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Alec Muffett
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Cryptography, Systems & Network Security Engineering & Consulting since 1988. See link for bio & press resources. 'Everybody Deserves Good Security.' #SAHD
Science & TechnologyUKalecmuffett.com/aboutJoined April 2007

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It is defined in Clause 202 Proactive Technology which must be read with Clause 9 Illegal content safety duties & Clause 170 providers determinations. The combined effect leads to an #uploadfilter taking arbitrary decisions - a form of prior restraint. #onlinesafetybill
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A massive GPS glitch in Moscow. Car-sharing cars and scooters are shown floating in the river, taxis are being called to the other side of the city, and pedestrian navigation is working intermittently. All because the police are jamming GPS signal for security purposes in… Show more
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Our @matthewlesh on the privacy risks posed by the Online Safety Bill in The @verge 👇 theverge.com/23708180/unite
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HEADSUP: All of my friends and peers who are passing their opinion on the #onlinesafetybill (etc) *NEED* to read this piece. All of those proposed government controls over AI will end up attempting to constrain software that people run at home on their own PCs. Cc
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Leaked Google document: “We Have No Moat, And Neither Does OpenAI” The most interesting thing I've read recently about LLMs - a purportedly leaked document from a researcher at Google talking about the huge strategic impact open source models are having simonwillison.net/2023/May/4/no-
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Has there come any obligation to publish how many people were turned away from each voting station?
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“Polling station tellers in Oxfordshire told ITV News "large numbers" were being turned away, reporting that between 10-25% were unable to vote.” That’s a huge proportion. This is voter suppression in action. itv.com/news/2023-05-0
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This reminds me so much of the Randal Schwartz case.
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Ex Uber security chief Joe Sullivan is sentenced - avoids prison, given probation. washingtonpost.com/technology/202
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Life is so much simpler in the UK where we have institutionalised class warfare, so that there is less need to synthesise it artificially:
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The Union Representing Apple Store Workers in Maryland Wants to Prompt Customers for Tips on Purchases daringfireball.net/linked/2023/05
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Can we have a bounty on the first Cyberwonk who analogises people being able to run AI models at home as being tantamount to them having domestic nuclear weapons? Or have we already passed that point?
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HEADSUP: All of my friends and peers who are passing their opinion on the #onlinesafetybill (etc) *NEED* to read this piece. All of those proposed government controls over AI will end up attempting to constrain software that people run at home on their own PCs. Cc @cyberleagle twitter.com/simonw/status/…
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Just like secure messengers will eventually evolve to being point-to-point / peer-to-peer AS WELL AS end-to-end, the government will start trying to constrain what software people are allowed to run and tinker with at home. That would be really bad.
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HEADSUP: All of my friends and peers who are passing their opinion on the #onlinesafetybill (etc) *NEED* to read this piece. All of those proposed government controls over AI will end up attempting to constrain software that people run at home on their own PCs. Cc
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Leaked Google document: “We Have No Moat, And Neither Does OpenAI” The most interesting thing I've read recently about LLMs - a purportedly leaked document from a researcher at Google talking about the huge strategic impact open source models are having simonwillison.net/2023/May/4/no-
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I'm sure this is all very heartfelt, but anyone that associates the hard left with kindness really doesn't know the first thing about British politics
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The Labour Party should take a good look at themselves. All my life I was not interested in politics until @jeremycorbyn Then I saw someone who stood up for my close-to-the-heart values. Love & Kinder politics. Now, with Starmer & the rest, I see why I was never involved before.
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"People, why won't you let us protect children from porn by identifying yourselves?" Maybe can tell them the solution? .
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Sounds like HMG and the Lords' discussion is tiptoeing around the question of: All this #AgeVerification and other regulation is pointless if teens and other people can use #VPNs to get "out" of the UK, first. They should look over to the pond, to Utah, where AV just came in: twitter.com/cyberleagle/st…
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"People, why won't you let us protect children from porn by identifying yourselves?" Maybe can tell them the solution? .
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Sounds like HMG and the Lords' discussion is tiptoeing around the question of: All this #AgeVerification and other regulation is pointless if teens and other people can use #VPNs to get "out" of the UK, first. They should look over to the pond, to Utah, where AV just came in: twitter.com/cyberleagle/st…
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The individual US states are acting as mini-EU-like entities — it's pretty clearly set up to fail, and the subtext is that they are actually looking for "leverage" over their (least) favourite big tech sites, and opportunities for prosecuting fines:
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Meanwhile, back in Louisiana, the law is a failure. Almost no one complies with it. Legislators are so frustrated they're pushing through a follow up law that would allow the government to directly sue non-complaint sites. redriverradio.org/news/2023-04-1
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Sounds like HMG and the Lords' discussion is tiptoeing around the question of: All this #AgeVerification and other regulation is pointless if teens and other people can use #VPNs to get "out" of the UK, first. They should look over to the pond, to Utah, where AV just came in:
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Replying to @derickr
It was in response to a comment from Lord Moylan, bringing up China in the context of blocking access to VPNs.
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> Everyone should & everyone should be safe in doing so. Spot the person who isn't gay and living in Saudi Arabia or Uganda.
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Replying to @90percenters and @Jean_Brodie
Unlike you, I'm not anonymous. My email address, with which I opened my third Twitter account, is spurious. We need to get the Online Safety Bill passed in order that people like you will be forced to reveal your identity. Everyone should & everyone should be safe in doing so.
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The individual US states are acting as mini-EU-like entities — it's pretty clearly set up to fail, and the subtext is that they are actually looking for "leverage" over their (least) favourite big tech sites, and opportunities for prosecuting fines:
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Meanwhile, back in Louisiana, the law is a failure. Almost no one complies with it. Legislators are so frustrated they're pushing through a follow up law that would allow the government to directly sue non-complaint sites. redriverradio.org/news/2023-04-1
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