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Urheberrechtsreform: Pyrrhus-Sieg heißt jetzt Voss-Sieg (spiegel.de)

Das europäische Leistungsschutzrecht wird ein Debakel, wie das deutsche zuvor, weil die Medienlandschaft abseits jeder Realität argumentierte. Google News wird wahrscheinlich einfach abgeschaltet, dann wird geheult und geschrien.

Uploadfilter werden einen von Google kontrollierten Markt eröffnen, auf dem – absurde Wendung! – Medienkonzerne wahrscheinlich selbst Google-Technologie kaufen werden, wenn sie je eigene Plattformen gründen oder sich daran beteiligen. Was sie vermutlich tun werden, auch weil die Werbegelder der Welt massiv in diese Richtung strömen. Und in der Richtlinie steht, ein Unternehmen müsse nachweisen, dass es "nach Maßgabe hoher branchenüblicher Standards für die berufliche Sorgfalt alle Anstrengungen unternommen hat, um sicherzustellen, dass bestimmte Werke nicht verfügbar sind".

Die "branchenüblichen Standards" für Uploadfilter setzt niemand anders als Google. Die Entwicklung von YouTubes Filtertechnik "Content ID" hat mehr als 100 Millionen Euro gekostet. Googles Wissensvorsprung eingerechnet könnte die Kreativwirtschaft auch mit 500 Millionen Euro diesen Standard nicht erreichen und stattdessen auf neue oder bereits existente, aber sicherlich nicht bessere Technik zurückgreifen.

Last month Scytl criticized researchers for misunderstanding the cryptographic mechanisms in Swiss Post’s "state of the art" e-voting solution. Today Swiss Post have announced they are temporarily suspending e-voting citing (twitter.com)

Beitrag der Post – Wer kommt eigentlich bei der Post auf die Idee das es schlau ist solche Publikationen am Freitagnachmittag zu veröffentlichen – Ich bin ja nicht Kommunikationsfachmensch aber irgendwie… Ich hege ein gewisses Mitgefühl für die Person die die Kanäle monitoren darf übers Wochende. Für die E-Voting-Platform gilt: #lolburnitwithfire

My Cognitive Bias – Why we built this extension (mycognitivebias.com)

Our thinking is riddled with systematic mistakes known to psychologists as cognitive biases. And they affect everything we do. They make us spend impulsively, be overly influenced by what other people think. They affect our beliefs, our opinions, and our decisions, and we have no idea it is happening.

Useful Browser extension.

DARPA Is Developing an Open-Source Voting System (schneier.com)

Evoting : Dear Post Switzerland and Scytl – Take note plase!

A critical flaw in Switzerland’s e-voting system is a microcosm of everything wrong with e-voting, security practice, and auditing firms (boingboing.net)

The belief that companies can be trusted with this power defies all logic, but it persists. Someone found Swiss Post’s embrace of the idea too odious to bear, and they leaked the source code that Swiss Post had shared under its nondisclosure terms, and then an international team of some of the world’s top security experts (including some of our favorites, like Matthew Green) set about analyzing that code, and (as every security expert who doesn’t work for an e-voting company has predicted since the beginning of time), they found an incredibly powerful bug that would allow a single untrusted party at Swiss Post to undetectably alter the election results.

And, as everyone who’s ever advocated for the right of security researchers to speak in public without permission from the companies whose products they were assessing has predicted since the beginning of time, Swiss Post and Scytl downplayed the importance of this objectively very, very, very important bug. Swiss Post’s position is that since the bug only allows elections to be stolen by Swiss Post employees, it’s not a big deal, because Swiss Post employees wouldn’t steal an election.

But when Swiss Post agreed to run the election, they promised an e-voting system based on "zero knowledge" proofs that would allow voters to trust the outcome of the election without having to trust Swiss Post. Swiss Post is now moving the goalposts, saying that it wouldn’t be such a big deal if you had to trust Swiss Post implicitly to trust the outcome of the election.

Cory Doctorow has made a good point there.

So you want your app/website to work in China… (chanind.github.io)

Any time a request needs to go from within China to the outside world, or from the outside world into China, the request crosses the Chinese Great Firewall. When this happens, there’s a lot of latency that gets added, and there’s a high chance the request will randomly fail. Requests through the firewall may appear to work most of the time, but then suddenly get fully blocked for several hours. The firewall doesn’t seem like it’s implemented uniformly across China either, so it’s possible that if you test in Shanghai your request may go through but a user in Changsha will have their requests blocked.

A good insight on what I’m telling some of our clients regularly. Great writeup!