magicjosh (u/magicjosh)

magicjosh commented on Ask HN: Anyone working in Crypto space how can I break into it · Posted by u/mraza007

verdverm · 2 years ago

You might get more positive replies on a crypto friendly platform.

HN community has evaluated crypto and is very skeptical / adverse.

My recommendation is to also steer clear of the crypto space. We can take some of the interesting parts, like zk-proofs and formal verification advancements, and use them outside of crypto coin based system. Hyperledger is a blockchain platform I like, but that brands me a heretic to crypto people. I see their financialization / derivatization of everything a bad path for society to take

magicjosh · 2 years ago

Agree, better to post this on a crypto platform. People who work in the crypto space seem to find more value in communities outside HN.

magicjosh commented on Ask HN: Anyone working in Crypto space how can I break into it · Posted by u/mraza007

magicjosh · 2 years ago

I'm not working in the crypto space but know others who are.

Like any quickly developing industry, crypto is changing quickly. That means you can get in on the cutting edge, and stay with it as it becomes mainstream.

The Ethfinance Daily thread on reddit is worth joining and reading daily: https://www.reddit.com/r/ethfinance/

You can also hop on Warpcast, a crypto focused community with a Twitter-like interface.

I recommend diving in with some new project that catches your attention and understand whatever you can. Discord participation is also useful for many projects.

magicjosh commented on Ask HN: I have 176 logins/accounts. How many do you have? · Posted by u/bojangleslover

magicjosh · 3 years ago

Anyone experimented with Sign in With Ethereum?

Wallet based login and account management onchain.

magicjosh commented on Apple kills plans to scan for CSAM in iCloud wired.com/story/apple-pho... · Posted by u/ashton314

Traubenfuchs · 3 years ago

Why did they start this PR disaster in the first place? Who was/is supposed ro pay the bills for development, operation and storage of this service?

Because they really want to prevent child abuse? Because they want to offer technology to governments like China that can then look for anti-Chinese-government content?

magicjosh · 3 years ago

A related question is why did they wait to cancel it until today?

Announcing end-to-end encryption the same day suggests this program was blocking end-to-end encryption from moving forward, too.

magicjosh commented on Apple kills plans to scan for CSAM in iCloud wired.com/story/apple-pho... · Posted by u/ashton314

knaik94 · 3 years ago

If the photos are hosted on Google's servers, they have every right to scan whatever they want. If you are privacy conscious, you can upload files you encrypt yourself at the cost of not being able to share easily. I recognize edge cases like the one in the article you linked, but I don't see an alternative. Not scanning for CSAM on your own servers isn't a realistic expectation.

magicjosh · 3 years ago

Not scanning for CSAM on your own servers isn't a realistic expectation.

What makes it not a realistic expectation? According to other references, the USA cannot compel companies to run scans on their own customers.

magicjosh commented on Apple kills plans to scan for CSAM in iCloud wired.com/story/apple-pho... · Posted by u/ashton314

jliptzin · 3 years ago

Maybe monitor companies should put chips inside that scan the current screen every second to check for CSAM matches or whatever else they don’t want the customer using their monitors for and diligently report violations to the police?

magicjosh · 3 years ago

Yes! The Creating Sustainable American Mployment (CSAM) Act will create thousands of new jobs too.

magicjosh commented on Apple kills plans to scan for CSAM in iCloud wired.com/story/apple-pho... · Posted by u/ashton314

jrockway · 3 years ago

I'm really surprised that they tried it in the first place. I'm sure governments want it (China would love to see your Winnie the Pooh meme stash), but Apple is pretty good at fighting the US government and should have felt 100% free to say "in the absence of a law that compels us to write software, which is unconstitutional btw, we're not doing it". They have done it many times, so it felt really out of character. There must have been some contract / favor they were going after, and the opportunity must have expired. (I'm sure some large department of the federal government has some shiny new Android phones today.)

It would be interesting to figure out the real story.

My favorite part of the whole saga is that leaked letter that said "the screeching voice of the minority" will kill the project. We did indeed, and I'm happy to screech again the next time the government wants a tool they can use to scan my phone without a search warrant.

magicjosh · 3 years ago

Do you have a source for the "not constitutional" bit? I referenced it in a post below and was looking for a source.

magicjosh commented on Apple kills plans to scan for CSAM in iCloud wired.com/story/apple-pho... · Posted by u/ashton314

fiddlerwoaroof · 3 years ago

Scanning on iCloud means that Apple can see the content of all your scannable data in iCloud. Scanning on-device is compatible with Apple never having access to your data in an unencrypted format. If Apple has a legal obligation to ensure that iCloud does not store CSAM/etc. then either you have to scan on device before upload _or_ you have to store iCloud data without E2E encryption. From a privacy perspective, on-device scanning before upload is obviously better.

magicjosh · 3 years ago

" If Apple has a legal obligation to ensure that iCloud does not store CSAM/etc"

My understanding is in the USA companies like Apple cannot be legally obligated to ensure that iCloud does not store CSAM. Something about the US Constitution, but I can't remember what. Apple is legally obligated to report CSAM if they come across it themselves though.

This appears to be the case in Europe as well. But may not always be that way. The EU appears to be working on legislation that can compel cloud providers to scan for CSAM: https://9to5mac.com/2022/05/11/apples-csam-troubles-may-be-b...

Welcome sources on this from others. Last time I dug into this was a year ago.