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could just install cameras to detect erratic driving.
oh please
The more I think about it, the more I think it would be technically easier to do so.
Just because things are "just writing code" doesn't make it an easier problem.
It's a bit of a juxtaposition...if you break end to end encryption then you make all financial transactions inherrently insecure and prone to interception/theft, etc. by individuals, and indeed, governments.
Apple pay? or any type of contactless payments? forget it, huge money transfers betweeen banks? Hell no. Untold havock.
I honestly don't have the answers.
* One of Elons cost saving measures for X was to scrap loads of the safeguarding people and systems, which is an odd thing to do if you consider yourself the saviour of humanity.<br />
It’s not odd to someone who’s fundamentally a right-wing authoritarian narcissist, who only sees things from the perspective of whatever is of benefit to himself and what benefits himself. Much like DiaperDon.
It’s a bit of a juxtaposition…if you break end to end encrption then you make all financial transactions inherrently insecure and prone to interception/theft, etc.
Well, the argument has been "can't all you clever people come up with a new encryption mechanism which has a backdoor for the nice government folk and we pinky promise we won't misuse it", so it wouldn't necessarily affect all the things.
But, aside from the very obvious flaw of having to trust governments, it's going to be hard to keep that particular genie in a bottle. And even assuming all your access control is solid and all your politicians are fine upstanding individuals with no self interest, it's obviously going to be a prime candidate for bad actors to hack.
And even assuming all those things aren't issues, what do you think people will do? They'll just hop straight to the next app that doesn't have a backdoor.
could just install cameras to detect erratic driving.<br />oh please<br />The more I think about it, the more I think it would be technically easier to do so.
Just because things are “just writing code” doesn’t make it an easier problem.<br /><br />
I hope that’s not suggesting that facial recognition is the answer, because it’s been proven repeatedly that it’s deeply flawed, the chances of the wrong person being identified are huge, especially when those subjects are not white! Not that that matters to law enforcement, especially when it has an inbuilt bias against POC…
Not that it could ever happen here… *eye roll emoji*
I hope that’s not suggesting that facial recognition is the answer,
No. I was saying I think it would be easier to have auto detection of drunk drivers on the road network than add moderation to end to end encrypted networks.
Well, the argument has been “can’t all you clever people come up with a new encryption mechanism which has a backdoor for the nice government folk and we pinky promise we won’t misuse it”, so it wouldn’t necessarily affect all the things.
I think we are both saying the same thing in different ways.
You can't have a secure system if it has back-doors or other potential exploits. It's a logical fallacy.
You don't need a PHD in computer science to work that one out.
I don't have any answers, really...if there's potential to abuse something, it's pretty much a given that at some point' some one will abuse it to thier advantage...
... be that school kids bullying each other on ticktoc, or royal mail/Fujitsu ruining peoples lives and telling lies about it. Humans can be real arse holes, what can I say?
Snap Chat can know if an image is pornographic
if I remember correctly Snapchat is end-to-end encrypted. Like WhatsApp and iMessage for example.
If so then Snapchat cannot know what you are posting and can take no direct action. Plus monitoring all photographic and video posts and identifying alleged porn isn’t possible now. https://spectrum.ieee.org/amp/blogger-behind-ai-weirdness-thinks-todays-ai-is-dumb-and-dangerous-2650279265
Apple attempted some CSAM measures and put them on hold. https://www.wired.com/story/apple-csam-scanning-heat-initiative-letter/
Hopefully no one is advocating a ‘back door’ or other encryption-weakening measures here?
surely it’s not too difficult?
If it was as simple as people imagine it is, tech companies would have dealt with it. They can't afford to pay human moderators to check every single social media post and, if they use AI, there will be false positives and false negatives. People's accounts will be blocked or shut down and there will be no realistic way to dispute it because those companies can't afford to pay enough staff to manually check disputes.
Which is what happens already. I've been banned from Facebook for "promotion of violence" because I said hipsters need a slap. From the context it was utterly obvious what the intent was but either an AI or non native English speaker that didn't understand rejected my appeal.
Meanwhile genuine scumbags go unchecked.
There is also the fact that the kids phones are not theirs. They cannot take out the financing contract so it's in the adults name. A child may well be send pics but it's from an adults phone. Something that needs to be pushed home whenever a phone is used to send a dodgy pic or video a school ground fight or bully a child.
I'm sure there's a simple solution here somewhere... All we need to do is concoct some fallacies and imagine some technology into existance.
Alternatively perhaps the solution here is unfortunately a social one, rather than a technical. If society didn't tolerate "boys being boys" that girl wouldn't have had to endure what she did. If we were better at building resilience and building environments which imbued psychological safety we could have better relationships between people and spend less effort on dealing with the fallout from people being rubbish to each other. The problem here is the school. It's also the parents. And it's the kids themselves. People in miserable situations were thoroughly adepts at being utterly rubbish to each other including psychological torture to the point of destruction long before Snapchat was a thing. I know this only too well - I had the misfortune of attending a Christian Brothers school in the 1990s.
I suspect the platforms are legally not in the UK and so subject to the legal framework of whichever country they have chosen. That and they are very well connected. Does anyone think Nick Glegg got his job at Facebook because of his prooven track record in the social media industry