur for free. Perhaps it’s better to remove the section of photo with a person’s face instead? Or draw a shape over their face and flatten the image? It seems to me as lon…
In the case you posted, the image is not blurred. Instead pixels are simply moved from one location to another via the "swirl" effect. Very little pixel information is lost in this process, and if you can recover the position transformation, you can easily undo it.
This makes 100% sense compared to "undoing a blur" by applying another blur (with negative radius?).
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#207As of today, the president is designating antifascist protestors as a terrorist organization.
The "president" has his thumb up his ass, because that's actually not a thing he's legally able to do. Neither is there a domestic terrorism statute, nor is there any legal authority to designate a domestic organization as a terrorist group. So, even though the "president" is pro-fascist, he's really still got his hands tied there.
According to Wikipedia (maybe not optimal source), via the PATRIOT Act, groups can be designated as domestic terrorists.
I don’t know anything about this topic. Can you expand why you said that there is no “...legal authority to designate a domestic organization as a terrorist group”.
I’m no asking about Antifa specifically but generally.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domestic_terrorism_in_the_Un...
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#208Earlier quoted context omitted.
> If we are to trust the cops again, they need to show us they are worthy of trust. And they sure aren’t doing that right now. What I've seen in the past 2 days is that the police are doubling down on being oppressors, not public servants. I expect it to get much worse before it (possibly) gets better. And it may not get better.
This is not fair at all. Protest turned to riots, literally burning down police stations. Police action wasn't until much later, and they were perfectly fine with the daytime, civil unrest. During the evening, the 'protestors' went home and the agitators came out to fight police, and that's that. When people are looting every store on a street, the police have no choice but to physically move in. There are very few o…
> This is not fair at all.
Nyet, comrade. My points were perfectly valid and to not acknowledge them is willful ignorance at best.
Black bloc and others are a problem but that actually feeds into what the authorities want, which is to completely suppress protest and civil disobedience.
Challenge: explain away the arrest of compliant CNN reporters on live tv, as well as the intentional targeting of reporters elsewhere (with rubber bullets), and last, but very much not least, the police shooting people in their yards for the act of filming them.
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#209Earlier quoted context omitted.
What about identifying the police who are breaking the law? Not just the ones attacking peaceful protesters, but the agents provocateur? Peaceful protest is being squashed and de-legitimized. This is the flowering of fascism.
"Peaceful protest is being squashed and de-legitimized. This is the flowering of fascism." This is really not true. The protests turned quickly into riots and the more heavy-handed police tactics literally started only days later. The rioters burnt down a police station for gosh sakes. There are no 'protetors' clashing with police in a violent way. I think decent folks move on after curfew. It's the adventure-seeking…
Da, comrade. Theses protesters are all criminals and should be shot on sight!
Edit: the above intact for owning my words.
There's plenty of evidence of the police engaging in unnecessary force and provocation of clearly peaceful demonstrators.
It's a straw man argument to make this all about the violent demonstrators and looting. The police are now literally above the law -- that is the real issue at stake.
No one except a "libertarian" is going to advocate for the elimination of the police. There's countless cases of clear police misconduct and effectively no accountability for that.
You can't have honest dialog with that without acknowledging the flaws in "your side".
If you can't acknowledge that any abuse exists, then you are engaging in monologue, not dialog.
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#210Can face blurring be regulated as a protected form of encryption?