https://pinboard.in/u:jm/public/ recent bookmarks from jm 2026-04-07T10:18:58+00:00 https://mahmoud-salem.net/the-invisible-shield jm csam detection filtering photodna pdq classifiers photos videos classification hashing fuzzy-hashing via:erin-kissane https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:b9d795d6a889/ 2026-03-20T10:10:42+00:00 https://www.reddit.com/r/LegalAdviceUK/comments/1rk690v/i_run_a_selfhelp_forum_for_people_with_depression/ jmI started getting email from Ofcom [regarding OSA compliance] around November 2025 and now have multiple letters. I've repeatedly told them I'm from Canada, I'm not based in the UK. Eventually, I blocked all UK IP addresses in mid-February 2026 and told them I'd blocked the UK and that I was done engaging with them. I've now got ANOTHER email from them saying they're going to commence enforcement action against me because simply blocking UK IPs is "insufficient to comply with the Online Safety Act 2023." ]]> osa uk politics filtering censorship law geoblocking ofcom web https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:62264b402830/ 2025-09-09T11:48:40+00:00 https://krebsonsecurity.com/2025/09/gop-cries-censorship-over-spam-filters-that-work/ jm Tossavainen told KrebsOnSecurity that WinRed’s emails hit its spamtraps in the .com, .net, and .org space far more frequently than do fundraising emails sent by ActBlue. Koli-Lõks published a graph of the stark disparity in spamtrap activity for WinRed versus ActBlue, showing a nearly fourfold increase in spamtrap hits from WinRed emails in the final week of July 2025.]]> spam anti-spam spamtraps winred us-politics gop republicans filtering https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:677abd183e10/ 2024-03-04T10:16:03+00:00 https://torrentfreak.com/piracy-shield-cloudflare-disaster-blocks-countless-sites-fires-up-opposition-240226/ jm cloudflare ip-blocks blocking piracy anti-pezzoto agcom fail filtering false-positives networking https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:986c513a9105/ 2021-12-14T10:17:42+00:00 https://cleanaircrew.org/air-cleaners/ jm hepa filtering air air-quality covid-19 health gadgets tips https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:f2324a73f5b3/ 2019-11-07T10:28:44+00:00 https://www.quora.com/What-is-a-life-hack-that-you-think-everybody-should-know/answer/Thomas-Talhelm?ch=10&share=0a302e89&srid=iLBX jmI tested it over and over—hundreds of days, with a control room, with a stronger fan, against the big brand purifiers that I borrowed from my rich friends. Eventually, I saw enough data that I was convinced. This $30 DIY purifier was removing significant amounts of tiny particulate from my Beijing bedroom. I wanted to tell the world that those $1,000 purifiers were ripoffs. I made all the data and testing methods open source. I wrote up the instructions for how to make one. ]]> air air-quality beijing hepa filters filtering diy hacks https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:d824cc90cde3/ 2019-08-08T10:32:35+00:00 https://www.theverge.com/2019/8/7/20759191/white-house-trump-administration-social-media-bias-executive-order-report jmOne shooting was apparently an act of far-right terrorism, based on an anti-immigrant screed posted online. There was a fine line between its rhetoric and the views of major conservative figures like Tucker Carlson or Trump himself. Preemptively flagging the shooter — or one of several far-right killers before him — could have looked like egregious anti-conservative bias. And since predictive AI has sky-high error rates, it would probably catch a lot of non-violent conservative accounts (alongside those of non-conservatives) purely by accident. That’s already a recipe for a PR disaster, and it gets even dicier if Trump adds new legal punishments. (via JK)]]> filtering ai terrorism far-right fascism nazis trump twitter social-media https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:3fe0493a26e9/ 2019-08-08T10:31:45+00:00 https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/a3xgq5/why-wont-twitter-treat-white-supremacy-like-isis-because-it-would-mean-banning-some-republican-politicians-too jm gop corruption twitter politics filtering ai fascism republicans https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:038061c5ca96/ 2018-09-13T10:12:35+00:00 https://www.theverge.com/2016/7/13/12165194/youtube-content-id-2-billion-paid jmGoogle’s new report takes aim at this claim. It asserts that Content ID is a highly effective solution, with over 98 percent of copyright management on YouTube happening through Content ID, and just 2 percent coming from humans filing copyright removal notices. Google also says the music industry opts to monetize more than 95 percent of its copyright claims, meaning they leave the videos up on the service. It claims a whopping half of the music industry's YouTube revenue comes from fan content — covers, remixes, dance versions, etc. — claimed via Content ID. The report also puts a hard figure on how much Google has spent so far on Content ID: $60 million. ]]> filtering copyright eu article-13 copyfight content-id google web ugc https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:d8ce4f90612d/ 2018-08-30T14:20:48+00:00 https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/xwkbad/this-music-theory-professor-just-showed-how-stupid-and-broken-copyright-filters-are jmKaiser then decided to test Google’s system