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I was a kid in the 80s and teenager in the 90s. My favorite thing during that time was pirating video games. A game would come out, and it was cracked, usually within hours and often before the game was even released to be sold. That's when "zero day" had a different meaning. All the "warez" ftp sites had a section for 0 day warez. The cryptologists and math brains would come up with new protection methods to protect their IP from being copied. Spend millions, probably billions for all of these projects. Yet, some kid in their basement with a commodore 64 was always able to crack them. Sometimes it would take longer. There were a few that took years, but once figured out, unlocked hundreds of titles previously secured. This is, and always is, a game of cat and mouse. Law enforcement is always catching up. They are the cryptologists here. They are never ahead, always behind, because they don't know the new protections peddlers are using until they have been in use and later discovered. No matter what vector you plug, they will use another, and the game continues (sick game). Maybe divide the image into 32 different quadrants and rearrange them, then put them back in the correct order when viewing through a specific image viewer. I'm sure that would bypass whatever detections they've come up in their fuzzy fingerprinting with as the entire image is now different. By the time they catch someone using this, they'll have already moved on to something different, as they always do. I will never be ok with warrantless searches of my personal property, no matter the reason or justification or subject, and no matter who it is done by (government or private company). And I say that as a survivor of some pretty horrific shit as a kid to the point I fucking tremble with absolute rage when thinking about it 35+ years later. I would be banned from everything for life if I were to honestly state what I would do with these types of people. The movie "Saw" is tame in comparison. I have no compassion or sympathy for these sickos. But when reading world history, I can absolutely see the importance of "innocent until proven guilty" and Blackstone's Ratio "It is better that ten guilty persons escape than that one innocent suffer." Most of human history was the opposite, and it was brutal and full of literal witch hunts. Are we progressing as a species, or regressing in terms of human rights when it comes to technology? |