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Comment Beautiful (Score 1) 32

Everyone knows that regulation are burdensome and a net drain on the economy. If people cannot trust their banks, it just means they will live with the consequences of their decisions. Weak men who cannot calculate risk should not have money anyways. I for one look forward to a return of wildcat banks, massive fraud, and increased market panics.

Comment Biometrics are usernames. (Score 1) 27

Biometrics are non-revokable usernames and should never be used to assert identity. They're easy to forge, have been proven forgeable by many studies and worst yet you can't change them if something goes wrong.

Again and again this comes up as a solution. It is the "convenience" side of the security triangle of cost, convenience, and security. While it makes things easy, it makes things a lot more insecure.

Comment Unfortunate (Score 4, Interesting) 181

The Tory government policies are very unfortunate, pigheadedly ignoring basic math and reasoning. Backdoors do not work.

Several issues come to mind. Where is the City in this? I can't imagine all the financial infrastructure in the UK will be happy about weaker controls over security. What would Lloyds or Coutts say regarding government mandated backdoors?

UK has set a stronger policy of government support of the private sector with cybersecurity as well. They would be giving that up. NCSC and other governmental organizations and regulators have been remarkably effective at promoting a new path forward for the British economy. This places all their good work in jeopardy.

I must expect Labour will make hay of this as well. The Tories will be destroying good jobs. Britain cannot afford many more tech positions or firms leaving for the US or Canada.

Comment Cowards. (Score 1) 11

Citing “consistent feedback” from partners [Please don’t take away our surveillance capitalism money], Google is “expanding the testing [revenue] windows for the Privacy Sandbox APIs before we disable third-party cookies in Chrome, [and cut our ad money]” with that phase out now set to begin in the second hand of 2024. (edited)

Comment There are no STMs (Score 1) 92

There are no "standard technical measures" that do not involve a massive degree of surveillance into a host, hosted by a hosting company or full and complete control. The danger present in this proposal is massive.

Perhaps this sort of model works when the hosting company is vimeo, youtube, or google drive which controls the content and application but once this is attempted to be applied to say, an ISP where individuals manage said hosts, all bets are off.

So much of the web is (fortunately) encrypted these days that they'd have to surveil the hosts themselves, and that is going to make for a very aggressive environment.

Social Networks

Reddit Talk Is a Clubhouse Competitor For Subreddits (theverge.com) 23

Reddit unveiled its take on a Clubhouse-like social audio product on Monday, called Reddit Talk. The Verge reports: The company is billing Monday's announcement as a "sneak preview," since the feature isn't widely available yet. Moderators that want to try the feature out in their subreddit can add themselves to a waitlist for access. Based on Reddit's description and images shared by the company, Reddit Talk appears to look a lot like Clubhouse, Twitter Spaces, and other social audio products. Talks will "live" within subreddits, according to Reddit.

During the initial tests, only subreddit moderators will be able to initiate a Talk, and Talk hosts will have the ability to invite, mute, and remove speakers. While only mods can kick off Talks in the beginning, anyone on iOS and Android can listen to one. Moderation has been an issue for Clubhouse, so it's notable that Reddit is starting small and giving access only to moderators first. At some point in the future, mods will be able to bring on trusted community members as co-hosts. The company says it is "testing ways" for hosts to customize how Talks look with emojis and different background colors, and users will be able to change their avatar, too.
Earlier today, Facebook also announced that the company is working on a Clubhouse clone.

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