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Facebook to Fight Revenge Porn by Letting Potential Victims Upload Nudes in Advance
Submitted via IRC for TheMightyBuzzard
This new protection system works similar to the anti-child-porn detection systems in use at Facebook, and other social media giants like Google, Twitter, Instagram, and others.
It works on a database of file hashes, a cryptographic signature computed for each file.
Facebook says that once an abuser tries to upload an image marked as "revenge porn" in its database, its system will block the upload process. This will work for images shared on the main Facebook service, but also for images shared privately via Messenger, Facebook's IM app. Potential victims will need to upload nude photos of themselves
The weird thing is that in order to build a database of "revenge porn" file hashes, Facebook will rely on potential victims uploading a copy of the nude photo in advance.
This process involves the victim sending a copy of the nude photo to his own account, via Facebook Messenger. This implies uploading a copy of the nude photo on Facebook Messenger, the very same act the victim is trying to prevent.
The victim can then report the photo to Facebook, which will create a hash of the image that the social network will use to block further uploads of the same photo.
This is possible because in April this year, Facebook modified its image reporting process to take into account images showing "revenge porn" acts.
Facebook says it's not storing a copy of the photo, but only computing the file's hash and adding it to its database of revenge porn imagery.
Victims who fear that former or current partners may upload a nude photo online can pro-actively take this step to block the image from ever being uploaded on Facebook and shared among friends.
We won't be doing this. I don't even want to see hashes of you folks naked.
Facebook asks Australians to send nude photos, for safety
"Worried that an ex-boyfriend or girlfriend might post your intimate photos on the internet? Facebook says it has a solution – as long as you'll hand over the photos first.
The social media giant recently announced its new plan to combat "revenge porn," when individuals post nude photos online without the consent of the subject." http://www.foxnews.com/tech/2017/11/08/facebook-says-it-needs-your-explicit-photos-to-combat-revenge-porn.html
(Score: 5, Insightful) by tangomargarine on Friday November 10 2017, @05:00PM (25 children)
scheme is moronic
"Is that really true?" "I just spent the last hour telling you to think for yourself! Didn't you hear anything I said?"
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Runaway1956 on Friday November 10 2017, @05:22PM (23 children)
Bingo! Tangomargarine wins all the internets for a month.
The real problem is, there are millions of users who actually think that Facefook really is trustworthy.
And, if Facefook were trustworthy, WTF makes anyone think that US half-intelligence agencies are trustworthy? If NSA wants a nekkid picture of you for blackmail purposes, make them send someone out to take the picture. Don't give it to them!!
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Friday November 10 2017, @05:28PM (22 children)
Or just post them yourself. It's difficult to blackmail someone with public knowledge.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Friday November 10 2017, @05:42PM (4 children)
There is that. The most valid reason that the military had for banning homosexuals, was that they could be blackmailed. Let the homos make the fact that they are homosexual public knowledge, suddenly, they can't be blackmailed for being homos.
On the other hand, ugly people probably don't want to post their ugly asses for the world to see.
(Score: 3, Funny) by The Mighty Buzzard on Friday November 10 2017, @06:08PM
Ron. Jeremy.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2, Funny) by Ethanol-fueled on Friday November 10 2017, @06:09PM (2 children)
I disagree. I do agree that blackmail the most valid reason the military (and other agencies) had for disqualifying gays from a security clearance, but the more obvious reason from the military perspective is that they didn't want buttsex and dyking out all over the place. It's difficult to keep discipline when you're surrounded by naked people you're attracted to.
Funny that, as some armies of antiquity encouraged "brotherly love."
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 10 2017, @10:12PM (1 child)
(Slate [slate.com])
I'm not a soldier, but I would imagine that "brotherly love" could actually promote "unit cohesion."
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 11 2017, @01:25PM
Up until the first jealous fight because so-and-so fucked so-and-so, and so-and-so is mine!
(Score: 2) by JNCF on Friday November 10 2017, @05:44PM (16 children)
But if you're the sort of person who could be blackmailed with nude images, you wouldn't want to do that. I personally wouldn't care, but some people do. This doesn't seem like a helpful solution for those people.
