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Walled Culture<p><strong>As AI agents become ubiquitous, expect the copyright industry to try to turn them against you</strong></p><p>One of the many interesting aspects of the new wave of artificial intelligence systems is that with them, copyright has moved from the fringe to centre stage. There are continuing debates about what role copyright should play in the world of generative AI, not to mention various lawsuits asking the courts to rule on that question. Those debates and lawsuits have been about two aspects of AI: […]</p><p><a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://walledculture.org/tag/agentic/" target="_blank">#agentic</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://walledculture.org/tag/agents/" target="_blank">#agents</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://walledculture.org/tag/ai/" target="_blank">#ai</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://walledculture.org/tag/apple/" target="_blank">#apple</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://walledculture.org/tag/backdoors/" target="_blank">#backdoors</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://walledculture.org/tag/cloud-computing/" target="_blank">#cloudComputing</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://walledculture.org/tag/control/" target="_blank">#control</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://walledculture.org/tag/eu/" target="_blank">#eu</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://walledculture.org/tag/filtering/" target="_blank">#filtering</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://walledculture.org/tag/france/" target="_blank">#france</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://walledculture.org/tag/generative-ai/" target="_blank">#generativeAi</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://walledculture.org/tag/hadopi/" target="_blank">#HADOPI</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://walledculture.org/tag/italy/" target="_blank">#italy</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://walledculture.org/tag/llms/" target="_blank">#llms</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://walledculture.org/tag/matthew-green/" target="_blank">#matthewGreen</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://walledculture.org/tag/personal-assistant/" target="_blank">#personalAssistant</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://walledculture.org/tag/piracy-shield/" target="_blank">#piracyShield</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://walledculture.org/tag/privacy/" target="_blank">#privacy</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://walledculture.org/tag/uk/" target="_blank">#uk</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://walledculture.org/tag/vpns/" target="_blank">#vpns</a></p><p><a href="https://walledculture.org/as-ai-agents-become-ubiquitous-expect-the-copyright-industry-to-try-to-turn-them-against-you/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">walledculture.org/as-ai-agents</span><span class="invisible">-become-ubiquitous-expect-the-copyright-industry-to-try-to-turn-them-against-you/</span></a></p>
SetSideB<p>Matthew Green, of Press The Buttons and Power Button, Passes Away at 43<br>I had been afraid something like this had happened. A friend found an announcement on Twitter, but it's a cesspool these days and I never go there any more so it had escaped my notice. Here's the obituary.</p><p>He had been ailing for some ti<br><a href="https://setsideb.com/matthew-green-of-press-the-buttons-and-power-button-passes-away-at-43/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">setsideb.com/matthew-green-of-</span><span class="invisible">press-the-buttons-and-power-button-passes-away-at-43/</span></a><br><a href="https://wrestling.social/tags/news" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>news</span></a> <a href="https://wrestling.social/tags/obit" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>obit</span></a> <a href="https://wrestling.social/tags/Kombo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Kombo</span></a> <a href="https://wrestling.social/tags/matthewgreen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>matthewgreen</span></a> <a href="https://wrestling.social/tags/news" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>news</span></a> <a href="https://wrestling.social/tags/obit" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>obit</span></a> <a href="https://wrestling.social/tags/obituary" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>obituary</span></a> <a href="https://wrestling.social/tags/PowerButton" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PowerButton</span></a> <a href="https://wrestling.social/tags/pressthebuttons" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>pressthebuttons</span></a></p>
Strypey<p>"The challenge in storing encrypted backup data is that strong encryption requires strong (or “high entropy”) cryptographic keys and passwords. Since most of us are terrible at selecting, let alone remembering strong passwords, this poses a challenging problem."</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/MatthewGreen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MatthewGreen</span></a>, 2020</p><p><a href="https://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2020/07/10/a-few-thoughts-about-signals-secure-value-recovery/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">blog.cryptographyengineering.c</span><span class="invisible">om/2020/07/10/a-few-thoughts-about-signals-secure-value-recovery/</span></a></p><p>This isn't as hard as people seem to think;</p><p><a href="https://xkcd.com/936/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">xkcd.com/936/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p>What's missing is education, including replacing "password" with "passphrase".</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/passwords" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>passwords</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/passphrases" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>passphrases</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/XKCD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>XKCD</span></a></p>
Strypey<p>"Signal has historically chosen the more cautious and safer approach — as compared to more commercial alternatives like WhatsApp"</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/MatthewGreen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MatthewGreen</span></a>, 2020</p><p><a href="https://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2020/07/10/a-few-thoughts-about-signals-secure-value-recovery/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">blog.cryptographyengineering.c</span><span class="invisible">om/2020/07/10/a-few-thoughts-about-signals-secure-value-recovery/</span></a></p><p>Except when it's integrating third-party search engines so people can search for reaction GIFs in-app;</p><p><a href="https://signal.org/blog/giphy-experiment/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">signal.org/blog/giphy-experime</span><span class="invisible">nt/</span></a></p><p>... adding a new and totally avoidable attack surface.</p><p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://infosec.exchange/@SpaceLifeForm" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>SpaceLifeForm</span></a></span> <br><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://hackers.town/@thegibson" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>TheGibson</span></a></span></p>
Strypey<p>"Indeed, it no longer feels amusing to see the Telegram organization urge people away from default-encrypted messengers, while refusing to implement essential features that would widely encrypt their own users’ messages. In fact, it’s starting to feel a bit malicious."</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/MatthewGreen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MatthewGreen</span></a>, 2024</p><p><a href="https://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2024/08/25/telegram-is-not-really-an-encrypted-messaging-app/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">blog.cryptographyengineering.c</span><span class="invisible">om/2024/08/25/telegram-is-not-really-an-encrypted-messaging-app/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/TeleGram" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TeleGram</span></a></p>
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