King Charles approved the Online Safety Act last month and its regulator, known as Ofcom, has already issued its first regulation in draft form. Among other “features” of this law is a requirement to scan end to end encrypted messages for CSAM, even though that is impossible. The act also requires platforms to execute a […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The domestic intelligence chiefs of the “Fives Eyes” – Australia, Canada, US, New Zealand and UK – say that they are seeing a sharp rise in attempts by hostile states to steal intellectual property. The intelligence chiefs spoke at an event hosted by Stanford University’s Hoover Institution. This is a little different that what the […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]You may remember a few months ago that Elon said it was very important to put a pause on AI until we could figure out how to do that safely. I guess he has figured that out. Say hello to GROK. Grok, according to the dictionary, means “understand (something) intuitively or by empathy”. While other […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]I have written several times about the need to start thinking about post-quantum crypto. At this point, “Q-Day” is somewhere between this year and ten years from now. If you believe my blog last week, Q-Day could be today. NIST has published draft post quantum standards, but there is a lot more to do besides […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Meta Launches Paid Facebook/Instagram Option in EU To satisfy EU privacy laws, Meta is going to offer an ad free paid version of Facebook and Instagram in the EU/EEA and Switzerland for (e ) 9.99 on the web and (e ) 12.99 for the apps since the have to give the app store 30 percent. […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Researchers are highly skeptical about the claim of another scientist who says that he has developed an inexpensive system to crack RSA encryption, the most commonly used public key encryption. The researcher who claims to have cracked RSA is Ed Gerck. According to his LinkedIn profile, he is a quantum computing developer at a company […]
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