more fully. He opened a new YouTube account named Labeltest, and began sharing additional examples of copyright-free music. “I quickly received Content ID notifications for copyright-free music by Bartok, Schubert, Puccini, and Wagner,” Kaiser said. “Again and again, YouTube told me that I was violating the copyright of these long-dead composers, despite all of my uploads existing in the public domain.” Google’s Content ID is the result of more than $100 million in investment funds and countless development hours. Yet Kaiser found the system was largely incapable of differentiating between copyrighted music and content in the public domain. And the appeals process that Google has erected to tackle these false claims wasn’t any better. ]]> content-id copyright copyright-filtering youtube fail google public-domain ip music filtering bartok schubert wagner puccini https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:dee06ff1aaab/ 2017-11-27T11:25:22+00:00 https://meetcircle.com/?ref=GIFTTT jm apps kids android ios circle filtering family parenting https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:384a9f04177b/ 2017-10-03T13:04:47+00:00 https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2017/10/google-and-facebook-have-failed-us/541794/ jmThere’s no hiding behind algorithms anymore. The problems cannot be minimized. The machines have shown they are not up to the task of dealing with rare, breaking news events, and it is unlikely that they will be in the near future. More humans must be added to the decision-making process, and the sooner the better. ]]> algorithms facebook google las-vegas news filtering hoaxes 4chan abuse breaking-news responsibility silicon-valley https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:eae114275e75/ 2017-07-06T14:43:39+00:00 https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/security/new-security-whitepaper-now-available-use-aws-waf-to-mitigate-owasps-top-10-web-application-vulnerabilities/ jm security waf aws http owasp filtering https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:91ec197fb992/ 2017-05-11T10:51:33+00:00 http://www.ikydz.com/ jm filtering security ikydz kids children internet wifi ap hardware blocking https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:de9f1248a02d/ 2016-06-08T16:58:45+00:00 http://arstechnica.co.uk/tech-policy/2016/06/uk-serious-risk-over-blocking-content-online-human-rights-watchdog/ jmThe blacklist operated by the IWF effectively amounts to censorship. Not only are the blacklist and notices sent to members of the IWF kept secret, but there is no requirement to notify website owners when their site has been added to the blacklist. Even where statutory rules do exist with respect to notice and take-down procedures (namely, the Terrorism Act 2006 and the Defamation (Operators of Websites) Regulations 2013), the provisions are not so concerned with safeguards for the protection of freedom of expression, as with offering an exemption from liability for ISPs. ]]> iwf censorship uk filtering coe eu europe https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:8305aa5ac7c7/ 2016-05-12T13:04:57+00:00 http://www.fastcoexist.com/3059742/social-network-algorithms-are-distorting-reality-by-boosting-conspiracy-theories jmIn his 1962 book, The Image: A Guide to Pseudo-Events in America, former Librarian of Congress Daniel J. Boorstin describes a world where our ability to technologically shape reality is so sophisticated, it overcomes reality itself. "We risk being the first people in history," he writes, "to have been able to make their illusions so vivid, so persuasive, so ‘realistic’ that they can live in them." ]]> algorithms facebook ethics filtering newsfeed conspiracy-theories twitter viral crazy https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:51b1f7baf155/ 2016-03-16T12:13:00+00:00 https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7754 jmThe Internet is structured to be an open communications medium. This openness is one of the key underpinnings of Internet innovation, but it can also allow communications that may be viewed as undesirable by certain parties. Thus, as the Internet has grown, so have mechanisms to limit the extent and impact of abusive or objectionable communications. Recently, there has been an increasing emphasis on "blocking" and "filtering", the active prevention of such communications. This document examines several technical approaches to Internet blocking and filtering in terms of their alignment with the overall Internet architecture. When it is possible to do so, the approach to blocking and filtering that is most coherent with the Internet architecture is to inform endpoints about potentially undesirable services, so that the communicants can avoid engaging in abusive or objectionable communications. We observe that certain filtering and blocking approaches can cause unintended consequences to third parties, and we discuss the limits of efficacy of various approaches. (via Tony Finch)]]> via:fanf blocking censorship filtering internet rfcs rfc isps https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:3b43dcc1f35e/ 2016-02-03T14:02:06+00:00 https://boingboing.net/2016/02/02/doxxing-sherlock-3.html jmThe problem with this is that once you accept this framing, and note the happy coincidence that your paymasters just happen to have found a way to spy on everyone, the conclusion is obvious: just mine all of the