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Friday November 10 2017, @06:02PM (15 children)
Yeah, my views on that situation are much like my views on abortion though. Don't have unprotected sex if you don't want a kid and don't take pictures of it if you don't want them on the Internet. When exactly did it become hate speech to advise someone to take some responsibility for their actions and not be a complete idiot?
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2) by JNCF on Friday November 10 2017, @06:51PM (12 children)
Don't smoke if you don't want cancer, chemotherapy should be illegal. #MAGA
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Friday November 10 2017, @08:50PM (11 children)
Nah, insurance should. Pay for it and you can have anything you want guilt-free.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by JNCF on Friday November 10 2017, @08:59PM (10 children)
Anything? Even abortions? Even... insurance?
(Score: 3, Informative) by The Mighty Buzzard on Friday November 10 2017, @10:34PM (9 children)
You don't pay for insurance. Insurance is a bet. You're betting that you're going to be sicker than most of the other people using the same bookie.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 11 2017, @06:39AM (3 children)
That's not how health insurance works. The rates the company pays are lower than what you'd pay off you wanted to pay out of pocket because they were negotiated ahead of time.
You may get "lucky" and need a multi-million dollar surgery, but it doesn't take much health care to wind up saving money via insurance.
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Saturday November 11 2017, @10:48AM (2 children)
Wow, you haven't clue one, do you? Insurance companies pay quite a lot more than you pay if you say at the outset you'll be paying cash.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 11 2017, @04:35PM (1 child)
Only because they don't perform anything beyond the bare minimum knowing they may be on the hook for it. Insurance companies at least have predictable patterns about what will and won't be covered.
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Saturday November 11 2017, @04:57PM
Wrong. Do some actual research. The exact same hospital stay with the exact same line items will cost you significantly more paying with insurance than with cash. That's not even taking into account the cash-only medical facilities that've sprung up since Obamacare which charge even less than the cash price at anywhere that takes insurance.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2) by JNCF on Saturday November 11 2017, @03:31PM (4 children)
I agree with your skepticism of insurance, but not your definition of paying. I suppose I can't pay for lottery tickets, stocks, bonds, gold coins, bitcoins, or tulips, either? Does big daddy government need to protect me from all bets, or is this just an ad hoc rule you came up with because you don't like insurance?
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Saturday November 11 2017, @03:56PM (3 children)
Oh you're paying when you place a bet but you're not paying for a lottery win, a stock price increase, healthcare, etc... You're paying for the chance that you may come out on top, though probably not.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2) by JNCF on Saturday November 11 2017, @04:45PM (2 children)
And that should be illegal, as per your comment before last? You can turn in your libertarian card at the nearest gun store, Flighty Uzzard.
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Saturday November 11 2017, @05:03PM (1 child)
Nah, that was just me goading you over your parent comment. You know, saying something as absurd as what I was replying to...
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2) by JNCF on Saturday November 11 2017, @05:23PM
And here, that's what I thought I was doing...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 10 2017, @09:02PM (1 child)
Birth control is not flawless. It's better to not have sex at all if you don't want a kid. Also, hope you don't get raped.
But at least abortion is legal so the problem can be taken care of if desired.
(Score: 3, Informative) by The Mighty Buzzard on Friday November 10 2017, @10:40PM
Rape, incest, and responsibly using birth control but it still failing are extremely rare exceptions that I'll be happy to address separately. For the overwhelming majority of abortion cases though, it's being used instead of a condom. Example: In 2013 29,007 abortions were performed for black women in NYC while only 24,108 black women gave birth.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 5, Informative) by realDonaldTrump on Friday November 10 2017, @07:34PM
Nobody ever looks at the Original Submission. But I put in a very telling quote from Mark Zuckerberg. He said "they trust me -- dumb fucks." Let me tell you, people who trust him are very foolish. Very foolish! He wants to be your president. Don't do it! He's a smart cookie. But a very bad or sick guy. There is something bad or sick going on with him. #TRUMP2020