"A temporary derogation from the ePrivacy Directive that allowed (but did not require) providers to scan private messages of unsuspected users for potential child sexual abuse material."
Does that imply it's currently not allowed?
EDIT: apparently not enforced at least:
"Chat Control 1.0 expires
The legal ground for voluntary, indiscriminate scanning ends. Google, Meta, Microsoft, and Snap state they will continue scanning private messages regardless. "
I think the idea is that the images are decrypted by the client. See how Ente does it: https://ente.com/architecture
Of course - this sacrifice quite a bit of functionality since more or less all functions which require looking at the pixels need to be client-side. But to be fair - the client is part of the "app", so it's not "just" encrypted storage.
And either 80% of banners are not respecting the law, or the law managed to omit mandating making it as easy to reject as accept... Rejecting usually require you to enter into settings and sometimes click "reject" for every individual partner(!)
"This is a good time to spare a thought for our red-green colorblind brethren. [...] it is to them that we owe the beautiful color of green traffic lights. The spectral requirements that make the green signals distinguishable from red in their eyes make them beautiful in ours."
> throwing shitload of money to the big actors of a field
My reply was directed at this part. Based on my memory seeing ironcalc specifically getting funding. Unless they hide it well they are not a big actor. And the project looks interesting and worthy to me. (I see I should have omitted the nextgraph link
as I'm not familiar at all with that project)
> This is the class of attack documented by Adnan Khan in 2024. It's not a TanStack-specific bug; it's a known GitHub Actions design issue that requires conscious mitigation.
While it seems the maintainers kinda went-out-of-their way to enable this - GitHub could easily have at least turned of cache-sharing between fork jobs and the main jobs...
"A temporary derogation from the ePrivacy Directive that allowed (but did not require) providers to scan private messages of unsuspected users for potential child sexual abuse material."
Does that imply it's currently not allowed?
EDIT: apparently not enforced at least:
"Chat Control 1.0 expires
The legal ground for voluntary, indiscriminate scanning ends. Google, Meta, Microsoft, and Snap state they will continue scanning private messages regardless. "