news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32538805

jesus

@J-- uhm. That looks dodgy

@forest google can't be trusted, and big tech is invasive and unaccountable?

nothing new ._.

@JourneymanGeek The fact that they're doing this for a new image means they're not just scanning for hashes of known CP. They're actively using some crappy and obviously inaccurate ML to be the judge, jury, and executioner.

@forest and/or underpaid sweatshops in poor countries like india or america

Or... they could just stop.

snort

But think of the children

(I'm not saying this is right!)

The people who are after children aren't going to be using Google's photo albums.

You underestimate people's stupidity

but yeah, scanning through folks images is problematic

I mean, if hypothetically, I get naughty pictures from a adult female friend, its no one's business

do I want google scanning if It accidentally gets backed up somewhere?

That's why client-side encryption is so important.

I don't think anything encrypts media client side

I think Chrome does for syncing data between phones and computers?

But you have to manually set up a password IIRC.

It should be criminal for Google to do this kind of shit.

michaelhorowitz.com/VPNs.on.iOS.are.scam.php

Data leaks in iOS VPN (connections aren't terminated on establishment of the tunnel).

@JourneymanGeek A bunch of liberals in This Is Fine are defending Google spying on everyone. Why.jpg

uh, and?

It's depressing me and making me want to stop being liberal. ;_;

.... lol

I'm tempted to join in and get the popcorn.

more seriously

lol

to me - ethics aside, its kinda "we can't really trust corporations" and "they're soul-less automatons"

so nothing new ;)

:P

(that's the dude, from big lebowski... )

Yeah I've heard that quote before.

Anyway, if you got popcorn, chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/64176/this-is-fine

also, if I ever start a massive criminal empire, I'm bulk ordering pinephones

Hello @cmw

Hiya @forest.

Just poking around. I'm no infosec expert.

If you have a java runtime and python execution on windows but no writeable executable folder what's a starting step in getting arbitrary execution? some dll bs?

@belkarx You can't just do your stuff using the Python?

I just scared the shit out myself. I locked my computer with vlock but accidentally forked it to the background with &. Stupidly I decided to fix it by bringing it into the foreground with fg rather than by sending it SIGKILL and doing it right. The thing locked my computer with a lot of unsaved data and it didn't accept enter for some reason, so I couldn't put in my password. I thought I was about to lose a lot of valuable data that hadn't gotten saved yet.

Thank god I remembered that ^J can be used in place of enter... That was a roller coaster.

@forest thoroughly amusing. the type of people that think Snowden did the US a disservice