data, from everyone to everyone, and use an algorithm to figure out who’s guilty. The bad guys have a Modus Operandi, as anyone who’s watched a cop show knows. Find the MO, turn it into a data fingerprint, and you can just sort the firehose’s output into ”terrorist-ish” and ”unterrorist-ish.” Once you accept this premise, then it’s equally obvious that the whole methodology has to be kept from scrutiny. If you’re depending on three ”tells” as indicators of terrorist planning, the terrorists will figure out how to plan their attacks without doing those three things. This even has a name: Goodhart's law. "When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure." Google started out by gauging a web page’s importance by counting the number of links they could find to it. This worked well before they told people what they were doing. Once getting a page ranked by Google became important, unscrupulous people set up dummy sites (“link-farms”) with lots of links pointing at their pages. ]]> adversarial-classification classification surveillance nsa gchq cory-doctorow privacy snooping goodharts-law google anti-spam filtering spying snowden https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:4d0273cfe1c7/ 2015-08-06T09:02:17+00:00 http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-33783539 jmNews of the ban caused a furore on Indian social media, with several senior politicians and members of civil society expressing their opposition to the move. The Indian government said that it was merely complying with the Supreme Court order and was committed to the freedom of communication on the Internet. "I reject with contempt the charge that it is a Talibani government, as being said by some of the critics. Our government supports free media, respects communication on social media and has respected freedom of communication always," Mr Prasad told PTI. ]]> india porn filtering isps internet web child-porn censorship https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:038036469d03/ 2015-02-18T23:19:08+00:00 https://medium.com/backchannel/crowdsourcing-isnt-broken-5681da92b109 jm via:kragen antispam filtering trolls community crowdsourcing threadless harper griefers abuse tips https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:23d2e4dfefe3/ 2015-01-24T21:28:18+00:00 http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/01/26/whole-haystack jmBy flooding the system with false positives, big-data approaches to counterterrorism might actually make it harder to identify real terrorists before they act. Two years before the Boston Marathon bombing, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, the older of the two brothers alleged to have committed the attack, was assessed by the city’s Joint Terrorism Task Force. They determined that he was not a threat. This was one of about a thousand assessments that the Boston J.T.T.F. conducted that year, a number that had nearly doubled in the previous two years, according to the Boston F.B.I. As of 2013, the Justice Department has trained nearly three hundred thousand law-enforcement officers in how to file “suspicious-activity reports.” In 2010, a central database held about three thousand of these reports; by 2012 it had grown to almost twenty-eight thousand. “The bigger haystack makes it harder to find the needle,” Sensenbrenner told me. Thomas Drake, a former N.S.A. executive and whistle-blower who has become one of the agency’s most vocal critics, told me, “If you target everything, there’s no target.” ]]> terrorism false-positives filtering detection jttf nsa fbi surveillance gchq https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:7511e50e15ec/ 2015-01-12T15:07:56+00:00 https://www.schneier.com/essays/archives/2005/03/why_data_mining_wont.html jmThis unrealistically accurate system will generate 1 billion false alarms for every real terrorist plot it uncovers. Every day of every year, the police will have to investigate 27 million potential plots in order to find the one real terrorist plot per month. Raise that false-positive accuracy to an absurd 99.9999 percent and you're still chasing 2,750 false alarms per day -- but that will inevitably raise your false negatives, and you're going to miss some of those 10 real plots. Also, Ben Goldacre saying the same thing: http://www.badscience.net/2009/02/datamining-would-be-lovely-if-it-worked/]]> internet scanning filtering specificity statistics data-mining terrorism law nsa gchq false-positives false-negatives https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:40691f3d07b8/ 2015-01-03T12:32:53+00:00 http://thehackernews.com/2015/01/indian-government-blocks-32-sites.html jm ugc india filtering blocking terrorism isis github vimeo pastebin censorship https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:7a80d7f09a1d/ 2014-10-28T21:05:21+00:00 http://www.wired.com/2014/10/content-moderation/ jm“Everybody hits the wall, generally between three and five months,” says a former YouTube content moderator I’ll call Rob. “You just think, ‘Holy shit, what am I spending my day doing? This is awful.’” ]]> facebook wired beheadings moderation nsfw google youtube social-media filtering porn abuse https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:71b37988025a/ 2014-10-06T11:30:24+00:00 http://www.kevinmarks.com/twitterhatespeech.html jmYour tweet could win the fame lottery, and everyone on the Internet who thinks you are wrong could tell