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totoasticoton New 5G flaws can track phone locations and spoof emergency alerts

As did 4G. Nothing new.

totoasticoton Show HN: Perceptual hashing tools for detecting child sexual abuse material

Reminds me of https://github.com/CIRCL/douglas-quaid which also use SIFT-similar techniques in addition to perceptual hashing

totoasticoton The war inside Palantir: Data-mining firm ties to ICE under attack by employees

I'm maybe wrong, but I would like to share some ideas.

Where does this money is coming from ? I mean, does the whole question isn't a level "above" : why does such entity exists in a democratic gouvernement ? Isn't it showing a deep loophole in the system ? Same idea : how is this entity funded ? Isn't it with US-citizens's taxes ? So, aren't all US-citizens involved in this story as well ? Why would Palantir's employees be more involved than all the persons that allowed the money to be there for Palantir to be funded ?

I'm seeing more Palantir as a consequence of a system's failure than its premice.

Woild love to discuss about that however.

totoasticoton Dataset of classified screenshots from Tor hidden services

I would strongly advice anyone interested by the labels frequencies of dataset to get a look at the json file provided. Interesting thing is not that much the frequency of X or Y labels, but the frequency of one set of labels. (this would be a great addition on the webpage actually).

Pictures can have multiple labels. And so, having the ratio of "Forum + Drugs + Finance" vs "Market-place + Weapons" dispense more information than just the global frequency of "Finance"-related pages :)