Re: Did Facebook End The Encryption Debate?

Lawrence D'Oliveiro <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.org.user-groups.linux.waikato
Organization Geek Central
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Mon, 29 Jul 2019 11:29:01 +1200, Peter Reutemann quoted:

> 'Facebook announced earlier this year preliminary results from its
> efforts to move a global mass surveillance infrastructure directly
> onto users' devices where it can bypass the protections of end-to-end
> encryption.'

Or maybe that was one person’s overreaction to another person’s
overreaction
<https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2019/08/more_on_backdoo.html>:

    Leetaru extrapolated a lot out of very little. I watched the
    video ... and it doesn't talk about client-side scanning of
    messages. It doesn't talk about messaging apps at all. It discusses
    using AI techniques to find bad content on Facebook, and the
    difficulties that arise from dynamic content ...

    [AI best located on the device] might be true, but it also would
    hand whatever secret-AI sauce Facebook has to every one of its
    users to reverse engineer -- which means it's probably not going to
    happen. And it is a dumb idea ...
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