you about it. Or one of the "verified" could call you out to be the tribute for your community and fight in their Hunger Games. Say something about feminism, or race, or sea lions and you'd find yourself inundated by the same trite responses from multitudes. Complain about it, and they turn nasty, abusing you, calling in their friends to join in. Your phone becomes useless under the weight of notifications; you can't see your friends support amongst the flood. The limited tools available - blocking, muting, going private - do not match well with these floods. Twitter's abuse reporting form takes far longer than a tweet, and is explicitly ignored if friends try to help. ]]> harassment twitter 4chan abuse feminism hate-speech gamergate sea-lions filtering social-media kevin-marks https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:05196a963f79/ 2014-09-06T22:42:16+00:00 https://moderncrypto.org/mail-archive/messaging/2014/000780.html jm Brief note about my background, to establish credentials: I worked at Google for about 7.5 years. For about 4.5 of those I worked on the Gmail abuse team, which is very tightly linked with the spam team (they use the same software, share the same on-call rotations etc). Reading this kind of stuff is awesome for me, since it's a nice picture of a fun problem to work on -- the Gmail team took the right ideas about how to fight spam, and scaled them up to the 10s-of-millions DAU mark. Nicely done. The second half is some interesting musings on end-to-end encrypted communications and how it would deal with spam. Worth a read...]]> gmail google spam anti-spam filtering spamassassin history https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:f10b10591ff0/ 2014-07-08T08:53:04+00:00 https://bpjmleak.neocities.org/ jm hashes reversing reverse-engineering germany german bpjm filtering blocklists blacklists avm domains censorship fps https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:7ebb5a2bc5a1/ 2014-06-24T15:36:25+00:00 http://www.dcenr.gov.ie/NR/rdonlyres/0BCE1511-508E-4E97-B1A9-23A6BE9124AA/0/InternetContentGovernanceAdvisoryGroup.pdf jm internet filtering safety kids porn blocking ireland pegi ratings reports pdf https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:4bc433f2eaf5/ 2014-03-31T08:49:08+00:00 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7492000 jm turkey twitter dpi dns opendns google networking filtering surveillance proxying packets udp https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:e014bcbe14a6/ 2014-03-24T10:22:49+00:00 https://www.torproject.org/docs/bridges.html.en jmBridge relays (or "bridges" for short) are Tor relays that aren't listed in the main Tor directory. Since there is no complete public list of them, even if your ISP is filtering connections to all the known Tor relays, they probably won't be able to block all the bridges. If you suspect your access to the Tor network is being blocked, you may want to use the bridge feature of Tor. The addition of bridges to Tor is a step forward in the blocking resistance race. It is perfectly possible that even if your ISP filters the Internet, you do not require a bridge to use Tor. So you should try to use Tor without bridges first, since it might work. ]]> tor privacy turkey bridging networking tor-bridges twitter filtering blocking censorship https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:3cad725cd377/ 2014-02-20T17:43:41+00:00 https://www.google.com/transparencyreport/traffic/explorer/?r=US&l=EVERYTHING jm transparency filtering web google http graphs monitoring syria https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:903ee1300110/ 2014-02-10T15:20:54+00:00 http://www.independent.ie/business/technology/more-and-more-children-upset-by-online-content-survey-29995307.html jmJust under half of children said they access the internet from their own bedroom on a daily basis with 22pc saying they do so several times a day. ]]> surveys eu ireland politics filtering internet social-media facebook children teens cyber-bullying https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:35ecc7699ff9/ 2014-01-27T13:53:50+00:00 http://www.thinkbroadband.com/news/6261-sky-parental-controls-break-jquery-website.html jmSky still appears to be blocking code.jquery.com and all files served via the site, and more worryingly is that if you try to report the incorrect category, once signing in on the Sky website you an error page. We suspect the site was blocked due to being linked to by a properly malicious website, i.e. code.jquery.com and some javascript files were being used on a dodgy website and every domain mentioned was subsequently added to a block list. (via Tony Finch) ]]> via:fanf sky filtering internet uk anti-phishing phish jquery javascript http web fps false-positives https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:583339fa52bd/ 2014-01-24T21:19:40+00:00 http://www.dcenr.gov.ie/Broadcasting/ICG/Terms+of+Reference.htm jm internet policing cyberbullying bullying antisocial free-speech governance children blocking filtering consultations dcenr https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:7f4fcbbc3dda/ 2014-01-22T10:35:13+00:00 http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/jan/21/uk-porn-filter-blocks-game-update-that-contained-sex?CMP=twt_gu jmThe update to online strategy game League of Legends was disrupted by the internet filter because the software attempted to access files