frog51 - Slashdot User

Comment Think GDPR may cause them some problems (Score 1) 77

by frog51 on Saturday February 19, 2022 @03:42PM (#62283967) Attached to: 100 Billion Face Photos? Clearview AI tells investors it's On Track to Identify 'Almost Everyone in the World'

They're going to have real trouble evidencing consent.

Comment HTC Vive (Score 1) 106

by frog51 on Saturday February 19, 2022 @02:35PM (#62283721) Attached to: Do you have and use any virtual reality headsets?

And no interest in using it for anything Facemetav related.

Comment it is essential you get this right (Score 1) 517

by frog51 on Sunday December 04, 2011 @04:49AM (#38255722) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: To Hack Or Not To Hack?

Some discussion on responsible disclosure over in the Security Stack Exchange site: htt p://security.stackexchange.com/q/52/485

Submission + - If Crypto is outlawed: confidentiality gone?

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frog51

on Tuesday April 19, 2011 @06:36AM

frog51 writes: "In certain jurisdictions, use of cryptography by the private sector is limited: e.g. there are reports that in the UAE and other countries not all of the encryption capabilities of the BlackBerry are permitted.

This removes a mainstay of current IT confidentiality. Are there workarounds in place? Or does this potentially break a major modern assumption — that we can secure information wherever we are?

In the 1990s the U.S. government tried to force the use of SkipJack, an encryption mechanism that would have led to all private sector encryption keys being escrowed. That escrow would have been a major target for espionage and terrorism. The US learned from this mistake, but are other regions doomed to repeat it?"

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