The #eu is trying to push #csam to #scan your #private #communications in the name of " #protecting the #children ": https://tutanota.com/blog/posts/eu-surve.. What this will really do is increase the scope of the #surveillance state... This is about #control .
This is a very nice #opensource #linux #tool to #ocr #scan #text from an #image in a #pdf http://www.tobias-elze.de/pdfsandwich/
Apparently #apple have been using #csam to #scan #icloud for the last two years: https://9to5mac.com/2021/08/23/apple-sca.. Fun! According to Apple's #antifraud #chief , they are "the greatest #platform for #distributing #childporn " - ouch. Assuming they have been using the #csam algorithm this whole time, we must ask whether it has *already* been abused by #hostile #states in order to detect #journalists or people of interest.
Don't host your #servers in #australia folks! https://www.zdnet.com/article/canberra-a.. They want to #scan #encrypted #messages - which in turn means #backdoor into your messages. Fun.
#apple is going much further: https://aardvark.co.nz/daily/2021/0806.s.. Apparently they now #scan user devices for #illegal #content and report to the #police . I can already imagine an attack where somebody sends/serves an illegal image for example, an #iphone #downloads it and then the scan #flags it. #aardvark points at this being a type of #fascism - but in modern times we see this actively being used in #communist Countries like #china ! It's clearly #authoritarian ...
Yeah, #covid has changed everything, including the life of #students https://www.chronicle.com/article/the-su.. Apparently it is now appropriate to monitor your #socialmedia - #scan your room and now have you wear #iot #sensors - insanity!