that accidentally include the word “sex” in the middle of their file names. The block resulted in the update failing with “file not found” errors, which are usually created by missing files or broken updates on the part of the developers. ]]> uk porn filtering guardian regular-expressions false-positives scunthorpe http web league-of-legends sex https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:f94e6eca9c08/ 2014-01-20T14:52:57+00:00 http://torrentfreak.com/internet-censors-came-for-torrentfreak-now-im-really-mad-140105/ jmThere can be little doubt that little by little, piece by piece, big corporations and governments are taking chunks out of the free Internet. Today they pretend that the control is in the hands of the people, but along the way they are prepared to mislead and misdirect, even when their errors are pointed out to them. I’m calling on Sky, Symantec, McAfee and other ISPs about to employ filtering to categorize this site correctly as a news site or blog and to please start listening to people’s legitimate complaints about other innocent sites. It serves nobody’s interests to wrongfully block legitimate information. ]]> censorship isps uk sky torrentfreak piracy copyright filtering blocking symantec filesharing https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:80a78770e042/ 2014-01-20T14:48:53+00:00 http://torrentfreak.com/irish-internet-providers-roll-out-kickasstorrents-blockade-140119/ jm kat kickasstorrents bittorrent piracy copyright high-court ireland eircom filtering blocking https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:2c0ac5818ae5/ 2014-01-16T17:55:38+00:00 http://revk.www.me.uk/2014/01/nanny-state-getting-worse.html jm'Nominet have made a decision, based on a report by Lord Macdonald QC, that recommends that they check any domain registration that signals sex crime content or is in itself a sex crime. This is screening of domains within 48 hours of registration, and de-registration. The report says that such domains should be reported to the police.' [....] 'The report itself states [...] that in 2013 Nominet checked domains for key words used by the IWF, and as a result reported tens of thousands of domains to IWF for checking, all of which were false positives. Not one was, in fact, related to child sex abuse.']]> filtering nominet false-positives nanny-state uk sex-crimes false-alarms domains iwf https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:4d154888a1a0/ 2013-12-21T18:22:45+00:00 https://wiki.openrightsgroup.org/wiki/Content_filtering_by_UK_ISPs jm filtering uk isps org porn blocklists internet https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:79ff2f07e032/ 2013-12-19T10:23:37+00:00 https://www.openrightsgroup.org/blog/2013/website-filtering-problems-are-a-load-of-cock jm The debate and letter confuse legal, illegal and potentially harmful content, all of which require very different tactics to deal with. Without a greater commitment to evidence and rational debate, poor policy outcomes will be the likely result. There's a pattern, much the same as the Digital Economy Act, or the Snooper's Charter. Start with moral panic; dismiss evidence; legislate; and finally, watch the policy unravel, either delivering unintended harms, even to children in this case, or simply failing altogether. See https://www.openrightsgroup.org/blog/2013/talktalk-wordpress for a well-written exploration of a case of overblocking and its fallout. Talk Talk, one UK ISP, has filters which incorrectly dealt with IWF data and blocked WordPress.com's admin interface, resulting in all blogs there become unusable for their owners for over a week, with seemingly nobody able to diagnose and fix the problem competently.]]> filtering overblocking uk politics think-of-the-children porn cam claire-perry open-rights-group false-positives talk-talk networking internet wordpress https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:8af23d560cf5/ 2013-12-07T20:57:48+00:00 http://www.krank.ie/category/opinions/same-stories-sean-sherlock/ jmSherlock’s record is spotty at best when it comes to engagement. Setting aside the 80,680 people who were ignored by the minister, he was hostile and counter productive to debate from the beginning, going so far as to threaten to pull out of a public debate because a campaigner against the ['Irish SOPA'] SI would be in attendance. His habit of blocking people online who publicly ask him tough yet legitimate questions has earned him the nickname “Sherblock”. ]]> sean-sherlock sherblock labour ireland politics blocking filtering internet freedom copyright emi music law piracy debate twitter https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:eec69ef2d6a1/ 2013-12-02T16:00:12+00:00 http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/01/sunday-review/who-is-watching-the-watch-lists.html?smid=tw-share&_r=0 jmit might seem that current efforts to identify and track potential terrorists would be approached with caution. Yet the federal government’s main terrorist watch list has grown to at least 700,000 people, with little scrutiny over how the determinations are made or the impact on those marked with the terrorist label. “If you’ve done the paperwork correctly, then you can effectively enter someone onto the watch list,” said Anya Bernstein, an associate professor at the SUNY Buffalo Law School and author of “The Hidden Costs of Terrorist Watch Lists,” published by the Buffalo