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[ PRIVACY Forum ] New York AG, Facebook,
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (privacy@vortex.com)
Tue Jun 22 02:41:43 2010
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New York AG, Facebook, etc. announce c-porn "hash value" project
http://bit.ly/cSVAjd (ABC News)
Of course, despite its presumably laudable motives, this will end up
being primarily a political stunt. Just a couple of the many reasons why:
- Even sophisticated hash value algorithms can be defeated with some
effort at image manipulation. Simpler algorithms can be trivially
defeated.
- Only people naive enough to post such images "in the clear" on
the participating sites would be vulnerable to such checks. Even
mandates for scanning of e-mail could be defeated through simple
encryption.
Interestingly, you can find discussions of the limitations of this
technique as far back as two years ago and more, when this concept was
also being widely discussed:
http://bit.ly/aj4Wap (ars technica)
--Lauren--
Lauren Weinstein
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