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Youtube/Google is evil, time to fight back
PlainName:
Just to get back to Youtube/Google (and, in this case, Microsoft), they are pushing to get rid of passwords:
https://www.theregister.com/2022/05/05/microsoft-apple-google-fido/
--- Quote ---Microsoft, Apple and Google – all longtime proponents of doing away with passwords for authentication purposes – are throwing their support behind standards developed by the FIDO Alliance and the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) that could eliminate passphrases completely.
Sometime this year or early in 2023, the three US giants are set to implement these standards so that folks can log into online services and apps using familiar password-less authentication methods, such as the device PIN or fingerprint or face scans they use to unlock their devices, the FIDO – short for Fast Identity Online – Alliance announced Thursday.
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Sounds pretty reasonable on the face of it, but actually what this will do is make it easier to track you. No longer will you be able to have completely unrelated logins on various fora or other sites; with this every site you log into will know it's not just you but the real you.
tszaboo:
--- Quote from: SiliconWizard on May 05, 2022, 05:55:59 pm ---
--- Quote from: tszaboo on May 05, 2022, 08:02:58 am ---
--- Quote from: EEVblog on May 05, 2022, 07:52:37 am ---I for one welcome our new misinformation overloards.
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Ministery of Truth.
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It is absolutely coming.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disinformation_Governance_Board
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Yeah, I heard about this.
The real issue is that free speech is equal to freedom of thought, they don't exist one without another.
nctnico:
--- Quote from: tszaboo on May 05, 2022, 09:23:56 pm ---
--- Quote from: SiliconWizard on May 05, 2022, 05:55:59 pm ---
--- Quote from: tszaboo on May 05, 2022, 08:02:58 am ---
--- Quote from: EEVblog on May 05, 2022, 07:52:37 am ---I for one welcome our new misinformation overloards.
--- End quote ---
Ministery of Truth.
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It is absolutely coming.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disinformation_Governance_Board
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Yeah, I heard about this.
The real issue is that free speech is equal to freedom of thought, they don't exist one without another.
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Nobody is taking either away. The goal is to prevent misinformation to spread like wildfire. IOW: people need to actively look for information instead of being bombarded with it. Hopefully it will help to prevent stupidity like anti-vaxers and unhealthy diets (like 'carb free') from becoming popular.
cdev:
Tracking you is their business model. Anonymous speech is being ended.
Were entering a new age of the mass surveillance . With the uruguay Round they initiated a plan the end democracy as most understand it. Look up Dani Rodik's Trilemma. Democracy conflicts directly with it.
--- Quote from: dunkemhigh on May 05, 2022, 09:12:11 pm ---Just to get back to Youtube/Google (and, in this case, Microsoft), they are pushing to get rid of passwords:
https://www.theregister.com/2022/05/05/microsoft-apple-google-fido/
--- Quote ---Microsoft, Apple and Google – all longtime proponents of doing away with passwords for authentication purposes – are throwing their support behind standards developed by the FIDO Alliance and the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) that could eliminate passphrases completely.
No thank you, these companies are not my friends.
Sometime this year or early in 2023, the three US giants are set to implement these standards so that folks can log into online services and apps using familiar password-less authentication methods, such as the device PIN or fingerprint or face scans they use to unlock their devices, the FIDO – short for Fast Identity Online – Alliance announced Thursday.
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ITS NOT REASONABLE AT ALL..-- ITS A THEFT OF THE FUTURE AND ALL OUR LIVES AND DREAMS.
NO-
Sounds pretty reasonable on the face of it,
but actually what this will do is make it easier to track you. They already do this.
No longer will you be able to have completely unrelated logins on various fora or other sites; with this every site you log into will know it's not just you but the real you.
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I just avoid these sites completely funck them.
Break up these huge companies so they pay taxes. I boycott the GAFA companies.
coppice:
--- Quote from: nctnico on May 05, 2022, 10:15:05 pm ---
--- Quote from: tszaboo on May 05, 2022, 09:23:56 pm ---
--- Quote from: SiliconWizard on May 05, 2022, 05:55:59 pm ---
--- Quote from: tszaboo on May 05, 2022, 08:02:58 am ---
--- Quote from: EEVblog on May 05, 2022, 07:52:37 am ---I for one welcome our new misinformation overloards.
--- End quote ---
Ministery of Truth.
--- End quote ---
It is absolutely coming.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disinformation_Governance_Board
--- End quote ---
Yeah, I heard about this.
The real issue is that free speech is equal to freedom of thought, they don't exist one without another.
--- End quote ---
Nobody is taking either away. The goal is to prevent misinformation to spread like wildfire. IOW: people need to actively look for information instead of being bombarded with it. Hopefully it will help to prevent stupidity like anti-vaxers and unhealthy diets (like 'carb free') from becoming popular.
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So, you think they are going to crack down on all the garbage the US government has been spouting recently, that oscillates from month to month? I doubt it. I would be amazed if they did anything other than treat Orwell's works as operations manuals. Remember the US government has been doing things like labelling people who question how well we understand never before widely deployed technologies like mRNA pseudo-vaccines in the same way they label the people who question long term very well understood classes of true sterilising vaccines.
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