Law Review in May. “There’s no indication that agencies undertake any kind of regular retrospective review to assess how good they are at predicting the conduct they’re targeting.” ]]> terrorism watchlists blacklists filtering safety air-travel government security dhs travel https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:843dcaafdc27/ 2013-08-16T10:34:53+00:00 http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130815/09563524186/massive-overblocking-hits-hundreds-uk-sites.shtml jmThe fact that the court could issue an order which didn’t see this coming and that the ISPs would act on it without checking that what they were doing was sensible is, in my opinion, extremely worrying. ]]> overblocking censorship org uk sky be-broadband virgin-media dnsmadeeasy filtering premier-league false-positives isps https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:d38ce8b8c67f/ 2013-08-05T21:41:03+00:00 http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/filters-not-a-silver-bullet-that-will-stop-perverts-warns-interpol-chief-29470817.html jmMoran spoke out after child welfare organisations here called on the Government to follow the UK's example by placing anti-pornography filters on Irish home broadband connections. The Irish Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children argued that pornography was damaging to young children and should be removed from their line of sight. But Moran warned this would only lull parents into a false sense of security. "If we imagine the access people had to porn in the past – that access is now complete and total. They have access to the most horrific material out there. We now need to focus on parental responsibility about how kids are using the internet." ]]> mick-moran cam interpol policing ispcc filtering parenting children broadband https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:f2b71c6f260c/ 2013-07-31T10:07:09+00:00 http://status.python.org/incidents/jj8d7xn41hr5 jmThere appears to be a problem affecting a number of users where SSL verification errors will be shown saying "pypi.python.org" does not match "addvocate.com". As Best we can tell this appears to be related to the ISP. It seems to be affecting folks using O2 or O2 related companies. We've also reports of it affecting people using Free. Cause appears to be one of the IP addresses returned in the Geo DNS for Europe returning a certificate for addvocate.com. It's not clear at this time *why* that IP address is returning a certificate for addvocate.com. Turned out to be a routing loop in the fast.ly London POP (via Mick Twomey)]]> via:micktwomey o2 censorship filtering internet ssl tls pypi python geodns pki https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:8b4fd4083f6e/ 2013-07-30T15:30:34+00:00 https://store.opendns.com/familyshield/setup/device/router jm opendns dns blocking filtering home porn familyshield https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:63e666109f64/ 2013-07-29T13:00:34+00:00 http://technology.ie/isp-association-responds-to-porn-filtering-debacle/ jmThe issue of access to age-inappropriate content is not a new matter and it is important not to have “knee-jerk” reactions which don’t solve the perceived problem and have major implications for the public’s right to access information in general. Notably the European Commission, as stated by vice-president Nellie Kroes [jm: sic], has come out strongly against blocking of the Internet, seeing it as an important platform for freedom of speech and she intends to “guarantee access without restriction.”  We in Ireland would do well to consider carefully the impact that any rash adoption or attempted copying of UK measures might have here in the light of current and future EU legislation and policy. ]]> ispai filtering overblocking david-cameron porn internet ireland politics blocking web uk https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:d55e7eef2506/ 2013-07-26T13:26:50+00:00 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-23452097 jm huawei talk-talk oversight overblocking politics china uk david-cameron filtering censorship https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:2c4e0c1973c4/ 2013-07-24T09:42:39+00:00 http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/rabbitte-ignores-calls-for-state-role-in-blocking-online-porn-29443620.html jmMr Rabbitte says that legal concerns attached to mandatory filters, as well as a fear of imposing censorship, have persuaded him against trying to force ISPs to impose mandatory pornography-blocking internet filters. "I remain to be convinced that blanket censorship or a default-on blocker is the correct or workable response," he said. "Even if it were possible to ensure that such measures were not easily circumvented or didn't inadvertently block perfectly acceptable content, the principled question of whether the State should be encouraging service providers to filter or block content to all users, regardless of whether there are children resident, would still arise."]]