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Facebook wants your naked photos to stop revenge porn

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Re: Facebook wants your naked photos to stop revenge porn

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This would be a useful service if their system could detect signs of skin cancer.

In terms of squelching revenge porn, I do not see how this would remove anything from non facebook servers. Is 4chan going to integrate with this? Are they really only using hashing? Simple hash checks are negated with trivial effort.

If they are just hashes, why are users uploading anything beyond a hash? Example: virustotal [0] can get the hash of a file using javascript rather than uploading the file. Is this to see that the file is really porn?

[0] - https://www.virustotal.com/

Re: Facebook wants your naked photos to stop revenge porn

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This would be a useful service if their system could detect signs of skin cancer. In terms of squelching revenge porn, I do not see how this would remove anything from non facebook servers. Is 4chan going to integrate with this? Are they really only using hashing? Simple hash checks are negated with trivial effort. If they are just hashes, why are users uploading anything beyond a hash? Example: virustotal [0] can ge…

It's not just hashes of the raw bytes of the photos. More likely something like PhotoDNA[1] that's already used for tracking child porn.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PhotoDNA

Re: Facebook wants your naked photos to stop revenge porn

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This would be a useful service if their system could detect signs of skin cancer. In terms of squelching revenge porn, I do not see how this would remove anything from non facebook servers. Is 4chan going to integrate with this? Are they really only using hashing? Simple hash checks are negated with trivial effort. If they are just hashes, why are users uploading anything beyond a hash? Example: virustotal [0] can ge…

I doubt it is Simple file level Hashing

MS Pioneered tech for Child Porn that looks at the actual photo and hashes parts of the file, PhotoID, that makes is more robot than a simple file hash, which ML I am sure this has improved alot in the decades it was first released

However I agree that is unlikely to curb Revenge Porn...

Re: Facebook wants your naked photos to stop revenge porn

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post #4

I wonder what's their real agenda with these photos. You can never take what Facebook says at face value. Just like when they say they're only building shadow profiles on you for security purposes.

There is already plenty of porn on the internet, why do they need more?

Re: Facebook wants your naked photos to stop revenge porn

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post #4

I wonder what's their real agenda with these photos. You can never take what Facebook says at face value. Just like when they say they're only building shadow profiles on you for security purposes.

For all its flaws, I don't think that it's likely that FB would move into the blackmail space.
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