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Cake day: June 18th, 2023
  • aldalire@lemmy.dbzer0.comtoMemes@lemmy.ml•Maybe we can get good IPv6 support nowEnglish
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    29 days ago

    Thank you. So in a way if the carriers upgrade their infrastructure there would be a decrease in privacy because then it’s a one-to-one correspondence between IP address and customer, but then the customer would have the ability to host servers? The one scenario where the industry dragging their heels on upgrading is actually good for the consumer (in some respects) lol

    Adding commas to that number: 4,294,967,296 addresses. More humans that IP address seems like a huge miscalculation in the internet infrastructure

  • aldalire@lemmy.dbzer0.comtoPrivacy@lemmy.ml•Swiss authorities intervene, Proton Mail not blocked in IndiaEnglish
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    3 months ago

    Jesus fucking christ this website is trash. Here i copy pasted the entire article so you don’t have to accept their privacy policy

    It took the intervention of Swiss authorities to prevent the blocking of end-to-end encrypted email platform Proton Mail in India after the government sought action against the platform, which was being abused by bad actors to send hoax bomb threats.

    In February, a senior Tamil Nadu Cyber Crime Wing police officer requested the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology to block Proton Mail. An order was also sent to the platform.

    This was after several schools in Chennai received hoax bomb threats on February 8. A police investigation found that the mails were sent through Proton Mail.

    Even though the police sought information about the users who sent such emails, the cops faced a roadblock as the platform is encrypted end-to-end, which means users’ emails, files, calendar entries, and passwords had strong privacy protections.

    In a blog post in March, Proton Mail said, “In response to hoax bomb threats that were sent through Proton Mail, some members of the Indian government suggested taking the extreme measure of blocking Proton…”

    Mastek bags supplier spot in Digital Services Framework for UK’s Defence Ministry Mastek bags supplier spot in Digital Services Framework for UK’s Defence Ministry Government issues advisory on CCTV cameras over security concerns Government issues advisory on CCTV cameras over security concerns MeitY issues advisory on CCTV security, asks ministries to avoid suppliers with past breaches MeitY issues advisory on CCTV security, asks ministries to avoid suppliers with past breaches “The issue has been raised to the attention of the Swiss federal authorities, who have been in contact with the relevant Indian authorities to prevent the blocking of Proton Mail in India. Thanks to this assistance, Proton Mail apps and other Proton products are available in India,” the post said.

    Moneycontrol has reached out to Proton with further queries and the article will be updated when a respond comes in.

    In the blog, the encrypted email service provider also explained why it did not comply with information requested by Indian law enforcement authorities.

    Under Swiss law, Proton is not allowed to transmit any data foreign authorities and had to reject requests “that are directly addressed to us”.

    “However, Proton is legally obligated to respond to orders from Swiss authorities, who do not tolerate illegal activities conducted through Switzerland and may assist foreign authorities in cases of illegal activity, provided they are valid under international assistance procedures and determined to be in compliance with Swiss law,” the blog said.

    The company added, “Blocking access to Proton Mail simply prevents law-abiding citizens from communicating securely and does not prevent cybercriminals from sending threats with another email service, especially if the perpetrators are located outside of India.”

    This is not the first time that the Switzerland-headquartered company has courted controversy, especially for being abused by threat actors.

    In 2020, the Russian government blocked the encrypted email provider after emails claimed that bombs were planted in public places.

    Russia’s Federal Service for Supervision of Communications, Information Technology and Mass Media (abbreviated Roskomnadzor) said the bogus emails were responsible for “creating a real threat of mass disturbance of public order and causing great concern among citizens and public outcry”.

  • aldalire@lemmy.dbzer0.comtoTechnology@lemmy.world•Meta admits using pirated books to train AI, but won't pay for itEnglish
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    6 months ago

    Thank you for your comment, I think there’s a meaningful discussion to be had here. US “law” is meant to legitimize the ruling class and serve to protect their interests. In this case, copyright law, meant to legitimize the control of US media corporations on intellectual property, is actually hindering their reach and access to materials that can train their AI models. In any case, this is going against the spirit of what the law is made for, which is to protect corporations.

    Law isn’t made from a vacuum. Law is written by the ruling class passed and minted by the ruling class. I did not remember voting for any copyright law (the US is not a direct democracy), and therefore the law is imposed to us.

    So, you are correct, we are at a crossroads. More specifically, corporations are. Will they lobby to be an exception to copyright laws so they can continue training on copyrighted data, or will they weaken copyright laws enough so that their actions will be deemed legal?

    My take is that since their models are trained from copyrighted data made by the people, the access to their models and its predictions / inferences must also be made accessible to the people. Of course they will not do that, so they will fight the hardest to be able to train on the most amount of public data while giving the fruits of that data only to the paying customers. The classic “socialize the losses, privatize the gains” trick that capitalists use.

    anyway fuck capitalism fuck AI fuck this rant I’m high af