> pat-rabbitte internet filtering censorship blocking porn overblocking default-on isps ireland https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:f88e7ebf9e1c/ 2013-07-23T14:22:56+00:00 http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130705/19340023726/3d-printer-manufacturer-creates-software-filter-to-prevent-firearm-printing.shtml jm blocklists filtering guns weapons 3d-printing future firearms https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:7dffc125d7ca/ 2013-07-23T09:56:14+00:00 http://boingboing.net/2013/07/22/uk-internet-censorship-plan-no.html jmWhen we argued our case to the vendor's representative, he was categorical: any nudity, anywhere on [Boing Boing], makes it into a "nudity site" for the purposes of blocking. The vendor went so far as to state that a single image of Michelangelo's David, on one page among hundreds of thousands on a site, would be sufficient grounds for a nudity classification. I suspect that none of the censorship advocates in the Lords understand that the offshore commercial operators they're proposing to put in charge of the nation's information access apply this kind of homeopathic standard to objectionable material. I guess this means the Daily Mail will be similarly classified as containing "nudity" and blocked, given their smut column on every page?]]> daily-mail fail censorship censorware boing-boing michelangelo sculpture nudity uk politics filtering overblocking web internet https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:1a34ea5b44c1/ 2013-07-22T14:17:01+00:00 http://torrentfreak.com/porn-to-be-blocked-in-the-uk-whats-new-say-pirate-bay-users-130722/ jmIt seems likely that the ISPs will implement a system similar to the one currently being used by TalkTalk, as the prime minister will specifically single the ISP out for praise in his speech. TalkTalk’s HomeSafe is a system which filters out URLs based on a remote blocklist provided and maintained by…. well, no one quite knows. This is worrying since when things don’t go quite to plan there’s no one to complain to. As previously reported, when TalkTalk customers are asked whether they want to block file-sharing sites, TorrentFreak.com is rendered inaccessible. Despite our pleas and complaints that we are a news resource, the company said it would not remove us from their blocklist. We doubt we’re the only ones being silenced. ]]> talktalk blocking uk isps torrentfreak politics filtering david-cameron porn overblocking https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:3d58e647fabd/ 2013-07-01T09:37:51+00:00 http://torrentfreak.com/how-the-copyright-industry-pushed-for-internet-surveillance-130630/ jmThe reason for the copyright industry to push for surveillance is simple: any digital communications channel can be used for private conversation, but it can also be used to share culture and knowledge that is under copyright monopoly. In order to tell which communications is which, you must sort all of it – and to do that, you must look at all of it. In other words, if enforcing the copyright monopoly is your priority, you need to kill privacy, and specifically anonymity and secrecy of correspondence. This was exactly my biggest worry -- a side-effect of effective copyright filtering is the creation of infrastructure for online oppression by the state.]]> copyright privacy state data-protection rick-falkvinge copyfight internet filtering surveillance anonymity https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:dc056a81c09b/ 2013-06-17T14:13:20+00:00 https://blog.pinboard.in/2013/06/persuading_david_simon/ jmThe point is, you don't need human investigators to find leads, you can have the algorithms do it [based on the call graph or network of who-calls-who]. They will find people of interest, assemble the watch lists, and flag whomever you like for further tracking. And since the number of actual terrorists is very, very, very small, the output of these algorithms will consist overwhelmingly of false positives. ]]> false-positives maciej privacy security nsa prism david-simon accuracy big-data filtering anti-spam https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:5fb59daa02a0/ 2013-06-15T11:58:36+00:00 http://torrentfreak.com/uk-isps-secretly-start-blocking-torrent-site-proxies-130611/ jmThe blocking orders are intended to deter online piracy and were requested by the music industry group BPI on behalf of a variety of major labels. Thus far they’ve managed to block access to The Pirate Bay, Kat.ph, H33T and Fenopy, and preparations are being made to add many others. The effectiveness of these initial measures has been called into doubt, as they are relatively easy to bypass. For example, in response to the blockades hundreds of proxy sites popped up, allowing subscribers to reach the prohibited sites via a detour. However, as of this week these proxies are also covered by the same blocklist they aim to circumvent, without a new court ruling. The High Court orders give music industry group BPI the authority to add sites to the blocklist without oversight. Until now some small changes have been made, mostly in response to The Pirate Bay’s domain hopping endeavors, but with the latest blocklist update a whole new range of websites is being targeted. ]]> bittorrent blocking filesharing copyright bpi piracy pirate-bay proxies fenopy kat.ph h33t filtering uk https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:04f514e86341/ 2013-06-12T11:36:30+00:00 http://www.irishtimes.com/news/crime-and-law/music-firms-secure-orders-blocking-access-to-pirate-bay-1.1425810 jmFour major music companies have secured court orders requiring six internet service providers to block access by subscribers to various Pirate Bay websites within some 30 days in a bid to prevent illegal downloading of copyright music and other material. [...] Today, Mr