Politicians of various stripes around the world are involved in what seems to be a concerted attempt to abuse the emotional appeal to "protect children from online harms" to push a digital ID and surveillance architecture not needed at all to protect children. They are doing so at a time that could not be more ill-advised.
In the US, representative Josh Gottheimer (D-NJ) introduced legislation that would force identity verification for all users at the operating system level. One wonders how doing so is not more racist than requiring an ID to vote.
EU Commission president von der Leyen on her turn announced that the EU is now "ready" to deploy digital ID. She introduced an app to be piloted by six countries.
After just two days, cybersecurity analysts found fatal flaws in the EU's app, stating that it can be hacked in just ... two minutes:
Anthropic's Mythos AI model has found thousands of "zero-day" vulnerabilities in every operating system and browser. Moreover, it has broken out of jail and notified its creators by e-mail of what it had accomplished, without being requested to do so:
Combine highly effective AI with a society wide unpreparedness for quantum supremacy and we have a world in which no digital service is guaranteed to work and no digital credential is safe.
More than ever, we need legislative safeguards for paper transactions and paper payments that cannot be hacked.
Politicians of various stripes around the world are involved in what seems to be a concerted attempt to abuse the emotional appeal to "protect children from online harms" to push a digital ID and surveillance architecture not needed at all to protect children. They are doing so at a time that could not be more ill-advised.
In the US, representative Josh Gottheimer (D-NJ) introduced legislation that would force identity verification for all users at the operating system level. One wonders how doing so is not more racist than requiring an ID to vote.
EU Commission president von der Leyen on her turn announced that the EU is now "ready" to deploy digital ID. She introduced an app to be piloted by six countries.
After just two days, cybersecurity analysts found fatal flaws in the EU's app, stating that it can be hacked in just ... two minutes:
https://reclaimthenet.org/eu-age-verification-app-hacked-in-two-minutes
The EU's digital ID app can be hacked in just two minutes by humans.
Should we ask how fast it can be hacked by AI or how future-proof it is against hacking by quantum computers?
We never needed digital ID and now is the worst possible time to roll it out. We need to pause these efforts indefinitely and globally.
That was very interesting, I vaguely knew there is a problem with encryption and quantum computing but you explained very well how it works.
Anthropic's Mythos AI model has found thousands of "zero-day" vulnerabilities in every operating system and browser. Moreover, it has broken out of jail and notified its creators by e-mail of what it had accomplished, without being requested to do so:
https://x.com/bearlyai/status/2041594954347377129?s=20&utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email
Combine highly effective AI with a society wide unpreparedness for quantum supremacy and we have a world in which no digital service is guaranteed to work and no digital credential is safe.
More than ever, we need legislative safeguards for paper transactions and paper payments that cannot be hacked.