#nerdharder — Public Fediverse posts
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Wendy Grossman's (@wendyg -- follow her) net.wars this week is excellent as usual:
https://netwars.pelicancrossing.net/Its trigger is the UK government's rather #stupid #demand that #Apple provide access to all of its users end-to-end #encrypted files. And it talks more generally about the problems with governments demanding back doors in encryption provided to the public, which is hugely counter-productive.
But maybe I just like it because it agrees with what I've said here a number of times:
Encryption is math.
There is no such thing as math that "the good guys" can do, but which "the bad guys" can't.
Anyone who tells you different [1] is lying.
Use strong encryption for everything, for the same reason you send your routine correspondence in envelopes rather than on the back of a postcard.
[1] Such as politicians who never got entry-level algebra telling you that encryption that only the government can break is possible, you just have to NERD HARDER.
#NetWars #BackDoor #encryption #NerdHarder #math #algebra #politician
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“The teenagers who read Foucault are in pitched battle with the teenagers who read Rand, whilst the teenagers who read Tolkien, Vonnegut or Adams watch, agog at the technical misapprehension…”
<trying to explain the world of online regulation to someone>
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When ‘Nerd Harder’ meets International Standards: @profmusgrave tells us how ISO “screwed the pooch” with ISO8601
A story in six acts, and it somehow encapsulates every single one of the “I am a politician and the nerds are clearly doing it the wrong way” debates of the last 20 years:
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Advocates for criminalising working encryption insist the claims that this is impossible are the same kind of self-serving nonsense as claims that banning clearcutting of old-growth forests is impossible:
https://twitter.com/JimBethell/status/1699339739042599276
They say that when technologists say, "We can't make an encryption system that keeps bad guys out but lets good guys in," that they are being lazy and unimaginative. "I have faith in you geeks," they said. "Go #NerdHarder! You'll figure it out."
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There's plenty of things everyone wishes tech could do but it can't, and #WantingItBadlyIsntEnough. Merely shouting #NerdHarder at geeks won't actually get you what you want. And while I'm rattling off cliches: a little knowledge is a dangerous thing.
Which brings me to #AshtonKutcher. Yes, *that* Ashton Kutcher. No, *really*. Kutcher has taken up the admirable, essential cause of fighting #ChildSexAbuseMaterial (#CSAM, which is better known as #ChildPornography) online.
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CW: Long thread/9
There's plenty of things everyone wishes tech could do but it can't, and #WantingItBadlyIsntEnough. Merely shouting #NerdHarder at geeks won't actually get you what you want. And while I'm rattling off cliches: a little knowledge is a dangerous thing.
Which brings me to #AshtonKutcher. Yes, *that* Ashton Kutcher. No, *really*. Kutcher has taken up the admirable, essential cause of fighting #ChildSexAbuseMaterial (#CSAM, which is better known as #ChildPornography) online.
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CW: Long thread/9
There's plenty of things everyone wishes tech could do but it can't, and #WantingItBadlyIsntEnough. Merely shouting #NerdHarder at geeks won't actually get you what you want. And while I'm rattling off cliches: a little knowledge is a dangerous thing.
Which brings me to #AshtonKutcher. Yes, *that* Ashton Kutcher. No, *really*. Kutcher has taken up the admirable, essential cause of fighting #ChildSexAbuseMaterial (#CSAM, which is better known as #ChildPornography) online.
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CW: Long thread/9
There's plenty of things everyone wishes tech could do but it can't, and #WantingItBadlyIsntEnough. Merely shouting #NerdHarder at geeks won't actually get you what you want. And while I'm rattling off cliches: a little knowledge is a dangerous thing.
Which brings me to #AshtonKutcher. Yes, *that* Ashton Kutcher. No, *really*. Kutcher has taken up the admirable, essential cause of fighting #ChildSexAbuseMaterial (#CSAM, which is better known as #ChildPornography) online.
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CW: Long thread/9
There's plenty of things everyone wishes tech could do but it can't, and #WantingItBadlyIsntEnough. Merely shouting #NerdHarder at geeks won't actually get you what you want. And while I'm rattling off cliches: a little knowledge is a dangerous thing.
Which brings me to #AshtonKutcher. Yes, *that* Ashton Kutcher. No, *really*. Kutcher has taken up the admirable, essential cause of fighting #ChildSexAbuseMaterial (#CSAM, which is better known as #ChildPornography) online.
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EU Takes Another Small Step Towards Trying To Ban Encryption; New Paper Argues Tech Can #NerdHarder To Backdoor Encryption - https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20201109/00092045673/eu-takes-another-small-step-towards-trying-to-ban-encryption-new-paper-argues-tech-can-nerd-harder-to-backdoor-encryption.shtml