Justice Brian McGovern said he was satisfied to make the order in circumstances including that new copyright laws here and in the EU permitted such orders to be made. He said he fully agreed with a previous High Court judge who had said he would make such blocking orders if the law permitted and noted the law now allowed for such orders. The form of the orders means the music companies will not have to make fresh applications to court if Pirate Bay changes its location on the internet. ]]> pirate-bay blocking filtering internet ireland upc eircom vodafone digiweb three imagine o2 copyright https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:49e3f79acd6c/ 2013-05-16T13:32:15+00:00 http://delimiter.com.au/2013/05/15/interpol-filter-scope-creep-asic-ordering-unilateral-website-blocks/ jm The Federal Government has confirmed its financial regulator has started requiring Australian Internet service providers to block websites suspected of providing fraudulent financial opportunities, in a move which appears to also open the door for other government agencies to unilaterally block sites they deem questionable in their own portfolios. The instrument through which the ISPs are blocking the Interpol list of sites is Section 313 of the Telecommunications Act. Under the Act, the Australian Federal Police is allowed to issue notices to telcos asking for reasonable assistance in upholding the law. [...] Tonight Senator Conroy’s office revealed that the incident that resulted in Melbourne Free University and more than a thousand other sites being blocked originated from a different source — financial regulator the Australian Securities and Investment Commission. On 22 March this year, ASIC issued a media release warning consumers about the activities of a cold-calling investment scam using the name ‘Global Capital Wealth’, which ASIC said was operating several fraudulent websites — www.globalcapitalwealth.com and www.globalcapitalaustralia.com. In its release on that date, ASIC stated: “ASIC has already blocked access to these websites.” ]]> scams australia filtering filter-creep false-positives isps asic fraud secrecy https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:b46809e3182b/ 2013-05-14T20:33:56+00:00 http://delimiter.com.au/2013/05/10/did-conroys-afp-filter-wrongly-block-1200-sites/ jm australia law afp filtering internet blocking censorship secret eff https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:92e56117ae4f/ 2012-06-21T13:00:26+00:00 http://krebsonsecurity.com/2012/06/a-closer-look-recent-email-based-malware-attacks/ jm via:fanf fail malware filtering av smtp email viruses https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:0e1513006509/ 2012-06-20T08:43:52+00:00 http://about.piratereverse.info/proxy/ jm piratebay filtering censorship copyright php proxies reverse-proxies ip-blocking dns-blocking https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:24091b301c0b/ 2012-06-19T15:37:32+00:00 http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/2012/0619/1224318195843.html#.T-B7cvJ5Qto.twitter jm osce coverage unhrc conferences dublin copyright freedom internet censorship filtering https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:890a5673ba75/ 2012-03-02T18:09:55+00:00 http://torrentfreak.com/google-facebook-and-8000-other-sites-accidentally-dns-blocked-120302/ jm censorship denmark internet filtering review google facebook blocking https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:4192f7fe3add/ 2012-01-22T21:14:10+00:00 http://www.tjmcintyre.com/2012/01/adrian-weckler-confims-that-irelands.html jm sopa ireland law filesharing piracy internet filtering blocking https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:bcfa78080292/ 2012-01-05T22:41:48+00:00 https://grepular.com/Punching_through_The_Great_Firewall_of_TMobile jm china filtering rst internet iptables t-mobile uk payg mobile-internet https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:c53894cccffc/ 2011-11-26T09:22:06+00:00 https://publicaffairs.linx.net/news/?p=6253 jm linx scarlet isps hadopi eu privacy filtering copyright irma filesharing https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:a4cc97dd27ca/ 2011-09-29T21:10:15+00:00 http://petermblair.com/fbl-n-gram-analyzer/ jm anti-spam spam fbl feedback filtering n-grams similarity hashing redis searching https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:00bea3b79665/ 2011-04-29T20:04:42+00:00 http://en.rsf.org/turkey-online-censorship-now-bordering-on-29-04-2011,40194.html jm via:mala repression internet turkey censorship filtering false-positives https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:5decbddf835a/ 2011-04-18T22:40:01+00:00 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2456206 jm del.icio.us false-positives filtering uk isps virgin ntl fail via:hackernews https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:4aa4e638a352/ 2011-03-29T15:54:51+00:00 http://obriend.info/2011/03/29/doing-the-right-thing/ jm internet filtering censorship blocking gardai isps ireland data-protection privacy https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:2a012333ede3/ 2011-03-29T12:28:18+00:00 http://www.digitalrights.ie/2011/03/29/garda-plans-to-introduce-web-blocking-in-ireland/ jm gardai blocking filtering ireland politics legislation oversight isps ispai alto censorship eff https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:1e0e7241c2d5/